I'm using CS3 on my old Vista laptop as well. For my purposes, I find it doesn't lose all that much to PS CC that I have on my main desktop. I use CS3 in conjunction with Zoner Photo Studio, which is excellent for image management There aren't a lot of features of CC that I miss on CS3, apart from the Camera Raw filter and the fact that I have to go down the DNG Converter route to read raws from my Olympus E-M10 (Or process them in Zoner).
I'm going to give the Adobe subscription model another year and if I don't use its special features enough, I might just stick to Zoner and CS3 for my editing. The only concern about that strategy is whether CS3 will run on any future Windows 10 PC that I get. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Sun, Feb 21, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Mark C wrote: > Thanks for everyone who offered suggestions on this topic. After a few > days of experimenting I settled on running Photoshop CS3 on this old > laptop. CS3 is contemporary with the computer and is surprisingly fast > when working with K3 DNG files. It's a very usable system and will be > fine for light processing on the road. > > I tried CS6 and while it installed fine it was unusably slow. Several > minutes to read and open a K3 raw file, constant churning of the hard > drive. I had CS5 on this machine before the HD crash, but CS was > unusably slow. I also tried PS Elements 5 but did not like the > interface. Also installed Photoshop CS1 and CS2, but could not get > either to be functional - activation problems with CS1 and CS2 would > install but crash as soon as I launched it. So CS3 is the most basic > version I was able to install, activate and use. > > The fresh install of Vista has proven to be much better than what I was > using before. It has literally spent days downloading and applying > updates and I'm still not sure it is done - it will report "no new > updates" and then an hour later ask to install the 32 updates it just > downloaded... > > At any rate this solution works and I can put off buying a new device > for a while longer. > > --- -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- 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.
