Venturing into Photoshop

I've had a few questions about editing software, what I use? what to get? etc.

I use good old Photoshop and Adobe LightRoom.

LightRoom is a great program to organize and color manage your images and is similar to Adobe Bridge, and Aperture.

Photoshop is limitless! But if you're wondering how to get started I encourage you to pick up Photoshop Elements to get your feet wet. When I taught digital photography at the High School level, I found that you can do a fair amount of things in Elements. I definitely would recommend downloading the free trial for Elements from Adobe's website. If you are ready to buy Elements you can order it online through B and H Photo for $89.95--make sure you get the appropriate software for your platform--Mac or Windows.

From there, I believe if you register your software and get on Adobe's mailing list, they will send you information how to upgrade to the full version of Photoshop (CS4). And upgrades are always less expensive than the full program.

Adobe also offers a trial version of LightRoom here.

Hope this helps! Have fun in the digi-world!