Photoshop CS3

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Is there much difference in this version than the latest ones for a casual user.

I have Lightroom 3 that came with a camera and I use Photo Filtre at work but I have a licence for cs3 on my work pc but never used it?

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Yes and no, theres a lot of improved features and some new in CS6, but you can still do pretty much anything with the older versions. If your only doing fairly basic stuff you won't notice a lot of difference (other than the interface)
 
Yes and no, theres a lot of improved features and some new in CS6, but you can still do pretty much anything with the older versions. If your only doing fairly basic stuff you won't notice a lot of difference (other than the interface)

Wayne, maybe you know just thought of this are older versions able to update ACR for the newer cameras, maybe thats something to concider
 
swanseamale47 said:
Yes and no, theres a lot of improved features and some new in CS6, but you can still do pretty much anything with the older versions. If your only doing fairly basic stuff you won't notice a lot of difference (other than the interface)

+1

Depends what you doing, mostly the newer versions make things quicker and faster...

A lot of the recent improvements have been things like content aware move and scale, content aware fill, refine edge etc. Very handy for taking things out or adding things in.

Dodge burn, levels, curves, layers masks etc, are all there though :)
 
ACR in CS3 can only be updated to 4.6, but you can use the free DNG converter to convert most newer raw files to dng which cs3 will open in acr.
 
swanseamale47 said:
ACR in CS3 can only be updated to 4.6, but you can use the free DNG converter to convert most newer raw files to dng which cs3 will open in acr.

I think he said he had Lightroom 3, assume that will open in cs3. At the very worst he'll just have to save a tiff/Dng as an intermediate step
 
I think he said he had Lightroom 3, assume that will open in cs3. At the very worst he'll just have to save a tiff/Dng as an intermediate step

I don't really understand the question, do you mean open from lightroom? You can send images to CS3 for further editing from lightroom.
 
I don't really understand the question, do you mean open from lightroom? You can send images to CS3 for further editing from lightroom.

My bad,... yes if CS3 wont open raw from newer camera's than I think he said he had lightroom, so lightroom would convert the raw from the newer camera and he could open up in CS3.

In other words (& depending on his camera)....

If his camera was incompatible and he could not open directly in CS3, it would not be to bigger problems as he would just need to import into lightroom, and open from there....even if he didnt want to open in lightroom, he could use it to convert to tiff/dng via lightroom and import that straight into CS3.

Basically even if his camarea is incompatable, its not too much extra work (few clicks) to make an image open in CS3 anyway..........does that make sense or have i got even more confused :bonk::bonk::cuckoo::cuckoo::)
 
My bad,... yes if CS3 wont open raw from newer camera's than I think he said he had lightroom, so lightroom would convert the raw from the newer camera and he could open up in CS3.

In other words (& depending on his camera)....

If his camera was incompatible and he could not open directly in CS3, it would not be to bigger problems as he would just need to import into lightroom, and open from there....even if he didnt want to open in lightroom, he could use it to convert to tiff/dng via lightroom and import that straight into CS3.

Basically even if his camarea is incompatable, its not too much extra work (few clicks) to make an image open in CS3 anyway..........does that make sense or have i got even more confused :bonk::bonk::cuckoo::cuckoo::)

No your not confused, it does make sense. Provided the newer camera is supported by lightroom 3.6 (I think the latest for v3) then he can do it as you say by opening the raw in lightroom, and either edit in photoshop, or by exporting as a dng and opening that in ACR.
 
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