Photoshop Elements 2 is a good low cost alternative. Its coming out in a couple of weeks and is available for preorder from the Adobe website. It seems to contain everything a non professional would need. The only things it seems to be lacking compared with Photoshop are the ability to perform colour separations for repo house reproduction, scripting to automate the work flow etc, hardly things a non professional would need anyway.
I do a great deal of digital photography, and have found PhotoShop to be indespensible. However, I have <a href="http://www.caffeinesoft.com/" target="_blank">PixelNHance</a> as my default editor in iPhoto because it does just about everything I need for basic color-correction and histogram editing. It is a marvelous piece of freeware. I only launch PhotoShop for serious editing and retouching.
People would be less likely to pirate Photoshop if Adobe didn't charge like $500 for a copy. If you're just a single user I think that's ridiculous, as is the price of most software out there today.
<strong>People would be less likely to pirate Photoshop if Adobe didn't charge like $500 for a copy. If you're just a single user I think that's ridiculous, as is the price of most software out there today.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You definitely don't know how powerful Photoshop is. Saying something like this just show how little you know about photoshop
BTW, don't forget about the student's price. It's around $300
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Minor correction: Create is a great application, but it's not really an image/bitmap editor. It does illustration (vector graphics), web and print layout. They recommend TIFFany and would rather not compete with it.
I just bought Photoshop Elements 2.0, which is OS X native yesterday at the Short Hills, NJ Apple store. It was my first Apple store and I was very impressed! They had the new iMacs, running 10.2, and eMacs. Every unit had PS 7.0 and Office. Anyway PS Elements is really a good program and can do anything a non-pro would need.
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The "T" key is a good place to start...
but lets face it:
i depends on what kind of work your up to.
i use it for colorcorrection, retouche, design and webdesign and am happy.
btw: i think ps 7 is great!
<strong>People would be less likely to pirate Photoshop if Adobe didn't charge like $500 for a copy. If you're just a single user I think that's ridiculous, as is the price of most software out there today.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You definitely don't know how powerful Photoshop is. Saying something like this just show how little you know about photoshop
BTW, don't forget about the student's price. It's around $300
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<strong>TW, don't forget about the student's price. It's around $300</strong><hr></blockquote>
Or buy a scanner with PS bundled....if you are not a student
<strong>Off the top of my head...
Stone Design's <a href="http://www.stone.com/Create/Create.html" target="_blank">Create</a> (Timed shareware, $149)</strong><hr></blockquote>
Minor correction: Create is a great application, but it's not really an image/bitmap editor. It does illustration (vector graphics), web and print layout. They recommend TIFFany and would rather not compete with it.
PS is much better than the Gimp I'll admit, but the Gimp is free if you can get it working Check out my guide <a href="http://macteens.com/news/news.php?id=1279452897" target="_blank">here</a>
<strong>Why would I pay for the student version when it's on my computer for free? </strong><hr></blockquote>
We aren't talking piracy
<strong>It's not pirated. Legal buddy.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sure. . . by the way, ever post that shot of your machine? And maybe you can post that legal copy of Photoshop running in a desktop thread.
Chris
(It's nice to be loved here!)
He was right!
So I'll be buying soon!!!
Drool.
Lemon Bon Bon
Photoshop is the perfect lady. Well supported, does everything you want in many different ways...
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