You can still press the Tab key to hide all of your tools and palettes, but now you can move your cursor over the left or right side of your screen and pause at the vertical gray bar. It’s also easier to show and hide all of your palettes. When you drag an icon to the work area, it automatically expands, and it returns to an icon when dragged back into dock, which is all very intuitive. You can return the palettes panes to icons by clicking the Collapse to Icons bar at the top of the palette drawer. For a larger view, click on the image above. The Photoshop CS3 workspace with the palettes expanded to a palette drawer. You can expand or reduce the size of the palette drawer by dragging its vertical border, as you see in Figure 2.įigure 2. You can expand all icons to palettes: just click the Expand Dock bar at the top of the palette icons, and the palette drawer appears. Select another palette icon, and Photoshop brings that palette pane to the front of the display. To activate a palette in this new version, simply click the appropriate palette icon and the related palette group expands. Photoshop continues to make extensive use of palettes. The default Photoshop CS3 Workspace in the compact icon view.
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The public beta remains a work in progress, so the app may be slightly different depending on when you download the software, but the default workspace should be similar to what you see in Figure 1.įigure 1. As we describe some of the enhancements, we think you’ll understand why. We’ve found that the new workspace makes it easier to focus more on the images, and the tools became more of a natural extension of our work. (Don’t like it? You can return to the old two-column display by clicking the gray bar at the top of the toolbar.) Additionally, palettes are collapsed to a compact view and represented by icons, saving even more space. Here’s a tour of the new capabilities that we find most exciting.Īs soon as you launch Photoshop CS3, you’ll see that the toolbar is now a single column. Among other things, it includes significant improvements to the workspace, filters, and selection tools. We’ve been working with the beta version of Photoshop CS3 for a while now, and it certainly is worth a look. If you don’t have CS2, are leery of beta software, or just want a guided tour before you take the plunge yourself, you’ve come to the right place. Strange (for Adobe) but true: If you’re a registered user of Photoshop CS2, you can download a free, 750MB beta of Photoshop CS3 starting December 15, 2006.