CS3 native photoshop files are or are not backward compatible with CS2?

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james honer
Jun 5, 2007
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Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here
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Alex
Jun 5, 2007
james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

All I can say is that – as I am in the process of going from CS2 to CS3, and I have still both on my system – there is no problem in converting e.g. RAW in CS3 to JPG and then opening this image in CS3.
But I admit that this is a poor test…
Greetings, Alex
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Alex
Jun 5, 2007
Alex wrote:
james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

All I can say is that – as I am in the process of going from CS2 to CS3, and I have still both on my system – there is no problem in converting e.g. RAW in CS3 to JPG and then opening this image in CS3.
But I admit that this is a poor test…
Greetings, Alex

Addendum: also a PDF from CS3 loads into CS2.
Greetings, Alex
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edjh
Jun 5, 2007
james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

They are. It would be a major screwup if Adobe didn’t make the programs backwards compatible.

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edjh
Jun 5, 2007
edjh wrote:
james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

They are. It would be a major screwup if Adobe didn’t make the programs backwards compatible.
You have to be aware that new features that don’t appear in earlier versions won’t carry over. This has always been the case with every version.

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Mike Russell
Jun 5, 2007
"edjh" wrote in message
james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

They are. It would be a major screwup if Adobe didn’t make the programs backwards compatible.

There are some new features, smart filters for example, that are not supported in earlier versions. If you can manage to stay away from using those you should be OK.
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Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com
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Barry Pearson
Jun 5, 2007
On Jun 5, 3:33 am, james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

I believe the trick is to set the Preference in Photoshop (Edit > Preferences > File Handling > Maximise PSD and … compatibility) to "Always".

I believe what this does is ensure that if there is something in the file that isn’t supported by CS2 (such as new adjustments layers, new blending modes, Smart Filters, etc) there will be a rendered image that can be used instead. Be warned that some of these new features are very useful, so it is easy to end up with problems like this.

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Barry Pearson
http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/photography/
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Joel
Jun 5, 2007
james honer wrote:

Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

It sounds BS to me <bg>
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dan
Jun 7, 2007
On Jun 5, 4:52 am, edjh wrote:
james honer wrote:
Help,

want to upgrade but I am being told I can’t because CS3 is not "backward compatible"

Need to know if this is true or just BS, working with tight wads here

They are. It would be a major screwup if Adobe didn’t make the programs backwards compatible.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html Comics art for sale:http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

This is something only Microsoft would do. I have had no problems swiotching from CS to CS3.

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