Adobe uses graphics chip for faster Photoshop CS4

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The new version has a number of other features, though Nack emphasized work to polish existing abilities, too, such as the ability to select and delete multiple channels. There are some notable changes, though.

Content-aware scaling lets people change the proportions of an image while protecting important areas from distortion (click to enlarge).
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Content-aware scaling, known as seam carving from its research days, lets users change an image's proportions while protecting important areas from distortion. That's a useful option for those adapting content for small screens on mobile devices, for example.

Panoramic stitching gets new options: It can be used to create full 360-degree wraparounds, so the right and left edges mate correctly, and it corrects for lens vignetting, which could cause dark-and-light undulations in even-toned areas such as the sky.

With the 3D mode in CS4 Extended, people can paint directly on 3D objects rather than have to unwrap a skin, paint on it, then rewrap it.

The Camera Raw 5.0 import filter inherits some local editing abilities in Lightroom 2.0, such as the ability to selectively darken or lighten particular patches of a photo.

A new tool can combine the sharpest parts of multiple photos of the same frame. It takes a couple of minutes to run, but can help provide a sharp photograph of a subject--for example, a series of closeup shots taken with a macro lens with a very shallow depth of field.

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