What advantages does Adobe CS have over version 7 ?

[richard]

Was hoping someone could give me a good reason to upgrade to
Adobe CS. Are there that many things CS can do that Photoshop version 7.0 cannot?

Thanking you in advance for any imput you may have.
Richard

[castledude]

Here is what adobe says http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop ... tures.html

The only features that I have really noticed is the better handling of RAW files, they now include the RAW filter and most features will let you stay in RAW. In 7 the raw import was a $100 plugin and you needed to convert to 8bit before you could do most functions.

Filters are still 8bit for the most part.

I HATE the product activation. It does not like non-standard hard disk systems and since I run in RAID-0 for speed it constantly makes me re-register.

[joseju]

Lets see, of course there the better RAW file handling. It also has a better file browser. There a a bunch of lil tid bits like photo filters and the shadow hi-light function under the adjustments menu. Oh, and if you are commercial, it is a lot easier to create a picture package. Back in 7 you had to go into a text file in the photoshop folder and configure a custom photo package. I sure there a lot of little improvements depending on what it is you do with photoshop, ex: photographer, web designer, digital artist, ect...

[rbk]

The shadows/highlights function is pretty stunning - can quickly bring an underexposed photo back from the grave. You also get a plugin filter gallery with previews. I've never liked the PS interface though, give me Corel PhotoPaint (up to v10, they ruined it after) every time. Cheaper, too