Photoshop CS6

[Robin Jones]

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

[Iestyn Rhys Pritchard]

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

[mick murphy]

try Serif website they might have something similar i buy movie and website software from them, they cut the middle man out.
                  mick

[Tom Howard]

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!

[Robin Jones]

Cheers people  B)

[Tim Watts]

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.

[Robin Jones]

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):

[mike leahy]

fake

[Tim Watts]

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

[Robin Jones]

Awesome photos Tim!

[mick murphy]

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