You Can't Coach That

Photoshop CS3

I went to an Adobe Roadshow presentation on Thursday of last week where they were showing off the newest and shiniest bit of the updated suite. There is one particular Photoshop feature that I can’t wait to try. Image Auto-Align looks really useful. Have you ever taken a group photo only for someone to be looking away from the camera or closing their eyes? You quickly take another one before anyone moves, only to have someone else do something to ruin the shot.

This is where Auto-Align comes in. Photoshop will automatically align the pixels in the two photos allowing for a mask to be used to “paint out” any features that are not perfect. The person looking away from the camera in one shot is removed and replaced with the pixels where they are looking at the camera.

When my copy of the CS3 suite arrives I will do a demo of how its done.

“You can’t coach that”

I saw this on some Microsoft software around the start of the year - I downloaded it (it was free)  but never tried it out. MS showed a video and it was really well done.

Thanks GC - let me know if you remember the name of product. I had a look on the microsoft website but couldn’t find it. Not a big issue for me though as I will be getting photoshop CS3 soon.