Digital BW, The Print

I usually do upgrade my Photoshop version, but I must admit it's one of the
things in digital B&W that I'm getting tired of doing.  So, I'm going to
play the role of the curmudgeon here.

>Non-destructive filtering,

That would be nice, but it's not that important with the workflow I use.  I
keep the original and occasional intermediate working copies with the same
cropping.  As such, I always have the information readily available to undo
or re-do a mistaken alteration.

> a very nice color-to-b&w conversion tool,

Splitting channels and taking the best of each is still the best way to go,
even if not the fastest.

> improved method of stitching together panoramic images.

These can be impressive, but until they correct for keystoning, I'm not
going to be very impressed.  The best panoramic I've done lately involved
shifting a Canon TS lens.  That way there is no keystoning problem.

>new pixel mapping that allow two scans of different CI 
>to be placed over each other 

With my workflow I often clone from one image version to another, aligning
the clone tool at the upper left corner.   If they automated this, I might
consider paying for an upgrade.

I do appreciate my Photoshop, but these increasing upgrade prices are
reflecting a bit too much market power in Adobe.  Thankfully Elements is
competitively priced and does recognize the B&W ICCs used in some of my
workflows.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com