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Adobe Systems Inc. this year will extend the capabilities of three core software applications for creative professionals, sources said.

Major new versions of Adobe's Photoshop image editor, Illustrator vector-based drawing program and InDesign page-layout application will pack innovative features and enhancements. All three are slated to ship by the fourth quarter, sources said.

News source: eWeek

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Photoshop and ImageReady 8
Code-named Dark Matter and Taconite, respectively, the next installment of Adobe's image-editing duo will reportedly feature non-destructive filtering that resembles the adjustment layers in Adobe's After Effects video-effects package.

Photoshop 8 will also include Layer Palette presets that will let users maintain multiple palette sets that they can invoke via a menu. Photoshop 8 will also let users select multiple layers, then execute a single change to all of them simultaneously.

Other Photoshop improvements will include enhancements to the File Browser, improved keyboard customization and support for non-square pixels. The upgrade will also boast enhancements to the user interface, support for JPEG 2000 and a GUI-based Picture Package layout manager.

ImageReady, the Web-graphics package bundled with Photoshop, will also ship with its own slew of enhancements, including nested layer sets, greater integration with Photoshop and user-interface tweaks.

(1 reply) #1 Jeffsoft on 15 Apr 2003 - 14:09

non-square pixels ?? what will it looks like?? pentegon??

great!! finally jpeg2000 after so many years...

#1.1 Wickedkitten on 15 Apr 2003 - 14:54

I'm thinking circular pixels for some funny reason

#2 drastik on 15 Apr 2003 - 14:32

mmmm, cant wait.

just in time for christmas? yay!

#3 macster on 15 Apr 2003 - 16:18

Cant wait

#4 nummi on 15 Apr 2003 - 16:22

yeah... non-square pixels? Someone please enlighten us. overall, this does not sound like a must have upgrade. Exactly like 6.0 to 7.0 was.

(1 reply) #5 Jstphish on 15 Apr 2003 - 19:13

[b]support for non-square pixels[/b] - I have been waiting for this for years.

#5.1 Mav Phoenix on 15 Apr 2003 - 20:00

[neoquote=#5.0 by Jstphish][b]support for non-square pixels[/b] - I have been waiting for this for years.[/neoquote] HAHA.

#6 tylershaw on 16 Apr 2003 - 01:01

"Pixels in an ITU-R BT.601-4 digital video signal (also known as Rec. 601 and formerly CCIR 601) are non-square. A 100 pixel vertical line may be longer or shorter than a 100 pixel horizontal line on a video monitor, depending on the video standard."

#7 insurektion on 16 Apr 2003 - 17:27

square or rectangular

#8 dougkinzinger on 12 Dec 2003 - 14:45

And now that they're out, they've improved my productivity 200%.

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