[Award Winner] Photoshop Layer Basics Video Tutorial (including Clipping Layers)

[Midgardsormr]

Smart Objects were introduced in CS2. Smart Filters, which are an order of magnitude cooler still, were introduced in CS3.

And for those who are curious, significant new features of CS4 include the ability to rotate the canvas (much like Corel Painter), content-aware scaling, some minor 3d function, 64-bit support, and OpenGL display acceleration. Handy, but not as big a deal as the Smart Objects/Filters.

Improvements in CS1 were negligible: Real-time histogram, the lens blur filter, Javascript support, and a much-improved Camera RAW utility. So if upgrading from PS7, definitely skip CS1.

[su_liam]

CS1 has better 16-bit support than 7 if that floats your boat. It did for me till I gained the ability to run Wilbur. Now I do most of my high-bit greyscale editing in Wilbur and mostly just do the 8-bit rgb stuff in PS. I still use CS1 exclusively for two reasons: 7 doesn't seem to run in OS X 10.5, I still can't afford the $300.00 to get the academic version of CS4. I've really been looking forward to Smart Filters and now I want Smart Objects.

[su_liam]

Here's a little something I put together quick-like with CS1 and this tut. As you can see I've attempted to adapt some of the ideas to mountains and forests more or LESS successfully.