Adobe Photoshop CS4 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing.

Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. Your work flow will be faster thanks to a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools.

Industry-standard editing toolset
Perfect your images with industry-leading image-editing capabilities, which include enhanced color-correction and cloning and healing tools.

Nondestructive editing
Take advantage of nondestructive editing capabilities, including new Smart Filters, which let you visualize different image effects, and Smart Objects, which let you scale, rotate, and warp raster and vector graphics — all without altering pixel data.

Rich painting and drawing toolset
Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable paint settings, artistic brushes, and drawing tools.

Advanced compositing
Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Adobe Photoshop layers or images based on similar content. The Auto-align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves, rotates, or warps layers to align them perfectly, and the Auto-blend Layers command blends the color and shading to create a smooth, editable result.

Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

Built-in efficiency
Take advantage of customized workflows and a streamlined work environment with enhanced palette management so you can focus on your images, not your software.

Improved printing experience
Experience better control over print quality with color management, a larger print preview window, and more controls in one place so you can print in fewer steps. Improved printing controls, co-developed by Adobe and HP, make printing easier and more predictable and streamline setup options via integration with select printers from HP, Epson, and Canon.

Faster, more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3
Organize and manage images more efficiently with Adobe Bridge CS3, which now delivers improved performance, a Filter panel for easier searching, the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail, the Loupe tool, offline image browsing, and more.

Wide range of supported formats
Import and export a wide range of file formats, including PSD, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PNG, Targa, and TIFF.

Third-party solutions and resources
Take advantage of a wealth of additional resources — including software plug-ins, books, and training — from the longstanding community of expert Photoshop developers, authors, and trainers.

Requirements:

· PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
· 512MB of RAM
· 64MB of video RAM
· 2GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
· 1,024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
· DVD-ROM drive
· QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
· Internet or phone connection required for product activation
· Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services

Limitations:

· 30-day trial period.
· This trial version enables you to explore Photoshop CS4 Extended, which includes all of the features in Photoshop CS4 plus specialized features for editing 3D and motion-based content and for performing image analysis.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
· Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.
· Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.
· The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.
· A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.
· A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.