Photoshop 6 user looking to upgrade to CS

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Erica_Enright
Oct 25, 2005
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I’m currently working with photoshop 6 and I was wondering what the new "bells & whistles" are out there for the CS version. What would CS users say the major pluses to upgrading are? I have to be able to prove to the higher ups that upgrading is a good idea (beyond just wanting to play with the newest toy).

(We run on pentium 4’s with 2 GB of ram.)

Many thanks.

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Art Campbell
Oct 25, 2005
Well, you’re three revs behind so your version isn’t supported any longer. So that’d be a biggy for me.

The PS web site can give you a good laundry list of features, but I’d summarize them down to a better UI, more and more sophisticated tools, and support for a much wider variety of files and file types. Depending on whether you’re working on files for print or electronic media and how you integrate with other applications (Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat) purchasing the CS2 Suite may be a better productivity boost.

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chrisjbirchall
Oct 25, 2005
Download the free 30 day trial of CS2 to see if you like the "bells and whistles" before spending the $/£140 upgrading.
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T_A_S
Oct 27, 2005
Well, you get a lot slower performance, higher system requirements, more bugs, a REALLY bad file browser mutation they call Bridge, and a couple nice things like RAW support and the Shadow/Highlight adjustment is pretty nice, and a few nicer text handling things.

Maybe wait until CS3 unless you really need RAW support, or enjoy paying Adobe to beta test for them. OK, it’s not that bad, but I have been pretty disappointed at CS2. I give it a C-.
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chrisjbirchall
Oct 27, 2005
Erica:

There are a lot of "sour grapes" out there from people who’s systems are not up to running such a powerful, well-featured program such as CS2. The only three words you need to take notice of in that last post are "higher system requirements".

CS2 is an excellent program which will so much more for your imaging than PS6. Bridge is a fine program which offers so much more than a mere file browser, especially when used in a RAW file workflow.

Is it for you? Do as I suggested and download the 30 day trial. It will give you a chance to try out the new features and discover whether any hardware upgrade is required. Although P4’s with 2gb of RAM should be just fine.

Best of luck with it.

Chris.

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