I need photo editing and masking tool. Should i get Cs6 , lightroom or elements?
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Aloha Terri B CS6 is what edit and mask with, more than anything else I highly recommend it. Started out with photoshop when it 1st came out (a million years ago it seems). go to applebysanimalsdotcom will show you what you can achieve. Good luck Gregory
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They are two very different products and they complement each other very nicely. Lightroom is great for workflow, editing lots of images in a short time. Photoshop works with lightroom to make the deeper edits to images that need that second step of editing. It's not that a ton can be done in LightRoom that PS can't do, it's more of a workflow and speed thing. LR is an amazing program that can handle 90% of the updates / image corrections you will want to make as a photographer.
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Hi Kateyn, I have use the photo side of this software for 10+ years to do any number of editing. I would say it is not a 100% match to Photoshop feature for feature, but it is all that a sophisticated non-professional needs in a photo editor. You can do so much with it and the learning curve is not so steep. Has very useful tutuorials and plenty of online forums with great user interaction. It all comes down to price, features and your intended use. It is a wonderful application for the price. I like to have fun editing my photos and to this day, I have never felt a need to spend the extra money for Photoshop. I hope this helped. :-)
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To be honest, Photoshop Elements isn't all that great compared to the other Photoshops, at least not in my opinion. I really recommend, if you're really into artistic stuff, getting Adobe Photoshop 7 or higher (I use CS2 myself, and have for a long time, though I've never tried CS3+)... Also, there are free programs all over the internet such as openCanvas and GIMP. I don't think this exactly answered your question, but, I just thought it was something that could be beneficial to you. (: download links: openCanvas1.1(the only free version): http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
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The quick answer is no, you do not need the subscription. LightRoom can be a stand alone software that doesn't require the subscription. The $10 subscription is called the photographers bundle and includes Photoshop as well as Lightroom for those that want to do more with their images than LR can like making composites. The subscription also allows for the periodoc updates that occur with software to continually keep everything up to date. It's a good deal if you want PS as well as LR but don't need or want the other programs that are in the creative suite. The creative suite is the only other way to get PS now(it's no longer sold as a stand alone option) and is $50/month or more. With all that info, Adobe has a version of LR that is available for tablets(iPads right now) but that does need to be associated with the subscription.
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Yes. This is the standalone Lightroom application which you pay for once. I am a photographer and use Lightroom most of the time, even though I have CS6. Creative cloud will be useful if you need the power of Photoshop for image manipulation & creation. Lightroom as a stand alone is more than good enough for image enhancement and localised adjustments.
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I know the lay out a little bit already after learning some of the Photoshop Elements layout. I haven't found it too complicated and here is the reason. I watched about 20 hrs. of Tutorials on You Tube and adobe TV. Anthony Morganti, Tim Grey, Robert Rodriquez Jr. (make sure it's Jr.) and others I can't remember the name of right this minute. There is a lady on Adobe TV (free too) that goes through the whole program, one thing at a time. B & H puts free tutorials on You Tube to promote sales. I just sat and watched them "develop" their pictures and enjoyed it. After awhile I became familiar with the program tools for developing and can do quite a bit with it just from watching other people work. It's a great program. Photoshop will do a lot of stuff that Lightroom won't do and Lightroom does a really good job bringing out the best in your photo's. I would say you probably are going to need both programs eventually. If you shop around you can find Lightroom for around a hundred and Elements for a little less. Both compliment each other nicely. Lightroom was the most important for me and it's not a pixel editor so it is non-destructive to the images. Photoshop Elements will allow you to play with the photo's, copy and past thing form one picture into another, edit badly damaged photo's and a whole lot of stuff. Lightroom allows color manipulation, sharpening, all kinds of enhancements to you pictures. I think it was pretty easy to learn the way I did it. Just watching videos until I understood the basics, then playing with it, then going back and watching specific tutorials on certain things when I need to.
