Hi there,
I am thinking about getting Photoshop and wondered what your thoughts are on it. I currently have basic editing facilities which came with my camera software which seem to work ok. I have looked on the Photoshop website which shows several versions and I'm not sure which is most suitable? I'm a newbie to editing and your thoughts and advice are greatly appreciated :)
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Permalink Reply by Cathy Dyason on My photography teacher is a professional photographer. He said that light room is much better than Photoshop. He was right about changing my UV filter so I am going on his advice. (Not that I need much convincing with the price! Photoshop= £600+ VAT OUCH! :O
Permalink Reply by Neil Bygrave on Hi Michelle
Not wishing to confuse things, but have you thought of the free Googe Picasa software.
You can do all the usual editing in there (except for sophisticated removal of blemishes, noise reduction and sophisticated sharpening). As others say above, I only really use a fraction of what CS3 can do but those bits I do use are essential.
I always shoot RAW, process Canon RAW into DNG files with Adobe DNG (free), then process DNG files to TIFF's using Photoshop CS3 Browser (adding metadata here), Process my images in CS3 with a specialist Noise reduction plugin and Interpolation plug in. Then make a copy Jpeg fullsize. I then use Picasa as file management software and make a copy jpeg for web use via compression.
When I first started I found Picasa did all the basic things I wanted to do and it was very intuitive (Photoshop is a little more difficult to use without some effort).
I have a page on my website that expands on this in I hope plain english :-)
Image Processing and File Management
Howards ebay comment is worth considering, a friend of mine went that route and it worked OK for him at a fraction of the price.
Regards
Neil
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