 |
 |
Photoshop CS2 upgrade path
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
Status:
Offline
|
|
I have a copy of Photoshop 5.0 on my Performa 6116CD, running Mac OS 9.1. I don't use it anymore. Over the past few years, I used Photoshop 7/CS in school computer labs. Right now, I'm done with school. I decided to get a copy of CS2 upgrade on my DP G4 1.25 running Tiger.
I went to the Adobe online store, checked the $149 box and typed in the serial number. The upgrade was on the shopping cart.
To install this upgrade successfully, you will need a licensed version of Adobe Photoshop CS or Photoshop 7.0 or earlier on the same platform as this purchase.
My question is.. will it work? In the past, I heard that it will look for the older version on the local hard drive in order to upgrade it.
I tried to find the answer on Adobe Support and user forum, but not goal.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Status:
Offline
|
|
I can't say definitively, but I suspect that it won't work. The installer will likely look for the versions of Photoshop specified: v7.0 or CS only.
And when it doesn't work, the nice customer support person at Adobe will tell you that you were warned of the terms when you placed your order.
Admittedly, this bites. Most vendors are more liberal than Adobe about allowing you to skip a substantial number of upgrade versions and still get upgrade prices: after all, you hold a legitimate license. You may very well have paid just as much for your license as someone who bought a license a version or two ago. You're being penalized for not being either a more recent customer... or someone who has been upgrading frequently... and keeping up-to-date on an arbitrary number of professional apps isn't an inexpensive proposition!
However, to play devil's advocate, Photoshop 7 is the version that jumped from OS 9 to OS X... so Adobe may very well regard this as not only a version upgrade, but in some sense, a platform change, too. Never mind that it runs on the same hardware...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
Status:
Offline
|
|
According to the OP's quote, it doesn't say "7.0 or CS only" but rather "CS or 7.0 or earlier."
|
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Status:
Offline
|
|
That's what I get for posting when need to be sleeping.
In the words of Emily Littella: "Oh. Never mind!"
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
Status:
Offline
|
|
thanks.. I will check and see.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top