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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:08 pm Post subject: Photoshop
Middlun's school have told her she needs Photoshop for art. IOt seems all very complex on Adobe website, monthly plans, clouds etc. All I want is basic photoshop on my PC at home. What version do I need?

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:13 pm Post subject:
You can't these days, they've turned it into a subscription model, just get an Adobe Photoshop subscription via Adobe Creative Cloud.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:13 pm Post subject:
Is this waht I need? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-Extended-Full-Version-Windows-Sealed/202352729297?hash=item2f1d299cd1:g:EOUAAOSwduZbNgy9

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:14 pm Post subject:
Wotcha Jo, how do? Does the ebay link do what I'm fter, i.e. just standalone PC product with no subs?

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:17 pm Post subject:
It does but it's an old version. Have they specified which version she needs? The latest is Adobe Photoshop CC - the Creative Cloud version.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:19 pm Post subject:
No they haven't. I think at that price I'll take a punt, thanks Jo

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 2:51 pm Post subject:

iirc there is a school and student package deal for a reasonable price.
if it is just to go on a PC and for basic ( but really rather clever ) stuff and it isn’t about learning current state of the art digi media but is for image creation/manipulation etc CS2 is available as an out of licence freebie

the full creative suite would take quite a specialised course to get full use of it , at least a BA and probably about 5 yrs post grad at a guess.

i would ask what package the school thinks is required

i bought CS3 in full when it was about a year old, photoshop is awesome but i only use a tiny part of it when i need to do a dry lab job that is even better than a wet lab job to make a photo look nice

or find the detail from a low resolution snap

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 9:36 pm Post subject:
I'll just mention Gimp, though I assume it is no use for the course. It's pretty good for free software. https://www.gimp.org/

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 18 6:50 am Post subject:
I use gimp, but this is what she needs for her course

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 18 10:53 am Post subject:
Well you never know: one day we might get new members who want advice on photo editing software...

Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 18 3:34 am Post subject:

Last time I bought Photoshop Elements (version 14, I think), you had to search pretty hard on the Adobe website, but the downloadable, non-subscription versions of all their products were hidden away on there somewhere. I would hope that if they do stop producing the one-off purchase versions of their software that someone else will come along and fill the gap in the market - I for one don't use it often enough to justify a monthly subscription, and I suspect that there are many others in the same boat.

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