Have you upgraded from CS2 (or lesser) to CS3?

Can you add your reasons why as well please!

Yes from CS2 but to me the cost is too much for what you get. ACR 4.1 is just as good as LR and even faster in some areas, in my opinion. The Selection Tool has been refined and works really well, even selecting the smallest of areas to work on. And a third is the improvements to the Brightness & Contrast adjustments, a lot wider range to adjust without destroying the Shadow and Highlights.

Yes. I use a mac and it was necessary to have photoshop run natively on the intel mac. CS2 was too slow.

Since getting LR I don't use CS2 as much so I can't justify spending the money on CS3.

col4bin wrote in post #3381579
Yes. I use a mac and it was necessary to have photoshop run natively on the intel mac. CS2 was too slow.

So, CS2 was too slow but CS3 was faster?

Not yet... but will in the fall when the weather starts turning. Right now I'm having too much fun shooting outside. There's also the ever-present "honey-do-list" for warm weather home maintenance

I'm looking forward to the new features but don't want to invest the time right now in S/W updgrades. Right now CS2 does what I need.

I went from PS Elements 4 to CS3 but I got the academic pricing on the web bundle. The speed of it and all the extra tools were worth it.

sando wrote in post #3381591
So, CS2 was too slow but CS3 was faster?

CS3 runs natively on an Intel mac, CS2 needs Rosetta...

I haven't switched yet. While CS3 has some very nice features, I manage with CS2. The extra cost isn't justifyable at this point. If I get an Intel mac, I'll get CS3.

sando wrote in post #3381591
So, CS2 was too slow but CS3 was faster?

CS2 was too slow on intel macs since it did not run natively. as an example, CS2 took about 30 seconds to launch. CS3, which is universal binary, launches in about 5 seconds.

Still using PS5.0. Printing through PS5.0 produces excellant prints using the plugin for the ipf5000. So why spend on what I don't need.

For me, Raw developing is where its at... my pixel-level edits are rare, and while I will use the occasional plug-in, Photoshop Elements fits well for that... If I can't do what I need there, I'll use the Gimp or some other less expensive tool... but that's even more rare than my using Elements now that I have Lightroom to give me RAW power... CS3's cost is not justifiable to me... esp since LR only cost me $170.

I was thinking about starting a similar thread because

IMPO - CS3 is hands down a winner - must have upgrade add it to your kit asap - especially if your shooting RAW.

I used to use CS2 extensively and thought I didn't have to upgrade until I worked up some of my RAW images on a CS3 machince using ACR.

Again IMPO my images now look better - although I cannot put my finger on it and only really been using CS3 for a couple of weeks but the overally feel and look of my images are much improved.

IMPO the "RECOVER TOOL" in ACR for bringing back blown out highlights is worth the upgrade alone.

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200 Dollars, Go Directly to your local upgrade route and get CS3, I know I'm glad I did.

Just not enough time, and honestly a fear of losing the add-ins and/or actions and having to reinstall all of them. In my case, that may mean not being able to find activation keys!

Yes as I'm an upgrade junky. Some nice features in CS3 (Mainly in the select areas) but would not say the upgrade was worth it.

Yes, I have upgraded. The new version of camera raw with its drastically improved sharpening was more than worth it.