Adobe photoshop and Windows 7

[photogramma]

Has anyone experienced using Adobe photoshop cs4 or elements 8 on the new windows format (windows 7)? I know there were problems with Vista, so I'm wondering about the new one. I'm needing to replace my laptop and am both accustomed to windows and unable to afford an Apple.

[elkidogz]

CS4 (64 bit) works fine. no crashes. updates fine.

[photogramma]

Thanks for your comment.

[statichash]

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit with CS4 and haven't had any problems with it. Primarily what you're looking for when you're going to be using your computer to do processing with applications like Photoshop is RAM (Random Access Memory). RAM is important because when you open up an application it uses up a certain amount of the memory to keep the program open on your machine. The more you have, the more programs you can have open at a time.

I'll find myself with my web browser, Photoshop, Microsoft Word and maybe a music player playing music in the background open on my machine all at one time. If my machine didn't have 4GB of RAM, I'm sure it would run sluggish.

In addition, you'll want a decent graphics card that can support the resolution and colors you plan to work with in CS4. Hope that helps!

[Rolling Stone]

CS4 + LR2 on 64bit, not a problem as of yet.

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by statichash

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit with CS4 and haven't had any problems with it. Primarily what you're looking for when you're going to be using your computer to do processing with applications like Photoshop is RAM (Random Access Memory). RAM is important because when you open up an application it uses up a certain amount of the memory to keep the program open on your machine. The more you have, the more programs you can have open at a time.

I'll find myself with my web browser, Photoshop, Microsoft Word and maybe a music player playing music in the background open on my machine all at one time. If my machine didn't have 4GB of RAM, I'm sure it would run sluggish.

In addition, you'll want a decent graphics card that can support the resolution and colors you plan to work with in CS4. Hope that helps!

Good point, but I think processing speed is more of the bottleneck now than it used to be. I don't use Photoshop, but I am running capture NX2, and DXO, two notoriously slow running applications, on a dual core laptop that was just updated to WIN7, without any issues. I do wish I would have upgraded to 64bit though. Just so I wouldn't have that 4gig Ram cap.

[douglas]

I am using windows 7 premium 64 bit, with no problems.