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From: "John Sessoms"
Subject: Re: one more update
From: "William Robb"
A word to the wise:
CS4 is a little buggy on XP.
Prone to crashing for no apparent reason with some of the filters I use.
I'm actually back to CS3 for my portrait work because I can't use the
Portraiture filter with CS4 without the program crashing.
I've got CS2 running on another computer with XP, no problems there.
I'm running CS3 on this laptop with Vista, no problems here, although
maxing out memory on this laptop (4GB) would help CS3 run a little faster.
Memory is already maxed out (2GB) on the other computer.
I sorta' figure to forgo CS4 and wait until CS5 comes out before
upgrading.
I hope there will be a CS5 and it won't all get subsumed into Lightroom.
I haven't actually used lightroom. I have looked at it on friends
computers, but every thing I've seen, read and looked at on other
computers makes me believe it doesn't really meet my needs.
Not a bad program, just doesn't do what I want to do as easily as Bridge
and Photoshop already do.
My basic take on Lightroom:
Pros - It's got a database for organizing photos.
You can do things without opening Photoshop
Cons - That damn database.
You can already do those things in Photoshop
CS2 and CS3 are fine. CS4 is a little bitchy.
At the moment I could work without Lightroom, but I would prefer not to have
to, but I couldn't work without Photoshop.
Lightroom has pretty much taken over from bridge for me.
That damned database is damned useful.
William Robb
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