PS 7 / PS CS

Did you upgrade your PS version 7 to 7.0.l with the online download?

"michael staddon" wrote in message

I have PS 7 and am contemplating the upgrade to CS. I only use Photoshop

for

basic photo manipulation and have been told that apart from the Raw converter there is very little difference that would justify the extra

cost.

What other differences are their for the amateur photographer please.
Thanks

Whatever you do, you should check to make sure your camera is even supported. See…
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

There is a plug-in bundle available that will work with version 7.0.1 http://www.adobe.com/support/salesdocs/10a7a.htm

But you will have to have applied the 12MEg download free update at… http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1851

I personally boycott any product incorporating "product activation" technology, for reasons of my own. (There is already a thread of epic length detailing the different arguments, mostly against)

In my opinion, 7.0.1 is actually over-kill for anyone not using the program for time-critical commercial press work. The path of pertetual upgrade of such expensive software, unless it is a professional requirement to meet deadlines, seems sort of rediculous. Each have their own individual reasons. Mine make it unjustified. So, I will "clunk" along with what was, until just a few months ago, the most advanced pre-press imaging software available. (grin)

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:20:01 +0000 (UTC), "michael staddon" wrote:

I have PS 7 and am contemplating the upgrade to CS. I only use Photoshop for basic photo manipulation and have been told that apart from the Raw converter there is very little difference that would justify the extra cost. What other differences are their for the amateur photographer please.

None that you’d be interested in apart from the ability to use some filters on 16 bit images. You can get a RAW converter for 7 (make sure you have the upgrade to 7.01) as long as your camera is supported. OTOH, most camera makers have their own software which will take a RAW image and output it as a Tiff and some have RAW image plug ins for free.

Going by what you’ve said you’;d probably be better off with Elements anyway.

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Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

Many thanks for your comments, I do have 7.01 and will go for the raw plugin and stick with it.
"Hecate" wrote in message

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:20:01 +0000 (UTC), "michael staddon" wrote:

I have PS 7 and am contemplating the upgrade to CS. I only use Photoshop

for

basic photo manipulation and have been told that apart from the Raw converter there is very little difference that would justify the extra

cost.

What other differences are their for the amateur photographer please.

None that you’d be interested in apart from the ability to use some filters on 16 bit images. You can get a RAW converter for 7 (make sure you have the upgrade to 7.01) as long as your camera is supported. OTOH, most camera makers have their own software which will take a RAW image and output it as a Tiff and some have RAW image plug ins for free.

Going by what you’ve said you’;d probably be better off with Elements anyway.

—

Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

The RAW plug-in is $100 US, and the upgrade to CS is only $69 US more. Here are a few of the new features that I can remember that are photographer oriented. May or may not be worth $69 to you:

Photographic-like color correction filters (warm, cool)
A few lens correction filters for pincushion, etc.
An interesting highlight/shadow exposure correction
Color matching feature for combining images
Addition of the "stitching" feature in Elements2 Browser now works in both ImageReady and PS and is more customizable for thumbnail size, metadata editing, etc.
PSP-like filter gallery with filter previews and the ability to combine filter effects
"Live" histogram that stays onscreen (if desired) during all editing, not just Levels, and which can be broken into R, G, B, luminosity and colors Color replacement tool for red-eye, etc.
16 bit editing using essentially all tools
Support for "most" camera RAW image importing
Editing and/or replacing keyboard shortcut commands

Then some graphics stuff that photographers sometimes need such as text on a path.

Depends on what you like and need, and what it’s worth to you.

zuuum wrote:

I personally boycott any product incorporating "product activation" technology, for reasons of my own. (There is already a thread of epic length detailing the different arguments, mostly against)

Reasons of your own?

I would say that there are very /objective/ reasons why no one should ever accept software that cannot be installed independent from the manufacturer, whenever and how many times one wants on his/her present computer or the one s/he buys next.

Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway