Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade

List Price: $199.00 Discount Price: $179.00

Features:

• The ideal solution for professional, powerful photo editing
• Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more
• Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools
• Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections
• Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, Web designers, and print service providers

Accessories:
3Dconnexion SpacePilot - 3D motion controller w/ LCD display - optical - 21 but	3Dconnexion SpaceTraveler	3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator PE (Personal Edition) 3D Navigation Device USB ( 3DX-700029 )	3D connexion SpaceExplorer 3D Navigation Device with USB Interface ( 3DX-700026 )	3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator SE (Standard Edition) 3D Navigation Device USB ( 3DX-700028 )

Customer Reviews:

Significant Upgrade--for the Bridge Alone [Posted on 2008-02-25]
I have used Adobe Photoshop since Photoshop 5, recently upgrading to CS3 from CS. It is a significant upgrade--the Bridge alone is worth it! I have used similar products, but Adobe truly is the best. Also, there are numerous tutorials out there that will help iron out any problems; although, this version is pretty user friendly. Although I use CS3 primarily for photography, it is doing better than former versions when graphics are used.

Really worth the upgrade [Posted on 2008-03-29]
I upgraded from CS and it was really worth it. It's not only that there are a lot of new features but they really improved the existing features a lot.

CS3 Upgrade Review (Windows Vista) [Posted on 2008-05-02]
A good upgrade if it weren't for the unforgettable "printer driver" bug under Vista.
Unless you want to suffer from horribly slow performance, you will need to install a "default printer" driver (there are links to more info on this in the Adobe support forums).
Why Adobe has not made a patch available for this is hard to understand.
Until they do, I cannot give more than three stars to this, otherwise fine, upgrade.

Had to upgrade, but happy that I did [Posted on 2008-05-15]
As an amateur photographer I don't have to keep up with the latest cutting edge version of Photoshop. The main reason I had to upgrade to CS3 was to be able to review and edit Canon Raw images from a Canon 1D Mk III DSLR. This is my only big gripe with Adobe is that the Raw file format does not appear to have changed, but because the camera model number in the metadata was different Photoshop/Bridge CS2 refused to show thumbnails or open the Mk III's .CR2 files.

So, I had to upgrade to CS3 which cost about $200, which is much better than having spend $600+. At first, I didn't see much of a difference. Sure, there is a different color scheme for the PS and Bridge applications, some stuff has been moved around a little on the screen, but nothing big.

Then I find the feature that made me happy that I had upgraded. Adobe Camera Raw ("ACR") now lets you manipulate JPEG images to almost the same degree as Raw images. You can do limited white balance correction, straightening, cropping, and sharpening of JPEG images--non-permanent changes just like with Raw images. White balance correction is limited to "As Shot", "Auto", and "Custom", though this limitation is understandable as JPEG images don't normally contain color temperature information. However, using the "Custom" option with a test-shot of a white-card now makes correcting the white balance for JPEGs a breeze. Plus, the ability to straighten and crop JPEG images so quickly in ACR is a feature I wish I had had a year ago.

All these changes to a JPEG image are non-permanent meaning the original image is still there (you can verify this by viewing the image with another application, e.g. Windows Explorer with Thumbnail View). The changes you make using ACR appear to be stored in the JPEG file itself as a new metadata section. Caveat: Only applications that can see and use this metadata will render your changes on the screen so right now that is only going to be Adobe applications.

A Photographers New Testament [Posted on 2008-07-06]
Elements is awesome, but Photoshop is worth the extra dollars if you're a serious photog. The lens correction filter is amazing--and I'm still learning the newer additions. Very powerful, too--it will automate adjustments on so many images at one time without a slowdown. Gotta have it--

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