Do I need PhotoShop, Or will elements do what I need

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With work I use photoshop cs3. For home do i really need the expense. I use Aperture for my basics (can i get to elements straight from aperture?), and use photoshop at work for skin smoothing, layer work for stuff like colour popping, adjusment layers etc. Have always thought of elements as a poor relation with no features, but as a Semi Pro, would I need the extras that come from Photoshop CS4. My pocket could do with the difference in price.

Cheers in advance

Carl
 
When you say you are a semi-pro - what do you want to use the software for? What kind of work do you do?
 
If cost is important to you, try using GIMP
 
I do a lot of live music work and shoot skateboarding. No massively complex photoshop work really, and have topaz denoise in aperture Just using layers to even out images, skin smoothing on portraits, cloning out backgrounds if needed.

Have tried Gimp but couldn't get on with it, am familiar with Adobe and want to stick with their stuff, but the price of elements is appealing.

What will I get from photoshop that I don't from elements might be a better way of phrasing it.

Semi Pro means, doing bits of paid work and stuff for clients, but not being able to make living from it yet, but aims in future to go professional, if that makes sense.
 
Have you thought about trying Adobes free 30 day trial - so you can compare yourself? I haven't checked for a while - but I guess they still do this?

If you want to go pro - then I guess you need some sort of workflow... For me it's Lightroom 2 first - then for finer edits Photoshop 3.3...
 
Lightroom, any day of the week. Then for anything that needs *serious* work I'll open it in GIMP. But 90% of the time LR is fine :) Well worth the money if you ask me!!
 
I switched to Aperture when I went Mac and have to say I prefer it. So thats my main work flow. Just to do some more serious editing I need something with a bit more power. Yeah best thing I suppose is to do the trial from Adobe, just after opinions from others on whether I need the cost of photoshop or whether most things I need can be done on Elements or whether anyone has ideas either way.
 
Download the trial, but I suspect that if you are needing to ask the question, Elements will do everything you need.
 
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