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I loved Photoshop 7, it was my second or third photoshop using it and i, as Blue Velvet said, basically got the hang how to use it.
 
I started with 5, then got 6, 7 and now run CS. It's a toss up between 7 and CS, probably because quality and productivity improved with them along with a better grasp of the many features. I love the Actions.
 
katie ta achoo said:
1.0
there was NO OTHER!

I still have all four floppy disks somewhere.

That was old school.

v 1.0, that brings back some god memories and also SuperPaint as well. I still have PS v 1.0 on one of my CD's if you are still interested.

For me version 3 was when I got a full handle of all the tools and some very quite developed since v 1.0, that being said I prefer v5.5 :D

6, 7, 8, 9, and it shall continue are all nice however it started to be way too bloated after 5.5 and load time started to drag along with other hardware requirements. :)
 
If you wanted to counterfit US Dollars then stick with version 5.0 or earlier. (I'm joking.) Really, the US Treasury mandated that all versions after 5.5 or 6 (somewhere around there) have built in mechanisms to detect when any image of US currency was opened.
 
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