No responsibility or liability is or will be assumed by the author or the Feather River Canyon News for any loss or damage due to its use. Their enhancements to applications such as Adobe Pagemaker and Quark Express are fairly well known in the world of DTP, but some of their best recognized applications are those that enhance Adobe Photoshop. It doesn't take too much experience with any application to find areas that need a bit of help. The Extensis folks have not only recognized the shortcomings of Photoshop but they have produced some elegant and eminently workable solutions to them. These various plug-ins are, for the most part, aimed at people who create or maintain web content, but a number of them would work for those who just enjoy working with digital images.
Installation is quite easy.
Pop in the CD and choose Install and navigate to PhotoTools. After Installation the above toolbar is installed into Photoshop. It carries icons to all the Extensis Photoshop plug-ins. Not all of them are included with PhotoTools Without further delay let's take a look at the various components of PhotoTools individually. The cross section in the upper left corner shows the 3D effect that is applied to the object.