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Summary: GOOD STUFF, BUT WITH A BIG FLAW
Review: "Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Upgrade" may not offer the kind of price many people would like to see, but there are lots of interesting features. This Upgrade runs fast, and on any Windows OS that is not earlier than '98. Also, both the image-editing tools and the file browser have been enhanced. If you are a photographer, a Web designer, or as the case may be, just interested in digital imaging, the improved colour and pattern simulating tools will make your work easier.
However, you will be disappointed to discover that this 'Photoshop 7.0' delivers a good job only when you work with 8-bit colour. Support for 16-bit colour is almost non-existent! Based on this, I don't regard it as a must-have Upgrade for anyone running 'Photoshop 6'; but that doesn't mean that it is worthless.
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Summary: GOOD STUFF, BUT WITH A BIG FLAW
Review: "Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Upgrade" may not offer the kind of price many people would like to see, but there are lots of interesting features. This Upgrade runs fast, and on any Windows OS that is not earlier than '98. Also, both the image-editing tools and the file browser have been enhanced. If you are a photographer, a Web designer, or as the case may be, just interested in digital imaging, the improved colour and pattern simulating tools will make your work easier.
However, you will be disappointed to discover that this 'Photoshop 7.0' delivers a good job only when you work with 8-bit colour. Support for 16-bit colour is almost non-existent! Based on this, I don't regard it as a must-have Upgrade for anyone running 'Photoshop 6'; but that doesn't mean that it is worthless.
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Summary: Photoshop... Can it Get Any Better?
Review: Adobe has done the unbelievable. They have taken an outstanding product and made it much more outstanding. Adobe Photoshop 7 features vast improvements over Photoshop 6 (my past favorite). In Adobe Photoshop 7, users will be able to catalog their photos for easy retrieval. Their are also several really cool new brushes, including the "healing brush." This brush is amazing. You can take a picture that has cuts and scratches, and with a few clicks of the mouse have the photo "healed" in no time. Imagine the benefits your photos will receive.The interface has also been made much nicer. I am a novice at Adobe's software, but definitely have had my share of frustrations with previous versions. Not so in Photoshop 7. I am able to easily navigate around the interface to find the tools that I need, when I need them. All of these new features have unfortunately caused a memory crunch. Photoshop 7 runs a bit slower than its predecessor did, but is well worth all of the extra processing power. After using Photoshop 7 for a week, I was twice as productive as I had been with Photoshop 6 after several months! Photoshop 7 is the industry standard in graphic design, and I would highly recommend anyone that can afford it, to purchase a copy of Photoshop 7. The best just keeps getting better!
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Summary: Great piece of software, nice update.
Review: Although this update is not as big as the one from 5.5 to 6.0, it is still worth buying. Actually the healing brush/healing patch tool itself is worth the price of the upgrade. When you think of it, how many of us digital photographers would gladly pay that price for a plug-in that helps us fix blemishes, scratches and wrinkles in a couple seconds? Another nice addition is the file browser. See all your pictures at a glance, rotate them, classify them, rate them, etc. You can also view all the metadata (data added by your digital camera), such as date taken, exposure, color profile, and others. Adobe also reworked (OK... fixed) Contact Sheet, Web Gallery, and Picture Package. Those actually work now, and they'll do exactly what you want them to. I agree it should have been done right in the first place, but I'm just too happy they are usable now. Photoshop 7.0 also lets you save your workspace. You can now place all your tabs and windows just the way you like them, and save the positions. I have 3 or 4 different workspaces I toggle through, depending on what I'm working on. This is a huge time saver. Once again, this could have been done before, but I'm glad it finally found its way to Photoshop. Conclusion: the healing tool itself is worth the price. Think of the rest as a bonus. :)
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Summary: A worthwhile upgrade
Review: At first glance this upgrade may look like it offers little new other than the healing brush, but a little closer inspection shows that there are a multitude of new tools including the Healing Brush, the Patch tool, the new brush options, the ability to create your own new tool presets and workspaces, enhancements to the liquify tools, the introduction of the pattern maker, the new auto-colour command, support for JavaScript, AppleScript and Visual Basic scripting, and numerous other introductions and enhancements. Granted not every enhancement or new feature is relevant to everyone's workflow especially because both print and web designers use the application - but to dismiss it out of hand as a meagre upgrade is shortsighted. Maybe it just takes a little time and patience to find all of those new features.
