Choices in Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, by Adobe Systems of San Jose, California, is a rich, complex tool for manipulating, altering, and managing digital photography. Adobe offers several versions of the Photoshop package, each tailored to meet the needs of users of differing levels of skill and interest.

The premier Photoshop product is Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 2. This is the complete Adobe Photoshop package, including the core Adobe Photoshop CS software. Other packages included in Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite are Adobe Illustrator, a comprehensive artwork and graphics program; Adobe InDesign for professional layout and design; Adobe GoLive to manage CSS; and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional for creating and managing PDF documents. With so much power, and retailing at $1,199, Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 2 is intended for the professional who processes large batches of both photographic and bitmap images for publication on the web and in print media.

If you only wish to manage digital images with Adobe Photoshop, the core component, Adobe Photoshop CS2, is available as an independent package, and retails at $599. Adobe Photoshop CS2 can do just about everything that can possibly be done to a digital image, from correcting images to warping them until they are unrecognizable.

For the home user, who may only wish to manage family photos, share media with friends, or manage the images for a small website or user group, Adobe makes Adobe Photoshop Elements, retailing at $99. With this Photoshop product, the user can manage, correct, and share digital images with the powerful tools provided. Adobe Photoshop Elements also comes packaged with Adobe Premier Elements, a video management tool. Together they retail for $129. For a super deal on PhotoShop CS plesae visit www.JustArticles.com.