Upgrading to CS4 from PSE7

[zannella1108]

Hi ladies,

i have been using Elements for years now and just upgraded to CS4 (on sale for over half off!). Anyways, I am a little nervous about downloading it as it will replace my elements; so has anyone upgraded from Elements to Creative Suite.. will it be easy enough pick up - I think I would go through withdrawals if I couldn't scrap!

Thanks!
Kristen

PS It comes with a tutorial - just curious if anyone knows what the learning curve will be.

[cstaff]

Just did the same myself. That and the new mac arriving next week. I'll be interested in comments too! Seems as though Snow Leopard might not support PSE so this must be the reason Adobe is pushing the upgrade. Learning curve will be "interesting" for me

[hguenthe]

Unless they have changed something just recently, when you upgrade and install CS4, it doesn't overwrite your PSE. You end up with both still on your machine so if you were finding the transition hard & needed a quick and familiar PSE session, it would still be there for you to do so.

[AllynD]

AAAACK! Whatchoomean, Snowleopard doesn't support PSE?????? Please explain!

[cstaff]

Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List

This is a 3rd party list of applications that work with or have conflicts with SL. I'm getting info from posts on Google so imagine there is a lot of mis-information out there too. I'm so new to mac so I am reading a lot to try and learn what's up myself.

[hguenthe]

I personally wouldn't freak out too quickly on that list having PSE having problems under Snow Leopard.

It mentions "After restoring from Time Machine app gives a licence error" as being the problem someone reported and that is an issue which I have had on Leopard but had nothing to do with the OS but rather how the new licensing works in Adobe products & how Time Machine restores. It was fixable and nothing to do with the OS.

It appears that a single wiki entry about PSE & Time Machine restore not working has freaked a lot of people out.

Adobe works closely with Apple and I would be surprised if the new version of PSE didn't work on Snow Leopard or if there are any problems, that they wouldn't be fixed very quickly. There are also reports that CS3 may have issues but a lot of those have been put to rest as well as you can see from Jack Nack's blog: John Nack on Adobe

[cstaff]

Well I certainly would hold on to Heather's words rather than internet rumors. Makes since to me Heather! Time will tell... guess there are always unexpected surprises to work out on anything new...

[zannella1108]

Okay, Heather, I will give it a try.. the live chat said i wouldn't be able to.. but who knows.. I hope so! If not.. my hubby will have to take the kids for a loooong walk so I can learn it!

[maureenreynolds]

If you have your original disks for PSE7 you will always have a hard copy of that program. I've had both a PSE and a CS on my computer and have had the option of using either.

[zannella1108]

Yeah!! I just installed CS4 and still access to PSE - now I just need a block of time with no husband and no kids to learn it!!

thanks!
Kristen