I'd recommend Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (currently on v2.1) - gets rid of a lot of stuff a photographer wouldn't use, simplifies the workflow and provide a great tagging/cataloguing system. I couldn't cope without it now. A lot cheaper than PS-CS4 but quite a bit more expensive than PSE7.
Does his PC have plenty of RAM? Adobe recommend 1GB for Lightroom but I think 2GB is needed.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 14 December 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never used Lightroom and don't know the extent of it's processing tools, but it sounds like a great idea. Alternately, maybe you could find someone selling CS3. Very few people are upgrading to CS4 at this point.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 December 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
lightroom is a good idea if he's going to use it for his photography. not sure about the cost difference tho.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 14 December 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
If he's a Mac user, then Aperture is a very good, photographer-centric image editing app. Lightroom can be considered Adobe's response to Aperture.
― TEENAGE DIALECTICS (libcrypt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
They have a CS4?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 14 December 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, and it's dope.
― bachmann boehner overdrive (kenan), Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hi2d-rNV3wqwKS82-H4VtDYcEI5Q?docId=CNG.640a4b54110c821400e5cddea60d6b2b.611
:O
― conrad, Thursday, 7 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― ledge, Thursday, 7 October 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm finding it weird that there are a number of people on here & the ilphotography threads say they can't afford Photoshop and Lightroom, but have been on other threads talking about acquiring films/tv and music via certain internet wonders of sharing.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
adobe products have finally achieved gotten bloated with enough bad features to be an apt fit for microsoft
― akm, Friday, 8 October 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― www.askjeeves.com (Z S), Friday, 8 October 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
OH FUCK! oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 8 October 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
this is all just rumor and speculation right now anyway.
― akm, Friday, 8 October 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
:P
― conrad, Friday, 8 October 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I've just been reading that recent editions of photoshop need to have a certain resolution of screen before they will allow you to save properly. 1024x600 which it doesn't look like I can access on my computer. I'm just wondering if it has always been like that or if it might be possible to get hold of an older version and use it successfully.Without the ability to save things the application's usefulness is sorely limited.
Is this a problem that other image editing software suffer from. Or am I better trying something like Gimp?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
AT the moment I just get no dialogue box coming up when i press save as & the only possible way of saving is to turn off the image at the x at which point it asks if you want to save the image that's being thrown away but then you can't come back and save differing versions of the same project.Kind of sux really.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
ive used ps since the pre-creative suite days up to cs5 don't know what you're referring to about required resolution. no dialogue box for 'save as' sounds like your photoshop install is corrupted
― am0n, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
wow you've seen a lot of shops in your time!
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
i can tell from some of the pixels
― am0n, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i've never run into any issue re: screen resolution and saving either, sorry!
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
try this¿?
http://www.nextgenupdate.com/forums/gfx-tutorials/394721-fixed-photoshop-save-problem.html
― am0n, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I'm thrilled that they've finally caught up to the rest of the world (and the rest of their apps) and made CMD+Z the all-around go-backward function, but damn. It's going to take me another five years to quit hitting OPTION+CMD+Z to go backward more than a step.
― pplains, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Same with swapping shift-resize!
― sktsh, Friday, 2 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Good Lord, that too.
Why even still have the little lock icon up there if it doesn't do anything?
Though, yes, the new way is better.
― pplains, Friday, 2 November 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
oh man that made me so angry and perplexed the first time I fired up the new version
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
i have a feeling adobe broke photoshop elements on my mac but blames apple and offers a "license fixing tool" that doesn't work in order for me to agree to language that it is not responsible for breaking photoshop elements on my mac in any way. cool trump-y move.
― cheese canopy (map), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
I attempted to open an image of a $50 bill today and GOOD LORD, I had no idea ps was so psssy about that sort of thing.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Oh yes. I have actually been there before.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
Fortunately, Illustrator doesn't give a shit – which is so true for most of what I try to use illustrator for.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/20/adobe-lightroom-ios-update-photos-deleted/OOPS
― calstars, Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link