If you are using this in a full time business five days a week, it can pay for itself in very little time. For the casual user or people only using it occasionally I think its way too expensive. When I used Photoshop 3 many years ago it was also expensive, but at that time offered features that other programs could only dream about. Its layer editing was cutting edge stuff. Today even the cheapest of photo editors have these facilities and newer features added by CS3 are unlikely to be needed by most people. Successive upgrades from Adobe have been more about expensive tweaks to the program compared to the leaps between earlier versions. I find the raw file import still disappointing. I have used it for quick imports, but when compared to results ... Read More:
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If you are using this in a full time business five days a week, it can pay for itself in very little time. For the casual user or people only using it occasionally I think its way too expensive. When I used Photoshop 3 many years ago it was also expensive, but at that time offered features that other programs could only dream about. Its layer editing was cutting edge stuff. Today even the cheapest of photo editors have these facilities and newer features added by CS3 are unlikely to be needed by most people. Successive upgrades from Adobe have been more about expensive tweaks to the program compared to the leaps between earlier versions. I find the raw file import still disappointing. I have used it for quick imports, but when compared to results ... Read More:
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If you are using this in a full time business five days a week, it can pay for itself in very little time. For the casual user or people only using it occasionally I think its way too expensive. When I used Photoshop 3 many years ago it was also expensive, but at that time offered features that other programs could only dream about. Its layer editing was cutting edge stuff. Today even the cheapest of photo editors have these facilities and newer features added by CS3 are unlikely to be needed by most people. Successive upgrades from Adobe have been more about expensive tweaks to the program compared to the leaps between earlier versions. I find the raw file import still disappointing. I have used it for quick imports, but when compared to results ... Read More:
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Being a creative (and gemini) type, I've accepted just about every type of college and university course going. Luckily I've settled down into Popular Music Studies, but I've needed various pieces of software for both work projects and uni documents. One of them was Photoshop; a program I was practically made to Marry for 2 years if I wanted to complete my Graphics Art course. It was CS2 I used back then on the iMac's, so naturally, I was worried if all my knowledge would be lost on the new CS4.
Thankfully, I was 'as usual' panicking over nothing (hereditary?). But their was a genuine reason for my concern. Like yourself, maybe, I had read endless reviews for CS4 before it was released, and gasped at the screenshots of a horrid grey-background ... Read More:
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Being a creative (and gemini) type, I've accepted just about every type of college and university course going. Luckily I've settled down into Popular Music Studies, but I've needed various pieces of software for both work projects and uni documents. One of them was Photoshop; a program I was practically made to Marry for 2 years if I wanted to complete my Graphics Art course. It was CS2 I used back then on the iMac's, so naturally, I was worried if all my knowledge would be lost on the new CS4.
Thankfully, I was 'as usual' panicking over nothing (hereditary?). But their was a genuine reason for my concern. Like yourself, maybe, I had read endless reviews for CS4 before it was released, and gasped at the screenshots of a horrid grey-background ... Read More:
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Being a creative (and gemini) type, I've accepted just about every type of college and university course going. Luckily I've settled down into Popular Music Studies, but I've needed various pieces of software for both work projects and uni documents. One of them was Photoshop; a program I was practically made to Marry for 2 years if I wanted to complete my Graphics Art course. It was CS2 I used back then on the iMac's, so naturally, I was worried if all my knowledge would be lost on the new CS4.
Thankfully, I was 'as usual' panicking over nothing (hereditary?). But their was a genuine reason for my concern. Like yourself, maybe, I had read endless reviews for CS4 before it was released, and gasped at the screenshots of a horrid grey-background ... Read More:
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Being a creative (and gemini) type, I've accepted just about every type of college and university course going. Luckily I've settled down into Popular Music Studies, but I've needed various pieces of software for both work projects and uni documents. One of them was Photoshop; a program I was practically made to Marry for 2 years if I wanted to complete my Graphics Art course. It was CS2 I used back then on the iMac's, so naturally, I was worried if all my knowledge would be lost on the new CS4.
Thankfully, I was 'as usual' panicking over nothing (hereditary?). But their was a genuine reason for my concern. Like yourself, maybe, I had read endless reviews for CS4 before it was released, and gasped at the screenshots of a horrid grey-background ... Read More:
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If you want to make a website professionally, you NEED Dreamweaver. However it is more targeted at people who want to make websites professionally, not novices. If you're a novice, you will definitely need some training to help you get acquainted with the program.
The main aim that Adobe seems to have taken is to just help you out as much as possible in terms of easing the work flow involved in making a website.
I am a freelance web designer with around 7 years experience, having seen Dreamweaver evolve since version MX way back, you can really notice the difference in this new version of CS4.
I'm not someone for gimmicks, features need to be useful. And having used Dreamweaver CS4 for a few months now testing, I can ... Read More:
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If you want to make a website professionally, you NEED Dreamweaver. However it is more targeted at people who want to make websites professionally, not novices. If you're a novice, you will definitely need some training to help you get acquainted with the program.
The main aim that Adobe seems to have taken is to just help you out as much as possible in terms of easing the work flow involved in making a website.
I am a freelance web designer with around 7 years experience, having seen Dreamweaver evolve since version MX way back, you can really notice the difference in this new version of CS4.
I'm not someone for gimmicks, features need to be useful. And having used Dreamweaver CS4 for a few months now testing, I can ... Read More:
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If you want to make a website professionally, you NEED Dreamweaver. However it is more targeted at people who want to make websites professionally, not novices. If you're a novice, you will definitely need some training to help you get acquainted with the program.
The main aim that Adobe seems to have taken is to just help you out as much as possible in terms of easing the work flow involved in making a website.
I am a freelance web designer with around 7 years experience, having seen Dreamweaver evolve since version MX way back, you can really notice the difference in this new version of CS4.
I'm not someone for gimmicks, features need to be useful. And having used Dreamweaver CS4 for a few months now testing, I can ... Read More:
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