As mentioned, suite-wide CS3 palettes can easily be docked and undocked to create workspaces geared to specific tasks. You can collapse docked panels or float them over the work area. The above screen shows a floating Brushes panel with settings grouped for easy access, including an effect-preview of the selected brush at bottom.

The work of making complex selections has been greatly improved with the Refine Edge feature. No matter which selection tool one employs, rarely are initial selections perfect. Thus, to the rescue, comes Refine Edge which makes it easy to tweak a selection via Radius, Contrast, Smooth, Feather, and Contract/Expand. Using slider bars or entering specific coordinates, you can fine-tune selections in 5 modes: Mask, On White, On Black, Quick Mask, and Standard. This is an enormous, time-saving feature.

If you work with digital video, you'll love the ability to import frames directly to separate layers in Photoshop..

When choosing Import Video Frames To Layers from the File menu, a dialogue box appears where you can actually preview the video and select a particular range of frames, as opposed to having to import an entire video. Of course, you can do that if you wish, but more often than not you'll be working with a single sequence of frames.

In the above screen-shot, we imported a frame-range from an AVI file to 50 Photoshop layers in preparation for color enhancement. You can also make use of Photoshop's cloning and painting tools to work on frames and then export to a wide variety of formats such as MPEG-4, QuickTime, MOV, 3G, DV Stream, AVI, Adobe Flash Video and more.

In addition to working with video files, Photoshop CS3 Extended can now import common 3D interchange formats and edit existing textures,

Oh, and we almost forgot.... there's a new, improved Vanishing Point, but we'll let you discover the fun on your own. In fact there's a whole lot more in Photoshop but we don't have time to write a book.

Included in the Design Premium bundle is Adobe Device Central where you preview and test your mobile designs ( created in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Dreamweaver) using a wide array of mobile device profiles, such as the one in the screen below.

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