Digital Home Thoughts: TrustedReviews Reviews Adobe Photoshop CS3

"Photoshop has grown and changed over the years, but has always incorporated the latest developments, reinforcing its position as the industry standard for professional image editing. The first Windows version (v2.5) appeared in 1992, layers were introduced in version 3.0 in 1994, multiple undo history in version 5.0 in 1998, and camera RAW support was added with version 7.0 in 2002. The concept of Creative Suite, incorporating and harmonising a whole range of Adobe’s other programs, including ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Encore and AfterEffects, was introduced in 2003 along with Photoshop 8.0, known as Photoshop CS. An update, unsurprisingly called Photoshop CS2, came along less than two years later in April 2005, adding many new features such as Smart Objects, a red-eye tool and the invaluable Spot Healing brush."



This review comes out a little late but it is quite thorough. I really agree with the article that if you had CS, did not update to CS2 and waited for CS3 then you made a smart decision. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I have CS2 and I am not convinced that upgrading to CS3 is worth it. For one thing, Paint .NET has been my very good (free) friend lately. And secondly, I don't think CS3 adds too many features to CS2 unless you plan to buy the extended version, but that is just more money.