Just bought PSE7, should I return it and swap for PSE8?
I had a brief look for PSE8 being on the horizon but didn't spot anything at the time (I don't know why but something I read led me to believe they were not yearly and regular as clockwork!).
Anyway the reason I was looking in the first place was that Amazon UK sent me an e-mail saying PSE7 was on special offer, so I downloaded the trial and was impressed with what you could do with the product. In the end I decided to get the PSE & Premiere 7 combo pack for £69, which seemed like a good price for two pieces of quality software.
However I now find out that the PSE & Premiere 8 combo pack is out soon, Amazon UK have it on preorder for £101. Now since I was waiting for my trial to expire and my copy of Windows 7 to arrive before installing it, my copy of v7 is still sealed and can still be returned under Amazon's return policy.
Question is, is it worth going to the expense/trouble of returning this version and then ordering the new version for a £32 premium?
Some reviews seem to suggest it's not worth the upgrade - but I'm not upgrading as I've never owned the product, the upgrade price would be around £60 for just PSE or £90 for both - so much more than it would cost me to return and rebuy.
Things that make me think PSE8 would be a good idea include - it supports Windows 7 which I'm getting when released (though I presume PSE7 will still work fine), I have no organisation to my photo's aside from folders relating to what month or event they were taken so I'm liking the idea of better organisation tools (although I don't know how good the PSE7 ones are, or if I'll actually ever get round to sitting down and doing it - I've had tagging programs before that I haven't had the time or patience to use), and the photo resizing thing looks like a cool gimmick (though I don't know if it has that many practical applications).
Things that make me think keeping PSE7 would be a good idea - PSE/Premiere 8 only really have minor changes for the most part, I got v7 for a special discount price and I'd be returning that to get a full priced product (although Amazon is a bit discounted as it should be £115, not £101), some people on this forum have been complaining about the stability of PSE8 and about some of it's new features, v7 is already set on my desk and ready to go, and this time next year v9 will come out that might have huge improvements so I could stick with the cheaper v7 and put the money towards v9 instead.
What do you think? Swap or keep?
but only because PSE8 will continue to get updates/bug fixes for the next year.
The only thing adobe ever updates for Elements is ACR and that usually works for quite a while after a version is superseded. At least so far they haven't been cutting off previous versions when a new one is released, the way they do in PS, so I wouldn't worry about that.
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