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Hi,
would any of you have a copy of PhotoShop they would like to sell.
I am looking for any version for the pc.
I am new to digi-photography and need to PP some of my shots.
Please send me a pm if you can help.
Thanks heaps
Marty

Marty wrote:Hi,
would any of you have a copy of PhotoShop they would like to sell.
I am looking for any version for the pc.
I am new to digi-photography and need to PP some of my shots.
Please send me a pm if you can help.
Thanks heaps
Marty

Hey Marty,
It's a hard question to answer! you can get from Maboonkrong shopping Center, Thailand for 15baht (AU$0.80).  BTW, you can source other alternative way as Paint Shop Pro 9, it's lot cheaper.

Or you can even go The Gimp.

It's free.

(Having said that, I use Photoshop... but there are alternatives.)

My suggestion would be a copy of Photoshop Elements v3. It will deal with raw files, has built in cataloging and does most of what photographers use Photoshop CS for. What it doesn't do (curves, chanels etc.) can be achieved with plug-ins. I use it and love it.

It's also much cheaper than PS CS.

Oz prices appear to be around $90 for academic version and $160 for full.

Cheers
Dean

Deano

Where do you get the curves plugin for Photoshop Elements?

ajo43 wrote:Where do you get the curves plugin for Photoshop Elements?

Jonesy,

I use curvemeister from http://www.curvemeister.com

It allows modification in RGB, CMYK, LAB and HSB colour spaces.

Cheers
Dean

Why not use capture instead?

Neeper,

Using NC adds an additional step to the workflow which is not easy using the cataloging features of PS Elements 3. Whilst the NEF handling of PSE may not be as comprehensive as NC, the workflow is much easier.

Cheers
Dean

Get the GIMP and get the RAW plugin so that if you shoot in RAW you can edit directly in GIMP.

Download the documentation at the same time (will help you in the long run). There are lots of tutorials you can download also (just google for them).

Don't pay for photo editing software when there are good free alternatives around (i.e. save your pennies for lens lust).


Cheers
Kristine

personally I have found that photoshop CS is immensely powerful, but I'm probably usingonly a very small fraction of its power. It seems easier and more intuitive that Photoshop v7. Had a brioef look at Element 3.0- looks great have distilled most the stuff everyday users might want. I usually wash my files through Neat-Image to cleanup sensor noise, which practically enables me to shoot at iso 800 plus almost all the time without fear of too much noise.

If your interested the site is http://www.neatimage.com , the site also had pre-done sensor parameters fro most nikons incl D70 and D100 at all the iso settings.

when u are shooting alot, speed and simplicity become an issue

Coolhand thanks for the heads up re neatimage, what version did you buy and how long have you been using it? Any problems with it?

Looks very interesting...anyone else using it.
Cheers

Nnnnsic wrote:Or you can even go The Gimp.

It's free.

(Having said that, I use Photoshop... but there are alternatives.)

Looks interesting but how do you download it?

Sorry I am use to the normal windows download box that pops up. This just takes me to a list of files which I did look through but couldn't find any install or anything?

W00DY

You go to this place and grab the top two files... and then you click on a mirror that's closest to you when it links you to the mirror page.

You'll probably need to install the GTK runtime first, unless you already have it, which I doubt you will.

[quote="Allan"]Coolhand thanks for the heads up re neatimage, what version did you buy and how long have you been using it? Any problems with it?

Looks very interesting...anyone else using it.
Cheers[/quote]

Allan,

if you visit the website there is a free trial download, its useful forthe basics and will let u experiment. The alternative is ?noise-ninja, but i haven't any experience with it. Neat image is very easy to use