Not really. Not unless you KNOW that C4D is the program you are going to work in, which is unlikely. For 3d modeling, go with Maya, and download their personal learning edition. Or, if you want to do real freelance work, go get Blender3d.

www.blender3d.org

Blender is a FREE 3d program that is about as good as the commercial ones like C4D. It is certainly good enough for you to cut your teeth on and do work with till you figure out which commercial 3d program you want. Also, it has plenty of free documentation such as...

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

Granted, a Photoshop thread is the wrong place to ask (and answer), but oh well.

Personally I am a big fan of Cinema 4D...but as MajesticTreeFrog said, it may be best to explore free applications for 3D modeling/rendering before deciding upon which software you may want to use. I never tried the free applications myself, but after using 3D Studio Max on someone else's computer, I decided to avoid it and use a smaller program. Studio Max is powerful, but very slow...

As for the Photoshop CS...I don't think it's worth installing onto one's computer if you have Photoshop 7. CS doesn't have anything worth changing in my opinion. It'd be safer to stick with version 7...plus I found CS to have a hard time loading certain .psd files I made with Photoshop 7...I'm not sure if that's just me =/

The reason for getting CS is digital photography. Almost all of the improvements were aimed at that, but for good reason. Digital photography was just hitting the big time, and not having something called 'photoshop' be able to do everything you need related to, well, photos, probably seemed pretty silly.

So, they made CS

If you don't do much digital photography(especially high end digital photography), and you don't expect to do any in the near future, don't get CS. Wait till May at least and get CS2.

I realize that this is an older topic, but I really try to refresh my thoughts on a lot of designing forums.

I am always reformatting my PC, so I load in many filters, as is the same with Dreamweaver. So I reformat and lose all of the filters and plugins that I have loaded in beforehand. I don't really do too many filters these days.... I have gotten lazy.

When I was loading up a lot of fliters I would try different bevels and lattice designing. I just go crazy with doing banners, so I am always trying to find ways of styling fonts for banners or whatnot. I don't really do the heavy loaded filters. I have seen some being overkilled. Highlight an area select the filter and it's all filled in already. I like little filters that change by option selections, not having different versions of difference clouds and renderings.

I may be a bit prudish, but I have played with a lot of filters that change the whole concept of what I am designing... so that is why I don't really jump the gun on installing a lot of filters... If I play around again, I may change my mind.... or if someone on the forums have something that is fantastic to use.

lol we have photoshop 7 at schools, its worse than CS2!

i cant stand photoshop at all, any version. i prefer paint.NET over photoshop.

why are people (mainly the new people) digging up all of these old topics from 2005?

I have been pulling some old stuff because some of the other stuff just isn't working for me at the time, and well, I wasn't around the first time it was posted. I would think that at some point the topic was active enough, and well, it is still a post. I deal with a lot of Designing, so posts old or new if they are appealing I reply to.

I deal with Photoshop all of the time... easier posts to throw my opinion around in...