I need help deciding on if I should buy photoshop for a one time price and learn to use it or get the Creative Cloud version and pay yearly.
New Photographer just learning!!
Any opinion is welcome! Thanks in advance.
chevman
Loc: Matthews, North Carolina
I don’t beleive you can buy Photoshop. You can stil buy Photoshop Elements though. Photoshop is only available as a subscription and you also get Lightroom for $9.99 per month. If you are just begining you might want to try Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018.
jpwa
Loc: Inland NorthWest
Depends on how often you are going to use it. Like Cheyman said you can't buy PS any longer. Personally, I go the subscription route for PS and LR.
Photoshop CC is the way I fly. Constant updates and for what you get, $10 a month is crazy cheap. I used to upgrade Photoshop when new versions came out, CC is far cheaper. Plus, you get Lightroom and all the updates for it as well.
You don't need to restrict yourself to Adobe Photoshop. There are several other programs that cost less and people swear by. There are even several free (my favorite price) programs that do a great job.
My personal favorite is Paint.NET. The only downside is it doesn't do RAW.
https://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Capturing moments wrote:
I need help deciding on if I should buy photoshop for a one time price and learn to use it or get the Creative Cloud version and pay yearly.
New Photographer just learning!!
Any opinion is welcome! Thanks in advance.
Using the Creative Cloud version, the ‘Help’ button on the main menu is viable. Great articles and videos.
I won't be buying any more Adobe products due to their abusive pricing that force you into over priced and over engineered products for what photographers need.
Photoshop Lightroom stand alone is no longer sold and may not be supported. If you totally 'Live' in the edit mode and/or are a professional, then Adobe LR is most likely for you. If you don't and don't need many of the extensive capabilities of LR that you may never use, then there are numerous, extremely capable, stand alone substitute programs out there for less than $100, that will probably meet and/or exceed your needs....Luminar, Capture One, Elements, Paintshop, PicMonkey, etc. Good Luck with whatever you choose.
I have another thought for you. Affinity. I've been using Photoshop since 2005, plus or minus...I don't recall when I bought my first version. I'm extremely comfortable with Photoshop. However my students mentioned Affinity, so of course I had to check it out. It actually sounds like Photoshop in its early days. I think I paid $49, at a time when they were selling it for 49 British pounds, and 49 Euros, get the picture? They were wanting to 'get it out there' at an initial low price. So I bought it. I have to tell you, I am more than impressed, and it accommodates RAW. I think this program is going to give Photoshop a run-for-its-money. So I recommend that you, any other member of UHH, to check out Affinity.
cjc2
Loc: Hellertown PA
SteveTog wrote:
I won't be buying any more Adobe products due to their abusive pricing that force you into over priced and over engineered products for what photographers need.
Abusive? Really? How much do you pay a month for your Cable TV/Satellite TV? Internet? Cell Phone? Etc? If you don't want it, don't buy it. For those of use who use it heavily, it's quite a bargain! It's only the industry standard and the software against which all other (of similar function) are measured.
SteveTog wrote:
I won't be buying any more Adobe products due to their abusive pricing that force you into over priced and over engineered products for what photographers need.
$10.00/mo. is a "killer". I had to give up a hamburger, fries, and a coke/mo. to pay for mine.
elliott937 wrote:
I have another thought for you. Affinity. I've been using Photoshop since 2005, plus or minus...I don't recall when I bought my first version. I'm extremely comfortable with Photoshop. However my students mentioned Affinity, so of course I had to check it out. It actually sounds like Photoshop in its early days. I think I paid $49, at a time when they were selling it for 49 British pounds, and 49 Euros, get the picture? They were wanting to 'get it out there' at an initial low price. So I bought it. I have to tell you, I am more than impressed, and it accommodates RAW. I think this program is going to give Photoshop a run-for-its-money. So I recommend that you, any other member of UHH, to check out Affinity.
I have another thought for you. Affinity. I've ... (
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"Affinity" - I think that I shall give that a try....
Currently I am making use of Photoshop CS-5 (no LR) ... After Up-Loading from my memory card, I use Adobe "bridge", and open the RAW files into Camera RAW to do my "Pre-Edits". Then open with CS-5 and use NIK Software to do most of my edits, and CS-5 to crop and finish, and or resize for the final print (and jpg for posting) . Two different types of images = One for printing (TIF) and the other (jpg - with "watermark) for posting anywhere on-line.
I store the Out of Camera RAW files in a separate portable Hard-Drive, and the prints to another, long with the "postable" jpg's.... Noting is kept on my computer as I leave that for the Work and Creativity of the images.
I tried LR and just would not get my head around it - and Tried to for over a Month... Did not really have the time to learn another program that did essentially the same thing I was doing without LR... I purchased LR when one could still buy it on a DVD..... I gave it to my son and he likes it and uses it. (Good for him - and got me "off the hook" for thinking of a good birthday gift... (Josh = if you are reading this, now you know.)
LR is a good "Cataloging System" with a RAW editor wrapped into it.... I just would rather make photographic images - than take the time to learn something that I was doing good anyway.
((Thank You "Elliott937" for posting about the Affinity editor.))
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Found this on YouTube...... Thank you again Elliott.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFCpAvzIUo-0-
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James!! Hello neighbor! St. Louis here, live downtown.
I've used CS5 (along with BRIDGE) ever since I bought it. I skipped CS6, planned to buy CS7 until I learned that it didn't exist, but CC was the next Adobe offering. Like you, I'm very happy with CS5.
Here's another secret (?) for you. When our Secretary of Home Land Security threatened to ban all electronics (bigger than a cell phone) in the cabin of flights coming into the US, and would probably make the same ban on all flights out of the US, that would suggest I could not take my Canon 5DII and lenses with me. So, learning here about the Lumix small $500 camera that also took RAW, I purchased it. When we traveled in the Baltic last summer, I took many captures on that small camera. Upon return, I learned that my CS5/Bridge would -not- open the RAW files from the Lumix. What do I do? I had not purchased Affinity yet, but at my recommendation, a friend of mine did. Off to his house, pop the memory card into his computer, and 'Victory', for Affinity did open the RAW files from my Lumix camera. Hence, I bought Affinity. BTW, it looks just like Photoshop, and many many tools. And, once I do my post production (on my Raw file) in Affinity, I simply export it as a Photoshop files and...there it is, in my Photoshop CS5. My Lumix/RAW/not-to-open-in-CS5 problem was solved. Now, I'm intrigued by Affinity. From my favorite store, Amazon, during Christmas time, they offered the Affinity hard back book, called Work Book, and it looks impressive. Last fall, I bought an Affinity book via Amazon for my Kindle. Ready to laugh? It was all in German. Hey, I paid less than $10, so I'm okay with that.
And you are most welcome James for my posting about Affinity. I've enjoyed what I have read and learned from fellow members here, and feel I should make like contributions when the opportunity arrises.
Bill
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