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You may be wondering what makes the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended so different from the previous CS3 version. Well, the Photoshop CS3 Extended version includes new capabilities and tools, including the ability to create 3D models, animation and video and image measurements and analysis. While the original CS3 is suitable for photographers, graphic designers, web designers and print service providers, the CS3 Extended is ideal for multimedia professionals, graphic and web designers that have a need for 3D models, architects and engineers, manufacturing professionals, medical professionals and scientific researchers.

In CS3, Adobe did a very good job of making interface improvements without moving too far away from the familiar. Most of the new features unique to Photoshop Extended are integrated to the standard Photoshop and can be easily accessed.

3-D Amalgamating and Texture Editing

One of the new features in CS3 Extended allows the user to create and manipulate 3D objects and incorporate them into 2D models. It also wires various 3D formats, including OBJC, 3DS, U3D (Acrobat 3D), KMZ (Google Earth), and COLLADA (XML files used most often for gaming). While these formats are all common and useful, the exclusion of DWG—the most popular format for exchanging CAD (computer-aided design) models—is conspicuous.

If your 3-D model includes textures, Photoshop Extended preserves them. You can access the various textures through the Layers pane and edit them within Photoshop using any of the program’s 2-D tools. After you’re done editing, Photoshop Extended automatically updates the 3-D models along with the new texture map. When you export the 3-D models from Photoshop into a 3-D format, the edited textures are maintained with the model.

Animation and Video

The CS3 Extended also allows the users to import video files easily and quickly. The users can then proceed to edit the video. For example, users can edit the video frame by frame by using the Duplicate Frame, Clone, Text and Scale tools. The user can also add new elements to multiple frames at the same time without destroying the video. The edited video or created can then be exported into MPEG-4, QuickTime or Adobe Flash Video formats.

Measure Tool

In short, the CS3 Extended has many benefits, especially for Medical professionals and engineers Photoshop CS3 Extended can import and export files in the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) format. DICOM files most often consist of a series of images generated from CAT scans, ultrasounds, and MRIs. The file includes header information about the image dimensions, how the images were created, and information about the patient.

Another feature in the CS3 Extended, the Measure Tool, also lets the user to quickly and easily measure a model’s dimension. However, the user will first need to assign a measurement to any part of the model. For example, to know the measurements of the rest of the parts in a photo of a building, the user will first need to supply a known measurement of a part of the building, such as a door or a window. The measurements can then be kept in a Measurement Log. The measurement data, such as the width, height, scale, etc are kept in tables to make them easier to read. Conveniently, the Measurement Log can also keep logs for multiple image files and can be exported into a spreadsheet.

so it will have great benefits for the aforementioned industries and will make a great addition to any technical expert’s toolkit.

MATLAB support

Photoshop CS3 Extended includes the capability to import and export the MATLAB file format. MATLAB is a technical computing language and an interactive programming environment for numeric computation ,algorithm development, data visualization, and data analysis and. With Photoshop Extended, MATLAB users can view the results of algorithms created in MATLAB from within Photoshop, as well as export images created and/or edited in Photoshop back out to MATLAB for further analysis.

Photoshop CS3 Extended, for the first time Adobe has reached directly into the technical professions of architecture, medicine, manufacturing, science, and engineering, and it’s a very positive initial step.

REFERENCE SITE:

http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/405366/review/photoshop_cs3_extended.html

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