Adobe Photoshop CS2

[PJ JJ]

I've been using Photoshop 7.0 but am getting ready to upgrade to CS2. No
where in the instructions does it say that you should uninstall 7.0 first.
However, after reading some forum postings on the Adobe website, I began to
wonder if it would be a good idea. A Photoshop expert answered my posting
and said don't uninstall PS 7.0 because I might want to look back at
patterns, etc. He also hinted that PS 7 does some things that CS2 doesn't.

I've already made notes of my customized patterns and PS takes up a lot of
MB. Anybody else have an opinion about whether these two programs need to
reside on the same system? Some people in the forum had problems when they
installed CS2 along with an old PS and then uninstalled the old one later.
So I'm trying to make this decision up front.

Thanks..............PJ

[Thomas]

You can keep them both installed at the same time if you have room. If
you install plugins, sometimes the plugin will only be installed for one
version and you will have to copy the plugin over to the other version
of Photoshop.

[bmoag]

First install CS2 and work with it for a while. It is a great advance over
7.
Transfer any plug-ins you installed into CS: surprisingly some may not be
compatible with CS2 and if you find that plug-in indispensable you will need
to keep a working copy of CS on your computer.
If you later decide to delete CS this should not affect any of the critical
files for CS2. Unfortunately the uninstall routines for WinXP and Adobe may
not differentiate between similar CS and CS2 files so a warnng box will come
up asking if you want to keep or delete certain files. The wisest choice is
to retain those files although most likely they are orphaned. Such is the
sophistication of file management in Windows in 2005.