photoshop

[colhot]

Originally Posted by jet_kit

Hi Guys,
Like it or not Photoshop is the industry standard and if you're in the business of handing out advice and tutorials you're going to reach the largest audience by going down that road.

As for budgeting, Amazon have a special offer on Photoshop Elements 10 this week for £30. I would urge you all to get it while it's this cheap.

Hi

the problem with PS being used by the magazines is, IMO, and confirmed by some people I know, that they have got hold of illegal copies of PS just to keep up with the mags and their tutorials.

I have been offered copies (£25) against £500+ is tempting. I use Capture NX2 which is the limit I can afford. If I had £500 spare it would not be allowed to be spent on software.

Thanks

Colin

[Speakers]

I've also found PS to be just too d*** intimidating to use. My cheap little Corel PhotoHouse program (free bundled software when I bought my computer) works perfectly for this amateur. Too bad it's long out of production and no longer supported by Corel.

[jet_kit]

Originally Posted by colhot

Hi

the problem with PS being used by the magazines is, IMO, and confirmed by some people I know, that they have got hold of illegal copies of PS just to keep up with the mags and their tutorials.

I have been offered copies (£25) against £500+ is tempting. I use Capture NX2 which is the limit I can afford. If I had £500 spare it would not be allowed to be spent on software.

Thanks

Colin

Hi Colin,

Give some consideration to Photoshop Elements. It's very much cheaper that CS5 and will do just about everything you could wish for. The controls are slightly different and that may show up in the tutorials, but you will still be able to follow them albeit in a slightly different way.

[DeanLawrence]

Why can't mags give tutorials in ps cswhatever, and an alternative in elements or paintshop pro. Surely they (elements and paintshop pro) have got many similarities.

It annoys me that such a large number of readers are overlooked purely because they dont use ps.
Dean.

[koori dad]

I only use PS Elements for Adobe Camera Raw

[Footski]

I have Elements 10, having upgraded from 6. It is very good as it offers as much or as little post production work as you want. For a complete novice it basically does much of the work for you. Personally, I do not do a lot of post production, but when I do, I love it.

[Rod Lawton]

Like most other mags, we do feature Photoshop and Elements pretty much exclusively. It's not ideal, but there are two reasons:

1) They are very good. In general, we try to stick to Elements because Photoshop is so expensive. Besides, there's not really that much you can do in Photoshop that you can't do in Elements.

2) It's what the vast majority of people use. Elements and Photoshop offer the closest thing there is to a 'standard' way of editing images. Other programs are very good, but they have different tools and different features, and if we featured these we'd leave most readers out. And we don't really want to show the same technique twice (or more) just to cover every application.

We're not deliberately leaving out users of other software, it's just that this approach reaches the largest number of people.

Rod.