Re: Which Photoshop is Right for Me?
Money aside, upgrading to full fledge Photoshop will open up new techniques and opportunities. Rather than saving a few bucks and going with CS3 from EBAY, which may be a problem with illegal software not recognized by Adobe for future upgrades, why not look into the current upgrade policies direct from Adobe? There have been, in the past, some really good upgrade paths from PSE to CS.
Additionally, CS4 is a much improved version of CS3 that is worth the jump. If you want to continue to use DPP for RAW that's fine, but only CS4 is capable of doing RAW with the latest cameras (Adobe discontinues upgrading RAW for older versions and newer cameras get lost in the dust -- a major issue for those of us that upgrade our camera body and rely on Adobe as our RAW processor -- although DNG is a good work around)
Noiseware is a great plugin for PS and, from what I have seen, Portraiture is as well. Why not buy the bundle rather than just 2? The bundle includes Noiseware, Portraiture, and Grain programs.
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