• 3D Object and Property Editing – will let you edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D images without dialog boxes and in a streamlined interface. You can easily orient objects and postion the camera using the 3D axis and a ground plane.
• Enhanced Motion Graphics Editing – makes the motion graphics workflow more efficient. You now have enhanced preview of non-square pixel images, 3D layer animation, and support for audio tracks.
• Volume Rendering – is a new way to convert text, shape, or pixel layers into a volume. Artists can combine painted layers into new eye-catching volumes that can be viewed from any perspective. Motion graphics professionals can generate volumes from multiple text layers. Medical professionals can volume render a DICOM image stack into an anatomical image that can be viewed from all angles and depths.
After eighteen months, this version of Photoshop has some pretty solid features that make it is a very welcome upgrade. Some of my favorite features are the new Adjustments panel that puts everything at hand, the Masks panel that lets you do target adjustments, the Fluid Canvas Rotation feature, the much improved Camera Raw, and the 3D painting.
In my opinion, these new features alone make it very much worth the upgrade, especially if you are using CS1 or earlier. Should you get Standard or Extended? That really depends on the usefulness of the added features and your ability to spend an additional $350.00 for a new version, or $150.00 more for an upgrade. For me, while I would like more abilities in the 3D realm, but they do keep improving it. I do highly recommend this product.
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