What's New in Photoshop CS?
It may be a couple of months too late, but the O’Reilly Network have just published an informative article by Ken Milburn, author of “Digital Photography: Expert Techniques”, which looks at the new features in Photoshop CS.
“You can now use Photoshop’s most essential editing commands to edit 16-bit files. This means that you can do a lot more editing non-destructively, especially when the editing means making major changes in brightness and contrast which, in 8-bit files, could cause posterization by creating a gap between the 8-bit limit of 256 brightness levels when the adjustment causes some of the 256 levels to be compressed together. 16-bit images, by contrast, have thousands of brightness levels, so even when some of these are compressed together, there’s rarely a gap between any of the 256 levels that we can actually see.”