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•The first thing you'll probably notice is the single-column toolbar. It makes more efficient use of the screen real estate, and you'll be able to focus in a little more on the image. Adobe has revamped the interface across the entire creative suite applications so that once you've gotten use to them in Photoshop, they will also make sense in After Effects, Indesign, and etc. Although it may seem a little akward at first, it's definitely a plus. The toolbox is now a single column on the left hand side of the screen which makes more efficient use of screen real estate. If you prefer the double column toolbar, it can be restored by clicking the double arrow icon at the top of the toolbar.

•The tools essentially work the same. There is only one quickmask tool (Q) at the bottom of the toolbar now though. Clicking on it once takes you into the quickmask mode, and clicking on it again takes you out.

•Also, the palettes along the right side of the screen have changed some too. They are all arranged inside of a single cluster inside of a docks. An advantage of these new docks is that now you vertically resize your palettes. 

•If you open up a new window and want to add it to the cluster then just open itt, and drag on the Palette Clusters Title Bar (gray area) below the dock. You cannot drag the dock itself. That will only collapse them to icons.

•By droping them anywhere, you can turn them into free floating windows, but you can also drag them to their own dock. Many of the CS3 functions are better if you're working with docks. By dragging the Palette Clusters Title Bar over to the right hand side of the screen until the blue verticle line. That line indicates that a new dock will be created at that location as soon as you release it.

•Also, more items can be added to the dock. If you want to add Brushes and Clone Source (New to CS3) to the dock, then just open them and drag them to the top of the dock. You should see a blue horizontal line this time indicating that you will add the palettes. You can drop the other one at the bottom, and you can scale them as much as you want.