Photoshop for Photography?

Samantha

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I'm looking into getting Photoshop for my photography but I'm not really sure which version I should get. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Adobe Photoshop CS4? Or if you have any other suggestions......
 
Lightroom is good for editing tons of photos at once, and Photoshop is more of the creative side where you can manipulate and do all these cool effects and stuff that Lightroom cannot do.


I will say to get Photoshop CS4, which can do almost everything that Lightroom can, but more.
 
Adobe Lightroom is not Photoshop, there is a difference between the two.

Personally I use both Lightroom 2.3 and Photoshop CS3.

Lightroom is a superb program, I would say better than CS3. It is far better as a photo organizer, and is a powerful photo editor. I would say I can edit 95% of my images with it. Should any images need more work then I export straight to CS3 for pixel based work or to use Plug-ins that I have for CS3. I could not operate my work flow as well without having both.

I advise you do more research and download one month trials of both programs before deciding.

And check this site for video tutorials of both programs to see what they can do..

http://www.thedigitalphotographyconnection.com/index.php

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You can download Photofiltre for free, just Google it. I personally like it, and if you go on Youtube you can get tutorials on how to do really neat stuff.
A few features are crop, resize, and cut, copy and paste of course.
You can put text on the picture as well.
You can outline a shape then cut it and paste it on a new background, then blur the edges if you want. You may also use the 'clone stamp' which makes a duplicate of the outlined shape right in the same picture. You can revive colors, put the picture to grayscale, sepia, and many other tones. A really fun thing to do is try out the different textures. You can even convert the picture to make it look like a watercolor or sketch. There's much much more, so try it out.


There's also picnik.com but you can't do too much on it. Good luck!
 
The most bang for the buck for a photographer would be Lightroom 2.

Photoshop CS4 is filled with tools used by post production and pre-press professionals you will never use as a photographer
 
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