Tom,
If you did a complete installation of PS CS, you can uninstall PS 7 and its preferences. Be sure that if you have any third-party plug-ins in your PS 7 that you make sure they are compatible with CS before installing them there.
Neil
Thanks, Should I just do a Photoshop 7.0 Search in the finder and TRASH everthing that shows up on the list?
Tom,
I suspect that all you will find will be the Adobe Photoshop 7 folder (and its contents) and its preference file. Not too big a sweep-up job.
Neil
You might want to keep PS 7 around if you work with images of Money in your artwork or as a designer. newer computers have lots of disk space. I have photoshop 4 through 8 on my machine just for refence. that takes up just over 700MB.
also some are having frustration at not getting PSCS to work as speedily as 7 and feel a need to use PS7 for some operations.
The original question was, "…are there components that are needed to run CS?". Other considerations (such as Buko’s) aside, no, you don’t need any components from the old Photoshop to run the new.
Neil
The fact that Adobe saw fit to include UNDOCUMENTED workflow stoppers in CS suggests that we should all keep our copies of PS 7 and other pre-CS Adobe apps. We have discovered and discussed the secret CS "feature" that prohibits [fully legal] manipulation of some money imagery, and that alone is enough reason to save PS7 forever.
Adobe has very clearly shown us how it will secretly use CS code to oversee and modify our individual workflows – without benefit of law or any other publicly scrutinized rule or regulation. And long after being caught out, Adobe has neither made apologies nor indicated any intention not to further extend secret review of individual workflows. What we don’t know is WHAT ELSE may be in hidden in CS software now, or perhaps in future patches.
Keep version 7.
I always keep older versions alive and well. For some inexpicable reason, there are some fonts that will only rasterize in v.6 and not 7 even while on the same machine. Go figure. I’m one of those Boku refers to who have found CS to intolerably slow and unresponsive. I use v7 unless I need one of the few features exlusive to CS. So far it’s pretty much been limited to images with 40-50,000 pixels, which themselves are impossibly slow to work with. There doesn’t seem to be much point in going back before v6 except for nostalgic purposes.
