Besides Photoshop

Photoshop has "always" been the industry standard for years.

 

I love GIMP!

 

You cannot say that photoshop i snot good at drawing it creates the best 2d images int he program ranks out there

 

I use photoshop for my rasterized images and such. Corel Drawer for my vector because a lot of T-shirt designers use it. Ofcourse flash for my animation. And Dreamweaver for putting everything together.

 

Whenever anyone says "Photoshop", are they referring to Photoshop CS2?

 

I would *think* so....in my case it would be.

I use CS2.

I've also used Photoshop Elements which is a solid, less powerful version of PS.

Before PS I used Corel Photopaint...I was so used to it I put off learning PS for a long time

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Never used Gimp but a lot of people like it based upon the purchase price

 

PS is the best for web design.

 

Besides Photoshop, I use Fireworks ,,though no where near PS.

 

When they, we, anyone says Photoshop, it generally means Adobe Photoshop. May it be ver 7 (what my laptop has), CS (version I am using) or CS2 (what I will use when I get a new pc).

All these versions have their advantage and disadvantages. I am not able to use CS2 because of the high resource requirement. The images I retouch for professional photographers are extremely big (50MB tiffs) and they want the quality to stay that way.

CS and CS2 versions don't have that much of a difference. For a conventional retoucher like me, as long as the mask layers, healing brush, brush engine and color engine has not changed, I can work with version 7 all throughout.

It's a matter of preference really. For now, I am happy with my CS. It costs $699!!! Why won't I be happy??? LOL

 

Where did you guys get CS2 and how much did you pay for it?

 

Adobe just hit up their website. Also the CS transfer to CS2 is umm well I actually don't know what it is, if there's a new feature I haven't noticed it. The only change I noticed is when you used to be able to CTRL+click on layer would select visible images on that layer is now changed to where you have to click on the thumbnail pic. I tried clicking for an hour before I figured out you now have to click on the pic.

 

several small things I think.

"vanishing point" seemed to be one of the bigger add-ons

http://www.photoshopuser.com/pscs2/newcs2.html

and of course now CS3 is on deck!!!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0612/06121402photoshopcs3beta.asp

 

Any CS2 users here having problems with resources? I installed the trial version just last night and tried to burn it by loading tons of images. It stopped and files were lost (loaded files were as if not loaded at all).

I remember photoshop 7 dilemma. The software closes without any reason.

 

I've never had an issue like that. maybe the trial versions have a little less get up and go?

how many is "tons"?

how much RAM do you have?

 

Tons would usually end Up 70 to 100 CRW files around 15 to 18 MB each. My machine is a bit old. I'm running on a 2.8Ghz Athlon XP with 1G ram.

Not really sure if it's with the trial version. If that would be the case. Then adobe would turn off more prospective clients who are trying their trial version.

 

Y, you're right about the trial version....I think your RAM is too low to open a ton of files . I have about the same processor but 2GB and even then I get pinched sometimes.

Windows takes up what, 300MB, PS itself w/out any files open might be another 500MB??

instead of opening 70, try 7 and watch the task manager to see what happens with the memory allocations

 

I use photoshop/fireworks and flash.

 

timsdd, my point actually was, I can do this with CS with no problem and with CS2, it seems like this version was made entirely for the high end user. Although I have heard of some tweak used to lower CS2's resource fetching.

 

Ok, I see what you mean now...

huh, interesting to see if the tweak would help you along in that case.