Photoshop generally refers to the software application from Adobe called Adobe Photoshop which you can buy either on its on or as part of a bundle from Adbobe.
Adobe Photoshop C3 is $650 US. I’m Running Adobe CS3 Master Collection which has a load of Adobe applications and that sells for $2499. This is the professional application for both Windows and Mac that all the professionals use.
You sound like you might be a student. If you can provide evidence of your status as a student to Adobe you can buy the Photoshop CS3 application for the heavily reduced price of $299 (For the extended version).
Adobe also have another application specifically for photographers. It is a work-flow program called Adobe Lightroom. Student pricing starts at $99 and for that you get a powerful program for downloading pictures from your camera and doing basic editing.
All Adobe software can be downloaded from the Adobe website at www.adobe.com for a 30 day free trial.
You don’t make it clear in your post if you are looking for Adobe Photoshop programs or for photo editing programs that would allow you to ‘photoshop’ a photo.
For ‘generic’ applications, you might want to look at GIMP - it has most of the features of Adobe Photoshop but it is free. I can’t say I enjoy using it because I’m used to Adobe Photoshop, but it works. You can check that out here http://www.gimp.org/ and download for free.
I hope that helps - if you need any help, just give me a shout or post back here :)
photoshop is normally bundled as part of “creative suite” these days, CS3 is the latest. its very expensive to get a lincense. $1000 easy, i guess (but i work in £’s lol), but thats for the license and all the other software in the bundle.
try a trial dld? to see if its what you want. or try other things maybe programs.
ayc wrote:
photoshop is normally bundled as part of “creative suite” these days
Photoshop is part of the CS3 grouping of products but can be bought independantly for the prices quoted above (current today, source: adobe.com)
ayc wrote:
i work in £’s lol
Me too!
ross whats the diff of adobe and the non adobe? w/e it is sry
sry if u already said that but i dnt think u did? im only 15 so im new in this whole photoshop thing
adobe are the company that make/supply the programs:
adobe photoshop
adobe illustrator
adobe acrobat
adobe flash (recently acquired from macromedia in a company buy out)
adobe fireworks (as flash)
adobe dreamweaver (as flash)
adobe image ready
adobe (whatever)
adobe make IT industry standard design programs really. in industry you include things like me, graphic designers, as a job title. these programs are expensive.
but other companies make programs that do similar things, and in some cases are free, as mentioned above.
if you were a professional person, and not 15 lol, you would be expected to know how to use all these adobe programs. but as you are 15, you just want a program to edit photos right? so go for a free program, or trial dld or whatever you get hold of. don’t worry about an adobe difference or the things i have mentioned!!!!!!!!!! just get a free/easy program to get ;)
search for “free photo editing software” on google or something lol
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
ross whats the diff of adobe and the non adobe? w/e it is sry
Adobe Photoshop CS3 is the industy standard application that photographers and designers have been using for years. It is where the phrases ‘to photoshop an image’ and ‘that photo has been photoshopped’ come from.
With Adobe Photoshop you could start with a blank canvas and draw/paint a photorealistic landscape. It is that powerful. It also has tools for adding text to images and so on.
Adobe Lightroom is designed from the ground up for a photographer. As it helps you arrange your photos into albums, re-touch images - forexampe removing spots from peoples faces. And fix photo colours. It does not have the same text and graphics tools as Photoshop.
I can’t say I’ve really used the non-adobe photo editing applications all that much. GIMP editor can more or less do anything Photoshop can.
If your Internet is fast enough you might want to check out these two ‘podcasts’ to see profesionals showing you how to do cool stuff in AdobePhotoshop:
The Photoshop Guys: http://www.photoshopusertv.com/
Pixel Perfect: http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/bea…
Most of these professionals use photoshop on a Mac computer but the application is the same on both Mac and PC - I used to use it on PC and now I’m using it on the Mac.
Photoshop is one of these programs where you can do loads and loads of stuff and you never stop learning. I was 15 when I started and I’m 18 now and I’m still finding new ways of doing things or ways to do things faster!