Just by having a look at the table of contents for the Photoshop 7 Upgrade Essentials book - the TOC is on the Amazon.com site - you'll get a better idea of all those features. Then you can consider for yourself whether to invest in the latest release!
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Summary: Fi ve Stars Adobe Photoshop 7
Review: For the past 3 years, I have been using Adobe Photoshop 2- which I must say, gave me a lot of satisfaction. Very simple to use, of course, but also provides the user with rapid results. The essential functions are there and if you use them properly many aspects of writing a page are taken care of.
With Photoshop 7, new dimensions are achieved. If you already know Adobe 2.0, it is very easy to become familiar with 7.0. Also, the precision and accuracy of the various functions reach a higher level and the additional possibilities leave more flexibility to individual creativity. This powerful software is becoming for me a must in all digital works and I cannot give it less than five stars. Michel Doret
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Summary: Fi ve Stars Adobe Photoshop 7
Review: For the past 3 years, I have been using Adobe Photoshop 2- which I must say, gave me a lot of satisfaction. Very simple to use, of course, but also provides the user with rapid results. The essential functions are there and if you use them properly many aspects of writing a page are taken care of.
With Photoshop 7, new dimensions are achieved. If you already know Adobe 2.0, it is very easy to become familiar with 7.0. Also, the precision and accuracy of the various functions reach a higher level and the additional possibilities leave more flexibility to individual creativity. This powerful software is becoming for me a must in all digital works and I cannot give it less than five stars. Michel Doret
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Summary: Absolutely Essential
Review: Hardly a day goes by that I don't use Photoshop. No other program can compete. Photoshop crops, resizes, changes saturation, constrast, hue and is able to use filters within the program (such as Eye Candy) which extends the capabilities of Photoshop (such as adding glow, water drops and fire). You can import media, such as scans etc. Create images from scratch, add lighting effects and now with version 7 use the healing brush and make patterns of your very own for your brush with the pattern maker. You can cut people out of photos and put them in totally different backgrounds, distort images, turn someone green, the possibilities are endless. If you are a vrml artist you need this for after tweeking. If you are looking for an image editing tool, get this one! I wouldn't be without it.
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Summary: FILE INFO PROBLEMS
Review: I AM A FREELANCE PHOTOG, 90% 0F MY STUFF IS WITH REUTERS. IN PHOTOSHOP 7.0 WHICH I OWN, THERE IS A PROBLEM IN THE CATAGORY SECTION IN FILE INFO. THE SUPPLMENTIAL CATS. DONT SHOW UP ON THE DESKS PICTURES IM SENDING TO THEM??? I OPEN THE PICTURE IN PHOTOSHOP, GO TO FILE INFO, THEN TO CATAGORYS AND THE SUPPS ARE THERE BUT THE DESK IS SAYING THEY ARENT???? GUYS USING PHOTOSHOP 6.0 ARE NOT HAVING ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL.I WAS TOLD TO GO TO SIX OR IS THERE AN UPGRADE FOR THE 7.0 I BOUGHT AND IT MIGHT GET RID OF THE PROBLEM?? NOW I HAVE TO SPEND $119.00 TO BUY 6.0 TO GET RID OF THE PROBLEM. HAVE YOU HEARD OF ANY GLITCHES ON 7.0?
H E L P, JON WAY
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Summary: Accompanying Documentation
Review: I know this may sound like a plug - but I've just written a book on this application concentrating only on the new features - both those documented in the official manual which accompanies the product; and some which were not documented. If you've ever hassled with getting up to speed with all the new features in an application, you should find the book useful. Photoshop 7 Upgrade Essentials by Vicki Loader & Barry Huggins; Published by friends of Ed; ISBN: 190345087X.
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