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Peacefield · 05-01-2009

Well, I think I've decided, and this is certainly not the decision that allows the most efficient workflow, but it gets me the end product that I want photographically and it's fairly low cost.

I think I'm going to stay PSE4. CS4 just wasn't offering me enough of what I was looking for. It's more efficient: the ability to make actions, more adjustments only a click away, etc., but it's slower, expensive, and would still probably require the plug-ins for a few more hundereds of dollars.

So I'm staying DPP, working much of the image in PSE4, will pick up Portraiture and either Noiseware or Noise Ninja, and will probably even jump over to Corel X sometimes as I continue to find their filters and effects much better than Photoshop's.

eeeesh, it just shouldn't be this hard, though. What I'm looking for isn't that great or even narrow and this space is pretty mature by now. For what Adobe charges, how can it not include some of these capabilities?

05-01-2009	#7 (permalink)
Peacefield Vicuna Location: Northwestern NJ Posts: 62 CamelKarma: 345 Gallery \| Blog	Re: Which Photoshop is Right for Me? Well, I think I've decided, and this is certainly not the decision that allows the most efficient workflow, but it gets me the end product that I want photographically and it's fairly low cost. I think I'm going to stay PSE4. CS4 just wasn't offering me enough of what I was looking for. It's more efficient: the ability to make actions, more adjustments only a click away, etc., but it's slower, expensive, and would still probably require the plug-ins for a few more hundereds of dollars. So I'm staying DPP, working much of the image in PSE4, will pick up Portraiture and either Noiseware or Noise Ninja, and will probably even jump over to Corel X sometimes as I continue to find their filters and effects much better than Photoshop's. eeeesh, it just shouldn't be this hard, though. What I'm looking for isn't that great or even narrow and this space is pretty mature by now. For what Adobe charges, how can it not include some of these capabilities?