Photoshop CS2 and the Old Computer

I haven't posted many photos up to now. I have hundreds of them on the hard drive on the other computer, but the computer I tend to use most is my older one in the spare room. I bought this computer back in 2000 and it is very slow compared to todays standards. For example, it only has a 633MHz processor and 256MB RAM. The reason I use this computer is simply because I love Windows 2000 Professional. I have XP Pro on the other computer and I really don't like it. In addition, the other computer is used mainly for gaming, which I'm not really into, but Stephen likes his Football Manager, and that will not run on Windows 2000, and certainly not on a computer as slow as this one.

Anyway, I thought I'd try installing Photoshop on this old computer to see if I could at least do some basic photo editing. I installed it last night and it works! It doesn't even run that slow. :) So I should be able to process a few more photos and get them posted online.

Check out the newer Adobe Photoshop CS4 here:

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a cut down version of Photoshop that is ideal for image processing. You can check out and purchase Elements from here:

I'm now wondering if Lightroom will run on here. We have that on the newer computer and I love using it. For those of you who don't know what Lightroom is, it's like the equivalent of a photographic darkroom, only in a software version. You can do many things with it. I use it to import my RAW files, carry out corrections such as white balance, exposure etc, and then save the files to tiff format before opening them in Photoshop where I will usually complete any editing or add effects to the images.

You can find/purchase Lightroom here:

I'll keep you posted on how I get on with these programs on the old computer, but up to now, it's going really well.