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Recommended software
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Is Adobe Photoshop the standard in photo editing software or are there good alternatives?
If Photoshop is the de facto, where can I get it reasonably priced?
John
Welcome John !
This discussion has cropped up recently under this thread….
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=22916&highlight=
Several are named in there as viable alternatives to the costly and frankly massively over-specced Adobe Photoshop. It all comes down to what you want to achieve and how much you can (/ are willing to ) spend.
Have a read through that, and if you’ve any further questions, post them here !
ps. PC or MAC ?
You should probably try Photoshop Elements first. Has pretty much all the functionality you’ll need
and is alot cheaper.Yes, it is. And many here will recommend either CS3 or Elements
However, I feel CS3 is more orientated to graphic design/art, and is a bit much for photos –
though there are things that can be done with it that aren’t possible with ‘simpler’ software –
Elements is more photography orientated.I’d suggest that you look at Lightroom or Aperture [mac only] as both are primarily
designed for photographic processing.PS Elements is pretty good to get started with. PS CS3 is a huge, expensive piece of software covering all kinds of neat graphic design techniques, Elements is pretty good for general digital photography processing. I have a MAC and have both CS3 and Aperture. I have never really took to Aperture.
Cheers.
John
I used to use PAINT SHOP PRO before switching to PS, dont know what it is like now
but it used to have some neat tools and was relatively inexpensive.Alan
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