Photoshop vs Lightroom.

Slinwagh

Slinwagh

Slinwagh

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I will start with a little rant at Adobe. Many moons ago I bought a boxed, full copy of Photoshop 7, last year I bought the digital online upgrade to Photoshop CS2.

Now I have come to reinstall CS2 but I have damaged the original Photoshop 7 CD, it is unreadable and thus I can't install the upgrade as CS2 does not detect and qualifying products. I phoned Adobe but they will not send any replacement media, the only solution they gave me was to buy the full version of Photoshop CS3 which I am not to happy to do as you can imagine.

The cheaper option as I can see is to buy Lightroom but how does this fair compared to Photoshop.

I only used Photoshop for cropping, post processing and printing from etc so Im guessing Lightroom would be ideal.

I see there is a demo of lightroom how does this run with 64bit Vista as there are a few Adobe products that will only run on 32bit Vista.

The only other solution I can see is to obtain a legitimate version of a older Photoshop CD so i can install my legitimate upgrade, does anyone know of a way to obtain legitimate media?
 
No idea of how to get replacement media im afraid. (Not much of my software came on media in the first place:o) But Lightroom should work no problem on a 64bit OS. For doing the things you describe, Lightroom should be more than ideal. Also if you felt tour were being limited by Lightroom at a later date, you could complement this with Adobe Elements. I would say download the Lightroom Demo and give it a spin to see how you get on (There are some great video tutorials about that show you some of the hidden gems), then decide from there.:)
 
You have a licence for PS7 - bad form of Adobe not you send you a replacement and a warning to all to make backups of original media. Surely one way around this problem is to borrow someone else's CD of PS7, use your CD-key and the problem's solved in a legal way.
 
Can't you download the trial version and register it? It's the license you pay for with the software, it sounds like they're screwing you over mate. I'd just get any copy of PS7 I could if i'd already paid to use the damn thing.
 
clv101 said:
You have a licence for PS7 - bad form of Adobe not you send you a replacement and a warning to all to make backups of original media. Surely one way around this problem is to borrow someone else's CD of PS7, use your CD-key and the problem's solved in a legal way.
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You don't even have to install the old version just pop the CD in so the upgrade can detect it.

As for Adobe having me over, John Honeyball one of the guys who writes for PC Pro has had a similar issue.

Out of principal I would prefer not to give them a penny!!
 
If I was in your situation I would download it. Sure some things are called illegal downloads, but you already own it.

I'd say there is nothing illegal about downloading it in this case.

I may be wrong, but it's what I'd do.

G
 
Samione said:
Can't you download the trial version and register it? It's the license you pay for with the software, it sounds like they're screwing you over mate. I'd just get any copy of PS7 I could if i'd already paid to use the damn thing.
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No the trial version is a full version of CS2, my serial is for an upgrade version so it won't work.
 
You don't need to install ps7, when you install cs2 as as upgrade it'll just ask you to insert the ps7 cd as verification.
 
PiKe said:
You don't need to install ps7, when you install cs2 as as upgrade it'll just ask you to insert the ps7 cd as verification.
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Yes but I don't have a working CD and Adobe won't send a replacement, they will only let me buy a full copy of CS3 !!!
 
Buy a PS7 CD off ebay?

Download it? (In this instance I see no problem at all with this option).

IMO I'd phone em up again and give em an earfull, cos that really aint on for a pro software company charging £500+ for some software :rolleyes: (Even if it is very very very well developed).

Oh and lightroom is pretty dam good, still need PS tho.
 
Borrowing a CD is perfectly legal - failing that maybe buying a 2nd hand copy of PS7 would be cheaper than a new CS3.
 
Surely just download an icky copy of PS7 (or any other version for that matter) and burn to CD, so you have a CD to put in when your version of CS2 asks for it.
You do not need to instal;l the iffy copy (even though technically it is not iffy as you have a valid key etc), just use the CD you get as verification for your legal CS2.

All done above board for no cost, well bar the cost of a blank CD, but I guess nothing is really free these days!!!
 
Hodders said:
If I have a legit copy of PS7 - Is it legal for me to burn the OP a copy ?
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I would say technically yes.

I have sorted it out now, I have had to install a copy of PS7 and then upgrade to CS2.

CS2 didn't deteect the CD I made as valid.
 
download PS7, completely legal as you will have an original, just keep the original as proof that you have a license for it, install then upgrade. all completely legal. By keeping your orignal and using your cd-key, how are they to know you downloaded it...

[EDIT] lol we must have been typing at same time...
 
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