CS3 or CS3 Extended?

[SockPuppet]

Hi all,

I'm considering upgrading to CS3 once it's available (in a couple of days time, I think). Is there any reason to go for CS3 extended rather than just CS3? I do quite a lot of compositing, so its auto alignment and image stacks look extremely useful. Is any of that missing in the non-extended version?

Thank you in advance. :-)

[pss]

Hi all,

I'm considering upgrading to CS3 once it's available (in a couple of days time, I think). Is there any reason to go for CS3 extended rather than just CS3? I do quite a lot of compositing, so its auto alignment and image stacks look extremely useful. Is any of that missing in the non-extended version?

Thank you in advance. :-)
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there is no beta for the extended version as far as i know.....anyway i already bought CS3 extended, but i believe what you are talking about is included in the regular version....auto alignment?HDR is a lot better then CS2...
you best bet is to call adobe or go to their website and find out

[KenS]

I do quite a lot of compositing, so its auto alignment and image stacks look extremely useful. Is any of that missing in the non-extended version?

Thank you in advance. :-)
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Based on what I've read the image stack is NOT available in the standard version.
You will probably be interested in the following by Martin Evening on this topic:

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I am trying to decide between purchasing CS3 or CS3 Extended and, as best I can tell there are only two reasons for a photographer to go Extended ...

1)  the image stack option (in my case, to reduce noise by stacking images and using the mean algorithm).

2) If you have MATLAB and, I think (to be effective) the MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox and want to develop/test your own MATLAB based algorithms on your images.  I don't have a good handle on how this works, and while I have MATLAB I don't have the Image Processing Toolbox... it ain't cheap !

Anybody else have any insights or corrections?

Ken

[61Dynamic]

The stacking is only for Extended and this is really the only compelling reason any photographer (outside of medical imaging/science research) would want Extended.