Adobe Photoshop v.7.0

Photoshop 7 - Good price / feature tradeoff vs...

Strengths: Sophisticated, professional tool for photoediting. The same tool that professionals use in their job. This is the tool of choice - both for capabilities and also because it is the defacto standard

Weakness: With high capability, comes high complexity. Stay away if you only have simple needs, because this has a steep learning curve. Lacks features of newest Photoshop CS2 versions

This is the first version I've owned, but my child has used Photoshop 5 at school. My child is heavily into photography and it the preferred picture editing tool. We have owned and continue to use a few others such as ACDSee for particular tasks, but this has more capability (and more completcity) Some notes about the 7.0 release. The "healing tool" is a real time saver if you are working on...

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Adobe Photoshop v.7.0

Strengths: Powerful editing tools.

Weakness: Steep learning curve!

So far, I think it is a fine product, but perhaps a bit more powerful than what I need, but I hope that once I figure it all out, I will have any tool on hand that I might need.

Adobe Photoshop v.7.0

Strengths: By far, Adobe Photoshop has more utilities at its disposal than any other program seen. From the quirky filters to the wonderful light and color balancing, it simply outshines the competition.

Weakness: It may require training for the beginner, and the time to master Photoshop can be long. There's such an abundance of tools, you most likely will never use or see everything there is. No icon support.

All in all, despite the high price tag, Photoshop is well worth the price. The ability to interact with other programs via plugins constantly breathes new life and new applications into the program. The filters built into Photoshop are multiple and can perform a vast amount of visual trickery. Auto contrast and level controls make cleaning up a photo easy and rewarding. Applying black and white,...

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Best in it's class

Strengths: Fully featured, carries almost every image format imaginable, extremely powerful and flexible - if it can be done, this tool can do it.

Weakness: Doesn't come with many of the professional filters graphic designers use to get the job done fast and easy. Getting those is an extra major cha-ching.

This is the best image/photo editing platform available. Whether you're creating new digital images from scratch for anything from liberal arts to page layout to print media to web graphics or you're editing existing images, no tool outshines Photoshop in the professional world. Features in the 7.0 version include dynamic brushes, improved paths and channels, and a wide assortment of ergonomic...

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