Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Upgrade [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Upgrade [Old Version]
Customer Review: Must have for beginners.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great one to start with. The Image editing software is tops. Helped me set up at portfolio.com. My favorite program with may extras.Customer Review: Must have for beginners.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great one to start with. The Image editing software is tops. Helped me set up at portifolio.com. My favorite program with may extras.Customer Review: Excellent as always yet buggy for some users.
Summary: 5 Stars
With this latest iteration of Photoshop, Adobe has improved upon the program usability while still not doing perhaps as much as they could. While some folks still express a preference for some of the old interface features, I think the overall opinions on the new tweaks are positive...such as the Options bar now being at the top, a full slew of layer options being more quickly accessible, and a palette well to help declutter the screen. Anyone using Photoshop 6 on a Windows 2000 PC, particularly if Norton Utilities are installed, is apt to see some problems and is well advised to peruse suggested solutions at the Adobe Photoshop users forum. Initially I observed significantly slow operations for some tasks but disabling Norton Protection eliminated them altogether. There have also been some complications with the Epson 1270 Photo printer on a USB port, again resolved per information learned at the Photoshop forum.For prior Photoshop users, it is wise to maintain your old installation until you learn how well PS6 works for you and whether it is very buggy or not. An update is forthcoming but I've not heard just how soon. DO NOT install over prior versions, but rather in a separate path. Some plugins may not work or be installable, yet they may work if you simply copy them from the old to the new installation. In particular, Extensis Phototools will not work and the 3.06 update download from Extensis is needed. This will result in removal of the very convenient Photobars component but I have managed to recover that component from a Photoshop 5.5 installation. I have remapped all toolbar buttons for carried-over menu items as well as adding buttons for new menu items. Those changes are freely available by a download from my website. Since URLs are not permitted in these reviews, you may learn of the location by either visiting the Extensis Phototools forum or the Adobe Photoshop users forum, searching on the phrase "Photobars 6.0".
All in all, this is a very welcome upgrade but don't be surprised to see some problems after installation. If you do, by all means visit the Photoshop users forum for a review of problems mentioned there and any solutions offered.
Customer Review: The best upgrade in a long time
Summary: 5 Stars
I wasn't sold on the changes I saw to 5.5, so I was slow in upgrading from 5.0 to 6.0, but now I'm glad I've done it. This is a huge leap up in the way images are handled. There are a number of wholly new functions, and the old ones have been generally smoothed out and improved. There is more vector functionality here, better type handling, smooth layer handling, and increased support for web images. Improvements like this make it clear why Photoshop is the Holy Grail of image manipulation. If you can afford it, treat yourself to the best, and buy PShop 6.0.Customer Review: Solid product with lots of improvements.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned Photoshop since 3.0 (14 3.5 inch floppies). Each of the new releases has had some great productivity improvements. Actions, adjustment layers, Image Ready all were great bonuses. There is no revolution in 6.0, but the sum of the improvements are worth the cost of the upgrade.Check the system requirements carefully. It will not run on Windows 95. I have not had any problems running both Photoshop and Image Ready on a machine with 128 meg of ram.
The install is a pain. You have to get out your 4.0 cd and insert it, then remove it after Photoshop verifies you own one. My CD did not like this the first two times I tried it, but it finally came through after a reboot.
On to the improvements.
My favorite is the intuitive toolbar at the top of the workspace. This puts tool options one click away. No need to hunt for the options palette. Next is the "Step backward" and "Step Forward". This works like a multiple level undo without having to go to the history palette.
Text (excuse me, type) is getting easier. Now you can add paragraph text to a box with ease. Define the size of the box and start keying, right in the layer. They still need to improve the font handling (you can't see a text string in the new font unless you update the layer), but the changes to type in 6.0 are fairly intuitive, especially if you have worked in Flash or Corel. Oh, by the way, you no longer render a layer of text, you rasterize it.
To the action they have added "droplets," a productivity improvement that lets you run an action on multiple files through "drap and drop".
The crop tool is no longer in with the marquees but stands alone in the toolbox. Big timesaver.
They have added the ability to round the corners of a rectangle, and create all kinds of shapes without using the lasso (Bravo!).
You can add free form notes to a file. I won't use this much, but I can see where it might be helpful. The implementation of this feature, however, is lacking.
There are no new filters, but they have added "Liquify" which is pretty cool. It works like Extract.
Path selection has been improved and the path tools have been separated from the pens (used to create the path).
Also new: Layer styles, trim, adding slices in Photoshop.