by DavidW on Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:35 am
I've installed Creative Suite 3 Design Premium on my Windows based workstation today (cheapest UK upgrade price found was Misco for £635 - interestingly the upgrade pack I received is marked as "not for sale in North America" amongst other things).
I chose to deactivate and uninstall Creative Suite 2 Premium before installing Creative Suite 3. (I never had the Photoshop CS3 beta on this machine). This was a somewhat risky strategy, but it leaves a cleaner Windows installation, and I can always reinstall CS2 if necessary.
Following the uninstall and reboot, I needed a clear up of the rubble left behind. Half of Adobe Stock Photos and half of ExtendScript was left behind - a quick delve into the registry to find the appropriate MsiExec runes to uninstall Adobe Stock Photos plus reference to the Adobe support site to ensure I got all the registry and file junk from both items cleared that up.
The HP plug-in was one of the items left behind in the almost empty Adobe Photoshop CS2 folder following the CS2 uninstall and subsequent reboot. After installing CS3, I simply moved the HP plug-in (and a few other bits and pieces - scripts such as Mike's Framer) into the appropriate place in the Photoshop CS3 Extended folder when I'd installed CS3.
One thing that saves me a lot of time is installing Photoshop plug-ins, such as Noise Ninja, in a separate folder outside the Adobe folders. That way, I just point any software that can use Photoshop plug-ins to that folder.
However, though the HP plug-in is present in CS3, I can't enter a value in some of the fields. I don't know if it worked in CS2, as I never actually used it. However, I'll try to remember to check on my laptop before uninstalling CS2 from there.
Meanwhile, there's no need to round trip back to Lightroom - you can print "conventionally" from Photoshop CS3 rather than using the plug-in. CS3's print dialog is a worthwhile improvement over CS2's Print with Preview in my opinion. Indeed, Creative Suite 3 overall seems to have many worthwhile improvements - much as I'm only in my first couple of hours of exploring.
What would really help is if my B9180 would decide to work - I tried to make some prints when I started to write this reply, and I keep getting PAPER JAM, REMOVE REAR DOOR TO CLEAR PAPER. PRESS OK TO CONTINUE even though there's no jam. HP's support site talks about cleaning the rollers - I'll try that tomorrow, then it will be a case of calling HP support. Meanwhile, I've turned the printer off overnight - that may just do the job.
Once I've had a day or two working with Creative Suite 3, I'm intending to install a Lightroom trial to see if it will offer me anything. The price will go up from the current ~£130 at the end of the month, so it's do or die time. The lack of plug-in support in Lightroom has me thinking that there's no point in Lightroom for me (especially as CS3 has Camera Raw 4, and Bridge CS3 has stacks, multiple previews and the loupe), but it feels like a mistake not to try Lightroom.
David
I guess that's why this forum exists.