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I need your advice what is the best photoshop i know adobe photoshop are the good ones but theres all different ones?? i know nothing ? Help Please People!!

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it all depends on what you want to achieve.
I manage with Photoshop and Bridge, others will say Lightroom, and some will say Aperture / Elements.

But they can all do the basic stuff just as well
 
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The latest version of adobe photoshop elements should cover your needs Kate.

That is assuming your actually asking which photoshop type software is best to use, and not which of Adobe's photoshop products is best.
 
Latest version is CS5. It is a pro package with a price tag of several hundred pounds. Photoshop Elements is the 'light' version of Photoshop and much cheaper - sometimes bundled with kit. Bridge & Camera Raw are part of Photoshop - basically Bridge handles files, Camera Raw allows adjustment of raw files and then Photoshop allows further manipulation of images. Lightroom is a seperate product that is especially good as an image database as well as image manipulation.
 
Photoshop CS5 is probably the "best" if you really need all the functionality. Some people prefer Lightroom, and others use both. They're both expensive and I doubt if you need either right now.

Elements is a light version of Photoshop, as others have said. It's reasonably cheap, can do most things very well, and is a good introduction to the full version.

There are other options and you might like to look at Picasa - Google freebie - and the GIMP, which is a free download. The GIMP is very powerful but has a steep learning curve, like Photoshop.

I'd go for Elements.
 
I was very lucky and was given a promotional ver of Photoshop white rabbit which was given to software developers and a friend gave it to me
 
Also have a look at some of the free stuff eg Photoscape, GIMP, Irfanview, Paint.net.

Dave
 
Photoshop Elements will do 99.99999999999999% of everything you'll need.
 
I am still running with Photoshop CS2 and it does everything i need it to do, CS5 is possibly great but there is so many applications most of us will never use and its exspensive.

As said it depends on what you are looking to achieve, so at this point i would advise lightroom...
 
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Hi everyone

Thank you for all your comments to be honest some of it i dont understand as i am new to all of this.! At the moment i am doing a beginners course on digital photography to get to grips with photoshop and the functions on a camera as before i would just shoot in auto!!!! I know nothing about ISO Etc but i am learning. I am on a 10 week course. It all interesting stuff.

We will be using adobe photoshop Elements II on the course. I would like to buy one soon but dont know what one to get at the moment!

What one would be best for me to start out with ? I buy Digital photography Magazine and i have the free cd's that come with it you know teach yourself photoshop but i have not used them at the moment will do in future.
 
I am using Lightroom 3 at the moment. I thought it would do everything I wanted & not as technical as Photoshop.

So far with my limited skills it has been fine :)
 
From what you have said your doing, and bearing in mind that you are using Elements at college, I would advise Elements 9. Its available for around £50/60 I believe but shop around if you decide. I dont know if there are special offers for students on Elements, there are on CS5, its worth checking anyway and will depend on the course your doing
The knowledge you have from college will apply to Elements 9, plus its more advanced (being a later version) for when you need it. It comes with a database to organise your pictures, and Adobe Camera Raw to process and convert your RAW shots if and when you use RAW. As has been said, its certainly going to do everything you want for a long time.
Photoshop CS5 is a great program but many times more expensive and to be honest your not going to use it to its full for a long time yet.
Hope this helps Kate.
 
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Trev4 said:
From what you have said your doing, and bearing in mind that you are using Elements at college, I would advise Elements 9. Its available for around £50/60 I believe but shop around if you decide. I dont know if there are special offers for students on Elements, there are on CS5, its worth checking anyway and will depend on the course your doing
The knowledge you have from college will apply to Elements 9, plus its more advanced (being a later version) for when you need it. It comes with a database to organise your pictures, and Adobe Camera Raw to process and convert your RAW shots if and when you use RAW. As has been said, its certainly going to do everything you want for a long time.
Photoshop CS5 is a great program but many times more expensive and to be honest your not going to use it to its full for a long time yet.
Hope this helps Kate.
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Thanks, I m doing my research on all different ones, i am learning bit more. I had a go at photoshop in my course on Friday. ! :thumbs:

I have seen adobe photoshop cs5 that is the full version am i right? That cost upto 600 pounds, Then photoshop elements 8 is a limited version am i correct? That cost upto 70 pounds.?

Just seen they have elements 9 ? upto 80 pound? There is just so much :shrug:
 
Bubby said:
I am using Lightroom 3 at the moment. I thought it would do everything I wanted & not as technical as Photoshop.

So far with my limited skills it has been fine :)
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Thats me too but for me i have got very limited skills!!!:nuts:
 
hi kate, yes elements 9 is the latest version, which has superceeded version 8 - but this doesn't mean that you can't use earlier versions. it's not like you won't be able to do things unless you have the latest version. i'm still using elements 6 and i don't feel the need to upgrade yet.
good luck.. stick with it... once you get to know the basics you'll be well away :thumbs:
 
Your college bookstore most likely has the acedemic versions of Adobe software which is quite cheap compared to retail. There are also online sellers of acedemic software that can be bought with a valid college student ID. You can get the acedemic version of Photoshop Elements 9 from adobe uk for 46 pounds with a college student ID or Photoshop CS5 Extended for 159 pounds.
 
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If you intend to take up photography as a full time profession, I would be very tempted to get the full version of PhotoShop at the student price, although I understand there may be restrictions on its use for commercial uses. However, as a member of the full price paying public, I would (and did) go for the latest version of Elements which will give you most of the useful bits that the full suite does but for a lot less money!

Nod's law (VERY similar to Murphy's and Sod's) meant that soon after I had bought it, my old computer crapped out and the new one came with some software preloaded; including Elements 7. The one thing I really missed in older versions of Elements was a decent B&W converter - PSE7 (and I assume later) does have a reasonable one, allowing fine tuning of the colour balance much like the channel mixer in CS.

I've played with other PP software but keep coming back to Adobe's products - after all, the current term for photo editting is PhotoShopping rather than PaintShopProing or Gimping.
 
I only have Adobe experience so I say...

Lightroom for archiving AND retouching AND outputting

Elements for cheap cost and a lot of functionality for the money

Photoshop CS if you have the money
 
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If you intend to take up photography as a full time profession, I would be very tempted to get the full version of PhotoShop at the student price, although I understand there may be restrictions on its use for commercial uses. However, as a member of the full price paying public, I would (and did) go for the latest version of Elements which will give you most of the useful bits that the full suite does but for a lot less money!

Nod's law (VERY similar to Murphy's and Sod's) meant that soon after I had bought it, my old computer crapped out and the new one came with some software preloaded; including Elements 7. The one thing I really missed in older versions of Elements was a decent B&W converter - PSE7 (and I assume later) does have a reasonable one, allowing fine tuning of the colour balance much like the channel mixer in CS.

I've played with other PP software but keep coming back to Adobe's products - after all, the current term for photo editting is PhotoShopping rather than PaintShopProing or Gimping.
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Cheers, I am still not sure i think get the full one because i will need it in the future its just alot of money then i think get the cheaper one for now then upgrade later !!! :thinking:
 
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