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Hi all,
I am considering purchasing Photoshop CS4.
It seems to be priced around £400 from various sources but I have seen it on Ebay for as little as £100.......
Does anyone have any advise on buying it this way with regard to Licenses etc.
Would it be advisable to take this route?
John
well thats what I call a clear answer, thanks Cathy, I will take that as sound advise. No further comments needed.
John
If you want a discount price...probably best to join a photographic course...A'level.....B'Tec...bla bla and then you can get a student package......which is much cheaper otherwise its full price I'm afraid.
Don't touch e-bay at all.....it will be a duffer.
Elements is much cheaper and will probably do the job. link
ooops.....the £400 referred to an upgrade. Looks like I'm going to have to dig deeper.
Thanks all
While i am on the subject, is there any versions of this or is it just CS4 ?
I have Elements 7, but someone has advised me that its very limited in colour management.........
Colour Management.
If you mean in terms of printed output, the natural selection is to let the software manage that on the basis of the selected paper icc profile. I cannot see that Elements will be any different from PS in those respects. In fact - if it is, I will be staggered. Further, In terms of on-screen image colour management, again, I'll be staggered if you cannot select a default of AdobeRGB.
Happy to be corrected here...
Thanks Mike, you are most probably right.
My problem is that I do not print my own photos (too scared to buy a printer based on the problems I read on here....lol).
I want to use a lab (ProAm Imaging) and have downloaded vtheir profile. The problem with Elements is that it will not let me convert to the labs profile.
I can convert to that profile at the point where I export my Raw files from Lightroom but I have been advised that I should only convert to the labs profile AFTER i have carried out any processing.
Also, I am finding all this very confusing and thought it might be better to stick to one programe.
john
You would normally save the Lab profile in Your profile folder...
C drive > Windows> System 32>spool> Drivers>Colour
Then in Elements once you have finished all your processing:...Convert to profile> Select the Profile from the drop down menu.
Then again I don't have Elements.
In Elements when you select "Convert colour profile" you only get 3 options....
Remove profile
Apply sRGB
Apply Adobe RGB
There dosent seem to be any way of selecting the labs profile even thought it is installed and available to lightroom
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