Upgrading Adobe applications

[bousozoku]

I'm trying to decide about getting the latest Photoshop release, CS2. I could really use an upgrade to GoLive from version 6 and I have the education version of Illustrator 10, as well as a full release of Photoshop 7 and LiveMotion 2.

I could really use the Premium suite upgrade because of Acrobat and GoLive but $749 seems daunting even though at $169, I would only be getting Photoshop. An education version is no longer an option for me.

Any thoughts about this?

 

[iGary]

I'm trying to decide about getting the latest Photoshop release, CS2. I could really use an upgrade to GoLive from version 6 and I have the education version of Illustrator 10, as well as a full release of Photoshop 7 and LiveMotion 2.

I could really use the Premium suite upgrade because of Acrobat and GoLive but $749 seems daunting even though at $169, I would only be getting Photoshop. An education version is no longer an option for me.

Any thoughts about this?

You'll end up using this release for three years or so. $20 bucks a month. No brainer. 🙂

 

[Blue Velvet]

If it was me, and given the money involved, I'd wait for CS3. It's not that far away... allegedly.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

If it was me, and given the money involved, I'd wait for CS3. It's not that far away... allegedly.

Really?? CS2 was just released in May. That's just 6 months. How long was the gap between CS1 and CS2?

 

[bousozoku]

People did start talking about CS3 before CS2 was finally released. I'd been considering that I could upgrade later to the Premium suite with a minor difference in price.

Of course, once I sell my house, there should not be much of an issue. I guess I should wait for CS3 and that will probably be summer or so next year.

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I ended up buying Photoshop Elements version 3.0 for the PowerBook so I'd have proper editing software in the field. It's actually quite good as long as I don't need CMYK and lab color, etc. It's also more advanced than my version 7, as it will handle RAW files and do cookie cutter images, red-eye amelioration, etc.

It's not at all bad for inexpensive software. The only thing I've noticed that isn't good is the startup time. My dual G4/800 starts Photoshop 7 much more quickly than the 1.33 GHz PowerBook but it could be the 7200 rpm drive, double the RAM, or the fact that I'm impatient but I remember people saying that Photoshop CS was quite a bit slower than Photoshop 7.
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