A moot point now I suppose, but rather than buying a dicey old copy of CS off eBay you could have bought a brand-new copy of PS Elements 13 for not much more than $70 (assuming shopping around / waiting for a sale). PS CS is quite ancient (eleven years) and PSE 13 would likely be quite a bit more powerful and useful. (Although I see that CS did support 16 bits in some operations.)
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:59 PM, J C OConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I get by fine ( quite nicely actually) with older versions of PS, so when > my hard drive crashed without backup recently > I purchased a sealed copy of photoshop CS off ebay for $70. It registered > and runs fine on win8 but I had trouble activating the > software past its 30 day trail period. To make a long story short, I found > out the adobe is giving away photoshop CS2 > at there website with a registration number and it needs no activation. > yippie! Why buy PS when you can get a good working > version from 2005 free forever? JCO > > On 10/21/2014 4:40 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >> >> Quoting Ed Keeney <[email protected]>: >> >>> I currently use and older version of Photoshop Elements (v5) to >>> post-process my images. It works and I've been happy with it. >>> >>> I currently don't use the Organizer that is paired with the >>> application. My organization is all in my head (I separate images by >>> month/year). I don't have any tagging, so if I wanted to find an >>> image of my father-in-law, I would need to know which image I want and >>> then approximate the year and date. >>> >>> I was thinking about moving to the Adobe Cloud offering for >>> photographers, $10/month and I get PS and Lightroom. >>> >>> Should I just continue to use the standalone PSE product and get >>> myself into its Organizer product. >>> >>> Since I don't upgrade too often (version 13 is the latest PSE), I'm >>> not sure its worth the $120/year for the full PS and Lightroom over >>> the $79 one time cost for PSE or a switch to the standalone Lightroom. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >> >> >> I opted for the Adobe Cloud for photographers subscription and I'm quite >> happy with it although I rarely use the Lightroom component. I was never >> going to be able to justify buying CS6 outright but the Cloud model is a >> affordable way to get the latest version of Photoshop. >> >> Previously I'd been using a hand-me-down version of CS3 and, if I'm >> honest, there's not a lot more that CC offers that I can't do in CS3. So, if >> Adobe increases the monthly subscription excessively I'd undoubtedly just go >> back to the earlier version even if that would involve an extra step in post >> processing to convert raw images to a CS3 readable format. >> >> As for organisation, I don't use Bridge CC either. I've been using >> Studioline Photo Classic for years for image organisation and I'm more than >> happy with it. >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
