Digital BW, The Print

Actually, no. I used 7 on my Win98se machine. CS (1 or 2) would 
not have run on that machine. In addition to the obnoxious 
activation, CS requires an NT (2000 or XP) machine.

-matt

> I went directly from PS6 to CS2 on a Windows 2000 machine and had no 
> problem with the OS or the program.  If you can use 6, you can use 
> CS2.
> 
> Walt
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless 
> <samcc@v...> wrote:
> >
> > At 10:04 AM -0500 11/23/05, Barry Schaffer wrote:
> > >[snip]
> > >
> > >... I was going to upgrade to CS2 but I'm not sure I want to get 
> > >involved with more distractions.
> > >
> > >[snip]
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Jack Winberg" <jack.winberg@v...>
> > >[snipped]
> > 
> > Until my 1160 died recently, my situation was somewhat similar to 
> > Barry's except that I was using my 1160 with my Mac and the Mac OS 
> of 
> > the same vintage as Barry's Windows OS. And I too have a CS2 
> upgrade 
> > in mind. But, with the older Mac OS I too preferred for printing to 
> > the 1160, I don't think CS2 is an option. So I suspect it also 
> might 
> > not be an option for Barry's older Windows OS either.
> > 
> > Not that I'm suggesting Barry should try to upgrade his older 
> Windows 
> > OS: my daughter has it on an older Dell PC, and Dell advised her 
> not 
> > to try to upgrade it. Photoshop 7 might, however, be a feasible 
> > upgrade for Barry. It was for me even with my older Mac OS, and my 
> > impression is that PS 7 is more useful than PS 6 on both platforms.
> > 
> > Incidentally, I don't upgrade Photoshop until the next version of 
> > Bruce Fraser's & David Blatner's "Real World Photoshop 
> > ...(whatever)..." is available from Amazon.com. And my copy of 
> their 
> > "Real World Photoshop CS2" came just a few weeks ago. Nothing in 
> its 
> > first chapter, "Building a Photoshop System", suggests to me that 
> CS2 
> > could or should be used with older hardware and software on either 
> > platform. Which is a little frustrating given that both Apple and 
> > Microsoft are now working on platform re-do's so radical that they 
> > make me nervous about upgrading my hardware now and finding it 
> > obsolete by this time next year.
> > 
> > Maybe for those of us with older systems it's a good time to focus 
> on 
> > peripherals, which in my case, except for one lens, also need to be 
> > updated. My refurbished R200, which I'm eager to use for black-only 
> > printing, just came from Epson, and I hope to get an order for a 
> > 2400, for larger prints, both grayscale and color, off soon.
> > --
> > Sam
> >
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