Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation:
· Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.
Auto-blending of images enhanced:
· Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colors - into a single color-corrected image.
Masks panel:
· Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
Better raw image processing enhanced:
· Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
Extended depth of field:
· Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
Industry-leading color correction:
· Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.
Auto-alignment of layers:
· Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
File display options:
· Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.
Requirements:
· Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
· 1GB of RAM
· 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
· 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
· Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
· DVD-ROM drive
· QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features
· Broadband Internet connection required for online services
What's New in This Release:
· Windows XP tool tip font issue introduced by 12.0.2
· A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
· Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
· A number of performance issues have been addressed
· Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
· Color Engine crash has been resolved
· Intermittent file format issues addressed
· Shift scrolling bug fixed
· Sharpen crasher fixed
· Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
· Metadata focus distance issue addressed
· File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg's
· TWAIN crashers fixed
· Brush cursor bug fixed
· Histogram progress bar issue fixed
· Droplet issues addressed
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