So is photoshop much better than Paint ?

[Borscht]

Got Paint on my Windows ME old pc.

Is it worth spending the hundred quid or so to get Photoshop instead ?

I mean, what can Photoshop do that Paint can't ?

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

Oh, and yes.

It is to create 'artistic' photos of my wife and her friends.

 

[bighornedsatyr]

Got Paint on my Windows ME old pc.

Is it worth spending the hundred quid or so to get Photoshop instead ?

I mean, what can Photoshop do that Paint can't ?

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

Photoshop can do a lot more than Paint can. Paint is a crude drawing program, but Photoshop is designed for photo manipulation.

There are cheaper options. If you want something cheaper and simpler, there's Paint.NET (but that might require Win XP or Vista). If you want something more user friendly and cheaper, I believe there's another Adobe product, Photoshop Elements, which is cheaper (or you can search for a version of the older Photodeluxe product). If you want something nearly as powerful as Photoshop, and at no cost, there's Gimp, but it's harder to learn.

 

[Borscht]

Photoshop can do a lot more than Paint can. Paint is a crude drawing program, but Photoshop is designed for photo manipulation.

There are cheaper options. If you want something cheaper and simpler, there's Paint.NET (but that might require Win XP or Vista). If you want something more user friendly and cheaper, I believe there's another Adobe product, Photoshop Elements, which is cheaper (or you can search for a version of the older Photodeluxe product). If you want something nearly as powerful as Photoshop, and at no cost, there's Gimp, but it's harder to learn.

Hey, great. This is exactly what I was wondering.

I think I'll spend this afternoon monkeying around with Gimp, then go and buy Photoshop if that's too difficult to learn.

Thanks !

 

[LondonLad24]

photoshop is very very much worth it

 

[Dreamslayer]

Yes, photoshop is much better than paint. But if you're looking for much of the same functionality, for free, go with GIMP. Just make sure to go through the tutorials.

 

[Ekserb]

Yes, Photoshop is much better than Paint. So much so, in fact, that PS has given rise to its own plug-in ecology with other software vendors adding "Photoshop Plug-in compatibility" to their applications.

The thing is, do you really need all that functionality? I have Photoshop, but I use about ten percent of its capabilities. Most people seem to think that the filter effects are worth the hundreds of dollars spent, but what most people need is only the levels and cropping functions.

What exactly do you think you're going to use it for? If you're merely editing family photos, Photoshop Elements is more than enough. If you intend to get deep into photo manipulation and your digital camera is capable of producing 16-bit images that can be edited only in a 16-bit-aware app like Photoshop, then go for it.

 

[ShinigamiSama]

GIMP is a good free Open source alternitive, though it's a little to *nixy for most people in its modularity; but if you can get used to it it's just as powerful as PS

I personally don't think PS is worth the money. For an individual, I'll have to quote my friend: Paying for Photo Shop is like ramming your cock in a bucket of hot sauce and masturbating

 

[Gutterslut]

Photoshop is very well worth it.
But I don't pay for it, I'm a thief, and download it for free


<33

 

[Dreamslayer]

Photoshop is very well worth it.
But I don't pay for it, I'm a thief, and download it for free


<33

I did that with flash, but I've had GIMP forever and I'm too stubborn to give it up!

 

[Jason3338]

Photoshop is a whole lot better than Paint if you know how to use it.
Paint doesn't give as high quality tools to create art. Theres many more options when creating art, theres many filters and ways to create a piece of work. With Paint, when using the brush tool, it looks pixelated, not as high a resolution so that the paint strokes are rectangular, rather than photoshop where it is based on pixels, but they're tiny enough to have the paint stroke appear more smooth like it should be. Photoshop is expensive, but really the only need to buy it is to get the updates for it. It's just as easy to find someone who could give you a copy of it either for a whole lot less like 20 bucks or for free. Learning how to use Photoshop and becoming good at it is the tricky part. I'm very much into art and computer arts, so I've been learning about Photoshop for almost a year now, and it's what most, if not all artists use when working on the computer. It has more options and possibilities than Paint will ever have.

 

[Ahren1]

Lets say Photoshop and Paint both represent living shelters.

Photoshop would be a mansion.

Paint would be a cardboard box.