A special feature of Actions is the ability to batch-acquire images from a digital camera. Now, an entire set of photographs can be acquired, color-corrected, and saved to files automatically. Users will also benefit from pre-saved Actions for tasks such as downsampling images to 72 dpi for Web posting, generating interesting textures, and adding drop shadows to text. Actions will have a dramatic impact on how Adobe Photoshop is employed for image editing. Print production shops can process hundreds of files unattended.
Individuals can automate their most common tasks, and share action lists with other users.
Guides can be pulled from the rulers to provide precise horizontal or vertical lines to which tool operations can be snapped. Similarly, the Grids feature creates a regular pattern of snap points across an entire image. Both Guides and Grids are fully user-definable. Guide settings are also recordable actions, making it easy for one person to define a specific guide setup to be shared with other users or applied to more than one document. The Navigator palette provides an easy way to move quickly to any location in a magnified image, by clicking the desired view area within a resizable thumbnail of the image.