Larrie (the bird sitting on my shoulder) and I have been looking at our new
copy of just-released Photoshop CS. Here are 10 neat/new features that we
tried...

1. You can now type on a path (had to go to Illustrator -- or Fireworks
   -- to do it before), and you can type INSIDE a path, e.g. inside a circle.
2. A VERY useful new adjustment feature -- if you have a picture that is
   back-lit so the image is light and good in the background, but the
   figure in front is dark, you can simply click on ADJUSTMENT>SHADOW HIGHLIGHT and it will brighten the dark front part without touching the light background.
3. Another new adjustment function is MATCH COLORS where you can take two
   images with different color tones (say one was shot in bright sunlight
   and the other in shade) and tell them to match colors -- they will then look
   like they were both shot in the same lighting.
4. The picture viewer is greatly enhanced so you can look at all your
   images, label them, rotate any sideways ones, etc. inside the viewer.
5. If you like to experiment with Photoshop filters, you can now open the
   FILTER GALLERY and click on various filters to see what each one does
   (instead of having to open and close the filters, one by one, to see what each does).
6. There is a new COLOR REPLACEMENT tool that can be used for things
   like red eye or changing the color of a part of an image.
7. There is a new PHOTOMERGE function that allows you to make panoramas
   from a series of images -- you just identify the images (in any order you want)
   and Photoshop figures out how to stitch them together. If it can't figure
   out where one of the pictures fits in, it lets you drag it into place. You can
   stitch the images normally, or have photoshop add perspective.
8. Pixels are different in regular images vs. video. Photoshop now will
   show you what an image will look like in video (very handy if you are making
   splash screens for video or DVD interfaces, for example.
9. When you move pieces of an image around in Image Ready, "smart
   guides" pop up to show you if the pieces are aligned with other pieces of the image (this is a new feature in FireworksMX2004, too -- someone [or everyone] is spying!)
10. You can export work from Image Ready in .swf format (therefore it
    will be vectors and will scale without distortion).