Adobe???

Mmmm dunno where to start really.........

Its a superb package BUT at a price premium, a quick question tho, do you already use Photoshop, Acrobat, Go Live, Illustrator, InDesign, if you do and would get full usage out all the packages then YES its worth the upgrade, if only for Acrobat 6 & Distiller which merges with XP and MS Office alot better than Version 5 ever did, Photoshop is more cosmetic and bugfix update, I use it in work and at home thats why I have CS otherwise if I had to buy it myself I would not have bothered updating PS7 but may have bought Acrobat 6 as the functions in PS7 are just the same as CS with a few new additions for the digital photographer, like the RAW plugin which is now imbedded into the software.

I personally have only touched on 20% of what PS can do, which I find woudl have been a waste of money if I had have bought the package, I may one day get around to useing more of the functions, but packages like MS Digital Image Pro9 or Paint Shop Pro would have done all I needed at a significant reduced outlay.

If you are in the design and creative field and have training on PS then yes I if its the first time you buying the Adove package then its a great all round package and basically the industry standard.

A few reviews I came across......



http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/adobephotoshopcs/
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/20260.html?origin=story
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imageediting/gr/photoshop.htm
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/overview.html

 

I wouldnt have said it was "hardly useful" in relation functionality, yes not much really in terms of functionality over PS7 but Photoshop is the dogs bits™ in terms of layers, adjustments ( colour, pixel aspect ratio's, professional proof layouts for RGB, CYM or individual C Y M for litho printing ), add on plugins are vast etc etc and having images saved as PSD is a bonus when coming to adjust picture layers at a later date, plus printing from PSD files is far superiour than the common JPEG, TIFFs the next best thing to PSD and has a smaller file size but still keeps lossless data.


Waste of time.. well NO, dont agree there, well not personally, I use it virtually every day and I'm more anoyed at myself for NOT learning or teaching myself more of what this app can do, yes there are simpler apps out there as I said in earlier post, but if you are working in a design/photo enviroment then PS or Adobe softwware is the most widely used apps and one's you will have to have just get used too.


Its just loaded with fuctions that I probably wont ever use but others might and vice versa, so know its bloated but its got all the functions you'll ever need IF you take the time to read up on them.

there are loads of tutorial sites out on the net to take you through steps on most things you'll most likely want to do.. there is a thread somewhere in the past week on tutorial sites, you just need to search the forum for it.


in summing .... great app, pricey, takes time to learn all functions, aimed for thr pro, cheaper options out there to start out with, industry standard.