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| Adobe Photoshop CS3 [OLD VERSION] | ![Adobe Photoshop CS3 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Yn29U8lYL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Adobe
Category: Software
List Price: $649.00
Buy New: $639.00
You Save: $10.00 (2%)
New (4) from $639.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 802
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: L90551
Model: 23102480
UPC: 883919080222
EAN: 0883919080222
ASIN: B000NDIBYG
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW!!! FULL VERSION, not academic or upgrade. FREE PRIORITY MAIL SHIPPING UPGRADE
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| Customer Reviews:
 great program, but difficult to figure out at first May 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I do recommend this product, however if you do not already know how to work this program (like me) I definately recommend the book "Simplified tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop CS3" by Lenette Kent It has helped me tremendously! I am trying to get a photography studio off the ground as a part-time business while holding a full- time job and raising two little kids. This program is a must for the business, and this book is a must for the busy hopeful. Thanks!
Adobe CS3 purchase May 9, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
The process was simple and the product came in a short period of time.
Have had no problem with the product a good buy at a reasonable priceAdobe Photoshop CS3
 Got the upgrade instead of full and it was used instead of new April 29, 2008
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
When I received my product it had obviously been opened and wasn't even the right product. I ordered, and paid for, a full version and got the upgrade version. Buyer beware!
Builds web sites at a huge price, but what about photos? April 25, 2008
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
This new version of Photoshop can help build some amazing web sites! Adobe has taken the time to add some new features that make it easy to slice up your image and export the chunks. Photoshop will let you load photographs and use them as beautiful backgrounds on your web sites. Photoshop's layering system lets you add text and other elements. Adobe has upgraded quite a few of the program's features so you might be wondering why this is a 1 star review.
If you are new to using computers to manipulate images, you might expect the industry standard Photoshop to be the best possible investment. It's practically a cultural phenomenon, taught in schools with countless books being written about it each year. My problem with the powerful Photoshop remains the very difficult and non-intuitive user interface.
Version after version the folks at Adobe add features that most often are very helpful: text handling, browsing, filter previewing, and web-site creation just to name a few. While these offerings can help many computer users for various reasons I find it sad what is offered to the customer who wants to manipulate, manage, and print photographs. Photoshop is difficult to use, and remains sorely lacking in this area. Some very powerful features are absolutely hidden unless the end-user takes classes and buys extra books. Maybe "Photoshop" is simply the wrong word for it.
The toolbar has a stale old feel that would be well served to be completely redesigned. Some tools are still hidden below other tools and are found after the end user holds down the left mouse button, or uses a hotkey. Powerful and completely elementary features, such as "crop", are still tucked away in the oddest places. A critical feature keeps its old but odd name "Stroke". In some areas Adobe has made features redundant, so new users can adapt to new ways, and old user can stick to their old methods. I can appreciate this, but I would prefer they just do it right, once. Stroke is still in the Edit menu. Crop is still in the Image menu. The fill-can still needs to be set to threshold 255 manually to make it simply fill. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to type the numbers 255 in the middle of your workflow?
Recently Adobe has had great success with a new product called "Lightroom". The product shows potential and obviously must be catering the crowd of professional photographers who have been less than thrilled with what they get out of Photoshop. Perhaps Adobe just needs some fresh new energy when it comes to making user interfaces. With a dark room style workflow, Lightroom could turn into what Photoshop should have been.
I feel there are a number of alternatives that should be looked at before buying Photoshop, studying Photoshop, or even caring about Photoshop. One new exciting tool for photographers is Nikon's Capture NX. Even non-Nikon users can now take advantage of this interesting and powerful photograph manipulation tool. At its price point photograph-software consumers should re-evaluate what they are buying and how much they are spending.
What consumers need now are effective manipulation, management and printing tools for their newly found digital collections of tens of thousands of photographs. As I approach the 10,000 mark I find the need for software that makes my life easier. All I'm using Photoshop for anymore is web design, and it seems that's what Adobe wants. But let's be frank, is this kloogy program really worth $600+? Maybe, if you build web sites.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 April 24, 2008
I used the free 30 day trial before purchasing, so I knew what I was getting ahead of time. I also have a friend who is an art director for a publishing company and he showed me what could be done. The only thing I would suggest is that the tutorials have some hands on parts in them like the quickbook tutorials. Other than that the turtorials are great, and the usability is realy outstanding. There is so much there that it takes a while to learn it, but if it didn't have all those features I wouldn't want it.
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