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Rating: - The best choice for Photo-editing!
I will admit that this is not a easy to use application but if you want to become an expert, you have to go to a lesson class in graphics and photo-editing. It does pay off, the editing features of this program are amazing, for removing red eye giving pictures the best lighting and creating great photo-content. With new features for fixing photos such as the healing brush which I know a lot users will appreciate for removing wrinkles and other types facial problems in photos. You also have security with version 7.0 so people cannot steal your precious content or use dissrespectly with special water mark features and other secure and file protection stuff. A new file browser is in the product so you can find and select your photo-content easily. Over all for previous users of Photo-shop I recommend you upgrade, I highly recommend 5.0 & 5.5 users to upgrade most of all but for people who just purchased 6.0 wait about 3 to 6 month's and hear what everybody is saying. If you want to go in photo-graphics I highly recommend Photoshop 7.0 it's new and a little bit easier use. If you are a novice and new to Photo-editing stick with Photoshop elements.
Rating:  - A major upgrade for Adobe
Bitmap editing tools have come a long way since MacPaint in the early eighties, running on the Mac 128. At last, the good folks at Adobe have released a viable upgrade to their star flagship product in R7. You now have more control over vector shapes in Photoshop, allowing for blends and fills. However, the tool set is not quite as sophisticated as Illustrator. A spell checker is now available in version 7 for those of you who wish to create your text without leaving Photoshop. Plugins from other vendors will work with this product, such as CGSD's RealTexture Tools. What's annoying is that saving a layered project, opened as a tiff, is no longer by default saved to PSD (native format). In that case, the user must scroll the dialogue box. A major drawback is their lack of support, at least for the previous version. When I installed the 6.0 upgrade on my Windows 2000 workstation, the program wouldn't correctly boot. I was unable to locate a phone number from their site to call. After e-mailing their tech support, I received an automated response the size of a book. A message was posted on their website forum without a response. One realizes that cutting costs (personnel) is vital to a company's existence, but the lack of support of this product is unacceptable.
Rating: - Just a quick comment on Makthorpe's review...
I have being running Photoshop 7.0 on Windows 2000 Professional for over a month now, and have not experienced any problems at all (i.e. System Crashes). My guess is that other programs in Makthorpe's computer were conflicting with photoshop. Apart from that I must say that I'm really impressed with all photoshop's features. I learn something new everyday now. I find this program fun to play with, so it is not difficult to learn. Though there is a lot to learn...
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