Ok, good reasons to get it again, but it did prove to be dicey after all, did it not? You couldn't activate it so you can't use it.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:52 AM, J C OConnell <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: > the reason I bought PS CS (1) was I was very familair with it, I had been > using it for years > and it met all my needs so it wasnt dicey. > > On 10/23/2014 11:08 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> A moot point now I suppose, but rather than buying a dicey old copy of >> CS off eBay you could have bought a brand-new copy of PS Elements 13 >> for not much more than $70 (assuming shopping around / waiting for a >> sale). PS CS is quite ancient (eleven years) and PSE 13 would likely >> be quite a bit more powerful and useful. (Although I see that CS did >> support 16 bits in some operations.) >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:59 PM, J C OConnell <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: >>> >>> I get by fine ( quite nicely actually) with older versions of PS, so >>> when >>> my hard drive crashed without backup recently >>> I purchased a sealed copy of photoshop CS off ebay for $70. It >>> registered >>> and runs fine on win8 but I had trouble activating the >>> software past its 30 day trail period. To make a long story short, I >>> found >>> out the adobe is giving away photoshop CS2 >>> at there website with a registration number and it needs no activation. >>> yippie! Why buy PS when you can get a good working >>> version from 2005 free forever? JCO >>> >>> On 10/21/2014 4:40 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >>>> >>>> Quoting Ed Keeney <ewkph...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>>> I currently use and older version of Photoshop Elements (v5) to >>>>> post-process my images. It works and I've been happy with it. >>>>> >>>>> I currently don't use the Organizer that is paired with the >>>>> application. My organization is all in my head (I separate images by >>>>> month/year). I don't have any tagging, so if I wanted to find an >>>>> image of my father-in-law, I would need to know which image I want and >>>>> then approximate the year and date. >>>>> >>>>> I was thinking about moving to the Adobe Cloud offering for >>>>> photographers, $10/month and I get PS and Lightroom. >>>>> >>>>> Should I just continue to use the standalone PSE product and get >>>>> myself into its Organizer product. >>>>> >>>>> Since I don't upgrade too often (version 13 is the latest PSE), I'm >>>>> not sure its worth the $120/year for the full PS and Lightroom over >>>>> the $79 one time cost for PSE or a switch to the standalone Lightroom. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I opted for the Adobe Cloud for photographers subscription and I'm quite >>>> happy with it although I rarely use the Lightroom component. I was >>>> never >>>> going to be able to justify buying CS6 outright but the Cloud model is a >>>> affordable way to get the latest version of Photoshop. >>>> >>>> Previously I'd been using a hand-me-down version of CS3 and, if I'm >>>> honest, there's not a lot more that CC offers that I can't do in CS3. >>>> So, if >>>> Adobe increases the monthly subscription excessively I'd undoubtedly >>>> just go >>>> back to the earlier version even if that would involve an extra step in >>>> post >>>> processing to convert raw images to a CS3 readable format. >>>> >>>> As for organisation, I don't use Bridge CC either. I've been using >>>> Studioline Photo Classic for years for image organisation and I'm more >>>> than >>>> happy with it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
