Upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS5

[Darth Biscuit]

We've got a license of CS2 and want to go to CS5, I found an upgrade version on Buy.com that's WAY cheaper than the full version, so my question is this... when you install the "upgrade" to CS5, is it essentially just the full version of the new software and you have to have the codes for the old version to activate it, right?

Surely you don't have to install CS2 and then upgrade it to CS5 right?

[mmmbeans]

i'd just make sure that CS2 to CS5 counts as a legit upgrade. Sometimes they won't honor it after a certain number of years. Either way, I'm sure you could crack it if you needed to.

I hear CS5 is nice, I'm still running 4.

[Guild]

Are you using this professionally and using it often? If not just torrent it.

[Darth Biscuit]

Yeah, the CS5 upgrade is good for CS2, 3, or 4.

I just found out that it is actually "upgrade" software. You have to have CS2 installed and then install the upgrade... oh well, it'll save almost $400 so I'm doing it...

...and yes, this is for a professional use, so I don't *** around with that.

[Guild]

Yep don't pirate for professional use.

[g5jamz]

saw a video of the fillin algorithms and it looks insane

[Darth Biscuit]

Yeah, for our applications, we only use about 10% of photoshop's actual ability... I'm mainly going to CS5 in this instance because of it's 64-bit capability. This new PC we're getting will have Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on it with 12GB of RAM, an SSD for a boot drive and SATA drives for storage. I needed a 64-bit version of photoshop to take advantage of all of that... plus our other image processing software will also run in 64-bit. We're thinking this will take a big bite out of some of our processing time.

I just ordered that PC and bunch of new hardware stuff today, so hopefully I'll know how it all works in a few weeks.