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I upgraded because
Since I am a photographer, and since CS2 has already significantly improved my daily workflow, especially in processing raw files, the upgrade, at its price, was a bargain.
CS2 all but eliminates two or three third party applications I was using.
While I don't care for the online "peering over my shoulder", Adobe does this to make money, and people do steal the software, just like they have stolen my pictures from time to time.
Frankly, I wish I could aford the protections Adobe has on their software for the pictures I regularly send off to cyberspace.
In the mean time, Adobe helps me make more money.
What else is there?
Will not upgrade to CS2
We (Evans Engineering, Inc. http://www.evanscooling.com) were once huge Adobe supporters but as they continue to release increasingly expensive upgrades, problematic activation protocols, software that is often bloated and buggy, new releases are avoided as long as possible. Adobe was nearly synomomus with art and creativity, however they appear to be looking more like business apps authors a la Microsoft rather than creatives with an artistic spirit and like minded philosophy. The irony of this situation, we once ran Paint Shop Pro (that had a nifty little thumbnail browser), Micrografx Designer and Quark. In the late 90's we jumped on board with Adobe – now in '05 we plan on putting aside Adobe and revisiting our friends at Quark, Jasc and Corel. My personal feeling is that Adobe is treating its' long time supporters and customers very poorly.
CS2 is great but......
Few questions, aroused when I downloaded the demo of Photoshop CS2.
Adobe is a big company and surely wants to sell and make money but I believe releasing an upgrade to CS that is not really 64bit, makes me suspicious. Windows x64 is here along with Mac OSX tiger, and the benefits from a 64 bit operating system are too great to be ignored with the dual cores coming out and the much better memory utilization (something that the Photoshop will benefit the most). So I believe adobe will call us back to pay for a new upgrade to CS 2 or 3 x64 before the end of the year. For now I will stay with the Photoshop 7.0.1 and Illustrator 9.0, because the company I work for upgraded a while ago to the CS, and it was a great disappointment to see that in order to use the long time and really expensive collection of true type fonts we had to stick with the older versions. Adobe decided to go Open type only and drop the TTF fonts. That might work well in the States and maybe some other countries using English but it are not much help for other counties. So the CS is just taking space of the hard drive 98% of the time and it is the CE edition with Greek support, but the thousands True type fonts we have in our collection are not functioning properly with it, only Open Type do. Maybe Adobe thinks that the customers of the English speaking world are enough for them especially if they release an upgrade every 6-8 months. Anyway the CS2 has potential and if we decide to upgrade all our fonts and ditch the True Type ones and Adobe releases a true x64 bit suite then I believe we should get rid of the Photoshop 7.0 or Illustrator 9.0, and move along. But I do not see it happening before CS3 or CS4.
PS: Sorry for my English but it is not my native language.
I upgraded the morning CS2 was announced
I spend so much time in Photoshop that I find the upgrade always worth it.
I know about the "big" features like vanishing point, but sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest difference on a daily basis;
1. I can now move a Photoshop window to my 2nd monitor (on my PC)! Boy this little feature is worth it's weight in gold on a daily basis.
2. Working with multiple layers now is so much easier, it saves a lot of time everyday.
Smart Objects are truly fabulous, I use them all the time as they allow non-destructive scaling.
Adobe Bridge is really very nice, it's like having Photshop Album integrated into the suite.
I upgraded quick
Being a single practitioner (well I do have a bookeeper), I need every advantage I can grab to work more efficiently. I use the entire Adobe Premium Suite profitably. I ordered CS the day it came out and was not dissapointed. Did the same with CS2 with the same results. Because of some of the revisions, I bit the bullet and bought the multi-program support pacakge because it includes "how-to". I'm not dissapointed with either purchase. My attitude is that if I can't justify upgrades with increased productivity, I need to change my way of making a living. My clients also know that I stay on the cutting edge of available technology and respect my investment. Most folks at the age of 67 don't do that. I consider Adobe to be a work partner and have very few complaints against the company.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Joe Dempsey
http://www.joedempseycommunications.com