Adobe Photoshop CS4 is available in two editions:
Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended software — to meet the diverse needs of professionals in a wide range of fields.
| Revolutionary new features, a fluid user experience, and improved access to the unrivaled power of Photoshop |
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| A more intuitive user interface and new nondestructive editing features that put you in control, including the new Adjustments and Masks panels |
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| New and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling, advanced auto-blending that extends depth of field, and industry-leading editing and compositing with reengineered color-correction tools |
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| Significant productivity enhancements that provide increased flexibility and enable you to leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors |
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| Breakthrough 3D editing and compositing capabilities and improved video controls to dramatically expand your creative options |
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| Comprehensive image analysis with enhanced measurement and counting tools, as well as support for DICOM images and MATLAB processing routines |
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| Adjustments panel for live, nondestructive image adjustment |
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| Masks panel for creating editable, feathered, density-controlled masks |
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| Content-Aware Scaling |
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| Enhanced auto-blending of images |
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| Enhanced auto-alignment of layers |
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| 360-degree panoramas |
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| Extended depth of field |
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| Better raw image processing |
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| Enhanced expert retouching |
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| Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation |
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| Industry-leading color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge |
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| Efficient file management with new Adobe Bridge CS4 |
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| Tighter integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® |
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| Adobe Kuler™ for color harmony creation and sharing |
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| N-up and multiple document view |
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| More powerful printing options |
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| Superior performance on very large images |
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| Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops† |
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| Adobe Community Help |
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| Direct painting on 3D objects |
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| Easy conversion from 2D to 3D |
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| Editable 3D properties (scene, materials, meshes, lights) |
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| High-quality output with new ray-tracing rendering engine |
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| 2D and 3D image compositing |
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| 3D object animation |
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| 3D/video support |
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| New, high-performance, nonmodal 3D engine |
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| Volume rendering |
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| Single-key shortcuts for editing motion graphics |
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| Preview and export of audio content and frame comments |
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| Quantitative data extraction |
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| Enhanced Count tool |
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| Additional RAM usage requires a 64-bit version of Windows and a 64-bit capable computer. |
| †Multi-Touch support requires newer Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers running Mac OS X Leopard. |
