: For the first time, users could monitor image changes in real-time through a dedicated palette, providing a live view of the image's tonal range.
Photoshop CS was the last version to fully support Mac OS 9 (Classic) and the first to run natively on Mac OS X (Panther) without the Classic environment. On Windows, it required Windows 2000 or XP. Recommended system specs were modest by modern standards: 320 MB RAM (512 MB recommended), 600 MB hard disk space, and a 1 GHz processor. However, the new features—especially Shadow/Highlight and Camera Raw—were computationally heavy, and many users experienced sluggishness with large files. Adobe Photoshop CS 8
Adobe Photoshop CS (also known as version 8.0) was released in October 2003 : For the first time, users could monitor