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Adobe Photoshop CS3 (PC) | 
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List Price: £586.99
Buy New: £259.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 141
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Enterprise
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.8 x 1.9
EAN: 5051254145868
ASIN: B000O17CQ0
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Wonderful January 22, 2008
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
Photoshop CS3 is wonderful and a real joy to use. We were not naive enough to feel it could run on an older less powerful machine. We purchased a new PC especially to run Photoshop CS3, with a lot of memory and running XP Professional, and have hardly anything else running on this machine so that other software does not clutter things up etc.
CS3 loaded very easily. After installing the upgrades - 260MB - we started to use it for our day to day image processing. You download your images directly from your card into Bridge and then open them as RAW files. Camera RAW 4.1 is amazing and you will find your images benefit greatly from using this software. After this processing in Photoshop CS3 is smooth and very reliable.
We have now been using this software for a while and have had absolutely no problems at all. Photoshop CS3 is dream imaging software.
It's the photo editor of choice - but sadly just too expensive for most home users November 15, 2007
57 out of 58 found this review helpful
I have Photoshop CS3 'Extended' - although I got it as part of Creative Suite Design Premium (with 'Macromedia' Dreamweaver/Flash (web creation), InDesign (DTP), Illustrator (drawing) and Acrobat (pdf editor) thrown in. With Photoshop 'extended' you get everything in this Photoshop CS3, plus tools for editing 3D and motion-based content and performing image analysis. To be honest the old Photoshop CS2 is adequate enough for most of the image editing I do. I couldn't go to an older version than CS1 though as I find the 'shadow/highlight' tool just too useful (bringing out detail in shadows, e.g scanned film), and that wasn't in Photoshop 7. I get Photoshop CS3 `free' via work, and we get massive educational discounts (for departmental use at university). However you can get a pretty hefty discount on Photoshop yourself if you have a student/schoolchild in the house (from Primary School to degree level), so definitely check out adobe.com's Education Store and Amazon for that version instead if you qualify. This educational licenced version is identical to this retail version.
There's so much imaging editing power in Photoshop CS3 you should visit adobe.com for more details. New to CS3 are Smart Filters, Advanced Composition (combining bits from other photos), much improved Black & White conversion (from colour photos), and it's been all speeded up a bit (provided you have a zippy multi-core intel chip and fast graphics card, and 3Gb+ system memory). Adobe Bridge has been improved (image database), but I don't use Adobe Bridge (ImageReady) and stick to logical folder names instead - in fact I growl if I click File, Browse in error over File, Open and then have to wait the yonks it still takes Adobe Bridge to start-up. RAW photo processing has also been improved (but I need TIFF at work and use mainly jpg at home - which are now supported by the RAW plug-in). Photoshops interface has also had a makeover and looks/feels a bit better than CS2. Overall the new bits are a worthwhile upgrade, particularly if your workplace is footing the bill.
Photoshop still has a steep learning curve though, largely due to the rather poor Photoshop help, e.g. you can ask any question and often you get quite good detailed help on the correct command/palette to use - but it typically never tells you where to actually find that command in the menu system ! Intermediate photo editing users, and people using their own money, should probably stick to the superb but simplified 70 Photoshop Elements 6 - which you can buy with it's sister Premiere Elements 4 (video editing) as a double pack (again an cheaper educational licence is available). Plus there's the powerful Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 10 that comes in at a few pounds more than Elements and, although aimed at professional photographers on a budget, it is ideal for anyone with an expensive digital camera.
So the industry standard photo/image editing software with no real competitor - simply the best, but sadly also at a very high price unless you qualify for that educational discount.
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