Photoshops

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between photoshop 7.0 and photoshop cs2?

Are they the same program, with new features? I have adobe photoshop 7.0 is it worth going to cs2?

Thanks as always

jason

Although PS7 is very capable, CS2 has many things with some great advantages to digital photographers. Support of RAW formats, 16-bit filters, Lens Correction filter, and a few others. CS2 also has a filter that's become one of my favorites, Shadow & Highlights.

I would say that it's well worth the $150 upgrade price *if* you like to spend time post-processing and/or shoot RAW.

can I work with Raw in PS 7.0?

There was an early RAW plugin (or whatever you'd call it) that would work with PS7. It sold for $99, you can't get it any more, and I *highly* doubt that it would support your XT's RAW format.

Of course you could always use DPP that came with your camera, or RSE from Pixmantec, to do the RAW conversion. Both are free. And then just use PS for post-processing. A lot of people like Adobe RAW converter, and a lot like RSE (or the $100 version RSP) or a few other RAW converters out there. I personally don't like Adobe's converter, and I love RSP.

I second Scottes for the Shadow & Highlights in CS2.
I have photoshop 6 and tried CS2 recently .
I have'nt upgraded yet, but to me this filter alone is worth the upgrade.
I have done things I cannot do with ps6
Jose

If you work on *large* images, you will need CS. Photoshop 7 has a 30,000 pixel limit. CS has a limit 10 times that.

OK, I may have a misunderstanding of the number of pixels in an image. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I thought the images from my 20D that were 3504x2336 was the dimension in pixels. Thus the the product of those numbers resulted in 8,185,344 pixels as the total. This well exceeds PS7's limit which I use to edit those images. Am I missing something in my comprehension of pixels?

Your understanding of pixels is correct.

My description was poor. Photoshop 7 has a 30,000 pixel limit on any dimension. That means you cant have an image 31,000 pixels wide by 8,000 high. You could, however have one 29,000 by 8,000.

Sorry about that.

It is worth upgrading, but you should use both, PS7 for quick stuff since it loads much much faster than CS2, and use CS2 for major work.