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My aging laptop didn't come with photoshop. I would love to have it to tinker with. Is anyone using alternative programs that have similar or the same functions? Anyway to get photoshop or alternative programs free?
And If you use an alternative why? better features? price? whats everyone use here?
I had Gimp recomended to me. It was touted as as very good, cheap, alternative to Photoshop. It was a free download, and I use it alot. Admittedly, alot of the features I don't use because they're over my head.
But the big selling point was it's Free!
Gimp, or even the free editing software that comes with Google's Picasa is pretty useful.
Gimp, like Photoshop, does have a somewhat steep learning curve if you're going beyond basic photo editing.
And...there's always Photoshop Elements, in its 12th iteration at this point...around $50...has many of the features of regular Photoshop, and it's friendlier to use...
Not to thread hijack, but i know photoshop has an "Elements" program and a "Lightroom" program.
From what i've heard, one is more for organization and storage and the other is more for editing.
Can anyone shed some light (no pun intended) on this?
Sounds like I need try try Gimp. I mostly want to be able to splice in some photo pieves for mock up looks etc, and be able to do some color change work.
Wife is very gung ho about my current build. She never got into my bobbers before. She is very motivated to let me keep expanding my cafe habit IF my next build is for her. She keeps asking if I can look for another 350,360,400,450 she would feel comfortable on and play around with them on photoshop until she finds the bike and look she is going for. I'll try the Gimp program and keep trying to keep her motivated.
For selecting, I use the paths tool almost exclusively. Lay out a rough path then edit the path to make curves that fit then hit create selection from path.
A lot more accurate than freehand or select by color.
Once you have it selected you want to copy it and make a new layer. Once you have the new layer you can use the colorize function to change the color.
If all that is way over your head spend some time learning the basics from the tutorials.
Not to thread hijack, but i know photoshop has an "Elements" program and a "Lightroom" program.
From what i've heard, one is more for organization and storage and the other is more for editing.
Can anyone shed some light (no pun intended) on this?
I have both LightRoom and Elements. I use mostly LR because it is easy and I have my workflow set up for it. Elements requires me to convert my RAW images before I even use them and I use LR to convert them, sooo.... I end up just staying in LR and getting what I needed done. If I need some serious pixel moving, then I use Elements. Elements is even over my head in many ways, but no where near as over my heas as CS is. LR will get mostly everything you want done and some if its just for pics and you aren't trying to reinvent the wheel.
GIMP is great, if you can wade through the tutorials. (although it's a lot easier than 4~5 yrs ago)
There was a real good write up/how to in Maximum PC a couple of years ago
If anything, it has too many features for a beginner's (like me)
I still use Paint Shop Pro 4.15 SE for a lot of stuff (it's from 1998)
I still don't use it close to potential so haven't upgraded to anything newer
Gimp is an awesome bit of kit, its not 16bit like Photoshop and lacks some of the latest tools that PS offers, but once you get the hang of it it's a very versatile program.
You only need full Photoshop for professional quality high res image editing. It's a big, power-hungry piece of software that most people won't even use to 1% of it's potential. A smaller, simpler program is fine for the majority of home users.
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