PS7 or CS

minchu wrote:

Hello,
I have PS7 on XP and now planning to go for Adobe CS. Is there any problem in CS. Kindly suggets me weather I shoud go for CS or no.
Regards,
Minchu.

My suggestion, without knowing what your needs are: go for it.

There are any number of features that you’ll find interesting and worthwhile.
—

Mike Russell
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If you do anything with photos, the Shadow /Highlight adjustment is great! I like also the photo RAW converter. I have not tried Layer Comps yet, but am ready to say I am happyt I made the step up. (Certainly some other things I didn’t think of to men tion here, but those I did are important to me.) Would make a difference to know what you do with PS.

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"minchu" wrote in message

Hello,
I have PS7 on XP and now planning to go for Adobe CS. Is there any problem in CS. Kindly suggets me weather I shoud go for CS or no.
Regards,
Minchu.

You can easily find the CS specific features in many places and decide for yourself if they are what you need. Another consideration is the performance. Many have reported that CS is much slower than 7. My personal experience seems to support that. When PS is the only application running, I find that opening and closing files in CS takes several times longer than in 7. The two versions are running on two different machines. On the PS CS machine, 90% of ram is allocated to PS and a dedicated hd is used for PS scratch disk.

PS 7: Celeron 466MH, Win98, 256mb ram, single 30GB hd.
PS CS: P4 2.4GH, WinXP Pro, 1G ram, dual 80GB hds.

Go figure.

minchu wrote:

Hello,
I have PS7 on XP and now planning to go for Adobe CS. Is there any problem in CS. Kindly suggets me weather I shoud go for CS or no.
Regards,
Minchu.

"minchu" wrote in message

Hello,
I have PS7 on XP and now planning to go for Adobe CS. Is there any problem in CS. Kindly suggets me weather I shoud go for CS or no.

Try it and find out! Adobe had a functional trial version you can download from: http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp#product=39

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different machines. On the PS CS machine, 90% of ram is allocated to PS

That’s a mistake. Bump it down to 60 or 75 at most. Starving the OS of ram is counterproductive with regard to performance.

Rick

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Many have reported that CS is much slower than 7. My
personal experience seems to support that.

I think this occurs if you have a marginal computer? When I first got CS I ran several large longish actions on large film scans to time both programs and on my system CS was ALWAYS faster, sometimes significantly so.

When PS is the only
application running, I find that opening and closing files in CS takes several times longer than in 7.

The only time I had a problem similar to this was when I had File Browser open with a lot of large scans (330 MB – 550 MB) and it took a long time to generate the previews. I usually shut FB and have no problem.

On the PS CS machine, 90% of ram is allocated to PS

Too high a percent, probably. I’ve tested my two machines and with 2 GB of RAM on one and 1.5 GB on the other I can bump it to 86% before things get hinky … if you have less RAM than this you might find it runs faster with a smaller allocation.

PS CS: P4 2.4GH, WinXP Pro, 1G ram, dual 80GB hds.
Go figure.

Sounds like plenty of machine to run CS fast to me. Not questioning what you’re seeing, just pointing out that it’s not what most of the rest of us see.

Bill

Bill Hilton wrote:

From:

Many have reported that CS is much slower than 7. My
personal experience seems to support that.

I think this occurs if you have a marginal computer? When I first got CS I ran several large longish actions on large film scans to time both programs and on my system CS was ALWAYS faster, sometimes significantly so.

When PS is the only
application running, I find that opening and closing files in CS takes several times longer than in 7.

The only time I had a problem similar to this was when I had File Browser open with a lot of large scans (330 MB – 550 MB) and it took a long time to generate the previews. I usually shut FB and have no problem.

As you agreed later, the CS machine is NOT marginal. On that machine, ONLY opening a file and saving a file is much slower than on the PS7 machine. When I open a file (100MB to 500MB), I first display the file’s folder in the File Browser. It will take a while if the folder has many big files and I can understand why. The real problem is opening a file in the folder by double clicking on it. It takes several times longer than on the PS7 machine.

Saving a file also takes a similar amount of time. And the File Browser is not involved as far as I know.

I should also note that aside from opening and saving files, the CS machine is faster than the PS7 machine during editing.

I would really like to know what is going on in the machine during the time a file is opened and saved.

On the PS CS machine, 90% of ram is allocated to PS

Too high a percent, probably. I’ve tested my two machines and with 2 GB of RAM on one and 1.5 GB on the other I can bump it to 86% before things get hinky … if you have less RAM than this you might find it runs faster with a smaller allocation.

I’ve tried between 60 to 90% of 1G of ram, but really can’t observe any speed differences.

PS CS: P4 2.4GH, WinXP Pro, 1G ram, dual 80GB hds.
Go figure.

Sounds like plenty of machine to run CS fast to me. Not questioning what you’re seeing, just pointing out that it’s not what most of the rest of us see.

I expect quite a performance improvement on this machine, and got the opposite.

Hi!

If you have PS7 and can’t:

1- Deal with very large images
2- Correct colors in a rather simpler way
3- Deal with 16-bit images that need layers while they are edited 4- Use MUCH more efficient ImageReady version
5- Try with filters composition in real time mode
6- Export more accurate PDF files from PS
7- Do other stuff!

Then you may upgrade. One feature of highlight adjustment (in addition to other minor ones) is now sold as a photoshop’s plug-in (brand name: Digital Gym) by Kodak company for US$ 100. So it is up to you.

Photoshop CS is a real symphony!

Mohamed Al-Dabbagh
Senior Graphic Designer