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Final Cut's keyer is okay. Make sure your screen is evenly lit and shadow free for the best results. The low budget movie I'm working on currently I use the node based compositor in Blender. Which is a free, open source program but very powerful.
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Hello Thomas, This is Clive from EZbackgrounds. Teresa's answer is correct. The only thing I would add is that the Corel PaintShop Pro compatible package is separate and can be viewed by entering "digital backgrounds paintshop pro" into the Amazon search engine. If you are looking for the best investment and don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on Photoshop, I would recommend the Photoshop Elements. I do believe that Adobe is currently offering a Photoshop/Lightroom combo special for only $10 a month. Thank you for your inquiry. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us anytime. Best Regards, Clive Hello Thomas, This is Clive from EZbackgrounds. Teresa's answer is correct. The only thing I would add is that the Corel PaintShop Pro compatible package is separate and can be viewed by entering "digital backgrounds paintshop pro" into the Amazon search engine. If you are looking for the best investment and don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on Photoshop, I would recommend the Photoshop Elements. I do believe that Adobe is currently offering a Photoshop/Lightroom combo special for only $10 a month. Thank you for your inquiry. If you have any other questions, feel free to... » Read More Hello Thomas, This is Clive from EZbackgrounds. Teresa's answer is correct. The only thing I would add is that the Corel PaintShop Pro compatible package is separate and can be viewed by entering "digital backgrounds paintshop pro" into the Amazon search engine. If you are looking for the best investment and don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on Photoshop, I would recommend the Photoshop Elements. I do believe that Adobe is currently offering a Photoshop/Lightroom combo special for only $10 a month. Thank you for your inquiry. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us anytime. Best Regards, Clive « Show Less
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There is a world of difference and improvement between LR2 and LR4. That said, Lightroom 5 is now in Beta testing and will be released sometime in the next very few months. I would wait for that. LR5 will contain some actions that currently have to be accomplished by going out of LR into either Photoshop, Elements, or some other program. For the price, Lightroom is so far superior to anything else I can think of that I'd certainly upgrade. Besides, you'll get a price break since you already own LR2.
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I quit using Elements 9 because it was so complicated. I had elements 6 and thought 9 might be better. I use Microsoft Digital Imaging Anniversary Edition 2006 and Picasa which is free and it does everything I want to do and them some. I save everything in jpeg. When saving in Digital imaging I have a choice in which format I want to save a picture in. If your picture is in Elements 9 go to file and save as and you will have a choice of the format.
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I would recommend you try the Corel Paintshop Pro X5 Suite. It's affordabe and easy to use. I' ve been using this for 2 years now and it helps me alot in my photo and video works. Good luck.
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I'm not sure what type of software you currently are using but I've been using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to process, catalog and store all of my RAW images. However, there are many free RAW image processors available. I would suggest doing a google search for free RAW image processing software and try some out. Hope this helps!
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Yes, but it is more program than you probably need if you are just doing a few personal photos and will not be scanning to and editing in Tiff formate. Adobe also has their Photoshop Elements which should do quite well for you. Plus I believe you can still buy this one (versus rental method of full Photoshop) for about $150 or less. I bought it packaged with Premiere (video editing) a couple years ago. Have used it as well as an older version of Photoshop to scan and edit old photos. It also opens and edits PSD files
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If you really want to use all the images then yes you need photoshop as many of the files are photoshop files and use layers.
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The specific software that is associated with this question is no longer available. If you're looking at a used copy or something, it only works with Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. However, the current version of this software, not available through Amazon, as far as I can tell, can be purchased through Google. https://www.google.com/nikcollection/ The updated software works with Aperture, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and other products. I would save your money, not buy this version, and purchase the modern one that will do what you want, and probably work a lot better.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 you can't go wrong with this program! Will do all you ask and much MORE! All for $65! I like my Epson scanner it does a great job for a great price!! Hope this helps!