PS Elements 7 for basic web text graphics
Long story short, my XP system with Photoshop 7 is dying.
New system will be Vista for smoother sailing into Windows 7.
(and Photoshop 7 will not run)
Has any one worked basic web graphics in Elements 6 or 7?
Can header text designs be made or is is mostly for photo editing?
I cannot afford CS3 or CS4 or for that matter just a new copy of basic Photoshop.
Thanks
~dragonsjaws
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
decibel.places posted this at 00:42 — 12th February 2009.
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you might find what you need on P2P such as Limewire
install a GOOD antivirus first, I use Avast
[EDIT]
Yes, the Gimp is a GREAT tool.
I can also recommend Inkscape as a free open source vector graphics tool similar to Adobe Illustrator.
Of course, you can always save up your hard-earned $$$ for the Adobe products...
I was having some troubling issues witb Vista Home Premium (Windows Explorer crashing, Mozilla apps freezing) until I ran CCleaner (hint: create a RESTORE POINT first
) Now the problems are gone and my machine is running approximately 40% faster in my estimation...
cmoyer posted this at 00:30 — 12th February 2009.
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You should be able to create header graphics in elements without a problem. If you don't want to pay for photoshop you may want to consider the Gimp. It's free and is similar to photoshop. Its all I use even though I have an older version of photoshop.
I've had a heck of a time with Vista, a windows 98 game that we have works fine as well as office '03 However I couldn't ever get a few programs to work that were designed for xp only. I can only hope that windows 7 fixes some of vista's issues.
You can get Gimp Here.
decibel.places posted this at 00:45 — 12th February 2009.
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You can run XP on Vista as a Virtual PC - that is the only way I know to have IE6 and IE7 on the same Windows box. I use it and it works.
dragonsjaw posted this at 00:49 — 12th February 2009.
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Vista is not what I wanted to do either. Windows 7 does seem to be getting much better reviews in beta.
I have known about Gimp for ever, just never had to go there.
I downloaded and will install on fresh Vista and see how it goes.
I am still looking at Photoshop CS4$ and Elements 7..
I guess I am just 'lazy' I know Ps7 and XP ..
now i gotta learn a new operating system and new programs..
and I really just wanted to go MAC ... but can't without a running Windows box.
thanks
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
dragonsjaw posted this at 00:52 — 12th February 2009.
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Oh I had forgot about that Virtual PC thing!
Cool, I may put my XP_Pro on it.
I was all excited about Macs boot camp or vmfusion running windows (xp) and forgot about this..
thanks
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
dragonsjaw posted this at 00:55 — 12th February 2009.
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I am aware of ccleaner..and I have a copy..
and thanks for the tip..
I shudder to think what Vista is going to do to my nervous system!
dragonsjaw posted this at 23:39 — 24th February 2009.
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Update:
Vista 64 is running smoothly.
I just loaded Photoshop7 and no issues at all installing or running. I don't believe there will be any.
I am also running old WsFtp 6 and its a breeze, (tried others and they were just to bloated up for my needs).
I also have the 5.7 version of Note Tab Light.. and all works well as Long as i am using FF (which i am using FF 2.0.02) in stead of FF3 as there were just too many issues on the boards with that one.
So I can get back to work now
~dragonsjaws
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
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