Hi, I'm new to photograghy and I'm looking for suggestions on a good free photoshop website.
I have done a few 30 day trials (enjoyed elements).
At present, I have been using picmonkey but feel I'm alittle limited. Its been great but I want to do more.
Please help me find something more suitable to my needs.
@truechicknz Hi Jackie. I suggest that you take a look at www. Phlearn.com, they have over 500 free tutorials (videos) host by Aaron Nace. He is funny and a good teacher and very creative. You can also buy the Pro tutorial if you want. They are very good! I learn so much with Phlearn.
A lot of people use GIMP, I've never tried it, but it has a lot of Photoshops advanced features (like layers) and it's free and available for both Windows and Mac: http://www.gimp.org/
Flickr has Avery available to use for free and I've heard people have been able to do things with Picasa.
GIMP It's right here: http://www.gimp.org/ and it's totally free. Download it and try it out. Worst case, you don't like it, and you can't delete it, but I doubt you'll dislike it.
@brianarmoured Thank you, I will also see if that one works for me. I'm just playing with gimp at the moment. It all seem very overwhelming, and complicated, but I'm guessing these all take time to learn.
@silverhorn yes I think you might be right. At the moment tight budget so I have to go free until I'm alittle bit more ahead. I might buy elements when I'm rich and famous lol
Adobe offers a reasonable cheap monthly plan. Like you I can't afford to buy it right. This way itsaalways up to date. Think it costs me $30 a month NZ dollars
I also use Picasa as it is very easy to use and free. I have photoshop elements but just don't have time to play with it properly so all my shots are uploaded automatically to Picasa. It is great for sorting albums and emailing shots. I downloaded Gimp and had major problems with virus's.
There is loads I don't use in photoshop yet, if you download cs2 look under filters and image adjustments, those bits with some playing start to make sense.
@truechicknz as others have said GIMP is very powerful and free, I've used this at home and do still use it at work. In the end for home use I chose to pay 53GBP to get Apple's "Aperture" on my MacBook Pro.
Picasa is what I use most. I tried to download Gimp but like someone else said, it put other stuff on my computer that I didn't want and had to revert my computer settings back to get rid of it. Befunky is another good free one that's simple - I can't do complicated haha. The only thing about befunky is I think it wipes your Exif info off after you edit - Picasa keeps it, but both are very easy to use. Picasa you have to download to your PC, BeFunky works right in your webbrowser so maybe that's why the Exif info isn't embedded.
Jackie, it came recommended by our tutor of the photography workshop course I followed.
You can do loads with it but I don't shoot in raw so haven't investigated whether it copes with that but I guess it does.
@truechicknz I'm afraid I have to agree with @manek43509 the reason that Photoshop is want you want is Photoshop is the standard, by all means take a look at The Gimp etc. But at the end of the day photoshop is No1 for a reason.
The argument is always how expensive it is, £9 a month? That's two pints of beer well worth it.
@chippy1402 yeah I see your point. Until I am at a point I can afford to purchase a good editor, free will have to do. When I put photoshop on the subject line I meant Photo editing. I have never used photoshop.
@truechicknz GIMP won't have slowed your laptop down as a whole, however your laptop might not be powerful enough to run GIMP. I ran Adobe Lightroom on a WIndows XP machine for a while about 4 years ago: the PC was fine for everything else but Lightroom was unusably slow on it.
I removed it and Lappy seems to be back to its old self. Maybe not big enough like you said. I am now trying Picasa. Seems ok. But as far as I can see you can't layer on it. I tried Adobe but I've set up my email wrong and I can't seem to fix it to access the free trails again. Arghhh me and technology just don't mix lol
Check out pixlr.com. It looks and acts very much like Photoshop Elements. I have not used it because I have Photoshop on my computer, but I know several people who have and love it.
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Flickr has Avery available to use for free and I've heard people have been able to do things with Picasa.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads
You can download and use FastStone for free. You will just be asked for a modest initial voluntary donation. I like it.
Just my opinion, of course…
But if you want Photoshop, get Photoshop.
Jackie, it came recommended by our tutor of the photography workshop course I followed.
You can do loads with it but I don't shoot in raw so haven't investigated whether it copes with that but I guess it does.
The argument is always how expensive it is, £9 a month? That's two pints of beer well worth it.