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Archive 2007 · Id2M3 Photoshop CS3 Upgrade or not

Kyle Yates
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p.1 #1 · Id2M3 Photoshop CS3 Upgrade or not

Hello all

I'm quite happy with the RAW converter in the Canon software for the 1D3. After Conversion I can quite easily use my current version of Photoshop - CS2.

Is there any value in upgrading to CS3 -- I'm beginning to find that as good as Photoshop is there are simply LOADS of features in it that I don't use or ever have any intention of using.

Having a "combined" product for "Graphic Art" and Photography rather complicates matters -- a separate program for both jobs would IMO be a much better idea with just a common library for tasks common to both sets of people.

I can't see myself abandoning photoshop but I wish a lot of product developers would stop just adding and adding "non essential features" and simply concentrate on "The Core Product".

Lightshop seems another possibility but I keep getting C++ run time error or cryptic measures like that when I try and run it.

Cheers

-K

Sep 02, 2007 at 02:24 PM

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p.1 #2 · Id2M3 Photoshop CS3 Upgrade or not

I don't know about Photoshop from CS2 to CS3, but Camera Raw in CS3, serves me much better than CS2 did.

Sep 02, 2007 at 03:37 PM

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p.1 #3 · Id2M3 Photoshop CS3 Upgrade or not

The CS3 upgrades are in my opinion excellent, most noticeably ACR. However like any single photoshop upgrade they just arent worth the cost.

Alex

Sep 02, 2007 at 03:44 PM

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p.1 #4 · Id2M3 Photoshop CS3 Upgrade or not

I am waiting for delivery of CS3 but I do prefer lightroom for raw conversion. I would not have upgraded it as a single product but was updating a bundle. I was not convinced that there was enough new features I wanted in CS3 to warrant the upgrade.

Sep 02, 2007 at 06:35 PM

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p.1 #5 · Id2M3 Photoshop CS3 Upgrade or not

Another thumbs up for Lightroom 1.1, it's great at what it does, which is pretty much most things that photographers need.

Sep 02, 2007 at 09:54 PM

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