Posted by Sandi Winton on December 14, 2008 at 10:22 PM
What is the difference between CS3 and CS3 Extended?
One of my computers is 32 bit and one is 64 bit. Will CS3 and/or extended work on both???
Thanks Everyone!
Sandi
Posted by David Bostedo on December 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Sandi - CS3 is a 32-bit app. and will work on both, but will run in a 32-bit mode on the 64-bit machine. "Extended" I think adds some features for animation and 3-D modelling. Out of curiosity, why CS3 and not CS4?
Posted by Sandi Winton on December 15, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Price is the main reason David. The professional studio photographer that I work with sometimes uses CS3 and gets along fine, so I figured if it was enough for her, I should be fine. Is the Extended a 64 bit? And if so, will it work on the 32 bit computer???
Posted by Steve Foss on December 15, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Sandi, there have been other threads on this, but if you have a later version of Photoshop Elements you can upgrade to CS4 from Elements for not a lot of money. I'm only going on memory here, but the talk was that you don't even need Elements installed, but can just have an Elements CD in your computer's CD drive when you want to download and install CS4. I can't remember the price for that upgrade.
Anyone?
Posted by Sandi Winton on December 15, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Price is the main reason David. The professional studio photographer that I work with sometimes uses CS3 and gets along fine, so I figured if it was enough for her, I should be fine. Is the Extended a 64 bit? And if so, will it work on the 32 bit computer???
Posted by Sandi Winton on December 15, 2008 at 10:54 AM
If I do the upgrade with an Elements version, if something happens to the OS or the computer, would I be able to reload it if I don't have the actual CS3 version CD?
Posted by Sandi Winton on December 15, 2008 at 1:07 PM
If I do the upgrade with an Elements version, if something happens to the OS or the computer, would I be able to reload it if I don't have the actual CS3 version CD?
Posted by David Bostedo on December 15, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Sandi - If you have Elements, you can purchase either the CS4 CDs for $299+shipping, or the CS4 download for $299 (which is what I did). You can always re-install either way. In any case, there's no difference between CS4 and CS3 in that regard.
The installations don't build on each other - having CS3 installed isn't necessary or beneficial to installing CS4.
And the 64-bit version won't work on the 32-bit computer.
Posted by Robert Fisher on December 15, 2008 at 7:58 PM
CS3 Extended adds enhanced HDR capabilities and the video editing capabilties mentioned earlier. Having tried to use the video editing capabilities, I'd say it's not really an enhancement. If you don't work with HDR much then those features aren't relevant to you.
The biggest thing Extended adds over the standard version is Image Stacks. This is a really neat feature. Here's a good article by Martin Evening on the Image Stack feature, http://photoshopnews.com/2007/03/27/image-stacks-in-photoshop-cs3-extended/. It can do other things as well.
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8 repliesOne of my computers is 32 bit and one is 64 bit. Will CS3 and/or extended work on both???
Thanks Everyone!
Sandi
Anyone?
The installations don't build on each other - having CS3 installed isn't necessary or beneficial to installing CS4.
And the 64-bit version won't work on the 32-bit computer.
The biggest thing Extended adds over the standard version is Image Stacks. This is a really neat feature. Here's a good article by Martin Evening on the Image Stack feature, http://photoshopnews.com/2007/03/27/image-stacks-in-photoshop-cs3-extended/. It can do other things as well.