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At first glance this upgrade may look like it offers little new other than the healing brush, but a little closer inspection shows that there are a multitude of new tools including the Healing Brush, the Patch tool, the new brush options, the ability to create your own new tool presets and workspaces, enhancements to the liquify tools, the introduction of the pattern maker, the new auto-colour command, support for JavaScript, AppleScript and Visual Basic scripting, and numerous other introductions and enhancements. Granted not every enhancement or new feature is relevant to everyone's workflow especially because both print and web designers use the application - but to dismiss it out of hand as a meagre upgrade is shortsighted. Maybe it just takes a little time and patience to find all of those new features.
Just by having a look at the table of contents for the Photoshop 7 Upgrade Essentials book - the TOC is on the Amazon.com site - you'll get a better idea of all those features. Then you can consider for yourself whether to invest in the latest release!

This is an excellent product for the high-end graphic artist. In case you are not sure if this is the right upgrade for you, this product will upgrade from the full versions of Photoshop 4 and higher. Note that this product WILL NOT work with Photoshop Elements or Photoshop LE, as these are less thourough versions of Photoshop.

Hardly a day goes by that I don't use Photoshop. No other program can compete. Photoshop crops, resizes, changes saturation, constrast, hue and is able to use filters within the program (such as Eye Candy) which extends the capabilities of Photoshop (such as adding glow, water drops and fire). You can import media, such as scans etc. Create images from scratch, add lighting effects and now with version 7 use the healing brush and make patterns of your very own for your brush with the pattern maker. You can cut people out of photos and put them in totally different backgrounds, distort images, turn someone green, the possibilities are endless. If you are a vrml artist you need this for after tweeking. If you are looking for an image editing tool, get this one! I wouldn't be without it.

I used PhotoShop 6.0 briefly before upgrading to 7.01. The possibilities with 7.01 are near endless with this program for creativity. It's relatively fast and 176 MB in HD storage. Although, most of my time with PhotoShop is spent tweaking digital photos, which it does extremely well.

I highly recommend buying. First-time buyers - Once you've bought the initial version of PhotoShop, the upgrades are not as painful to purchase. Buy still a 'must have' for photo (both film and digital) professionals and enthusiasts.

This latest version turns out to be a very pleasant suprise, and i would already find it difficult to return to vers 6.
The new interface is lovely, unlike some new software which looks like the interface was designed with three crayons.
The tweaks such as too the dialogue boxes was an unexpected bonus, as now much finer adjustments can be made, also new and more powerful curves features. dint personally see too much benefit from auto colours but i guess itll prove occasionally handy.
The file browser is long overdue, this was one major feature i always preferred from Corel Photopaint, and finally we have it in Photoshop, maybe four years too late but nonetheless usefull.
The major enhance ment for me is the ability to save tool settings, not least the Crop tool, each tool can be configured with customised settings, which means no more painful typing in the same settings 50 times a day. Again its a case of why didnt we have this in version 5, but better late than never.
The new tools are pretty cool, i love the patch tool, it literally has taken my breath away, magic is not the word. the healing brush isnt quite as user friendly and as obviously useful to me , but this will no doubt make a bit more sense after further use.
The pattern maker has proved to be quite interesting and can actually be used to create some new twists when tinkered with enough.
I find this version (running on XP) runs a little faster.
all in all worth the upgrade.