differences between Photoshop 5.5,6 and 7?
30 April 2004, 08:55 AM
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Go for 7, its up to CS now (8) if only just to be almost up to date.
On the whole though 6 was a massive jump from 5.5 and 7 is a very good improvement on 6. 7 should be the winner.
On the whole though 6 was a massive jump from 5.5 and 7 is a very good improvement on 6. 7 should be the winner.
30 April 2004, 09:42 AM
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I believe that you can get a heavily discounted upgrade from any of those to CS anyway.
Be aware that CS uses online activation like XP does - you may or may not want to support a product that uses that technology. It's one major reason I haven't upgraded.
Be aware that CS uses online activation like XP does - you may or may not want to support a product that uses that technology. It's one major reason I haven't upgraded.
01 May 2004, 10:53 AM
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I don't see much of a reason to upgrade from 7 to CS other than remaining up to date. The new features are hardly worth it are they?
01 May 2004, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by STi-Frenchie
I don't see much of a reason to upgrade from 7 to CS other than remaining up to date. The new features are hardly worth it are they?
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01 May 2004, 02:08 PM
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Upgrades are only normally available from the previous 2 versions 6 and 7 not 5.5 you would have to buy a full new verison if you bought 5.5 so its not worth doing
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7 has the patch tool, which I use all the time for doing things like getting rid of lamp-posts and other things I don't want in shot. A brilliant tool.
You can also get plugins fro 7 from Adobe which will almost bring it up to version 8 (but not CS).
CS/8 supports RAW camera outputs, which the plugins will also do. It also works in a higher colour mode (I always get this bit wrong. I think it's 32 bit as opposed to 16 bit i earlier versions) which the plugins do not support.
If you can afford it and you have a decent digital camera then CS is worth it. Otherwise 7 is just fine. I still use both as I can't afford a PC and Mac version of CS...
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You can also get plugins fro 7 from Adobe which will almost bring it up to version 8 (but not CS).
CS/8 supports RAW camera outputs, which the plugins will also do. It also works in a higher colour mode (I always get this bit wrong. I think it's 32 bit as opposed to 16 bit i earlier versions) which the plugins do not support.
If you can afford it and you have a decent digital camera then CS is worth it. Otherwise 7 is just fine. I still use both as I can't afford a PC and Mac version of CS...
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02 May 2004, 02:46 PM
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At least 7 - preferably CS
Each new version introduces new features, but there is usually one killer - for 7 it was the healing brush / patch tool which is amazing if you want to do things like getting rid of spots & wrinkles on portraits etc.
With CS the absolute best feature is the shadow/highlight tool which can extract an amazing amount of detail out of the dark part of your pictures.
I got 5.5 free with my camera, then obtained an evaluation copy of 7. I decided to go for CS just for the RAW file handling capability, but then discovered the shadow/highlight tool.
The upgrade does NOT specify which versions you can upgrade from. In fact I didn't actually have Photoshop installed on my PC when I installed the upgrade and it worked fine
With CS the absolute best feature is the shadow/highlight tool which can extract an amazing amount of detail out of the dark part of your pictures.
I got 5.5 free with my camera, then obtained an evaluation copy of 7. I decided to go for CS just for the RAW file handling capability, but then discovered the shadow/highlight tool.
The upgrade does NOT specify which versions you can upgrade from. In fact I didn't actually have Photoshop installed on my PC when I installed the upgrade and it worked fine
02 May 2004, 06:32 PM
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One thing to be aware of is that the latest Adobe products (at least, the one's I've been using) now only install on XP. They no longer support Win 2K.
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