For example, although Photoshop supports the Wacom Intuos2 tablet (with which we tested the software), the program could use a summary view of which tools and effects you've customized to respond to stylus pressure or tilt. And, despite the Brushes palette's newfound flexibility, it could use a few more improvements. With Photoshop, your paint doesn't have any viscosity, so the results look fairly flat. With all these improvements, Photoshop's brushes are still no match for Painter's. Better still, the Brushes palette now lets you set many more dynamic brush parameters, including jitter, color, and shape. The result is a more real-world painting experience than before. Like Corel's realistic painting implements in Procreate Painter, Photoshop's improved tools now let you vary hue, opacity, and flow for brushes such as pastels, oils, and charcoal. You'll appreciate the aforementioned Workspaces, especially once you try Photoshop's slightly updated paint engine with its full-on brushes palette. A Windows Explorer-like file browser, similar to the Photoshop Elements file-management system, provides a welcome, if somewhat overdue, way to sort and locate your projects: the new browser lets you organize projects by name, date, resolution, and a number of additional parameters. If you don't own an earlier version and want the best image editor on the market-or need it to run on OS X-version 7.0 is the best of the bunch.Īlong the same lines, you can now save custom tool-palette layouts as Workspaces so that you no longer have to recustomize palettes every time you open a project.
But, as far as graphics apps go, Photoshop is still the best, most sophisticated image-editing software available.
For the first time, we're not convinced that every Photoshop devotee and graphics professional must upgrade. Hence, Photoshop 7.0's perfunctory, should-have-been-there-earlier enhancements, such as the new file browser and updated paint engine, are a bit of a letdown. Witness: Photoshop 4.0 unveiled Layers and Actions Photoshop 5.0 brought us the History Palette and Layer Styles Photoshop 6.0 introduced Shapes. If you don't own an earlier version and want the best image editor on the market-or need it to run on OS X-version 7.0 is the best of the bunch.Įvery new version of Photoshop has delivered significant, noteworthy improvements. Hence, perfunctory, should-have-been-there-earlier enhancements, such as the new file browser and updated paint engine, are a bit of a letdown.
You can help by expanding it.Every new version of Photoshop has delivered significant, noteworthy improvements. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 at Adobe (archived ).
It was the last version to support Windows 98/Me, NT 4.0, and Mac OS 9. Version 7.0.1 was released in August 2002 with support for the Camera RAW 1.x plug-in. It is the first version to support Mac OS X.
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (code named "Liquid Sky") is the seventh major version of Photoshop, released by Adobe Systems for Windows and Macintosh in March 2002.