Upgrading Photoshop - is it worth it?

[Diamond]

Unfortunately I can't try out the free trial because it'll make me uninstall CS2 first, which, for reasons I won't get into here is a pain in the butt to re-install.

I do plan to get into more photo-manipulation and stuff like that, and from what I've seen of the features on CS5, it looks as though it might be worth it. I just wondered if anyone who's used both had any comments.

Well, at the very least, even if I don't get it, I'll still be saving money every month for it, which is never a bad thing (saving up money, that is).

[jwbjerk]

Unfortunately I can't try out the free trial because it'll make me uninstall CS2 first

Are you sure about that? I've had demos and older version installed at the same time. Currently i have the full version of CS1 and CS4 installed (can't get a scanner to work on CS4). This is on a Mac. Possibly it's different on Windows.

[JoeyD473]

I have Phostoshop 7, CS2 and CS3 on my XP machine, and they all work properly as far as I can tell