How to justify the expense of Photoshop

Hi Florida:

My wife and I have owned a home-based business for the last 24 years which includes desktop publishing, commercial graphic art, website development, and video production. I have owned and used Photoshop since it first came out many years ago, along with several other Adobe products. I have also owned and used Paint Shop Pro (a sort of lite version Photoshop) since it first came out, and because of ease of use with almost the same output quality, we've used it far more often than Photoshop over the years. For really high-end or complex work we of course use Photoshop.

I can assure you that you do not need Photoshop at all. There is nothing needed for main-stream photo-editing that I know of that you can get from Photoshop, but can't get from Photoshop Elements just as well and often easier.

Photoshop is overkill in the extreme for your needs and you will not in anyway end up with better looking photos. PSE has Abode Camera Raw in it and a host of high-end photo-editing and photo-processing tools. It's a fraction of the cost, much easier to learn, takes a less powerful computer to run,  and they don't cream you every 18 months with exorbitant upgrade costs.

my 2 cents,

Rudy

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