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Non Caving Related => Photography & Film Making - Technical Talk. => Topic started by: Robin Jones on Mar 02, 2014, 04:35 PM

Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Robin Jones on Mar 02, 2014, 04:35 PM
Just looked at buying Photoshop CS6 and had a bit of a shock when I saw the price  :ohmy: .  Can anyone recommend a cheaper alternative?

Cheers,

Rob
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Iestyn Rhys Pritchard on Mar 02, 2014, 06:18 PM
Steal it!

Or, find a university student who can buy it at a massively reduced price

I've thought about buying it, but I'm too lazy to edit photos  :S
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: mick murphy on Mar 02, 2014, 10:01 PM
try Serif website they might have something similar i buy movie and website software from them, they cut the middle man out.
                  mick
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Tom Howard on Mar 03, 2014, 12:02 AM
GIMP is supposed to be good. It does all your RAW shizz and if you can work it should do whatever photoshop does. I have Photoshop CS2 as it was free, I can't use that. I tried CS4 (i think it was), couldn't work that so just give up and now use Fast stone image viewer which has about 10 things you can adjust on it haha, struggle to use that sometimes!

:P
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Robin Jones on Mar 03, 2014, 06:02 PM
Cheers people  B)
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Tim Watts on Mar 28, 2014, 02:59 AM
Fastone Image Viewer - genuinely free software - simple to use - does the basics very well indeed. I used to use it a lot prior to Lightroom.

Adobe Lightroom - much better for RAW images and is generally what i use for most stuff. Simple but amazing!

GIMP - Like a gueninunly 'free' version of Adobe Photoshop. Good but not AS good as photoshop. But its free and to be fair with a bit of know how does everything you could ever want. But its a step up in terms of learning how to use it compared to the previous 2 and in fairness is really aiming at far more than tweaking the odd photo and unless you're into full on graphic design its over kill for 99.9% of the time

Adobe Photoshop - rather like GIMP, Hard to use, and overkill for what you normally need. And of course ££££££'s

I have all four (by fair means or foul and Faststone or Lightroom will nail pretty much everything! GIMP for free can/will do anything you would ever need to do beyond this but much more complicated. Photoshop, even though i have latest version and have used it quite a bit over the years, i tend not to bother with for day to day photo tweeking.
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Robin Jones on Mar 28, 2014, 07:46 AM
I downloaded Gimp 2 in the end.  Like you say, it's really good.  Spent ages playing around with it merging different photos etc.

Turned this:


Into this (still not finished - need to add a rope):


Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: mike leahy on Mar 28, 2014, 04:20 PM
fake
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Tim Watts on Mar 28, 2014, 07:13 PM
Thanks to the GIMP my sons been upto all kinds of adventures!.....

https://www.facebook.com/tim.s.watts/media_set?set=a.10152787137465386.1073741836.703205385&type=3
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: Robin Jones on Mar 29, 2014, 07:56 AM
Awesome photos Tim!
Title: Photoshop CS6
Post by: mick murphy on Mar 29, 2014, 09:36 PM
Hi Sweetie
            Have just come across a peice of software that i bought from serif called photo zoom pro
 it out does adobephoto shop bicubic rendering  with s-spline technology can enlarge 1 million by 1 million
pixels without any loss of detail, its been designed to enlarge digital images, you can visit www.benvista.com for mre info i will bring my copy to the agm on thursday and if you bring your laptop you can download it from my disc with the serial numbers.
                                                          Mick