Does that help?
lol at kinda same reply ;) another designer right?! ;P
My business cards say I’m ‘Technical Director of Online Services’ for Company X where Company X is my company name.
When I’m not technically directing, I do enjoy pretending to be a designer. Or as they are branded these days, a ‘creative’.
Adobe also have an online photo editing ‘thing’. I’ve not tried it and I doubt I’ll be trying it any time soon. But it might be what you are looking for.
Also, try and get your hands on Adobe Photoshop CS3 even if it is just a trail. You might really like it. You can always save up, or get it for a birthday or Christmas depending on your circumstances. Adobe will offer educational pricing to high school students as well as college students.
Could you tell us what exactly you want to be doing with your editing software. For example, touching up/airbrushing. Adding text. Going to town with silly effects/filters. and so on…
lol fair play, its a wonderful lifestlye ;) lucky us!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh and please, noooooooooooo photoshop filters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not cool!!!!!! lol
yes i do want adobe!! i want to add words and all that!! Thats adobe right?!!
thanks for the websits ross!! i really apresiate that!
well add words, touching up. but the thing is i want to try everything that u can do with photoshop! if thats posible since u can do soo much! hehe!!
also like overlapping pics if thats touching up? Like putting a sertain pic (person) in a nice background?
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
yes i do want adobe!! i want to add words and all that!! Thats adobe right?!!
Well then, it is Photoshop from Adobe if you have a dollars
or
GIMP if you don’t. Both let you do text and touching up and so on…
dollars GIMP??!! what r u tlkn about?!!
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
also like overlapping pics if thats touching up? Like putting a sertain pic (person) in a nice background?
Oh, layers! That’s sure more than MS Paint can do. :P
Next you’ll be wanting to use layer masking. Goodness knows what after that!
ayc wrote:
lol fair play, its a wonderful lifestlye ;) lucky us!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh and please, noooooooooooo photoshop filters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not cool!!!!!! lol
On the subject of Photoshop, who in the right mind wants to use a 3px RED stroke on anything? I’ve not met anyone who has used that default tool setting. Silly adobe!
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
dollars GIMP??!! what r u tlkn about?!!
Dollars = the money required to buy photoshop.
GIMP = GIMP is the name of a free image editing software application found at http://www.gimp.com/. Many people quote GIMP as a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop…
omg this is going to drive me up the wall i swear!! im soo stupid on this topic its not even funny!!! grrr! >:0
whats MS paint?!! is it in Photoshop?
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
whats MS paint?!! is it in Photoshop?
Microsoft Paint - it is a really basic drawuing program on Windows!
ewww i hate Microsoft paint!! i dnt get that program at all!! i dont use it so ya!! hehe
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
ewww i hate Microsoft paint!! i dnt get that program at all!! i dont use it so ya!! hehe
LOL
really i dnt get how to use it!! its soo confusing to use!! really im dead serious
i mean i can cut the pic i want from the actual pic but i dnt get how to outline it so ya its confusing!! Its a mean program!!
photpshop will take you years of learning. but you can do cool things with it just by messing about with it without learning too much. try to find a trial download somewhere? even if its an earlier version such as v10.
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
really i dnt get how to use it!! its soo confusing to use!! really im dead serious
You should try the trial from Adobe. it is fun to learn.
OMG i actually got it!!! Woooo omg im soo excited now!!
thanks ayc and ross!! soo much!!
when you get the box for photoshop dose it come with a booklet to give you tips on the program?
yeah, but it is all built into the software aswell, go to help on the top menu bar. it is all covered. lots of reading though!!!! go to the ‘walk-through’ first i guess. goodluck and happy times with it!!!!!!!! its sooo much fun =]
plse_forgive_me_love wrote:
thanks ayc and ross!! soo much!! when you get the box for photoshop dose it come with a booklet to give you tips on the program?
I didn’t buy the boxed version - just the download off the site.
There are many places you can learn how to use Photoshop. The links I gave above are great. The Photoshop Guys are part of a larger organisation called NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) and they publish many books as well as giving free tips online :)
ok great thanks!!! :D
Do you know if id be able to get a mag. off that website?
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