Question by Carly: what is the difference between Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop 7?
Is there any difference between photoshop CS4 and Photoshop 7? Are they both compatible with windows vista? I am debating over the two but i dont really know the difference… 🙁
What is better, Photoshop CS4 or Photoshop 7?
Best answer:
Answer by Amon
Version history with significant changes is at wikipedia in tabular form from Photoshop 0.63 to CS4(11).
7.0.1 Mac OS ‘Classic’/Mac OS X, Windows August 2002 Camera RAW 1.x (optional plugin)
CS (8.0) Mac OS X, Windows Dark Matter October 2003 Camera RAW 2.x
Highly modified “Slice Tool”
Shadow/Highlight command
Match Color command
Lens Blur filter
Smart Guides
Real-Time Histogram
Detection and refusal to print scanned images of various banknotes[2]
Macrovision copy protection based on Safecast DRM technology
Scripting support for JavaScript and other languages
Hierarchical layer groups
CS2 (9.0) Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP Space Monkey April 2005 Camera RAW 3.x
Smart Objects
Image Warp
Spot healing brush
Red-Eye tool
Lens Correction filter
Smart Sharpen
Smart Guides
Vanishing Point
Better memory management on 64-bit PowerPC G5 Macintosh machines running Mac OS X 10.4
High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)
More smudging options, such as “Scattering”
Modified layer selection, such as ability to select more than one layer.
CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0) Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later Red Pill April 16, 2007 Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista
Revised user interface
Feature additions to Adobe Camera RAW
Quick Select tool
Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog
Black-and-white conversion adjustment
Auto Align and Auto Blend
Smart (non-destructive) Filters
Mobile device graphic optimization
Improvements to cloning and healing
More complete 32 bit / HDR support (layers, painting, more filters and adjustments)
Faster launching
CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0) Universal Mac OS X, Windows Stonehenge October 30, 2008[3] Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation
OpenGL display acceleration in Photoshop
Native support for 64-bit on Windows Vista x64
Adjustments panel
Auto-blending of images
Masks panel
Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow
Content-aware scaling
Better raw image processing
Extended depth of field
Dramatically enhanced color correction
Auto-alignment of layers
New file display options (tabbed document display and n-up views)
New file management and workspaces with Adobe Bridge CS4
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