Oh dear...to buy or not to buy...
I'm toying with the idea of buying CS, but the general consensus amongst friends seems to be that it's really not worth it.
Two comments I've heard have concerned me a little...
I have a PC, not a Mac (please no lectures about how superior Macs are, I've always used a PC & I'm stickin' to it!) & I've heard that PSD files no longer preview as an icon of the image itself in Explorer. Considering XP previews most image files (tifs, jpegs, gifs, etc) as tiles of the image itself, I'd be pretty cheesed off to buy CS only to find it displays boring old PSD icons rather than pretty little pictures! That would mean having to actually be in Photoshop using the file browser to preview your images. I know the file browser has been improved, but I don't always want to open Photoshop to view my files. I've heard this is a PC peculiarity & Macs still have the benefit of image previews within document folders.
Can anyone confirm or deny this report?
The other issue that concerns me is that someone said you can no longer paste paths into PS from Illustrator - pixels only!
It's these kinds of backwards steps that could sway me towards sticking with 7.
Can any XP users with CS shed any light???
I'm toying with the idea of buying CS, but the general consensus amongst friends seems to be that it's really not worth it.
Two comments I've heard have concerned me a little...
I have a PC, not a Mac (please no lectures about how superior Macs are, I've always used a PC & I'm stickin' to it!) & I've heard that PSD files no longer preview as an icon of the image itself in Explorer. Considering XP previews most image files (tifs, jpegs, gifs, etc) as tiles of the image itself, I'd be pretty cheesed off to buy CS only to find it displays boring old PSD icons rather than pretty little pictures! That would mean having to actually be in Photoshop using the file browser to preview your images. I know the file browser has been improved, but I don't always want to open Photoshop to view my files. I've heard this is a PC peculiarity & Macs still have the benefit of image previews within document folders.
Can anyone confirm or deny this report?
The other issue that concerns me is that someone said you can no longer paste paths into PS from Illustrator - pixels only!
It's these kinds of backwards steps that could sway me towards sticking with 7.
Can any XP users with CS shed any light???