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Can't afford full blown Photoshop, can anyone suggest the best alternative? I'm not aure if elements etc are any use, or if you need full PS to run elements.

I am as student so can probably get it at a more reasonable price

In my experience photoshop elements is pretty good, for the money it offers a hell of a lot. Are you a Mac user? If so you can get Aperture 3 for £54.99 on the Mac App store. Thats a total bargain, I paid £160 for it when you could only buy it on CD from Apple.

No Im a PC user

[QUOTE=DigiDiva;67453]Can't afford full blown Photoshop, can anyone suggest the best alternative? I'm not aure if elements etc are any use, or if you need full PS to run elements.

I am as student so can probably get it at a more reasonable price[/QUOTE]

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a stand alone cut down version of Photoshop but contains nearly 90% of Photoshop that camera users require. :D

You can get the full Photoshop CS5 Extended for £190.80 on a student licence at Adobe's UK store. :D

[url]https://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU-UK&[/url]

Elements will do what you need. How well it will run on your little netbook is another matter.

Definately Elements, plenty of tutorials on magazine cover disks and on the web, Elements and Photoshop are pretty much the standard that magazines use.

The biggest weakness of elements was the lack of layer masks although there were ways of achieving this I believe they added that in PSE 9.

[QUOTE=wavemachine;67575]Definately Elements, plenty of tutorials on magazine cover disks and on the web, Elements and Photoshop are pretty much the standard that magazines use.

The biggest weakness of elements was the lack of layer masks although there were ways of achieving this I believe they added that in PSE 9.[/QUOTE]They did add it. They also added the content aware stuff for spot healing. Not sure what version 10 has added.

I would say go for Photoshop Elements. I haven't seen 10, but 9 did damn-near everything the average tog could dream of.

As a student you should be able to get it at a real knock-down price, but be prepared to be bombarded with 'enticements' to buy the next version, or CS5.5 etc. On the plus side, however, Adobe do drop the odd hint and tip into the mix - which is nice.;)

Elements 9 then? Im wanting this for a PC as I will buy one soon from a sudden windfall I have had.

If you dont have elements 9 then I would go for elements 10 as there is not much difference between them to make it worthwhile to upgrade from 9 but as you are starting out afresh then go for 10