CS2

In article <43dcf4fc$0$25078$>,
Bruce Coryell wrote:

I’ve been using PS 6.0 for the last five years, just sent in my order for the upgrade to CS2 last night. What’s in store for me?

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"Bruce Coryell" wrote in message

I’ve been using PS 6.0 for the last five years, just sent in my order for the upgrade to CS2 last night. What’s in store for me?

I predict that within 5 to 10 working days you will receive a colorful package containing a couple CDROMS, one with software that sucks up RAM and provokes many new questions, most of which are reflexively answered with "trash the preferences". Other answers are "it is the new licensing thing" and "more RAM", "another hard drive or two" and "Elements". Then one day you
will open the Bridge *shudder*. Oh the humanity!

gotta love activations oh what a pain in the arse they are all in all cs2 is a good program it does eat ram , but a graphic machine should be stocked as full as u can make it
Ive been using cs2 since it came out 🙂 I love it but I loved 6 and 7 also 😉

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Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of a ordinary life
Love gives us a fairytale

Yeah, it’s pretty much a love it or hate it thing, depending on how CS2 is welcomed (or not) by your computer. Some have had to give up on it, but most users find it works very well.

shadowdancer wrote:

gotta love activations oh what a pain in the arse they are all in all cs2 is a good program it does eat ram , but a graphic machine should be stocked as full as u can make it
Ive been using cs2 since it came out 🙂 I love it but I loved 6 and 7 also 😉

How would it do with 512MB of RAM?

In article <43de01ca$0$25083$
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shadowdancer wrote:

gotta love activations oh what a pain in the arse they are all in all cs2 is a good program it does eat ram , but a graphic machine should be stocked as full as u can make it
Ive been using cs2 since it came out 🙂 I love it but I loved 6 and 7 also 😉

How would it do with 512MB of RAM?

Bruce,

That is dependent on what size images you work on, and what you do with them. If I only had 512MB, I’d grab my MoBo manual and see how much it can hold, and exactly what type, then head off to Fry’s, CompUSA, or wherever for as much as it can take. 2GB would be nice, but I have an older workstation that will only hold 1.5GB and it works fine. Next, I’d stick in a few extra physical HDDs, large and fast, for image storage, and most of all, Scratch Disk space. The adage about never being "too thin," or having "too much money," has been updated; you can never have too much RAM, or too much HDD space.

That said, there is much to love with CS/CS2. Once you get some of the new interface decisions committed to memory (yours), it will flow nicely. The Activation aspect has not created any problems for me, other than a bit of a lag in load-time, when firing off CS2. Just wait for the third "hourglass."

Of all of the versions that have appeared on PC (except for 5.5, which I did not get), CS2 is my favorite, but I use it every day for working on big, honking ad images.

Bridge is "getting there," and by CS3 ought to be about right.

If one can buff-up their machine a bit, it’s a great program.

Hunt

"Bruce Coryell" wrote in message

shadowdancer wrote:

gotta love activations oh what a pain in the arse they are all in all cs2 is a good program it does eat ram , but a graphic machine should be stocked as full as u can make it
Ive been using cs2 since it came out 🙂 I love it but I loved 6 and 7 also 😉

How would it do with 512MB of RAM?

Horrible.

"Bruce Coryell" wrote in message

I’ve been using PS 6.0 for the last five years, just sent in my order for the upgrade to CS2 last night. What’s in store for me?

If you don’t know, why did you order it?

it will probably be slow but functional I wouldn’t advise multitasking with that little ram

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Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of a ordinary life
Love gives us a fairytale

"Bruce Coryell" wrote in message

How would it do with 512MB of RAM?

I run it on a 1GHz laptop with 384MB RAM total. For the most part (doing straight-forward corrections) it’s OK – but if you start building up layers is can slow down a lot.

If you have the ability to add more ram then I doubt you’d ever regret it – 1 to 2 GB would make the CS2 pretty darn quick for all but the heaviest of users.

C J Southern wrote:

"Bruce Coryell" wrote in message

How would it do with 512MB of RAM?

I run it on a 1GHz laptop with 384MB RAM total. For the most part (doing straight-forward corrections) it’s OK – but if you start building up layers is can slow down a lot.

If you have the ability to add more ram then I doubt you’d ever regret it – 1 to 2 GB would make the CS2 pretty darn quick for all but the heaviest of users.

As it turns out, I’m gearing up to build a new system, and this one will have 1 GB on it. And that will be the platform that I’ll run CS2 on.

"Bruce Coryell" wrote in message

As it turns out, I’m gearing up to build a new system, and this one will have 1 GB on it. And that will be the platform that I’ll run CS2 on.

You might want to go to adobe.com and see if your platform has issues.