CS3 Ext or PSE5!!!!!

[Jon.P]

Hi all,any advice on this one,

I have PSE5 and have been given a copy CS3 ext can anybody tell me please the advantages CS3 has if any, as i dont know weather or not it will be worth installing i.e is it as ram hungery as 5 and is it better all round.

Thankyou jon

[Juergen D]

I think you are very lucky to get something like that as a gift. Adobe sells the program for US$ 999.00. This is the Cadillac (Bentley?) of photo editing software. :)
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/

Juergen

[Jon.P]

Juergen.......Will CS3 link up with PE3, Is the program ram hungrey?also does it have an organizer?Will it run on this AMD athlon 64 3200 7600gs 256 graphics card and with 2gb ram,

thanks again
jon

[dj_paige]

Jon P

I think the question you should be asking is: do you really need the power of CS3? Are there things you want to do right now that you can't do in PSE5?

If you're an advanced user of PSE5 and have bumped up against the limits of what PSE5 can do, then maybe you should give CS3 a try. If your PSE5 skills are less than that high level of advancement (where you have reached the limits of PSE5), then you most likely will not benefit from CS3.

[Juergen D]

Jon, take a look here... http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/features/

Juergen

[Jon.P]

Juergen, thankyou for your help,i am gonna install it anyway because if i dont i never will know what it can do.
thanks again jon

[Wendy]

Jon ...

A wise move :)

Wendy

[mrod]

I agree with Wendy. If you're already got the keys, no sense in leaving the Cadillac/Bentley in the garage. Take it out for a spin. Worst case, you don't like it, and go back to the [insert favorite, dependable, affordable car here], which still gets you where you need to, and looks good doin' it.

Not sure if that analogy totally worked, but you get the idea...:rolleyes:

Mike

[Jon.P]

Thanks for your help folks,just gonna install and play.reason is i am so feed up with 5 freezing in the editor screen nearlly every time i start something,can anybody tell me weather its bought on by myself i.e miss use of commands trying things without de selecting first but i am feed up with it when it happens the windows bar freezes along the top,then the dreaded msg comes up ele 5 non responsive program and needs closing please somebody help. thanks jon

[lsweeney]

Before I left school last semester I used my student discount to purchase Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. It's a wonderful suite of Adobe products which I could never have afforded without my student status. It included Photoshop CS3 Extended.

That said, I have been using Photoshop for several years and through several upgrades. I always take a class when I upgrade. I could manage the upgraded version without the instruction but I don't think I could really benefit from it without instruction on each new area in the program.

If you own a copy of CS3 Extended, I think you should install and register it. Play around a little, see how it feels, then take a class--3-D world or online--so you can really know the goodies.

If you hate it after all of that, just let it gather dust on your hard drive. You never know when you might want to take it for another run.

I have 4 versions of Photoshop installed on this computer and 2 of Elements and everything runs fine. Truthfully, I intend to ditch all but the most current versions of each program but I never get around to doing so!
Sometimes I run CS3 and Elements at the same time, with one minimized, because there are a couple of things I like a lot in Elements which just aren't the same in Photoshop. And I don't have a mega-computer, just a 4 year old PC and a 4 year old laptop.

[Jon.P]

Lorri
Thankyou v much just about to install and play thankyou again,i will keep you posted. jon