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Adobe has spent a lot of time making behind-the-scene changes in Photoshop CS4 that make the processing faster in both Bridge and Photoshop and they also got rid of the problems associated with zooms and regular magnifications that were an issue with earlier versions of Photoshop. Now what you see at any zoom magnification is accurate. There's also support built in for Windows 64-bit operating systems. The Adjustments Panel is new and it's now non-modal. What that means is that while you're in the midst of making an adjustment, Photoshop's other features will still work, including the ability to make and modify a mask and go back and forth between the mask and the adjustment. In earlier versions, you had to close out of the adjustment to work on the mask and reopen the adjustment if you needed to tweak it. It may sound small, but when you're working, it's a significant timesaver and makes your life easier. Some of the adjustments, including curves, have an on-screen targeted adjustment that removes the guesswork to make your adjustments. For example, if I wanted to make this area darker, I'll pull down. If I wanted to make it lighter, I'll pull up. The Masks Panel can help you create or modify masks from selections in a re-editable panel. There's a powerful color range tool that can make selections for you as well as controls to refine the edges of your mask, all accessible directly from the Masks Panel to save time. Adobe also added a Vibrance Adjustment that's similar to the Vibrance Control in Camera Raw. It selectively increases or decreases the saturation in a way that tries to avoid clipping in any color, meaning losing detail, and tries to protect skin tones. That way you can saturate backgrounds without making people look weird. There's also Content-Aware Scaling, which makes it possible to keep the subject in your image the same size but scale the rest of the image. The Birds-Eye View makes it easy to be working along at a high magnification with one tool and quickly zoom out to see the entire image and zoom back in on the same area or a new area without leaving the tool that you are working with. For example, if I've been cleaning up this image using the Spot Healing Brush and I've been at 100 percent magnification, which I'm going to set up here in the new Zoom Level Control and I want to momentarily zoom out to check another area, I hold down the H Key and the image returns to a full view. I set the little rectangle wherever I want to zoom in next and let go and now I'm zoomed in to that area at the same 100 percent and I'm still ready to go with the tool that I was using. The ability for Photoshop to align images is greatly improved and makes it possible to create not only traditional panoramas but composites that extend depth of field as well. When Photoshop creates panoramas, you can even remove vignetting and geometric distortion for better results. Bridge is now faster and has a Review Node, which can increase your efficiency while editing and it also has both collections and smart collections. These are a group of images that may exist in various places on your computer that you can group together. Smart collections are based on criteria that you set, whereas you set regular collections manually. Bridge can automatically identify groups of images that you took for a panorama or HDR composite based on both image content and EXIF Metadata and then create stacks of these images for you. Tapping the spacebar in Bridge makes any image full screen immediately. As you can see, there are a lot of improvements in CS4, all designed to help you work accurately, easier and faster.