is Photoshop CS2 worth the $142 upgrade?
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Not really..if u have CS.\nif you have 6 its really worth\n\nther is one extra tool , need to look how convinient you are with out it..
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Photoshop Elements, in general, is a bad program. Our Editorial department at work... a department that needs Photoshop for pics but only needs a few of its features... switched over to it for a while because it is cheaper than Photoshop. They ditched it and went back to the full version after about 2 weeks of high-end Mac systems crashing, causing them to miss deadlines.\n\nMy suggestion is to buy the full version of Photoshop if you can afford it.
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Photoshop - give the 30day trial (fully functional) a whirl - hands-down craps over the Gimp & Gimpshop alternatives
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look up the GIMP - it is a free download and almost as good as PhotoShop (when I last used PhotoShop, 2 years ago)
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photoshop elements is easier to learn and cheaper, and should do most anything you want it it for.  It's about $75 US.  You can get a free trial here:  \nhttp://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/tryout.html\n\nPaintshop Pro is also excellent, more capabilities than the above, if you want to learn to do a lot of cool things. It's $99 US.  I prefer version 8, but you can get a free trial of version 10 here:\nhttp://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Trials/DownloadContainer\n\nYou can get Gimp free, and there are lots of free tutorials available for it, get it here:\nhttp://www.gimp.org/windows/\n\nHope this helps.
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Whelp the Cheapest legal copy of Photoshop is for students, which if you can qualify will allow you to pick it up for $279 full version ( not an upgrade )\n\nYou can also scout thorugh Froogle.com and see what it might scrounge up.
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adobe photoshop cs2 me
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For a lot less than what it costs to take a class, you can visit Barnes and Noble (in person or online) or Amazon online and get the Adobe CS2 "Classrooom in a Book".\n\nI don't know about getting the software for free.  If you know someone that has a student ID, consider getting them to purchase the academic licensing for you.  That's a lot cheaper than buying it commercially.
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Depending upon where you purchase it, it can be anywhere from $390.00 to $575.00 for the full version of Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  I have a link below to the latest pricegrabber results.
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If you have the money you would want to go with photoshop but if you dont google's pisca is good.
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I think ACDSee 8 is good for you, its editing tools are easy to use and really powerful.\n\nIts new Photo Repair tool fixes common photo defects such as blemishes, flares, lens scratches, and other imperfections, so your treasured photo memories always look great, no matter how you choose to show them. Choose from either the Clone or Heal options to repair any area of a photo.\n\nYou can also:\nFix red-eye with a single click.\nAutomatically crop your selections after custom angle rotations. \nCrop a selection from the Edit menu in the Viewer.  \nAccess handy exposure warnings in the Viewer.\nUse the new shortcut toolbar in the Viewer to instantly access photo editing tools.\nEasily access zooming tools while viewing and editing images.\nChoose from 27 new filters and effects.\n\nIf you wanna edit your photo like adding some texts or do some drawing or somethin like that, I think RealDRAW is a good one and it's easy to use as well, much easier than photoshop.\n\nhope that helps ya out!!
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My own experience with Photoshop on multiprocessor machines has been very positive. While I don't have actual numbers from my own tests, you can look at these Photoshop/Dual Core articles and benchmarks:\n\nFirst source: "Adobe Photoshop CS is a graphic artist's übertool: Hardly any graphic art work can get done without it. We tested the Opteron whitebox with Photoshop CS, and it shows some improvement over the already speedy Pentium EE 840. Out of the eight filters, the Opteron wins three of the tests, and on the others is only a second behind. The Pentium EE 840 took 2.5 times longer to complete the wave filter which skews the results, but excluding that time, the results are nearly identical overall. Both the dual-core Pentium EE 840 and dual-core, dual-CPU Opteron workstations are formidable PhotoShop platforms, and both would service a graphic artist well."\n\nSee the benchmarks on this first source's link.\n\nSecond source: "There is no doubt that a program like Photoshop will be much faster on a dual core system than its single core counterpart. The majority of operating systems do recognize and support at least two processors. There is some load balancing of non-SMP applications but not as efficiently as those written for multithreading."
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Look into Adobe Photoshop Elements. It will cost about $90 at Wal-Mart or any office supplies big-box store. It should do pretty much everything you want.\n\nIt's based on Adobe Photoshop, which is the de facto best off-the-shelf photo editing software standard.
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CS 2 is the curretn version. YOu can only purchase up to 1 version ago.\n\nSo you have to buy a full version\nhttp://www.adobe.com\n\nYou can contact support to see if they will sell you previous versions as well (not likely)
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Adobe PhotoShop doesn't come free.\nHowever, a lot of people prefer PhotoPlus which is similar but completely free. I use it and love it.\nClick the link below to find out more or download the program.
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The Mac Pro and all other intel macs are not truly compatible with Adobe Photoshop and other CS/CS2 programs.  They are being emulated via a program called Rosetta.  They will run and work pretty much flawlessly on the new intel macs, they just are not designed to do so with out being emulated.  For true program compatibility, you will have to wait until next year when CS3 comes out.  FYI I have been using PS CS2 on a core 2 duo imac and it runs very fast and behaves almost as if it was coded for the intel processor.
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it will more than enough for email and web, Photoshop should run smoothly, just make sure that you are only running Photoshop when you are using it, close all the other programs that you don't need, it will save RAM and cpu