I've never run Photoshop on a Windows system. CS2 and CS3 both look the same on Mac OS X except for the different appearance of the palettes. (I haven't bought CS3 yet, I ran the beta for a while. It was a pain to remove from the system.)
I think the difference is that on Windows there is some kind of master window for each application that encloses all the underlying windows in one or another view. This concept does not exist on Mac OS X. I usually work in Photoshop in the Full screen view that shows just one image file and the menubar, tool pallets, etc, and set the color of the background in that view to be white or very light gray. (Pressing F will cycle you through Window, Full Screen + Menubar, and Full Screen. Selecting the Paint Bucket tool, setting a color in the foreground, and shift-clicking on the surrounding area in either full screen mode will set the surround color.) When I want to look at multiple images with Photoshop simultaneously in a single view, I use Bridge. Mostly, these days, I use Lightroom which has better facilities for this. Godfrey On May 5, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Jan van Wijk wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:56 -0600, William Robb wrote: > >> I just managed to install CS3. > > Me too, but this time on a Mac, while all my previous > versions ran on Windows ... > > <snip> >> CS3 looks like it is a nice improvement over CS2. The RAW >> converter has a >> few useful improvements, and some of the new conversion filters, >> especially >> the black and white converter look very promising. > > Indeed, being able to keep the fileters in their own layers > makes it a lot more flexible ... > > One question on the appearance, the biggest difference > I noticed between CS2 and CS3 is that CS3 just has its > palletes and menu-bars on the screen (left, top, right) > and the rest is your own desktop showing underneath. > Images open on that large area of desktop, each in > their own little 'window', but by default without any area > arround the photo, making for a busy looking screen. > (depending on your desktop colors/image :-) > > > With CS2 there was a greyish 'Photoshop desktop' where > all images opened upon, providing a neutral background. > > > Now I am unsure if this is a CS2 -> CS3 change, > or Windows -> Mac ... > > Do you see the same change ? > > If not, perhaps Godfrey can shed some insights on this ? > > I liked the CS2 behaviour better, since it allows multiple > smaller images on a neutral backround ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
