You can upgrade from ANY version to the most current, at regular upgrade price, as long as you have your original serial number and/or have registered your purchase with Adobe.
From 2.5.x, you’ll likely need to contact Adobe Customer Service. As I understand, it’s a relatively painless procedure (except for waiting in the phone queue, that is)
As for getting version 7.0.1, that might be a little difficult. You may find some for sale online, but be EXCEEDINGLY diligent in making sure you get a REAL, registerable copy of the full package.
Otherwise, if you go for Photoshop 8 (aka CS) you’ll also need to upgrade to OS X, which is something you’re going to have to do eventually anyway. And LOT’s more RAM will be in order…no less than 512 MB. And get the good stuff, even if it costs more. Cheap RAM has proven to be the source of many problems for many people.
Thanks Phos. That’s encouraging.
I agree, there’s no point in paying for the upgrade at all if I can’t get it legally. I know legal, unopened, new-in-box copies of PS7 upgrades are available, but not directly from Adobe any more.
I’ll eventually upgrade to OSX, but probably when I’m in the market for a whole new computer. I can’t afford to replace everything just yet.
What’s wrong with Photoshop 2.5?
"What’s wrong with Photoshop 2.5?"
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It was my favorite upgrade and I did some extraordinary work with it. A little freelance work on 80MB files with a slow computer don’t make me think of version 7 of Photoshop, unless certain color profiles have to be used.
Don’t be embarassed. I only have 64 MB of ram pumped up (to a degree) with virtual memory. I recently bought the upgrade, going from 3 to 7 and it works just fine. The newer version is a little sluggish because of my ram and an old iMac but it quite usable. I kept 3 though because it opens and operates much faster. So I do the rough cropping, image correction etc in 3 then switch to 7 for "healing", "save for web" etc. So my only suggestion is, don’t trash the old version. It was a great program from the start.
Donald Hobbs.
A little freelance work on 80MB files with a slow computer don’t make me think of version 7 of Photoshop, unless certain color profiles have to be used.
I’ve gotten dependant on the history palette, and 2.5 leaves me feeling always on the edge of disaster. And it’s really irritating not to have live text. Layer effects can be created pretty easily manually, but I prefer the simplicity of dealing with layer styles. I suppose I wouldn’t need to upgrade all the way to 7, but new, unopened copies of earlier versions are getting mighty hard to find.
Jonf, I like and use Photoshop CS, but I was making my own type of layers in 2.5. They could’ve been called "new-same-size-files" (and imagination : )
Version 5.5 or 6 treated me right for years, have plenty of the good advanced features… and still does well on my older Power Mac 7600 series. But yeah, more RAM is almost always a good thing. Just have something else to do while you wait for those slow process times…
…. slow process times…
I’ve heard of knitting Hell’s Angels; I trust you’ll find a hobby : )
