[ablaye]

Hello,
I need a good graphic software and I have been contemplating buying either JASC Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop.
Has anyone tried both softwares and can recommend which one to get??

[Rockn]

If you have the money get Photoshop CS, you won't want or need any other program.

[hewee]

Double post

http://forums.techguy.org/digital-ph...o-one-get.html

[knight_47]

Never used Paint Shop Pro, but am experienced with Photoshop. It's a pretty expensive program, but luckily I got a student discount, and I love it. Definitely worth the money. It does everything you could possibly need to do with photo-editing, and much more.

[hewee]

Save alot of money with a student discount.
http://www.journeyed.com/home.asp

[redivivus]

Wow thats expensive. Is there anything on CS you cant do with my 7 yr old version and a few plug-ins?

[knight_47]

Um, yes there is aloot. Why don't you download the demo and see how you like it. It's on Adobe's site.

[namenotfound]

I prefer Photoshop Elements

Elements can edit video (turn the video into a GIF), you can't do that with Photoshop CS.

The version of Photoshop you get depends on what you need/want to use it for. A lot of people prefer CS, for me I prefer Elements.

[DrP]

I bought Photoshop Elements and it was a complete waste of £50. You can't do anything with Elements that you can't do with other software which is free on the net. I wanted to create graphics for websites, and you can't do that with Elements. I found it a complete waste of money and felt a little bit misled by Adobe that they claimeed it was any use at all.

Now I have Photoshop CS and it is amazing. There are whole sites out there devoted to it and you can do some amazing stuff. If you want to edit photographs just get some free software from the web. If you want to make your own graphics then you'll need Photoshop CS or PaintShopPro, either of which are pretty incredible. I gather both are popular among designers.

[Dorian05]

Photoshop gets my vote here over Jasc psp, Its not cheap as you have seen, but I got mine from ebay at a good price

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by DrP

I bought Photoshop Elements and it was a complete waste of £50. You can't do anything with Elements that you can't do with other software which is free on the net. I wanted to create graphics for websites, and you can't do that with Elements. I found it a complete waste of money and felt a little bit misled by Adobe that they claimeed it was any use at all.

Now I have Photoshop CS and it is amazing. There are whole sites out there devoted to it and you can do some amazing stuff. If you want to edit photographs just get some free software from the web. If you want to make your own graphics then you'll need Photoshop CS or PaintShopPro, either of which are pretty incredible. I gather both are popular among designers.

You can make amazing graphics for websites with Elements.
You just have to be skilled with the program.
And I guess it also matters which version you get.
CS is good, but lacks that video editing aspect, which is why I only give it a 4/5 and Elements gets a 5/5 from me.

Like I said before, it's all a matter of personal preference.

Would you consider this a decent web graphic?



I can do that in Elements. That's actually pretty basic compaired to all the things you can do in Elemetns

[DrP]

I think you're right. You can do more than I thought in Elements, but my university offered to buy me Photoshop CS. I still have Elements installed but I don't use it now I have CS.

At the end of the day, Photoshop Elements is what it says. It contains elements of the grown-up Photoshop CS, which is aimed more at professionals. For all I know, many of the tihings I've done in CS could also have been done in Elements. However, I definitely remember trying to follow numerous Photoshop tutorials last year and getting stuck, then frustrated that I couldn't do these cool things in Elements.

NameNotFound, I think you should be careful, lest you confuse someone. Photoshop Elements is there to cater for people who don't need everything Photoshop CS has, ie most home users. Obviously, Adobe saw it pertinent to throw in some video editing ability with it. Though, again, that could be achieved using programs free on the web.

[namenotfound]

The problem with following tutorials aimed at CS, is that some of the features are achieved different ways.

Example: In CS something might be done by clicking "button1" and the same feature can be done in Elements by clicking "button2".

The only thing I can really see CS having that Elements doesn't, is the ability to slice images easily. There's no slicing tool in Elements, but the same thing can be achived with patience and skill. Naimly, using the crop tool over and over again, the "skill" part is making all the crops lines up correctly.

There are a few websites out there with Elements-only tutorials, brushes, extensions, plugins, etc. There is actually a lot of support for Elements on the Internet if you know where to look.

Here is just one example I found on Google just now with 5 seconds of searching.
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Phot...ents-tutorials

It's a list of a few tutorials. I didn't look thru all of them so I don't know how good they are, or what version(s) they're for...