About Mark Evans Expertise I have been working with Photoshop for the past 4 years. I can answer many questions about using Photoshop - especially versions 6 and 7. Good with art/design questions, image manipulation, web graphics. Not so good on colour correction, pre-press, technical problem.
Experience Freelance designer and artist past 15 years.
Art and design teacher past 10 years
Education/Credentials Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Graduate Diploma (Fine Art)
Graduate Diploma (Teaching)
I am considering purchasing photoshop 7.0 (not ready to upgrade from my windows 98 at this time, hence the 7.0 version).
I have a strong background in landscape and portrait photography. I have a canon 10D and several very nice lenses, with a high quality photo printer.
Question: Would the purchase price ($500.00) for 7.0 be of real benefit to me over elements 2.0 if I am only going to focus on enhancing my digital photography work?
I give much weight to the end result having high quality. I don't see myself getting into web design, or drawing.
Thank you for your time.
Steve
Answer Hi Steve,
If you are serious about photography (and having a 10D certainly puts you in this category) then go for photoshop 7.
Photoshop Elements is a good program and has many of the features of Photoshop 7 but it doesn't give you a lot of flexibility. Much of it is based on preset features and, although you can get under the hood a bit, this is a limiting factor.
If you want total control over how your image looks then you can't go past Photoshop 7. If you only want to adjust the levels, brightness/contrast, do a bit of manual spot removal or apply a few preset filters then Elements maybe a good choice.
I wouldn't be without Photoshop and run all my digital images through it (I work with a Canon 300D Digital Rebel)
You might also consider a little program called NeatImage (as well as Photoshop 7 or Elements). This program does excellent noise reduction on digital images - not that the 10D needs much in the way of noise reduction but it can really clean up an image. http://www.neatimage.com/
