Is this software complicated to use? I have never used actual photo editing software before
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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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the software works for me. I don't use it much and it is not intuitive but it does the job. take a deep breath and let go of your frustration.... :) I hope this helps
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Yeah,it's really easy to use. Before buying it, look at YouTube video for a 2nd opinion. I've been using photoshop for the last two and half years, so yes you can, but there is not a layout for a flyer. You have to do it form scrap and do it by layers. Over all it's easier to use then photoshop CS5. The video editor is easy to use but recommend watching YouTube videos before hand. It will help I recommend having a I7(2.4ghz), and 8gb of ram for the best performance. This program will use a lot of the CPU. So if your rendering don't anything else or the program will crash.
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Don't bother. Highly specialized apps (like those in CS3) you want to run natively. And the mac version is very good. Call Adobe; they DO offer a cross-platform upgrade (there is cost, but it's significantly less than buying a new product). You'll be much happier in the long run, and save time running them natively.
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Only the simplest of pictures can be digitized. If you have more than a few colors, it won't work. I digitized a silhouette which was only one color and it did well. A much more sophisticated program could digitize a detailed photo, but not this one. But, I will say this is a good program to begin with. I wrote a long review if you can find it a few months ago.
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Yes, but I'm not real crazy about it. I can't figure out how to edit or set anything aside or anything else. But, then I was never any good at computer stuff. I'm lucky to have been able to figure out how to put the pics on the computer. Thank goodness it spells out directions as you do it. Good luck.
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I've used Picasa with this machine and it works very fast. It easily applies the included fixes (contrast, hue/color saturation, etc. ) with no lag. Picasa is a lot less resource intensive then photoshop though. I take pictures with a 7.1 megapixel camera - the average photo is about 3.5megs. The mousepad takes getting used to when you want drag and drop things but you get used to it.
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I use Photoshop Element which is provided with the tablet to edit and retouch my photos and I found it is easy to do so. The edited photo were awesome.
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I use Paint.net (free) and Photoshop. I don;t know what, if anything, comes with the camera software-wise.
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Sorry can't help. I have this software but have never tried it. I import into Lightroom and work there.
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Machine setup is simple. Learning the software takes time. You *could* be cutting projects the first day but whether they'll be successful projects depends on your ability to learn enough of the software to operate the machine safely and correctly. I consider myself to be computer knowledgeable and it still took me 3 months to get comfortable with the process. Yes, you can do pictures, depending on the type of picture. You'll likely need additional photo editing software or drawing software to accomplish that. This is not a toy. There's a lot to learn to successfully operate this machine.
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Thats what i am using. i had used an earlier version of the program that i liked better, but this worked. had trouble finding how to use photos, but then i put them on a flash drive and they were easy to use. had trouble finding them on my hard drive. works fine.
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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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Yes, you can really this is the best edit program I have ever had easy to use, I would say this program is at least worth $250 :)
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I have no hesitation on recommending. The built in software for uploading photos to a computer doesn't come with instructions but was fairly simple & only took a out 5 minutes to figure out where the jpeg's were to copy them.
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Yes most do, but a good photo editing program is best to use. I recommend lightroom.
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When the first series Creative Suite came out, I upgraded from Photoshop to CS1. Great! What I didn't know is, I would never, ever, ever use Illustrator or the other programs. I ONLY used Photoshop. But I've been stuck because as you correctly point out, Wirtzy, you can't upgrade from a suites package back to a single program. My workaround (certainly not an option for many, many Photoshop users), is to swap downward for the latest Photoshop Elements and make much more use of Lightroom (which is an excellent photo editing program). I won't have a CMYK color palette and maybe there will come a day when that's a problem, but I use it so rarely that I just don't care to worry about it.