Photoshop Cs2

[geno8r]

I just got me Photoshop CS2 after seeing some visual gradient bugs in CS & would hope CS2 would be faster & more practical… but thank god I left CS1 on.

As a web designer being able to design fast is top priority, ease of short cuts, tool selection, & tool use all being quick is a must have.

After using CS2 for 15 minutes I had to leave it & go back to CS seeing I had a deadline to meet & CS2 was seriously slowing me down.

CS2 used the CPU like nothing else, & I have a decent computer too with an Athlon 64 4000+ & 1GB of 2.5 cas latency RAM, not the mention 2 physical scratch drives on top of startup.

I did like a few little things in CS2, the scroll bars are always there so the canvas boarder doesn’t pop out when sizing over the canvas / screen width. I also like how you can select layers in the layer panel with shift & delete with the Delete key now. Smart-Layers was another good features. But all of these are pointless if there’s going to be a lag on everything to do in the program. Having to double click layers & shit is stupid 'and once again slower' if the Photoshop window isn’t already in focus.

I usually have the Info panel open which on-the-fly gives colour RGB / CMYK / X – Y points, & pixel dimensions of selections which I use a lot. JUST having this panel open & moving around your mouse puts the CPU up to 100%, then when your just moving your mouse around in a circle the cursor on screen starts to jump & catches up to where your mouse actually is due to this tool absolutely chewing the CPU, in CS1, the CPU goes no higher than 60% & no jump’age.

Selecting layings in CS2 even delays, in CS1, it’s instant.

In CS1 you can hold down Ctrl & left click on screen to select a layer ‘including inside a folder, in CS 2, if that layer happens to be in a folder, it selects the folder & folder only. The only way I got around this was to hold down Alt & Right click, & that would select the actual layer with-in a folder. This is a stupid key combination because the Alt key is too far away from the arrow keys ‘which my hand is always at’ & right clicking isn’t as natural as left clicking. They had it right already in CS1!

I’ve read many other reviews & there’s quite a few from others out there who think it’s a slow POS too.

I’d like to hear from others using / tried CS2 too & what they use it for.

I’ll be sticking with CS1 & will try CS3 once out, I just bloody hope CS3 is a fixed version of CS2, there’s never much of a difference between Photoshop versions, usually just slight things making it better, but unfortunately this time they’ve went backwards in CS2.

Final words, DON’T SPEND ANY MONEY ON CS2.

Edited March 10, 2006 by geno8r

[342Four]

i wouldnt need to anyway

ive got cs1 and im happy

it runs just fine on my 1.2ghz g4 iBook with 512 ram

[SKYLVIA]

i find CS2 is pretty good, i use ver.7.1 mainly but for somethings i use CS2, unfourtunetly i only have the trial version of CS2 and no serial number i can use. if anyone has one, if they could let me know that'd be awesome. i havent used CS1 so i dont know how that compares to CS2.

i mainly use photoshop for sigs, but as im new to PS i dont really know how to do stuff. also, i only use CS2 when i want to use different brushes as for some reason when i try to use downloaded brushes with 7.1 it says its incompatible

so yeah if anyone could direct me to a S.N. that works OR if anyone knows where i can get CS1 with a working S.N. that would be cool

thanks guys