Photoshop

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I'm 15 and going into 5th year and I'm hoping to do Photography in college in Dun Laoighre, so I was just wondering is there any relatively cheap(but still decent enough) Photoshop equipment in shops/internet.
Thanks.

.Longshanks.

Cecelia Whining Zap wrote: »

I'm 15 and going into 5th year and I'm hoping to do Photography in college in Dun Laoighre, so I was just wondering is there any relatively cheap(but still decent enough) Photoshop equipment in shops/internet.
Thanks.

GIMP is free and quite powerful

Kbeg3

As you're a student you should be entitled to a Student Edition of Adobe Photoshop

Kintarō Hattori

Photoshop Elements is a Joe Soap version of Photoshop. It's usually around the €100 mark but you might be able to pick up an older copy somewhere cheap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop_Elements

bullpost

I'd say start with the Gimp - its free and it'll teach you all the theory up to advanced topics , such as layers and masks.
All this knowledge is applicable to photoshop , though interfaces are different.

Alternatively if you have some cash get a student version of photoshop here:
http://www.micromail.com/studentsoftware/adobestudents.htm

Pete67

Or here---> http://www.software4students.ie/Adobe_Photoshop_Ext__CS4_Student_Edition__PC-details.aspx for Eur 187

Just to let you know you will need to send proof of your student status to Adobe to get the licence key. They will accept a letter from your school on headed paper confirming that you are a full time tudent.

Mycroft H

bullpost wrote: »

I'd say start with the Gimp - its free and it'll teach you all the theory up to advanced topics , such as layers and masks.

I found it incredibly complicated for a beginner tool. Very much in the very deep end.

Get photoshop elements 6 or 7. (not a lot of difference between 6 and 7)

AnCatDubh

The Gimp needs a little patience but it's incredibly powerful - the truth be known, it will do what most photoshop users need to do but in a different way. You can also apply Gimpshop to your Gimpto make it 'look' similar to photoshop. Photoshop does have more functionality but i've never found myself looking for such functionality (maybe that shows in my work and perhaps I should get my hands on it ). Then again, it depends on whether you want to be a photographer or a digital touch up artist or a bit of both.

The student edition of photoshop would appear to be the best way forward for you. If memory serves me correctly though, your installation can not be used for anything which is commercial - which sounds ok too, but it is one to be careful of into the future when your photography gets to being a salable item You are bound not to use your student version.

Good luck with it.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Do ya download GIMP?

.Longshanks.

Cecelia Whining Zap wrote: »

Do ya download GIMP?

Think about....how else would you get a free program off the internet?
First result in google

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I'm on the website here now and clicked into downloads and clicked the download thing but how do I actually download it?
There are roughly 30 of links like these:
patch-2.6.7.bz2.md5
patch-2.6.7.bz2
gimp-2.6.7.tar.bz2.md5
0.0_LATEST-IS-2.6.7
README

This is the link for the page I'm on:
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

Mycroft H

Cecelia Whining Zap wrote: »

I'm on the website here now and clicked into downloads and clicked the download thing but how do I actually download it?
There are roughly 30 of links like these:
patch-2.6.7.bz2.md5
patch-2.6.7.bz2
gimp-2.6.7.tar.bz2.md5
0.0_LATEST-IS-2.6.7
README

This is the link for the page I'm on:
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/

you big g.....

Gimp was origionally a linux application so you need the windows one...

here you go, click the first link

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

kayakboy

http://www.gimp.org

The download button on the front page. You don't need to go into the downloads - that mostly patches and add-ons.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

landyman wrote: »

you big g.....

Gimp was origionally a linux application so you need the windows one...

here you go, click the first link

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

Thanks very much for that.