Customer Reviews

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

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This is an excellent product for the high-end graphic artist. In case you are not sure if this is the right upgrade for you, this product will upgrade from the full versions of Photoshop 4 and higher. Note that this product WILL NOT work with Photoshop Elements or Photoshop LE, as these are less thourough versions of Photoshop.

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!

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.

I used PhotoShop 6.0 briefly before upgrading to 7.01. The possibilities with 7.01 are near endless with this program for creativity. It's relatively fast and 176 MB in HD storage. Although, most of my time with PhotoShop is spent tweaking digital photos, which it does extremely well.

I highly recommend buying. First-time buyers - Once you've bought the initial version of PhotoShop, the upgrades are not as painful to purchase. Buy still a 'must have' for photo (both film and digital) professionals and enthusiasts.

This latest version turns out to be a very pleasant suprise, and i would already find it difficult to return to vers 6.
The new interface is lovely, unlike some new software which looks like the interface was designed with three crayons.
The tweaks such as too the dialogue boxes was an unexpected bonus, as now much finer adjustments can be made, also new and more powerful curves features. dint personally see too much benefit from auto colours but i guess itll prove occasionally handy.
The file browser is long overdue, this was one major feature i always preferred from Corel Photopaint, and finally we have it in Photoshop, maybe four years too late but nonetheless usefull.
The major enhance ment for me is the ability to save tool settings, not least the Crop tool, each tool can be configured with customised settings, which means no more painful typing in the same settings 50 times a day. Again its a case of why didnt we have this in version 5, but better late than never.
The new tools are pretty cool, i love the patch tool, it literally has taken my breath away, magic is not the word. the healing brush isnt quite as user friendly and as obviously useful to me , but this will no doubt make a bit more sense after further use.
The pattern maker has proved to be quite interesting and can actually be used to create some new twists when tinkered with enough.
I find this version (running on XP) runs a little faster.
all in all worth the upgrade.

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!

Photoshop remains my favorite painting program. I'm a Photoshop 6.0 veteran, been using it since it came out, and I've learned my way around pretty well.

As an upgrade, I give 7.0 four stars. Why? There's just not that much more for that extra star. I was expecting a jump in features like the one between versions 5.5 and 6.0. Pretty much, they give you a new tool for repairing photos (this is great and worth it if you're interested in digital photography, of course: but for a web designer, it's useless), a few upgrades, and a prettier interface. As a web designer, I didn't find a whole lot more that's useful, so for the fellow web designers out there, it might not be worth it at all. But for the digital photographer with the extra money, grab it. That brush will probably be very useful to you.

As a new program, without a previous installation of Photoshop, FIVE STARS. GET IT NOW. I can't stress this enough. Photoshop will be worth it if you're looking to do this professionally; it is THE graphic design program out there right now. If you're just a home user that wants to fix up a photo or two, I don't think it's worth the $600+ just for that.

I wish Adobe would get off there a** and upgrade the product to start working in 16 bit color. I am very disappointed in Adobe for not upgrading most tools to 16 bit color. The worst part is that the layers still do not work in 16 bit.

The New healing Brush is a must have. I can only give this upgrade 3 Stars, due to the very small number improvements in the software. If you own Photoshop 6, this is a hard to justify upgrade, except for the Healing brush.

I've used Adobe Photoshop since day one and have tried and worked with all the versions that ever came out.... I can honestly say that they really outdid themselves this time. The new features make the program even more user-friendly than it already was and the interface is also very appealing. I'd recommend it to anyone who is serious about computer design. I know I am! Kudos Adobe!

"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.