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Check out updates at Adobe for the new RAW 4.1 for CS3

I don't understand why they can't make these updates backward looking (ie. to work on CS2)!

Thanks Chris

Took a while to track down on the Adobe site. The Windows version is HERE and Mac HERE

And a brief extract from the readme file:

Clarity
New Control available in the Basic panel. Clarity adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast. When using this setting, it is best to zoom in to 100% or greater. To maximize the effect, increase the setting until you see halos near the edge details of the image, and then reduce the setting slightly.

Sharpening Improvements:
Additional controls available in the Detail panel. The zoom level must be set to 100% or greater in order to view the effects of these controls.
Amount
Adjusts edge definition. Increase the Amount value to increase sharpening. A value of zero turns off sharpening. In general, set Amount to a lower value for cleaner images. The adjustment locates pixels that differ from surrounding pixels based on the threshold you specify and increases the pixels’ contrast by the amount you specify. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while dragging this slider to view the sharpening on a grayscale preview.
Radius
Adjusts the size of the details that sharpening is applied to. Photos with very fine details may need a lower radius setting. Photos with larger details may be able to use a larger radius. Using too large a radius will generally result in unnatural looking results. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while dragging this slider to preview the radius effect on edge definition.
Detail
Adjusts how much high-frequency information is sharpened in the image and how much the sharpening process emphasizes edges. Lower settings primarily sharpen edges to remove blurring. Higher values are useful for making the textures in the image more pronounced.
Masking
Controls an edge mask. With a setting of zero, everything in the image receives the same amount of sharpening. With a setting of 100, sharpening is mostly restricted to those areas near the strongest edges. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while dragging this slider to see the areas to be sharpened (white) versus the areas masked out (black).

Reschsmooth wrote:I don't understand why they can't make these updates backward looking (ie. to work on CS2)!

Then why would you need to buy CS3

stubbsy wrote:

Reschsmooth wrote:I don't understand why they can't make these updates backward looking (ie. to work on CS2)!

Then why would you need to buy CS3

So you are saying that Adobe are trying to encourage people to pay money to upgrade their versions of Photoshop to the latest version potentially unnecessarily? Why would a company do that?

hehe... adobe.com must be getting hammered, the web page gets borked when you try and dl....

Yep, must be getting hammered. I am downloading at 1.5 kb/s. At this rate its going to take over 2 hours to get a 5mb file.

Makes this forum seem speedy!

I hear CS4 is just a couple of months away from being released. The buzz is it has auto composition and can sharpen an image that was totally out of focus. It can also produce prints without a printer...you put the paper in the DVD tray. Three new games are also included including "Kill the paparrazi"!

Matt. K wrote:I hear CS4 is just a couple of months away from being released. The buzz is it has auto composition and can sharpen an image that was totally out of focus. It can also produce prints without a printer...you put the paper in the DVD tray. Three new games are also included including "Kill the paparrazi"!

Matt - did you escape from DPreview

Escape? They wouldn't even let me join!

Strangely, the bit about "sharpening images that are totally out of focus" is actually a feature on the agenda.