Which version of photoshop to purchase and where is the best place to learn how to use it?
effron wrote: You should master elements first.....
www.adobe.com/support/photoshopelements/...ngstarted/index.html
This.
Learn the way layers work, if you get confused, watch the movie Iron Man.
In the cave when he's drawing the schematics for the suit, and it's on pieces, he has to put all the pictures together and flatten them to see it all, that's how layers works.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
it all depends on how much you already know about photography...Lightroom is good for editing your RAWs, it does most of the stuff you want and is pretty good for fine-tuning your images. I have never worked with elements, I use CS4 because I make a lot of composites and collages. I personally don´t like the Camera Raw Plug In so much (in Photoshop), I rather use Lightroom to process Raw files. If you get started and wanna do just photography, go for Lightroom. If you wanna edit your photos more (layers etc...) go for Elements. That will give you enough to learn! Then, once you reach the limits of Elements, consider buying Photoshop. Maybe you can even find an older version (CS2, CS3) for less money, even those older versions are so complex, it will take you quite a while to get the hang of everything.
Hope that makes sense!
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