Photoshop Elements

**Monstro** · 29 Dec 2008, 23:05

Ok, first off I'm a complete Photoshop novice, never even used it but it's something I've been promising myself I'd get for more than a while now and the photo's we had done professionally last month have made me mind up, it's about time I was able to do/use the effects they used.

So, which version? Which add ons? and what's the best training resource?

Which are you lot using?

Many thanks in advance

M

AndrewG · 30 Dec 2008, 00:41

Photoshop CS3 or CS4 is what I recommend as the best Photoshop versions these days. You need a bit of ram to run these, at least 2 gb to do a lot of stuff with big files without your pc collapsing.

Photoshop elements 6 or 7 for just the photo manipulation stuff is probably what you need though, but I haven't used either of those to be honest.

For training you probably want to get a highly recommended book on amazon or so but I used www.vtc.com for CS3 training myself and they have elements training too. Is good online training in my opinion and isn't too pricey a month.
Hope that helps a bit at least.

belladonna-took · 08 Jan 2009, 19:53

Oh dear...i've only got Elements 2 and can't drive that properly! I'm not bad at cloning stuff out though. Not good either...

29 Dec 2008, 23:05	#1
Monstro Promoted to Wario's spellchecker Join Date: 17.09.2005 Location: London Posts: 12,946	Photoshop Elements Ok, first off I'm a complete Photoshop novice, never even used it but it's something I've been promising myself I'd get for more than a while now and the photo's we had done professionally last month have made me mind up, it's about time I was able to do/use the effects they used. So, which version? Which add ons? and what's the best training resource? Which are you lot using? Many thanks in advance M

30 Dec 2008, 00:41	#2
AndrewG I hope your salmon sucks! Join Date: 18.01.2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 7,077	Photoshop CS3 or CS4 is what I recommend as the best Photoshop versions these days. You need a bit of ram to run these, at least 2 gb to do a lot of stuff with big files without your pc collapsing. Photoshop elements 6 or 7 for just the photo manipulation stuff is probably what you need though, but I haven't used either of those to be honest. For training you probably want to get a highly recommended book on amazon or so but I used www.vtc.com for CS3 training myself and they have elements training too. Is good online training in my opinion and isn't too pricey a month. Hope that helps a bit at least. Last edited by AndrewG; 30 Dec 2008 at 00:54.

08 Jan 2009, 19:53	#3
belladonna-took Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.09.2007 Location: Herefordshire, England Posts: 1,137	Oh dear...i've only got Elements 2 and can't drive that properly! I'm not bad at cloning stuff out though. Not good either...