[MEGAUPLOAD] Portable Adobe Photoshop CS4 v11.0 ENGLISH
Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.Adobe's new Photoshop CS4 packs a ton of fresh features and an updated interface, which alone make it a worthy upgrade for existing users.Of course, the added under-the-hood elements aren't the only updates in Photoshop CS4. The most gee-whiz update is the new context-sensitive scaling, which allows you to resize pictures while retaining foreground objects' scale. Usually when you rescale an image, all elements in the image resize proportionally--and in the process, some elements warp or squash when they shouldn't. In the example I've provided (see the images in the gallery above), resizing with the traditional method would have made the people in the foreground unrealistically skinny; with context-aware scaling, the vinyl character in the back shrank, but the people remained the same size. The feature doesn't always work perfectly--I found that expanding the canvas size caused tiling of the background elements--but it's still an awesome tool to have.A new adjustments palette (see the image in the gallery above) contains many often-used photo enhancements that you'd usually have to dig into a menu for. But its role is far more important than just offering convenience: Effects initiated through this palette apply as adjustment layers, so any edits you make are nondestructive to the original image. If you adjust levels, for example, a levels layer appears in your layers palette; instead of toggling a preview of your work in the levels dialog box, you can turn the layer on and off. If you decide you don't like the effect, you can simply trash it, and your base image is unaffected.A new depth-of-field tool lets you combine multiples of the same image but in varying focus depths; the software attempts to make everything in the shot in focus. It works very well, but you do have to set up your shots this way, most likely by using a tripod and a timed release.And what would a refreshed Adobe app be without some sort of new online component? Photoshop provides access to Kuler, a component that other Creative Suite applications can draw on, too. Kuler (see the gallery above) appears as a palette with many choices of color themes--that is, color sets that are supposed to go together. They're hosted online, and you can create your own themes and upload them to Adobe's online repository. Users can rate them (on the Web only, not from within Photoshop), and you can sort the themes in the palette based on their popularity, newness, or randomness. It doesn't seem like much at this point--just an indication of things to come--and I keep wondering whether it will cause designs to all look alike, once everyone joins the herd and uses the same themes.Owners of systems using OpenGL graphics cards will enjoy additional performance enhancements. After enabling a preference setting, you can zoom with infinite smoothness (rather than in steps) by holding down a key: If you hold down the H key while zooming, it zips to 100 percent so you can locate where in an image you want to work--at which point the view zips back in to the previous magnification. Furthermore, you can hold down a key to resize brushes on the fly, and adjust their hardness. I found that latter function particularly time-saving when performing such operations as cloning and healing. OpenGL rendering also eliminates jagginess in the display of images at odd magnification percentages. For example, if you look at an electrical line at 27 percent on a system without OpenGL rendering, the line will appear jagged; view it at 25 percent or 50 percent, and the line will look straight. With Photoshop CS4, the line will look straight no matter what the magnification is, as long as your system has an OpenGL-compatible graphics card.
