And the program can create slices based on layer content, making it easy to create rollovers, animations, and other Web effects. The soft-proofing feature shows how this image will print on an Epson 1270 and on Macworld's press. Control the Power Photoshop's interface continues to mature, letting you control both old and new features with a minimum of fuss. The most obvious new element is the Options bar, which appears by default under the menu bar and replaces the Options palette. Less and More You can create this image in Photoshop 5.5, but in 6.0 it's a two-layer, 160K file, and the text is still editable.
Some improvements are subtler.
When you use the crop tool, for example, the cropped area darkens, and you can control the color and opacity of that area. Right Adobe has completely revamped Photoshop's color architecture, but in a much less confusing way. For example, the color settings are now combined in a single dialog box. This frees you from having to convert all your images to a single working space, and forced color conversions become a thing of the past. Photoshop 6 keeps track of your profiles and makes it nearly impossible to embed the wrong profile when you save an image.