All-in-all this is an upgrade guaranteed to keep Photoshop at the cutting-edge of professional image editing.--Ken McMahon

its photoshop!   October 30, 2003

in all, this is worth it if you can afford it otherwise, dont save up, get something like paint shop pro or the photoshop elements instead


An excellent package, but...   September 12, 2003
  11 out of 13 found this review helpful

Adobe has excelled again - Photoshop is indeed a great package, giving you so much graphic power in one product.

Special attention seems to have been paid to tools to increase productivity on the web graphics side of things (though I am speaking as a new user of recent versions of Photoshop - my last version was 3.0, I believe).

On the plus side, Photoshop is quick and efficient at handling its pictures. It provides seemingly endless tools and methods to touch-up, produce or even degenerate images.

There are a couple of niggles, however:
1. The price - slightly on the extorsionate side - Corel bundles loads of tools into its equivalent for a lot less.
2. Some odd interface quirks make it a little less intuitive than others - Photoshop seems to hide many of the more exciting features away under context menus in obscure locations (if in doubt, right-click everything!).

Overall, however, I would still recommend Adobe Photoshop over any other raster editor.


OK but no cigar   July 13, 2003
  35 out of 36 found this review helpful

I'm a long time photoshop user. Version 6 was a pretty exciting
upgrade but I couldn't really get excited about 7.

If you have PS6 stick with it 7 isn't worth the price of the upgrade. If you've never owned Photoshop before then 7 is of course the one to go for. If I'd never used photoshop before I'd have given it 4 maybe even five stars.

If your not earning 100% of your income from digital imagery then Photoshop 7 is way too expensive. Buy Photoshop Elements and save yourself bundles of money.


Lucky number 7   July 2, 2002
  57 out of 61 found this review helpful

Photoshop 7 ranks as the best version upgrade for a long time. having been using for a couple of weeks, on occasions where i have had to go back to 6 ive missed the features ive already come to depend on in 7, which speaks volumes in itself.
Firstly the interface has been improved and streamlined, the context sensitive options bar speeds up workflow enormously, and finally after all these versions the ability to save custome tool settings, if you constantly find yourself retyping cropping tool settings et all, then youll appreciate what an advancement this is.
More layer blending modes to play with, improvements to most of the workhorse image adjustment areas, curves has had a major overhaul, and has become much more user friendly, not least with the ability to expand the size of the dialogue box.
The new tools are in fact great, the healing brush has that real wow factor, and is a great accomplice to the rubber stamp.
Even the texture generator seems to have some applications for creating original artwork.
The file browser is welcome, although for anyone who used to use Corel Photopaint, its merely something which has been missing from Photoshop for a long time.
Despite intitial scepticism, i think this is the best upgrade to Photoshop in a long time, although most of the enhancements should have materialised a couple of years ago, at least they have finally been incorporated.


my lucky number is... 7   June 15, 2002
  27 out of 29 found this review helpful

This latest version turns out to be a very pleasant suprise, and i would already find it difficult bto return to vers 6.
The new interface is lovely, unlike some new software which looks like the interface was designed with three crayons.
The tweaks such as too the dialogue boxes was an unexpected bonus, as now much finer adjustments can be made, also new and more powerful curves features. dint personally see too much benefit from auto colours but i guess itll prove occasionally handy.
The file browser is long overdue, this was one major feature i always preferred from Corel Photopaint, and finally we have it in Photoshop, maybe four years too late but nonetheless usefull.
The major enhance ment for me is the ability to save tool settings, not least the Crop tool, each tool can be configured with customised settings, which means no more painful typing in the same settings 50 times a day. Again its a case of why didnt we have this in version 5, but better late than never.
The new tools are pretty cool, i love the patch tool, it literally has taken my breath away, magic is not the word. the healing brush isnt quite as user friendly and as obviously useful to me , but this will no doubt make a bit more sense after further use.
The pattern maker has proved to be quite interesting and can actually be used to create some new twists when tinkered with enough.
I find this version (running on XP) runs a little faster.
all in all worth the upgrade.