John_F wrote:
That is $9.99 per what - day, week, month, year ??
Dngallagher wrote:
Per month.
Plus tax, which in MA brings the total to a whopping $10.61 US, or $127.32/year.
My photography budget is significantly higher than that, so that expense is down in the noise. For that matter, it would amount to 2-3 cups of coffee per month if I drank coffee.
For a deal that gives me programs that I use as much as I do, it's a no-brainer (although I exerted my brain thinking about it for a couple months initially).
As stated by others, LR is sufficiient for 80-90% of my images. 100% of my images go into LR (I've been hooked on the catalog for about 8-9 years now) and a few images go into PS for polishing.
In particular, the adjustment brush isn't something I handle well. It's waving a fuzzy round dot around and sometimes my fingers don't make it go where I want it to go. I find creating masks in PS significantly easier. People with finer motor control may not need that, but it sure helps me.
Moreover, there are so many other things that PS can do that I don't really even know half of them yet, let alone mastering them. I have a long way to go. But I've found the shake reduction useful (in minor shake cases) and I use layers in most of my image work in PS. PS also helps me make signs and posters for my business. That amounts to about 25-30% of my PS usage.
At Christmas we had a large family group so I took some group shots. The family is very chaotic, so even taking about 30 pictures of the group, there were no pictures where everyone looked good. Photoshop allowed me to swap heads to get a good composite of everyone.
I feel some shudders coming at me through my keyboard when I describe that sort of PP. But it leaves the family with a memory, and nobody was seriously transmogrified (at least in that event) so the family was happy with it.
Photoshop is not only extremely useful, It's FUN. And that's why I'm into photography.