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Product:
Adobe Photoshop 5.5
Company: Adobe
Website: http://www.adobe.com
Estimated Street Price: Full Version $609 (Reviewed) - Upgrade $129
(after rebate) to owners of both Photoshop 5.0 and ImageReady 1.0, and
$199 (after rebate) to owners of 4.0 and previous versions of Photoshop
Review By: Clifford Palmer,
Jr
Final Results and
Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the
review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Adobe's Photoshop
5.5.
Final Comments
|
How It Grades
Installation: 91%
Manual: 90%
Features: 93%
Image Quality: 94%
Ease Of Use: 74%
Cost: 78%
Overall: 86%
|
Photoshop has demonstrated for years that
it is a fantastic image editing tool. With hundreds of plug-in filters and
effects you can buy and download, great editing abilities, and and more
features than I can think of, it's hard to go wrong with it. Now, for the
first time, Photoshop has shown that it can combine the image editing
tools that it's always had with web-oriented features that can save web
designers time and money working with other products. While Photoshop may
have some problems with newer and home users (namely price & learning
curve), it's definitely a must-have for all serious graphics and internet
web designers.
| Overall
Score |
86% |
| Version
Reviewed |
Adobe
Photoshop Version 5.5 |
| Release
Date |
Out
Now |
| In
The Box? |
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Software
- Adobe ImageReady™ 2.0
Software
- Royalty-free stock photographs
- Third-party plug-in filters
- Sample textures and gradients
- Sample Actions
- Adobe Acrobat® Reader
- Quicktime™ Software
- Interactive Tutorial
- Multimedia Guided tour with
instructional videos
- Digital Masters Art Show
- Sample art files
- Quick Reference card
- User Guide
|
| The
Good Points |
Massive
Amount Of Options
End Results Are Second To None
Easy Install
Good Filters
Excellent New Web Design Features |
| The
Bad Points |
Price
Not Easy For New Users |
| Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
II 450
Windows 98 Second Edition
128 Meg SD-Ram
Voodoo 2 - 8mb
DirectX 7 Gold
SoundBlaster Live! Value
17" LG Electronics Monitor
Matrox G400 32MB AGP Graphics Card
Microsoft Force Feedback Pro
Microsoft Game Pad Pro (USB)
Microsoft Digital Sound System 80
DVD Setup: Toshiba SD-1202
DVD-ROM - 32x
DVD TV Player - Samsung 807
|
| PC
Required |
Pentium®
or faster Intel® processor
Windows® 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT® 4.0 or later
64MB of RAM (96 to run ImageReady & Photoshop concurrently)
125MB of available hard-disk space
256-color (8-bit) display adapter (24-bit recommended)
CD-ROM Drive
Sound Card Recommended for viewing interactive tutorial files |
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