Which PhotoShop?
Discussion
My wife gets a mega discount on photoshop products and we're trying to figure out what version of photoshop we need. It's all rather complicated.
Seeing as we have the full discount we may as well go for as much functionality and possible within the bounds of sense so what do you guys use?
Our choices are:
PS CS3
PS Elements 6
PS After Effects
PS Creative Suite.
The difference between these are quite hard to fathom unless you understand what you are reading about.
What we want to do is the sort of stuff you guys do in the competitions, superimposing images on backgrounds, applying filters, stregthening particular colours or tones, etc etc.
Any help gratefully recieved.
Seeing as we have the full discount we may as well go for as much functionality and possible within the bounds of sense so what do you guys use?
Our choices are:
PS CS3
PS Elements 6
PS After Effects
PS Creative Suite.
The difference between these are quite hard to fathom unless you understand what you are reading about.
What we want to do is the sort of stuff you guys do in the competitions, superimposing images on backgrounds, applying filters, stregthening particular colours or tones, etc etc.
Any help gratefully recieved.
Okay thank you. The Adobe website is impenetrable if you don't speak 'design' language. They should have a package entitled Adobe f
k Around with Photos Version 1.
;)
Right I'll just check the heavily discounted price is as heavily discounted as I need it to be!
k Around with Photos Version 1.;)
Right I'll just check the heavily discounted price is as heavily discounted as I need it to be!
Edited by Olf on Tuesday 6th May 13:39
For what you say you want to do, Elements 6.0 really will do you fine. I'm doing a part time photography course and use CS3 at college and just have Elements 6.0 at home. Elements did more than I needed for my Digital Image Making unit porfolio.
You probably need to be a professional user to really justify needing CS3, but then depends how good a discount you can get...
You probably need to be a professional user to really justify needing CS3, but then depends how good a discount you can get...
MartinP said:
For what you say you want to do, Elements 6.0 really will do you fine. I'm doing a part time photography course and use CS3 at college and just have Elements 6.0 at home. Elements did more than I needed for my Digital Image Making unit porfolio.
You probably need to be a professional user to really justify needing CS3, but then depends how good a discount you can get...
s'gonna be 150 quid. I think I might as well go for it.You probably need to be a professional user to really justify needing CS3, but then depends how good a discount you can get...
PS CS3.
Elements may do everything you need at the mo, but ain't industry standard. PS is, and therefore will be easier for tutorials etc as said. Creative suite good if you want to do serious graphic design - page layout for print, illustrations and line drawings, that sort of thing. Illustrator is a great package for vector art, but if you don't need it...
Elements may do everything you need at the mo, but ain't industry standard. PS is, and therefore will be easier for tutorials etc as said. Creative suite good if you want to do serious graphic design - page layout for print, illustrations and line drawings, that sort of thing. Illustrator is a great package for vector art, but if you don't need it...
If you can get PS for 150 then go for it, it is 500 quid normally.
After Effects is for video editing and the Suite is all the other products.
If you can get used to the full Photoshop it will stand you in good stead for the future.
If you want to take things further PS is the way to go. elements is good but if you can get that kind of price for the full PS then get the full version.
Once you get over the learning process, only your imagination will hold you back with PS.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of decent tutorials for PS and some really good photography specific books too.
After Effects is for video editing and the Suite is all the other products.
If you can get used to the full Photoshop it will stand you in good stead for the future.
If you want to take things further PS is the way to go. elements is good but if you can get that kind of price for the full PS then get the full version.
Once you get over the learning process, only your imagination will hold you back with PS.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of decent tutorials for PS and some really good photography specific books too.
The_Jackal said:
If you can get PS for 150 then go for it, it is 500 quid normally.
After Effects is for video editing and the Suite is all the other products.
If you can get used to the full Photoshop it will stand you in good stead for the future.
If you want to take things further PS is the way to go. elements is good but if you can get that kind of price for the full PS then get the full version.
Once you get over the learning process, only your imagination will hold you back with PS.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of decent tutorials for PS and some really good photography specific books too.
Cool - I love doing stuff like that and used to spend silly amounts of time on Deluxe Paint all those years ago on the Amiga. I'll go for it - I'm sure I'll enjoy it. The PS competitions on here have got my creative juices going.After Effects is for video editing and the Suite is all the other products.
If you can get used to the full Photoshop it will stand you in good stead for the future.
If you want to take things further PS is the way to go. elements is good but if you can get that kind of price for the full PS then get the full version.
Once you get over the learning process, only your imagination will hold you back with PS.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of decent tutorials for PS and some really good photography specific books too.
Olf said:
The_Jackal said:
If you can get PS for 150 then go for it, it is 500 quid normally.
After Effects is for video editing and the Suite is all the other products.
If you can get used to the full Photoshop it will stand you in good stead for the future.
If you want to take things further PS is the way to go. elements is good but if you can get that kind of price for the full PS then get the full version.
Once you get over the learning process, only your imagination will hold you back with PS.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of decent tutorials for PS and some really good photography specific books too.
Cool - I love doing stuff like that and used to spend silly amounts of time on Deluxe Paint all those years ago on the Amiga. I'll go for it - I'm sure I'll enjoy it. The PS competitions on here have got my creative juices going.After Effects is for video editing and the Suite is all the other products.
If you can get used to the full Photoshop it will stand you in good stead for the future.
If you want to take things further PS is the way to go. elements is good but if you can get that kind of price for the full PS then get the full version.
Once you get over the learning process, only your imagination will hold you back with PS.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of decent tutorials for PS and some really good photography specific books too.
Romanymagic said:
Cool, perhaps you can take pciture of a vignette of some pikey's robbing playfully with the shire horse's in the background, coupled with some lurcher's, who knows perhaps you can create an artistic portfolio about the "troubled folk!"
Who IS this f'kwit?!?Seems to have a rather large chip on his shoulder about his heritage though, doesn't he?
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