Post Processing Workflow?

[JAS_Photo]

Iggy, Digital Camera World magazine has a website Digital Cameras & Digital Photography | PhotoRadar with lots of tutorials using Elements and photoshop.

[Barefoot]

Iggy, you mentioned cost as being one of the factors preventing you from making the purchase. Might you be able to utilize a student discount on Adobe products? Someone in the household or maybe a friend and/or acquaintance with an eligible student can cut the cost nearly in half. Just a thought.

[F8&Bthere]

Iggy, you mentioned cost as being one of the factors preventing you from making the purchase. Might you be able to utilize a student discount on Adobe products? Someone in the household or maybe a friend and/or acquaintance with an eligible student can cut the cost nearly in half. Just a thought.

Yes, as an example I was able to use my 6 year old son's student status to buy Lightroom from Academicsuperstore.ca for, if I remember correctly, $129. That company or website has changed hands now I think, and I'm not sure if their pricing and policies have changed as well, but there are other stores out there. All I had to do was use scan some school enrollment or similar document and I was good to go. I know it sounds crazy- what's a 6 yr old need Lightroom for? But I think these online sellers know they're giving you a loophole and are just happy to get the sales as long as you technically meet the guidelines.

UPDATE- I just checked and the new website is www.journeyed.ca and they have Elements 8 for $76 and Lightroom for $109. Once again I don't know if their qualification process is as easy as it was with academicsuperstore.ca, but worth a try...

I know I've said this before, but If I was a guy who wanted to keep things simple as far as editing, just the essentials, and streamline my workflow, and if I was able to stretch the budget a bit, I would totally get Lightroom and nothing else (at least for the time being)- it can do it all, makes the workflow easy, and is getting better with every version. My only complaint is that it is a big resource hog, at least on a PC running windows. They say version 3 will be a bit better in that regard.

[Barefoot]

...I would totally get Lightroom and nothing else (at least for the time being)- it can do it all, makes the workflow easy, and is getting better with every version. My only complaint is that it is a big resource hog, at least on a PC running windows. They say version 3 will be a bit better in that regard.

The beta of 3.0 is a fully functional free download (without any annoying watermarks and such) for use until the end of April. That's plenty enough time to learn the program and decide if its something you want to spring for.

"The Lightroom 3 beta program is available to the public, so that means anyone with an Internet connection can download it and start putting it to the test. You do not need to own (or have tried) a previous version of Lightroom. The version of Lightroom 3 beta software available for download is offered in English only. You can download the beta and use it until the product expires. The current Lightroom 3 public beta will expire on April 30, 2010."

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/l...m3/?sdid=FBTFV

[Iguanasan]

Thanks, everyone! It's a karate weekend and the eval is only 30 days so I'll install it next week and check out some of these sites.