I have been putting off the purchase of a new PC, awaiting the advent of
Windows 7, having read the complaints about Vista.
I am currently using Elements 4 on an XP-based machine, But am hearing some ugly whispers about earlier versions of PahotoShop and compatibilty with Windows 7.
Adobe has been no help whatsoever. What are you guys hearing
And as long as you're upgrading software, you should know that there is a much better option for an OS available, but I'll let someone else fight that battle
EA6B wrote:
I've never had a problem with Vista and PSCS4! IF I did, it wouldn't be on our studio PCs.2 have Vista and 2 run XP Pro, no problems anywhere.
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He meant older versions of photoshop. Which I'm not sure if that's true either or not, but that's what he meant in any case.
And as long as you're upgrading software, you should know that there is a much better option for an OS available, but I'll let someone else fight that battle
I do not run a business. I am pretty serious about the results I try to get. The question has serious implications. My machine is not really adequate, as the XP chip goes to 100% when booting Elements 4. The upgrade to El 7 will fit the budget, but only if it will run on Windows 7. Replacing everything lock, stock and barrel is simply not in the menu tree.
Belated thanks to you all. Adobe is still "researching " the issue. I took a look at Elements 7, Gordon, and it seems to be reasonably priced. Also, I contacted one of the few people I still know at the phone company (nearly everyone I knew there has either been "down-sized"or died, but he said that Windows 7 is supposed to be backward compatible. Time will tell.
SoundHound wrote:
Windows, New OS version=problems-ALWAYs!!
Yeah, because there's been absolutely no issues with Snow Lepoard, NOT. No new OS is without issues. Get over it.
Adobe are never going to guarentee compatibility with an OS that's not been released. And they'll never guarantee compatibility with an older version of a program with a current OS. It's not in their intrests to do so.
And now Elements 8 is out anyway.
Any program that works on Vista should be fine on 7. And most XP programs are fine. I have yet to find an image related program that runs on XP that I couldn't load, (Of course I'm sure there are. I don't use them all) so my Win 7 (and Vista for that matter) experience has been very positive.. I've got PSCS4, CS3, Elements 7, Lightroom and PSCS4 64bit running on various machines running Win7 in both 32 and 64 bit configurations. I have yet to have an issue. I can say that Lightroom 64 bit and CS4 64 bit are absolutely brilliant on Windows 7. The only issue may be 3rd party plug-in compatibility in 64 bit. TPlug-ins are fine in 32 bit. Lightroom had an usb device triggering autostart issue with v2.4 but it's resolved in 2.5.
I've been running Win 7 in a production environment for 4 months now. I think that's enough time to see if there are issues.
Sounds like you could use an upgrade anyways. Try out the trial of Adobe's Lightroom - I only use full-blown Photoshop about 5-10% of the time.
+1
My photoshop version is 2 versions old. I will probably immediately upgrade to LR3 when it comes out, no questions asked. That's how much I love and believe in the LR product.
I didn't know if I should laugh or cry when I looked and saw the OP had over 2500 posts and was still using elements.
Photoshop CS4 runs REALLY nice and fast on W7 and if you have a 64 bit computer (even most laptops are these days as is nearly all "Desktop / Workstation" type machines) you can run the genuine 64 bit version of CS4 -- a winner.
I have a few issues with CS4 and the ACR with the latest canon "point and shoot" compact cameras G10 and S90 but for DSLR's CS4 is fine.
Finally MS has come out with a DECENT, STABLE O/S -- well worth the upgrade.
I know mac fanboys will suggest other sorts of options but this is not meant to be an OS bashing thread -- and at the moment decent PC's can be had for almost peanuts.
