Beginner Photoshop 7.0

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I have been using Photoshop 7.0 for ever and ever!! I also have the Adobe Instruction manual and so don't really want to move away from it. I don't do very much editing etc and so the cost of a new programme and manual could not be justified.

For some reason I am having problems when trying to open photo's for editing and, I have noticed that there appears to be one or two updates available for version 7.0 and I am wondering if anyone has used them and if they are safe to download.

If I were much younger I would obviously invest in something newer but as I'm almost 78 it doesn't seem worth it for what little I do.

Any thoughts will be much appreciated. Thank you.
 
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At the time PS7 was published, many of the actual capture gear
was not yet there, so maybe you want to update the supported
RAW format to make sure your files will open using Camera Raw.
PS7 should have no problem with any other file format.

True is that recent softwares do come with new features and tools
but many of these bells and whistles have no place in my workflow.

Have a good time, Geoff! :cool:
 
Geoff, like Daniel above I assume that you're talking RAW files?

Your camera might more recent than the last available update to Camera Raw that functions with PS7. You can google all this.

If PS7 works fine otherwise on your operating system, there's a workaround for RAW and it's to download and install the FREE Adobe DNG converter ...
 
Hello Kodiak Qc and droj, thank you so much for coming in on my query. No I'm definitely not talking RAW here. Just ordinary jpeg files. I've been on to the Adobe site and there are downloads of 'installers' for Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 but I'm not sure what they mean by 'installers'.

I also appear to have Adobe Image Ready, is this totally different to Adobe Photoshop 7.0?

Thanks again for your help.
 
It's a mystery why you couldn't open jpg files. I think that in this circumstance you can ignore any updates though.

Image Ready was a suite of tools for preparing images for use in web-pages as I remember it, and was embedded in the Photoshop install but can be just ignored if it doesn't seem useful.

Sorry that I have no insight into the opening jpg problem.
 
My daughter uses Elements 7 and is quite happy using my old software now with dng files. Only problem she has is that sometimes when she opens the programme all the tools have reset themselves to default instead of remembering the last configuration, it never done this when I used it.
 
If this is Photoshop 7.0 and not Photoshop Elements 7, then the last update was to version 7.0.1, way back in 2002. Beware of random sites claiming to offer downloads (some of which have names containing 'adobe' or 'photoshop' but aren't official Adobe sites) - always get them directly from Adobe:

https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Windows
https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Macintosh

But if 7.0 has stopped opening jpgs, I don't think updating will help. Can you open them via File->Open rather than double-clicking? If you can, you just need to change the file association. What is your operating system? If not (what is the error message?), you might want to try re-installing 7.0. If that works, you can install 7.0.1 on top of 7.0 to fix a few bugs. I don't think there's a way of installing 7.0.1 directly, you have to install 7.0 and then apply the update.

You probably don't need Image Ready.

Note that for raw files, PS7 is only compatible with Camera Raw 1.0, which wasn't included in the package - it was an optional plugin you had to pay for, and is presumably no longer available. It also isn't compatible with DNG files, so it's useless for recent cameras even with the DNG converter.
 
Sorry if I have missed similar/same thoughts.

  1. Can you tell us exactly what if any error message you are getting says?
  2. Does it still open jpegs that it has opened before?
  3. If the jpegs are from different sources (i.e. different cameras or indeed scanned pictures) is there a pattern so to speak, as to which ones it will open & which ones it will not?

Your further more detailed answers might provide to route to a solution?
 
Thanks everyone for your valued input. I followed the link provided by Retune and downloaded the 7.01 update but, when installing it, or trying to at least, I got an error message that was telling me that it couldn't find Photoshop 7.0 in the quoted path but when I checked it was definitely there. The message then suggested that I provide a different path or to reinstall with the original disk. I did this but then still got the same error message.

Is there something that I should be doing differently?

Thanks again.
 
As suggested above, we probably need a bit more information. As well as Box Brownie's suggestions I would add:

4. Windows or Mac? Which version?
5. Can you still open Photoshop from a shortcut or the start menu, etc.?
6. If you can open Photoshop, can you open any image file of any kind from the File->Open Menu?
7. Do you mean you successfully re-installed 7.0 from the original disk?

As in (1) above, the error message would be very useful - can you post the text or a screenshot? Is it always the same error?
 
Be patient. PS7 will be 32-bit. Not necessarily a killer, but what's your operating system as to maker, version and bit depth - do say, it can be crucial - you might be getting beyond the compatibility window?

Forget updates of PS7 - they'll likely just be irrelevant tweaks. Perhaps uninstall it, restart the computer and then try to reinstall it from the cd.

Ultimately, a solution might be a different software, which could be free or at least less than £100, but being different, will have a learning curve.
 
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I believe we are talking about Photoshop Elements 7 here and not Photoshop 7 which would explain the fact that the updater could not locate PS7.

As for the difficulty in opening JPEG files we do need to know what message is appearing, it is highly unlikely to be an update as the JPEG specification hasn't changed.
 
Geoff mentions ImageReady, which was included with earlier versions of Photoshop, including 7.0. I don't think this was ever part of Elements, and it had in any case been discontinued before Elements 7 was released.
 
Retune said:
Geoff mentions ImageReady, which was included with earlier versions of Photoshop, including 7.0. I don't think this was ever part of Elements, and it had in any case been discontinued before Elements 7 was released.
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Yes I had overlooked that bit.... I do think we need some more info from Geoff...

Any error message when trying to open JPEG files.

Is it random or is the same file/s each time?
 
Good morning folks, thank you all so very much for the input to my problem. We grey haired old wrinklies would be totally lost without your help.

I read some interesting stuff in some of the links provided, all very helpful.

However, this morning I made use of 10bit Uninstaller (not too sure if it's 10bit or IObit) to get rid of PS7 and then I did a new reinstall and at the moment everything seems to be working OK. I also then tried to download the 7.01 update but I am still getting the error message that it can't find the programme and so I have decided to leave well alone.

I did a reinstall from the original disk yesterday but that didn't solve the problem but, today it did. Heavens knows why, I certainly don't.

FYI, I am using Windows 10 Professional. When I was trying to open jpeg files I didn't get an error message, just nothing happened.

Thanks again everyone.

EDIT at 11.05am I have just been up into my loft this morning (for something totally unrelated) and whilst there I spotted that I have an unused version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 along with the relevant Adobe Classroom in a book. It's amazing what us 'oldies' have got tucked away that we completely forget about. Never having loaded it onto my pc, I have to ask, would this be a better bet for me to use in place of PS7. It's obviously a similar sort of programme and, as I have the book which includes a tuition disk, would this be the way to go?

Once again, many thanks.
 
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That is good to hear Geoff, I am a Mac person so don't know a great deal about the Windows OS, it is possible that the Photoshop preference file may have become corrupt, which would have still been there when you re-installed over the top. Using that uninstaller app everything will probably have been removed and when you installed PS after then a new preference file will have been created...

Always happy when there is a good outcome.
 
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC, and there's no troubles
 
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