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Greetings,
I’ve been using Photoshop 5.5 for the last year and a half, either retouching/repairing older photographs or enhancing new photos for use in advertising.
Over this time I’ve learned quite a few nice new skills with the program, and I’m very happy with it. BUT… I got a very nice book on restoring photos with Photoshop, and several of the techniques are taking advantage of Photoshop 7.0 tools, which I either have to try reproducing the hard way or avoid altogether.
When shopping around, I saw Photoshop CS on the shelf, so I Googled the newsgroups to see what I could see. It looks like CS has a _few_ more features than 7.0, but am I wrong in assuming there’s a Microsoft-like license fee that I’ll have to keep paying? If so, that’ll clinch my decision to go with 7.0 instead.
Any opinions/insights into this decision, please feel free to send them my way. I’ll be buying a new PC with Windows XP to run the new software on, so it’ll have a good graphics card, firewire, USB2… all the little things I don’t have right now with my PIII.
Dennis
I’ve been using Photoshop 5.5 for the last year and a half, either retouching/repairing older photographs or enhancing new photos for use in advertising.
Over this time I’ve learned quite a few nice new skills with the program, and I’m very happy with it. BUT… I got a very nice book on restoring photos with Photoshop, and several of the techniques are taking advantage of Photoshop 7.0 tools, which I either have to try reproducing the hard way or avoid altogether.
When shopping around, I saw Photoshop CS on the shelf, so I Googled the newsgroups to see what I could see. It looks like CS has a _few_ more features than 7.0, but am I wrong in assuming there’s a Microsoft-like license fee that I’ll have to keep paying? If so, that’ll clinch my decision to go with 7.0 instead.
Any opinions/insights into this decision, please feel free to send them my way. I’ll be buying a new PC with Windows XP to run the new software on, so it’ll have a good graphics card, firewire, USB2… all the little things I don’t have right now with my PIII.
Dennis
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