Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Upgrade [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Upgrade [Old Version]
Customer Review: The best just got better - way better
Summary: 5 Stars
Adobe has taken the absolute best image editing program and made it way better. Key to this upgrade is the new type tool - providing a much easier way to edit type than ever, and finally a great way to prepare optimized graphics for the web. There's also a lot of new brushes and presets you can create to automate your work.I never upgraded to 5.5, and if you've been waiting yourself, wait no longer.
You will have to get used to new interface enhancements, though, which seems to be the case with any major upgrade to this program in the past.
All-in-all, this upgrade is definitely worth every penny.
Customer Review: Great program, dissapointing interface, documentation, value
Summary: 3 Stars
As a long time user and consistent upgrader of Adobe Photoshop I am always impressed with the functionality of the program and what I am able to do with it. I am also continually dissapointed with the the confusing user interface and terrible documentation. Given the high price of the software, I always feel cheated. Version 6 has particularly poor documentation... they managed to confusingly merge the user guide for both Photoshop and Image Ready into a single incomprehensible document. New features are barely documented. Numerous features have no documentation in the guide at all... only the online help covers them. The illustrations are a joke... they have some examples of before and after color effects printed in an all B&W manual (no visible difference... duh!). Overall, the guide reads like it was written by programmers for programmers, not for people thinking about the artistic use of the features. They really give you the impression that they just didn't care about the guide and were trying to save every last penny they could. Given the cost of the program I feel I should have a comprehensible, complete, full color user's guide. I imagine that the CEO of Adobe never looked at this guide or he certainly wouldn't have let it out the door. Finally, while the program's functionality is very powerful, the interface is described in a way that sounds more like their programmer's perspective than a user's conceptual framework. Instead of vector and bitmap shapes they talk about clipping paths, working paths, quick masks, layer masks, text layers, text shapes and on and on and on. I'm sure there is good reason why the program needs to keep track of this but there is no good reason why the jargon and user interface couldn't be simplified to make the advanced features more accessable to a broader class of users.Customer Review: A must have software.....!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must have for designers and photographer. I have been using many image editor such as PhotoImpact (Ulead), PhotoPaint (Corel) and Picture Publisher (Micrografx) and NONE of them even close to PhotoShop in terms of strength and usability. I have been using PhotoShop since version 3. Its simply awesome.
Customer Review: The industry standard gets better
Summary: 5 Stars
What a great product. When it comes to image editing, if you can imagine it, with Photoshop, you can do it. If you are new to graphics/design I recommend that this be the first software you start to master. (if you aren't new, then you already know this) Not only is it powerful, its a great deal of fun to use.Adobe has updated the interface. Now when you select a tool all of the options for the selected tool appear (you don't have to go to the pallettes as often). The selection tools and text handling are much better than previous versions. There are several other improvements that I haven't mentioned.
Using Photoshop is an art in itself. I've been using this product for several years now and I'm still learning.
Customer Review: Great Application ? Could Have Stood a Bit More Testing
Summary: 3 Stars
PhotoShop is without a doubt the best digital image editing software on the market. However, Adobe seems to have placed testing of the application on the users who fork over the big bucks and stake their livelihood on its use. If you check the User to User Forum on Adobe's WebSite, you will see the large number of problems people are experiencing with this product. Foremost is speed. Take the minimum system requirements on the box and times those by 4 if you expect it to run efficiently. Also there are many features that either do not work correctly or were just not thought out well when designed. If you are a graphics professional, you will find some of the new features and design a work flow killer. The guides and slice tool are not precise, the text tool is half thought out and there are many features hidden away in right mouse click menus such as text attributes like bold and italic and layer options (you can't rename layers without going to a menu anymore). There is a complete lack of consistency between PhotoShop, ImageReady and Illustrator, which makes no sense at all. I am finding myself switching back and forth between 5.5 and 6. Hopefully, with all of the complaints, Adobe is finding out what real world users need in an application (not what programmers and product people think we need) and are working on a patch.