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As i have found out about all these types of photography and want to start my own buisness i need a verry good/professional type of photography program which adobe photoshop would you advice? i am thinking of photoshop 5 as it is highly rated and costs 130 or photoshop 7 but this is 526, does this contain evry tool i will need for doing all different things with my photos to sell to customers? what do you suggest? (my budget is about 550)
Jon
Photoshop 7 contains just about every tool you will ever need to do anything to an image, even create one from scratch - however it's a massively complicated program to use and you will almost certainly need a good book. I would suggest looking at a graphics tablet as well - using a mouse is not precise enough - take a look at the Wacom Graphire or Intuos range. Have you considered PaintShop pro as an alternative to Photoshop ?? you may well find that you never use most of the features that Photoshop provides - in which case it's a bit of a waste of money. PSP will resize images and has a fair number of effects filters built in. Also it costs a lot less.
Hope this helps
Frank
Unless you are shooting digitally, PS7 has the advantage of the healing brush feature - a sort of 'clone tool on steroids'. Very useful on scanned images as it doesn't do the general blurring that dust removal programmes with scanners do.
Jon, to supply images professionally, you will need to be able to handle the file formats well. I do not know what PSP (a fine programme) covers in this respect, so check. PS has always catered not just for the RGB of the web, but CMYK and LAB as well and this was one of the original factors of its success. It does have a steep learning curve and is as complex as you want to dig (much like photography really!) but I don't know many pros that capture digitally or scan that don't use it. As you will end up aspiring to it or having to get it, it may be advisable to bite the bullet, shell out and learn it whilst your mortgage doesn't depend upon it! Just don't expect to be an expert overnight!
DP
Jon,
There are thousands of sites and hundreds of good books and several magazines dedicated to various levels of users of Photoshop. There are plenty of tutorials here. And on the Adobe site.
But I would heartily recommend that one of the best ways to self-learn is from a book. Do a search through these forums as book recommendations were made very recently. Another good way to learn would be to enroll on ManCAT's online course - money well spent for a beginner [Just search on Google for 'mancat'].
Depending on what you want to do within photoshop, the learning curve ahead of you for using the programme could be as in depth as for using your camera kit to the full.
Have fun with it and experiment once you have the basics.
DP
Jon, I read in another forum that you are giving away a tripod for free.
As you seem to be a generous sort of a guy, I can offer you my copy of Photoshop 5.5 Visual Quick Start book.
E-mail me your address and I'll send it to you. It's not the best book (it's B+W print), but heh, it's FREE. Just remember me when you're a top pro an I want a pit lane pass...
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