For years, Adobe has been dominating the graphic-design industry with their powerful Creative Suite programs, and has now recently released another addition to their award winning line-up—Photoshop CS3. The software is offered both in a standard version as well as an extended version, which provides users more high-end photo editing capabilities to now edit video and film mediums. The Extended version also provides extensive 3D support, allowing you to import 3D objects for compositing and texturing.

A major improvement from past editions of the Photoshop franchise is its new interface layout. With efficiency and clarity in mind, the application now allows for palettes to be contained in special docks, so you can easily expand and collapse entire groups to better manage screen real estate. With a dock collapsed, you can temporarily expand an individual palette by simply clicking on it. You can also tear a palette out of the panel to render it a regular floating palette, and can easily mix and match combinations of docked and floating palettes.

Used mainly for photo editing, Photoshop CS3 now also comes with improved image selection features that allow you to more accurately edit specific parts of your images while isolating the rest. The new Quick Selection tool is one of the most technically impressive selection tools that Adobe has come up with in a while, as you simply brush the Quick Selection tool over an object in your image, it automatically figures out the edges of that object and selects it. This tool is perfect for cropping out portraits, highlighting specific areas to enhance or adding effects.

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