View Full Version : which PS is best
burgoid
06-19-2005, 7:46 AM
hey everyone i am looking at getting PS but first iwas just wondering wat can be done on it and which is the best version to buy. also how userfriendly is it, is it possible to just jump straight on a pretty much just figure it out be touch or does it take time and patient :-/ ?
cheers dave
Obliviou$
06-19-2005, 8:11 AM
You mean what can't be done with it? :)
PS is user friendly if you know what you're doing.. (eh..)
It does require some time to settle into. I probably only know 5% of what I can do in Photoshop, though that's all I need to do my images "right".
For digital photographing a good post prossesing program is alpha-omega.
Photoshop CS2 is the best version out there at the moment.
But you could look into elements which is much cheaper and got most of the things you need to prosses the pictures.
It's also very user friendly.
Andreas Werth
06-19-2005, 8:19 AM
I heard that the newest version CS2 is very hardware demanding...
Thats the reason why i donīt want to update inspite of the new features (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/newfeatures.html).
Perhaps after the next hardware update ;-)
Obliviou$
06-19-2005, 8:38 AM
Your alot of help Andreas :) sRGB works great, and now this link!
I never quite understood what bridge was, now I know.. It's awesome!
CS2 IMO is the best thing going for image manipulation. I really don't think photoshop is an "easy" peice of software to use, until you learn how to do it. Then it becomes really simple. Andreas, in my experience CS2 and CS are about the same in terms of demand on your computer. There are exceptions, bridge does take a while to load... and CS2's HDR function really puts a demand on your hardware. I'm sure there are other things that might do so. Honestly though, I'm not sure it's worth the upgrade if you already have CS. CS does a lot already.
paradise
06-19-2005, 12:10 PM
While I think CS2 is a lot better, even at existing features (like smart sharpen), the bridge would be great if it was not slow like a slug, so I dont use it. I do all my stuff in Rawshooter Essentials, still the best RAW processing program I have found so far. And it opens them directly in PS so there is very smooth integration.
burgoid
06-19-2005, 11:28 PM
wo wo woo, slow down tiger, keeping in mind i know absolutley nothing about PS (besides the fact that it can be called PS :) when you are all talking about sharpening the image ect. does that mean removing any nosie ect. from it. and when i was looking through that link above i saw that bit where it removed the tattoo, that is amazing but is it hard to do?
Obliviou$
06-20-2005, 4:38 AM
Not that hard when you get the hang of it. Almost everyone in here use that feature to get ridd of unwanted stuff in there tanks.
Sharpening is quite the opposite of noise removal. When you sharpen the image, you make it look...sharper, as in stronger focus, more crisp etc...
Though to sharp brings a lot of noise.
If your computer is up to par (chip and RAM wise), then go the CS2 route. If not, then I'd stick with CS instead.
Dracofish
06-20-2005, 2:10 PM
I've recently switched from CS to CS2 and it's much more demanding on my computer. Some things literally make the screen go white and I just have to sit and wait a few minutes for the computer to catch up. It's absolutely horrible when I'm working on a large .tif file. My computer is a few years old and I can't afford to upgrade it yet. We've added as much RAM as we possibly can to it and the next step is upgrading the processor, which won't do that much in the way of help because we have a first generation Pentium 4.
You'd think with the job that my b/f does every day (network administration and security) we'd have the most tweeked out computer out there, but it's pretty much the opposite, haha.
Is there a reason why you're working with the TIFF instead of the NEF?
I'd definitely look at upgrading both the mobo and RAM when you get around it. The sweetspot for CS2 is around 2 GB of RAM. :-(
Tony7683
06-20-2005, 3:23 PM
Is there a reason why you're working with the TIFF instead of the NEF?
I'd definitely look at upgrading both the mobo and RAM when you get around it. The sweetspot for CS2 is around 2 GB of RAM. :-(
2 GB of 333mhz ram maybe
1 GB of 400 TCDDR will eat that shite up like it was covered in whipped cream (LMAO!)
But seriously, if you want to have visual stability in a large platform like that, SLI is the only way to go IMO, and thats MUCHO dollars, omg twin 6800 GT's!
I have an inferior comp with 1 GB 333 and Radeon 9800 256mb and it does well in the CS trial I use (cause I'm cheap like that and I got free software too)
Tony
Obliviou$
06-20-2005, 6:33 PM
My comp has 768MB 333 ram and Radeon x800pro, works fine. Though a little slow sometimes. Could have use of more ram!
burgoid
06-20-2005, 8:04 PM
ok well on saturday i'm taking a tafe course to learn how to use it, hopefully all goes well
Dracofish
06-20-2005, 10:12 PM
Not sure what you mean by NEF. If that's what you're camera calls it's RAW files, mine is .CR2. I save in that as well, but when I'm working with prints or large panoramas, those are converted to .tif files from the .CR2 so I can modify them and keep the original as is. That and PS's Photomerge automation automatically converts the finished product to .tif to make up the panorama.