photoshop 6

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Got the above software as a gift,now need to learn more,know of any pdf i can
download or name of a good book for beginners,do tell ta
 
Conor said:
Got the above software as a gift,now need to learn more,know of any pdf i can
download or name of a good book for beginners,do tell ta
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Check the "help", or Google for a Photoshop tutorial, or buy one of the
hundreds of books on using Photoshop. You can probably even find a very
inexpensive used book on version 6 now.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."
 
Forget about Photoshop 6.
In digital years this is senile.
Get on your favorite internet search engine and look for:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
or
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006.

The second one is a lot easier to learn and use while the first one offers
more options but more difficult to learn.
 
Yves said:
Forget about Photoshop 6.
In digital years this is senile.
Get on your favorite internet search engine and look for:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
or Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006.
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I have Photoshop 6 (which I have not used much), and I recently got my
first digital camera. It seems to me that PS6 does the tricks on my
pictures. Why would Elements program be better "in the digital age" ?

D.
 
drocillo said:
Yves Alarie wrote:




I have Photoshop 6 (which I have not used much), and I recently got my
first digital camera. It seems to me that PS6 does the tricks on my
pictures. Why would Elements program be better "in the digital age" ?
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I don't think it's at all clear that Elements is superior to the
few-years-old version of Photoshop.

Elements is a non-professional version of Photoshop, and later versions
have some bells and whistles and user interface tweaks that earlier ones
don't, but just about anything that a non-professional needs to do can
be done perfectly by Photoshop 6.

Photoshop is a little harder to learn than less powerful programs, but
there is virtually no limit to what a skilled user can do with it.

I have both Photoshop 7 and Elements 2 and prefer Photoshop for almost
everything because of the greater flexibility and control it offers.

The latest version of Photoshop has a few new options, but their
marginal value to me is not worth the upgrade--maybe *next* version. ;-)

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."
 
I have no problem with Photoshop 6.
I am simply responding to the original poster keeping in mind his "for a
beginner" statement.
With the two softwares I recommended, a beginner will get a ton of help,
much more sophisticated help, than with Photoshop 6, while processing a
photo.
You can download both for a trial version. You will see all kinds of new
tools, not available in PS6 as well much easier ways to work with photos and
help as you work on your project at a much higher level than with PS 6.
Also, you will quickly find that PS6 has a much wider variety of tools, but
you need to learn and learn and learn. And then you need to REMEMBER all
this.
For the pros who work on this all day, obviously Photoshop is great. For us
who work with pictures only from time to time, it is a lot easier to use
Elements 4 or Microsoft Image. Of these two Microsoft Image is the easiest
to use.

Let me give you an example. Not unusual to get "red eye" when using the
flash with a digital camera. Try to remove this with PS6 and see how much
time it will take you to do this. It takes two seconds with Elements 4 or
Microsoft Image! Even for a beginner and there is absolutely nothing to
learn or remember. All automatic.

You can even download free software to remove "red eye" in two seconds:
www.picasa.com
www.faststone.org
Even these two will beat PS6 if all you are doing is basic retouching.
 
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