Cs2 in the door!!

[chloeosmom]

I just want to say WOHOO! I ordered the CS2 upgrade from Office Max on Monday (a holiday) and it walked through the door Wednesday @9:25 am!! Talk about turnaroud!!
Now I just have to learn it.
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[Dchemist]

CS2 or CS3?

[slappy sam]

This is really random, but just very surprising. I ordered shoes at 10:30 on tuesday night and they got here at 10:00 wednesday morning... WOW. Free shipping too, from kentucky.

[DavidW]

chloeosmom had to order a Photoshop CS2 upgrade because of starting out with Photoshop 6.0 (which is too old to qualify a Photoshop CS3 upgrade). With Photoshop CS3, Adobe have set a 'three versions back' upgrade policy - you have to start with Photoshop 7.0, CS or CS2.

Hopefully a phone call to Adobe will get a free 'post announce' upgrade to Photoshop CS3 (have you tried that yet, chloeosmom?) - but if not, it's still a huge leap up from Photoshop 6.0, as well as leaving open the possibility of further upgrading in the future.



David

[cgratti]

CS2 is more than capable of doing what you need, even if you dont get CS3 you wont miss it.

[chloeosmom]

Thanks, the only thing I was missing was the darn CR2 in 6.0 and thought my money was better spent on the upgrade vs on Elements 5.0. Now all I got to figure out is how to batch these pics. 300 from on show and 300 from another. Different lighting settings so can run them all at once. Any help would be cool.
And no, I havnt called Adobe yet, I tried on Monday b4 ordering the upgrade, but it was a holiday and no one was there, andive been working ever since. I promise to get to it today.

[DavidW]

Bridge can be used to copy Camera Raw settings between files easily - right click on a file for the relevant options. You can also open several files in Camera Raw at once (you can't do that in any version of Elements) and synchronise settings directly in Camera Raw.

I must admit, I tend to do my Camera Raw settings in Lightroom these days (Lightroom and Bridge/Photoshop can exchange settings if you configure Lightroom to use XMP sidecars), but it's pretty slick in Bridge, particularly if you manage to get CS3 as a free "post announce" upgrade.


Whichever version of Photoshop you finish up with, don't forget to run the Updates procedure. Camera Raw 3.7 (CS2) or 4.1 (CS3) are significant improvements over the versions Adobe originally shipped with these applications, and both applications have a bunch of other fixes as well (updates to Bridge in both CS2 and CS3, Photoshop CS2 9.0.2).


The way I set Camera Raw settings can be found here. That is written for the Camera Raw 4 sliders, and for working in Lightroom - but Camera Raw 3 in CS2 is pretty similar, save that there's no Recovery, Fill Light and Vibrance sliders and no Shadows / Darks / Lights / Highlights curves.



David

[DavidW]

Originally Posted by DavidW

Hopefully a phone call to Adobe will get a free 'post announce' upgrade to Photoshop CS3 (have you tried that yet, chloeosmom?) - but if not, it's still a huge leap up from Photoshop 6.0, as well as leaving open the possibility of further upgrading in the future.

It looks like the free 'post announce' upgrade worked for chloeosmom - see here.


I just wish I'd known about the possibility of buying a Creative Suite 2.3 Premium upgrade to get a free 'post announce' upgrade to Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. I only found out about this after I'd already bought Creative Suite 3 Design Premium upgrade.

If that 'post announce' route works (and I would have checked with Adobe first), it's a much cheaper way to get from Creative Suite 2 Premium to Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. There was a low cost upgrade from Creative Suite 2 Premium (only) to Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, which added Acrobat 8 Professional and Dreamweaver 8 - it was priced the same as an Acrobat 8 Professional upgrade. It was cheaper than buying the Creative Suite 3 upgrade - by about three times!

Even if it hadn't worked for a 'post announce' upgrade, there was a discount equivalent to the cost of the Creative Suite 2 Premium to Creative Suite 2.3 Premium available on a special Creative Suite 2.3 Premium to to Creative Suite 3 Design Premium upgrade. Ah well.


If anyone is thinking of trying any of these 'post announce' upgrade routes, make sure that you act before the relatively short 'post announce' upgrade window closes.



David