Hey I just bought the Canon Rebel XT, and I've never used a digital camera before. Luckily I had a Canon Rebel 2000, so most of the controls are similar, just having to learn all the new options digital offers me!
My question though is on photo editing software. Never having used it before, I kind of just want something that would be fun to play with and easy to learn. I want to be able to do more than just touchup photos and organize them into albums, like the wallpapers and such I've seen posted on here.
I've seen quite a few posters say they used Adobe Photoshop, the other program I found online that seems to get as high rankings is Paintshop Pro. There is a rather huge difference in price ($650 for CS and $129 for Paintshop) and the cheaper version I found of Photoshop was Elements for $99. Elements didn't look like it had anywhere near the same capabilities as even Paintshop, so I'm thinking I should just go with Paintshop. I'd like Photoshop CS, but that's really expensive. I already have Paintshop 9.0 (haven't opened it yet!) because they had a deal where if you bought the camera and a "sharing solution" you'd get $75 off, so we went with Paintshop, just wondering if there is a better choice and should return it, or stick with Paintshop.
Sorry if it was confusing! If anyone has an opinion I'd like to hear what you think would be a good deal...under $200
My question though is on photo editing software. Never having used it before, I kind of just want something that would be fun to play with and easy to learn. I want to be able to do more than just touchup photos and organize them into albums, like the wallpapers and such I've seen posted on here.
I've seen quite a few posters say they used Adobe Photoshop, the other program I found online that seems to get as high rankings is Paintshop Pro. There is a rather huge difference in price ($650 for CS and $129 for Paintshop) and the cheaper version I found of Photoshop was Elements for $99. Elements didn't look like it had anywhere near the same capabilities as even Paintshop, so I'm thinking I should just go with Paintshop. I'd like Photoshop CS, but that's really expensive. I already have Paintshop 9.0 (haven't opened it yet!) because they had a deal where if you bought the camera and a "sharing solution" you'd get $75 off, so we went with Paintshop, just wondering if there is a better choice and should return it, or stick with Paintshop.
Sorry if it was confusing! If anyone has an opinion I'd like to hear what you think would be a good deal...under $200
