Can I have PS CS and PS 7.0 on the same hard-drive?

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS? Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

If I remember right, it will not keep the plugins, but I’m not sure. I would copy all your plugins to another location, just to be sure. It depends on the plugins, some of those may not work in CS. Many of them will, but you may have to upgrade some of them.

Don’t worry about your knowledge being useless with CS. Basically, everything you did in 7 you can do in CS. CS just adds more features. Of course, you will find that some of those features will make it way easier to do some of the things you did in 7.

Clyde

Clyde wrote:

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS? Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Johan W. Elzenga wrote:

Clyde wrote:

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS? Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

You are right about having them both of course but are you sure you can run them at the same time?
I can’t.

Stephan

"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote in message

Clyde wrote:

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS?
Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

Same here, and Elements all 3 programs at the same time. The plug ins can all go in a central folder

Stephan wrote:

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

You are right about having them both of course but are you sure you can run them at the same time?
I can’t.

I can if I start Photoshop 7 first.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Johan W. Elzenga wrote:

Stephan wrote:

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

You are right about having them both of course but are you sure you can run them at the same time?
I can’t.

I can if I start Photoshop 7 first.

I’ll have to try.
Actually, looking at my 2 832 140 kb Photoshop Temp file (despite my
1.5GB of RAM), maybe one open version of PS is enough …

Stephan

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invalid says…

Clyde wrote:

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS? Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

You are correct, Johan. I have CS, 7.0.1, and 4.0.x on the same HDD, though I have never tried to open more than one of them at a time.

As for the Plug-ins, the OP might want to try and copy them over to the new installation’s plug-in folder. However, some plug-ins (third-party) do require an installation, as some files are written to other areas, primarily the OS. I had to do a re-install for all Extensis plug-ins and a few others, but, other than that, all work fine. You could point the new PS to the old plug-in folder as the additional plug-in location, but then you will often get duplicate plug-ins listed in the Filters drop-down.

Hunt

On 11 Mar 2005 02:26:55 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

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invalid says…

Clyde wrote:

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS? Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

You are correct, Johan. I have CS, 7.0.1, and 4.0.x on the same HDD, though I have never tried to open more than one of them at a time.
As for the Plug-ins, the OP might want to try and copy them over to the new installation’s plug-in folder. However, some plug-ins (third-party) do require an installation, as some files are written to other areas, primarily the OS. I had to do a re-install for all Extensis plug-ins and a few others, but, other than that, all work fine. You could point the new PS to the old plug-in folder as the additional plug-in location, but then you will often get duplicate plug-ins listed in the Filters drop-down.

Hunt

Thanks to all. I will install CS today and see how it goes. I’m still a little concerned about my plugins but guess I can figure it out as I go.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:02:11 -0500, Karen wrote:

On 11 Mar 2005 02:26:55 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

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invalid says…

Clyde wrote:

Karen wrote:

I was given a copy of Photoshop CS for a birthday present. I now have installed PS 7.0.1 I think it is.
I have plenty of room on my hard-drive. Can I install CS and not remove my older version? If so will it cause any problems when and if I remove the older version?
What about plugin’s, can I just copy them to the plugin directory in CS? Maybe the plugin directory is common for both?
I’m one of those people that hates change. It’s taken me years to learn what little I know about this program.
Thanks

The installation of CS will check for and remove all earlier versions.

Nonsense. The CS installer will leave version 7 alone. I have both on my HD and they can even run simultaneously if I wanted to.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

You are correct, Johan. I have CS, 7.0.1, and 4.0.x on the same HDD, though I have never tried to open more than one of them at a time.
As for the Plug-ins, the OP might want to try and copy them over to the new installation’s plug-in folder. However, some plug-ins (third-party) do require an installation, as some files are written to other areas, primarily the OS. I had to do a re-install for all Extensis plug-ins and a few others, but, other than that, all work fine. You could point the new PS to the old plug-in folder as the additional plug-in location, but then you will often get duplicate plug-ins listed in the Filters drop-down.

Hunt

Thanks to all. I will install CS today and see how it goes. I’m still a little concerned about my plugins but guess I can figure it out as I go.

If anyone is still following this thread, and I’m not sure why they would. I just thought of something else. In Photoshop 7 I made some custom brushes a few years ago. Of course I used a tutorial to do this. This part makes no difference but they are all of flowers and I can’t seem to find the original pictures anymore.
Is there a way to get the brush set in Photoshop? What about Actions? Wont be a big loss on those if I can’t I very seldom use them. Thanks

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Thanks to all. I will install CS today and see how it goes. I’m still a little concerned about my plugins but guess I can figure it out as I go.

If anyone is still following this thread, and I’m not sure why they would. I just thought of something else. In Photoshop 7 I made some custom brushes a few years ago. Of course I used a tutorial to do this. This part makes no difference but they are all of flowers and I can’t seem to find the original pictures anymore.
Is there a way to get the brush set in Photoshop? What about Actions? Wont be a big loss on those if I can’t I very seldom use them. Thanks

Karen,

IIRC the Brushes transferability changed between 6 -> 7, but I "think" that v7 will transfer to CS. Maybe one of the experts can address your concern, and correct me if I am wrong. I couldn’t open custom Brushes from earlier version (~4) to v6, or v7.

As for Actions, these should work. I have some from Adobe Studio done for v6, or v7, that seem to work fine in CS, though I have not tried them all.

Hunt