In addition, many other enhancements are designed to simplify your life and make your Photoshop experience more productive and enjoyable. Even with all these new features, Test Strip remains remarkably easy to use, with only a few new buttons. Metamorphosis is a guided system that corrects images based on a user's response to a series of previews. Metamorphosis uses a revolutionary color theory technology that extracts your personal preference, and corrects an image in the most accurate, and efficient means possible, eliminating opposing transformations that can lead to image degradation. Layout choices have been greatly expanded to included virtually any grid display you may ever need.
Most panels now contain over a dozen different grid display options.
Plus, with Gels you can now build your own custom layouts for unlimited flexibility. Gels is a hot new photographer's tool for previewing and removing color casts. Unlike prearranged grid layouts, Gels are customizable overlays that can be moved, resized, overlapped, and grouped. Step and Repeat allows an image, or a portions of an image to be repeated in every grid layout, and on all panels. Color and brightness adjustments can now be performed separately on highlight, midtone, or shadow areas, as well as overall.