1stAngel

1stAngel, 2 months ago

I use Photoshop but have to admit I am more of a Paint Shop Pro person, in fact thats what I teach so I suppose I have to be LOL

I find the Adobe products too expensive for normal people to be honest and more set up for businesses to afford. A shame really.

Has any one tried the Creative Suite yet? Is it cool or not?

Robert O'Neill, 2 months ago

Yes, I use the Master Suite-After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop mostly. Pretty good, but has a tendency to crash. I have made a few movies-all on Premiere. Special effects are pretty easy in After Effects. Seems easier to use than the likes of Fusion or Combustion. I have also used Audition quite a bit for sound editing, but when it comes to more complex track layout, I switch to Nuendo.

Rob

InkandBrush, 2 months ago

I am just using PS Elements 6.0… and it works on my older Vista OS sort’a. Bought it fairly cheap at Costco.

Would readlly like to get CS3 but that will have to wait for awhile…as you said, is pretty spendy.

aphoto4you, 2 months ago

I use PS CS2….not very often but i use it…Plan to get CS3 but waiting for bugs to be iron out…I am not usualy a person who will jump on a band wagon right a way….soon to be though…

Richard Veal, 2 months ago

Cs3 for me, and still have Photoshop 7.
Sometimes use PSP 9 though.
Would really like to get Lightroom though.

1stAngel in reply to Richard Veal’s comment, 2 months ago

PSP is a lovely tool for most things. I do admit to being annoyed at the finishing quality of some of the images, after using Photoshop once or twice their quality is far superior, but then so is the price :(

1stAngel in reply to aphoto4you’s comment, 2 months ago

:) thank you.

1stAngel in reply to Robert O'Neill’s comment, 2 months ago

Is it the size of your computer that makles it crash or the programme itself? That sounds really rude doesnt it LOL You know what I mean hopefully….

1stAngel in reply to InkandBrush’s comment, 2 months ago

Is PS Elements good? What does it do?

SnowDog, 2 months ago

I use PhotoShop CS2 for everything its the best!

1stAngel in reply to SnowDog’s comment, 2 months ago

Will you be upgrading to 3?

SnowDog, 2 months ago

Its sitting in a box up on the shelf right now. No Hurry I can do everything I want with CS2 right now

1stAngel in reply to SnowDog’s comment, 2 months ago

ah cool, thank you :)

1stAngel, 2 months ago

so far we have used…

Master Suite-After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop
PS Elements 6.0
PS CS2
Cs3
Photoshop 7

Anyone else :)

Michael Beers, 2 months ago

Yes I am part of the adobe clan.

Peter Harpley, 2 months ago

Photoshop 7

SMOKEYDOGSOCKS, 2 months ago

I’M A ROOKIE WHEN IT COMES TO USING SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS. I’VE ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED HOW TO DO CERTAIN THINGS WITH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0. I TRIED 7.0 BUT FOUND I LIKE 2.0 BETTER FOR SOME REASON. I ALSO USE PRINTMASTER 11 TO MERGE SOME IMAGES AND THEN CONTINUE WITH APS2.O FOR THE FINISHED LOOK.

Paul (Quixote)..., 2 months ago

I use CS2. Primarily photoshop. It’s the best editing tool available. Now all I need is CS3 and I’ll be a happy man. lol

chord0, 2 months ago

I have only used adobe reader and photoshop at my last job for a short time, at the moment my graphic capabilities are somewhat limited due to memory, I will probably only be using adobe reader in the future, I took an Adobe Photoshop class in hp.com (a free class) and it look very complicated, therefore I let the engineers at work helped me with the pictures to make customer manuals, and they develop them with photoshop, and I did the rest of the books. I was working for AT & T through an agency as a technical writer to help them with internet installation.

Aloramyst, 2 months ago

Many members in the Digital Arts and Patterns Group use Adobe products.

InkandBrush, 2 months ago

Angel, PS Elements 6, does the basics for the most part.
You can add frames and little stuff. Pretty much know the in’s and out of this program now.
It will also sometimes lock up on me too…and pretty sure it is having a problem with the older Vista OS. I have talked to them about it…so the problem in known to Adobe. Not a bad program for the price. Can check out info here.
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/?sdid=DINBU

Also have the free irfanview…but that is even more basic than PS6. Only use it for family only photos.
http://www.irfanview.com/

Steve plowman, 2 months ago

CS2 and Lightroom.

Julie Langford, 2 months ago

PS CS3
Illustrator CS2
Acrobat 7

jcmontgomery, 2 months ago

Currently I am using a free download. Per their web site:

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Other (proprietary) raster editors include Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro and the humble Microsoft Paint.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

I can tell you as someone who had never used such a program prior to taking up photography a month or so ago, this was a fairly easy program to use – at least for me it has been.

