Anyway, our first review is for Photoshop CS3, the first photoshop I have used in a long time. And to be honest, I love it. My earliest Photoshop experience was with Photoshop Elements 2.0, a castrated version of Photoshop 6.0. I quickly grew quite adept with that, mostly with making things go from one background to another and scribbling effects together to make awesomeness. Or sometimes to see if I could induce nausea in internet users. (Hey, I was 13, what else was I supposed to do?)
Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh yes, after that, I had only brief experience with Photoshop 7.0 before I was plunged into a Photoshop drought, during which time I was limited to MSPaint, Paint.net, and GIMP. Hurk.
So when I got a chance to use Photoshop CS3, my initial reaction was something along the lines of "What the balls does CS3 mean? What happened to normal numbers?"
But my secondary reaction was more along the lines of "What an excellent and streamlined program!" Photoshop CS3 is by far the best graphics editing program I have used so far. I highly recommend it to anyone who has interest in such things.
And onward to CS4. Photoshop CS4 is the exact same thing as Photoshop CS3, with two major differences.
Difference 1: CS4 has the added ability to import a 3d model to use as a point of reference or some such shit. Beats me. Thats what I've been told. I'll probably never use that feature.
Difference 2: CS4 sucks so much resouces, that if you have less than 6 gigs of RAM and a fairly beefy video card, every time you paste something, it'll take several seconds to appear. Good shooping is done rapidly and fluidly. Lag prevents that.
The Bottom Line: Now that CS4 is out, the price of Photoshop CS3 is undoubedly drastically reduced. If you would use it, there is really no reason NOT to buy yourself a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3, unless you're pinching pennies for the food budget or something. And if you are, get the fuck off the computer and go find a job or something.
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