BikkelZ stuurde ons een linkje naar deze Photoshop 6.0 preview van Apple Insider. Het artikel (gebaseerd op de MacOS versie van de 6.0 beta) geeft een rondleiding in de nieuwe Photoshop features, zoals de nieuwe tool bar en verbeterd layer management:
Layer management under Photoshop 6 has been greatly improved and will make any avid user feel warm and fuzzy inside. For starters, Adobe has removed the 99 layer limit, now allowing users to add hundreds of layers, and has introduced 'Layer sets.' Layers can now also be locked or color-coded. Furthermore, users can now delete linked layers from the Layers palette trash icon and add layer effects between layers via drag-and-drop.Continuing on with Photoshop layers, the new version will sport Layer Styles with new compositing and effects capabilities. Some of these advancements include the addition of a Styles palette with thumbnails (and various views), a new Overlay layer effect, a new Stroke layer effect, Knockout blending, channel-restricted blending, separate fill opacity controls, and a “Blend as group” option.
Layers can now also obscure their effects, for example, a layer's drop shadow will not show through a semitransparent layer. All shadow and glow effects can now have a noise value, and glows now can be single-color or multicolor, using a gradient. Spread and Choke controls will also be available for shadows and glows.
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