Photoshop

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Adobe® Photoshop® Read Me
Welcome to Adobe® Photoshop® CS5. This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips not covered in the Photoshop documentation.
Minimum system requirements
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Minimum system requirements
Windows®
• 2GHz or faster processor*
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3, Windows® Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 2, Windows® Vista® 64-bit or Windows® 7
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (Photoshop CS5cannot be installed on flash-based storage devices.)
• 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card, 16-bit color and 256MB VRAM
• DVD-ROM drive
• Some 3D features in Adobe Photoshop Extended require an OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card with at least 256MB of VRAM (512MB VRAM is recommended)
• Shader Model 3.0
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• Some features in Bridgerely on DirectX9 capable graphics card with at least 128MB of VRAM
• QuickTime 7.4.5 required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services
*SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems
Mac OS X
• Multicore Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 minimum is required; Mac OS v10.6.2 is recommended; 32-bit and 64-bit systems (You may need to run 32-bit inorder to run 32-bit only plug-ins.)
• 1GB of RAM or more recommended
• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation (Photoshop CS5 cannot be installed on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices.)
• 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphicscare, 16-bit color and 256MB VRAM
• DVD-ROM drive
• Some 3D features in Adobe Photoshop Extended require an OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card with at least 256MB of VRAM (512MB VRAM is recommended)
• Shader Model 3.0
• QuickTime 7.4.5 required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services
For updates to system requirements, visitwww.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/systemreqs
For CS Live system requirements, visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive_requirements
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Install your software
1. Before you install, be sure to close all applications currently running on your system (including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows). We also recommend that you temporarily turn off virus protection during the installation process.
2. You must have administrative privileges or be able to validate asan administrator.
3. Do one of the following:
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Windows: Insert the DVD in your drive, then follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer does not launch automatically, navigate to the Adobe Photoshop CS5 folder found at the root level on the DVD and double-click Set-up.exe to start the installation process. If you downloaded the software from the web, the installer will self-extract...