Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I didn't say improvements stopped completely at ps4, but they have been spread homeopatically over the years and updates. 5 brought the history palette, channel mixer, actions, 5.5 (that costed as much as a full upgrade) the web output features, 6 was the weakest upgrade ever with just some color management and text tools "improvements", 7 brought the healing brush and raw plugin, and 8 (cs) and 9 (cs2) have mainly improvements for digital photography. with illustrator and golive the improvements were even smaller. illustrator 6 to 11 could have been released together into a free 5.1 update. what's a pain is that after every update starting ps and the other adobe tools takes at least 10 seconds more, and this after you just have paid another grand or more for it. Didier >I have Photoshop CS and no plans to upgrade to CS2. But I do not agree that >improvement stopped at PS 4. I think that the last big improvement was when >it became possible to do most of the image corrections and apply filters >etc. on 16-bit images. I don't remember if that was when we went from 6 to >7 or from 5 to 6, but that was certainly a major improvement that justified >(to me, anyway) the upgrade. > >Having said this, I probably use about 5% of PS functionality for what I >do: basically levels, occasionally curves, USM, cropping, and a couple of >Fred Miranda plugins. That's basically it. > >Nathan