So I've finally decided to upgrade my photoshop from CS2, and when looking at the adobe site there are now two different versions of photoshop a regular version and an extended version. Is the only real difference the ability to work on 3d models? I'm only going to be really using photoshop for photography and rarely when I'm super bored graphic art. So would it be best to just get the regular version?

If you just use it for photography do you even need to upgrade to CS4? I'd try the trial out on both versions (Extended and regular) and make up your mind that way.

I'm in the process of downloading the trial right now. Generally I like to stay pretty up to date on software, CS2 is like 3 years old now, and the new photoshops are from what I've heard run a lot smoother on intel based macs and their are a lot of smaller improvements that add up. I've only heard all this second hand though. No personal experience with the newer photoshops.

Yeah, I'm using CS3 myself currently. I want to try out CS4 extended sometime, too lazy to download currently.

It's probably a waste of money buying CS4, you're not going to be doing anything that CS2 can't offer already.

 

 

 

CS2 is fine, in fact a lot of people still use Photoshop 7 and it can easily provide the tools for what needs to be done.

i've heard good things from CS4, im pretty happy with CS3 though, i dont use it enough to know major difference between the two

I guess from the advice I'm getting I'll continue the 30 day trail and just go from there. Being reminded of photoshop 7 brings me back to like 9th grade in high school when I actually did graphic art stuff, funny enough I basically quit when I got my copy of CS2.

PS7 was awesome, that's when Photoshop became good. I had Photoshop 6, it was a nightmare. If I remember rightly you couldn't change the size of your brush.

I don't think I could put up with that at all, one brush size. Before I got my copy of PS7 I used Paint Shop Pro and all I remember of that is me not being able to get my image size to fit under the 30kb signatures limit.

I would uograde to CS3 just to the fact it runs smoother than CS2.

 

 

 

Cs4 is really a waste of money, nothing new in it.