Oh, so that stuff's amazing. But, how often you gonna do it? Dinner parties, sure. But here's the stuff you're going to take advantage of, not every couple a days, but every couple a seconds.

Slow continuous zooms. Rotate the view. Get the hand tool and toss the image. Press a key and click and hold. Bird's eye! Who needs the Navigator palette?
They call it OpenGL support. I call it, the addiction. Once this smack enters your bloodstream, CS3 will be dead to you.

Oh, and every zoom level is a bicubically rendered thing of beauty.

The only one of those features that I had seen prior to this video was the "Content-Aware Scaling" wizardry that allows you to resize without distorting the important parts of the image. According to MacWorld, it either automagically picks up skin tones or you can manually select a portion of the image to preserve. The images I had seen didn't really do justice to this feature the way Deke's demo vid did. Some of the other goods look fancy fresh as well, and I haven't even looked at the changes made to the rest of the suite. I can't wait to play around with Photoshop CS4, though.

I think I'm starting to understand the recent references to software's apparent likeness to deadly controlled substances. I can't pretend to lack understanding of this concept, what with my flat-out dependence on Quicksilver. I think I'd have to enter a palliative care facility if it was ever taken away from me.