Duke
Mountain Carver
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- Feb 19, 2012
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OK, so I have searched and searched and see that this question is on the web 6.02^23 times but i have yet to see the answer. Which?? I am using PS2 right now for stills and WLMM for video. I have seen that Adobe now offers Photoshop ELEMENTS and Premier ELEMENTS in a package deal. Looks enticing, but I don't know what PS2 features i would lose out on. Or maybe the 2012 version of elements is better than the very old PS that I have? I am far from a pro (it appears that most of you are actual pros) so there is just NO way I could justify the OUTRAGEOUS price for PS6 or the full Premier. I keep hearing and seeing things about LR, but each time I look at it I just see "batch processing" and "organization" listed as reasons to get it. PS batch processes and the number of amateur pics that I shoot can easily fit in a folder for each month, within a folder for that year. I am not going to sell stock photos so I won't need to tag them with words like "Waterfall" or "Decapitation" or similar just to easily search and find all of those later. Then again?? For editing I get most of what I want from ACR and don't do much more in PS other than using the levels histogram to remove color noise, monkey with some HDR, cropping, etc. ACR is invaluable for me though. I think Elements would likely be way more than I need but I don't know because I have never used it and cannot find a comprehensive listing of what i would miss out on. And....I do want to "expand my horizons" with photography since I have just been getting into it this last year or two. In WLMM I do little more than clip, connect, slomo, music, intro, etc, but part of that is because WLMM doesn't do much more than that. I do want to expand in that area.
What is it about PS6 that had all (or most) of you jumping right on it as soon as it came out? is it really worth $500 xtra? Why not LR....or maybe you use that too? If so, why both? And, what do you use for video? I am interested in high detail, super slomo, but see that even with Premier I would have to buy a $100 add on called Twixtor for that. $600 for software and then it needs a $100 add on? Thats like putting water in a plastic bottle and selling it at gas stations for $2 each. ?
What is it about PS6 that had all (or most) of you jumping right on it as soon as it came out? is it really worth $500 xtra? Why not LR....or maybe you use that too? If so, why both? And, what do you use for video? I am interested in high detail, super slomo, but see that even with Premier I would have to buy a $100 add on called Twixtor for that. $600 for software and then it needs a $100 add on? Thats like putting water in a plastic bottle and selling it at gas stations for $2 each. ?