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Jun 17, 2007
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Can anyone tell me where I can pick up a older version of Adobe Photoshop; I am looking to purchase Photoshop 3. Any advise or leads will be very welcome. While I know that Photoshop has been upgrade exponentionally, I prefer to start off slowly (also I haven’t an abundance of time to learn; I am self-teaching with a few books I picked up this weekend). I am also the last of a dying bread of "film" lovers. I have been wanting to pick my camera up again but realized that I cannot do it with my old film cameras and expect real work to earn real money. I am a quick learner and expect to quickly upgrade to the current version. I would like to keep my cost of this Photoshop minimal as such.

Thanks for helping me.

LSA-Mom
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Ed_Hannigan
Jun 17, 2007
Try ebay, but you never know if you are getting the real thing or a pirate or counterfeit copy.
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Phosphor
Jun 17, 2007
LSA-Mom…

Since you’re just getting started, you’d probably be able to do everything you need by buying a copy of the latest Photoshop Elements. You should be able to find it at any number of local and chain retailers, and you’d have no worries about its legality.

Much cheaper than Photoshop, in many ways it’s more powerful even than older versions of the standard version of Photoshop.

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Daryl_Pritchard
Jun 17, 2007
LSA-Mom,

I can’t see any good reason for going all the way back to Photoshop 3. I gather you just assume you could find that version somewhere very cheap. I suggest a better route, assuming you have a relatively current PC, is to buy Photoshop Elements for $100 and learn how to use it. The tools and techniques you learn there will transfer pretty easily over to Photoshop, should you find you need it.

Regards,

Daryl

P.S. – Uh, yes…what Phos said. 🙂
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Peter Aitken
Jun 17, 2007
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Can anyone tell me where I can pick up a older version of Adobe Photoshop; I am looking to purchase Photoshop 3. Any advise or leads will be very welcome. While I know that Photoshop has been upgrade exponentionally, I prefer to start off slowly (also I haven’t an abundance of time to learn; I am self-teaching with a few books I picked up this weekend). I am also the last of a dying bread of "film" lovers. I have been wanting to pick my camera up again but realized that
I cannot do it with my old film cameras and expect real work to earn real money. I am a quick learner and expect to quickly upgrade to the current version. I would like to keep my cost of this Photoshop minimal as such.
Thanks for helping me.

LSA-Mom

If you do not want the power, complexity, and expense of the latest Photoshop, then why buy Photoshop at all? There are several excellent image editing programs available that are simpler and cheaper, for example Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements. Plus, you know they will be compatible with the latest cameras, scanners, and other hardware, not to mention operating systems.

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Jun 17, 2007
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:56:21 -0700, "Luke’s SPIRIT Academy" wrote:

Can anyone tell me where I can pick up a older version of Adobe Photoshop; I am looking to purchase Photoshop 3. Any advise or leads will be very welcome. While I know that Photoshop has been upgrade exponentionally, I prefer to start off slowly (also I haven’t an abundance of time to learn; I am self-teaching with a few books I picked up this weekend). I am also the last of a dying bread of "film" lovers. I have been wanting to pick my camera up again but realized that I cannot do it with my old film cameras and expect real work to earn real money. I am a quick learner and expect to quickly upgrade to the current version. I would like to keep my cost of this Photoshop minimal as such.

Thanks for helping me.

LSA-Mom

You’d be better off just getting the latest version of PhotoShop. If you get an earlier version like you mentioned, you will be missing out on a lot of new tools and functions in the latest version that you’ll eventually have to learn. Learning version 10 (CS3) is no harder than learning version 3.

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John_Joslin
Jun 17, 2007
Photoshop 3 would not run on a current Windows system anyway.
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Jim_Oblak
Jun 18, 2007
If you are looking to eventually transition to a more recent version of Photoshop, it might be useful to check out something free like Cinepaint <http://www.cinepaint.org> (use Cinepaint; not the Glasgow development release). Even though (until recently) Adobe has attempted to maintain a similar interface with their successive releases of Photoshop, you may find the functionality of Cinepaint to be more in line with current Photoshop releases than Photoshop 3’s (or Photoshop Element’s) limited feature set.

If you are referring to ‘Photoshop 3’ as a version that you could upgrade to the current version based on Adobe’s pricing, recognize that this is for Photoshop Elements 3 or newer. The earliest version of Photoshop that can currently be upgraded is version 7.

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