Hope for the Image Making Golden Era

I'm an Adobe PS (Photoshop) and AI (Adobe Illustrator) free-user (20-plus Year Old Versions) software holder. Still functioning to grind-out whenever I choose to, by old-school and generate from what I consider, a time-honored workflow of my own sideline interest. With the advent of TI (technological integration) for your later, paid-subscriber releases, a whole new world of generating images for lack of a better word, puts to shame some of us of the outdated crowd. That being, older versions that aren't designed to accommodate today's TI. Yet, not entirely. I would suggest your chosen software's fundamental framework is essentially the same. You might ask, what scaled-back options do I have to avail some of TI tools in a limited capacity? For us free-user Photoshoppers (unconfirmed) is as follows,

Gemini - "While Photoshop 7.0.1 cannot run AI tools natively, its support for industry-standard file formats (like JPG, PNG, and PSD) allows you to use Google's tools as an external "AI lab" for your workflow.

Options for Limited Use

• Manual External Generation: Use the Google Gemini web app or ImageFX to generate high-resolution images. Download these and open them in Photoshop 7.0.1 for manual compositing, color correction, or masking.
• Vertex AI Studio (Web UI): Use Vertex AI Studio (Pay-per-use $0.02 to $0.04 per image) in a browser. It provides a simple user interface to generate, edit, and upscale images. Download the results and use them in the older software.
• AI-Enhanced Upscaling: Use Google's Magic Editor or Google Photos AI tools to unblur or enhance a photo before importing it into Photoshop for fine-tuning.
• Google Ads Asset Studio: If using Google Ads, use their Image Editor with Google AI to generate and edit background visuals which can then be exported for use in any version of Photoshop.

Workflow for Photoshop 7.0.1

1. Generate: Create the base image or specific object (e.g., "a 3D golden trophy") in ImageFX.
2. Export: Download the image as a high-quality PNG or JPG.
3. Import: In Photoshop 7.0.1, use File > Open to bring the AI-generated asset into your project.
4. Edit: Use the classic Magnetic Lasso or Magic Wand tools to isolate the AI subject from its background, as modern "one-click" subject selection is not available in your version"

With the glut of things offered today, it is wise to ask if there are financial requirements with any of your provider's options?