Brian
I used LE when it came with my Minolta scanner, but I bought
Photoshop Elements when it came out. It looks as if Elements is
bundled with some scanners in this country. Elements is great.
I often wonder if it is worth upgrading to Photoshop, but Elements
does everything that I want of it. Apparently it does not have CMYK
operation, but I am perfectly satisfied with RGB. There are layer
operations, it seems, that you can do in Elements that are not
available in Photoshop...
So, no to LE, yes to Elements. And as for scanners, the Canoscan
FS4000US gets a pretty good writeup for value for money. But
actually I am happy with my sub-3000 scanner (Minolta Dimage Scan
Elite) with its SCSI connection.
Chris
At 20:34 +0000 11/2/02, Brian Gray wrote:
I would welcome some comments/advice on the merits of PhotoshopLE.
Thus, I am hoping shortly to buy a scanner and a printer for
my recently assembled computer so that I can play with some of my
photographs, as well as scanning and printing paper documents (ie
the Scanwit does not meet my needs).
But I am not inclined to seriously consider buying the full
version of Photoshop without much more experience of scanning
photographs - it seems to be agreed that it is good, but it is a lot
of money. However, I find that some printers come with
Photoshop5.0LE bundled with it for about UKP150 more than the next
model down eg Epson Perfection Photo 1290 cf E.P.P. 890. I
certainly do not need an A3 printer instead of an A4 version but
like the look of 5.0LE - which does not seem to be available
separately according to the Adobe website. The alternative bundled
software on the cheaper printer is sometimes PhotoDeLuxe.
Assuming that my chosen scanner is adequate, one thing which
I know I want to do is to reprint where I can see that detail has
been lost in the standard printing process eg pictures of a lunar
eclipse where no details of the moon's surface are visible on my
consumer grade prints but I can see them on the negative using a
loupe.
So, would Zuikoholics expect a beginner at scanning to be
able to benefit significantly from having Photoshop5.0LE?
Brian
PS. Have you noticed that Eudora 5.1's spellchecker offers
'sinkholes' as an alternative to Zuikoholics???
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