I am currently running MS Windows Vista Home Edition and have yet to encounter a compatibility issue.

nigelnash, 2 months ago

i use photoshop cs3 extended with a brush / actions pack

i also use adobe lightroom

Leoni Venter, 2 months ago

I use Photoshop Elements 5, and Acrobat Reader. I have used Premiere in the past; I stopped because it was a pirate copy and my conscience bothered me. Also, it wouldn’t run on XP ;)

Robert O'Neill, 2 months ago

I have a dual core with 4 gig of ram and six hard disks for storage

Arthur Carley, 2 months ago

I use Adobe Photoshop CS 2 for Everything I add here at RB and for things I make or when I fix up Photos ect for my Family and Friends

AndyReeve, 2 months ago

CS2 it is for everything.

1stAngel in reply to Aloramyst’s comment, 2 months ago

get them over here Aloramyst xx

1stAngel, 2 months ago

Thank you everyone SO much that has answered so far :)

Update on what we are using …

Master Suite
PS Elements 6.0
PS CS2
PS Cs3
Photoshop 7
Lightroom
Illustrator CS2
Acrobat 7
Photoshop Elements 5

Doesnt seem that anyone can afford the Creative Suite to be honest LOL over $1000 puts most people off

BluAlien, 2 months ago

PS CS3
PS CS2
Adobe Lightroom
PSP4
PSP8
PSP9 w/ ALL Alien Skin Plug-ins
PSPX
GIMP

To be honest I like PSP9 the best

Aloramyst, 2 months ago

Lol you can ask them yourself! lol …..kinda got my hands full at the moment! : ) But will pass it along.

Brian Beckett, 2 months ago

CS3 for me
I also use Premier from time to time
I have used the others listed at the beginning of this post above, when I was in college but have long since forgotten how to use them properly. Photoshop CS3 and Premier I can’t do without to be honest I find them incredible. I have also purchased PSP Photo X2 because I had read some excellent reports about it, and I wanted an other graphics suite for another machine, but to date I haven’t got to grips with it at all.

AlienVisitor, 2 months ago

YES.

My image “Strange Peaks” just won POTQ ( Photo of the Quarter) at Digital Image Cafe.

The prize is a membership in the NAPP ( National Association of Photoshop Professionals )

So yes I do use Adobe Photoshop PS.

Plus in the same email my image “Peggy’s Cove” won POTM for June.

The prize for that one is “Twisting Pixel Software”.

“May you create well and prosper”

AV

richardredhawk, 2 months ago

Just use Paint Shop Pro along with mandala programs as well as kalider and liquib and apophysis

don q, 2 months ago

Elements 6 when i use adobe.

also use sketchup, irfan, gimp; i would love to learn to use others, but there are only so many hours in the day, and i am not accomplished on any one of these

ryan munson, 2 months ago

i use adobe photoshop for everything i have posted here at redbuuble.

Mike Neal, 2 months ago

photoshop cs

1stAngel, 2 months ago

Thank you SO much everyone for helping us with this survey!! I appreciate it so much

1stAngel, 2 months ago

I received a BubbleMail from a CS2 and Illustrator user … so we can add that.

Nancy Stafford..., 2 months ago

yep i use photoshop cs2 and illustrator cs2.. ;and indesign
they are great programs

Nancy Stafford..., 2 months ago

I forgot ia also with photoshop i use four of alienskin products..

1stAngel, 2 months ago

Thanks everyone

SURVEY CLOSED

photosbypab, 2 months ago

I haven’t used any of them! So I don’t have any of them either…lol.

1stAngel in reply to photosbypab’s comment, 2 months ago

LOL thanks for answering anyway :)

Victoria Sheldon, 2 months ago

I use adobe and Kodack easy Share. I like them both.

ragman, 2 months ago

Use Adobe CS1 and CS3
but more I am finding I am using Nikon Capture NX2 as my main editor

Plynlimon, 2 months ago

Like Angel I mainly use PSP, purely for the ease…however if I want real quality or something a little unusual….its back to the manual to find out how to do it in CS2.
I also use Adobe acrobat with work…..I find Adobe products very good, but somewhat complex and the update screen barges in like its the most important thing my pc will ever do, which it aint and that bugs me!

1stAngel in reply to Plynlimon’s comment, 2 months ago

LOL I so agree about the updates!

Marylamb, 2 months ago

I use Adobe InDesign and Elements for book layout.

Melanie Dooley, 2 months ago

I use Photoshop and In Design nearly every day. Illustrator not so frequently. PS is for my artwork and ID for my work – laying out brochures, and other communications materials.