Photo Bliss (Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended for Mac)

Member Name: danieljamesphoto

Product:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended for Mac
Date:	30/12/08 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: amazing features, frequent updates, lots of add-ons, industry standard

Disadvantages: huge price tag

Photoshop is a name that is an industry standard and as such it carries a level of quality that cannot be found in any other image software in my opinion. Although the interface looks complex at first it is a piece of software that you need to get to know and learn as you go along. It is used basically daily by myself as a photographer for editing images and fine tuning images before they go to print.

The list of features goes on and on and really will tidy up most photographs. As you go along you'll learn various features and how to combine things such as using the lasso with the magic wand to select certain areas of an image to edit.

To try and cram all that Photoshop can do into this review would be near impossible as it is constantly being added to, with new downloads in the form of filters and actions (applying pre-written actions for Photoshop to do to adjust an image to Black & White (for example)).

Running this on a Mac (though i have no Windows comparison) is also a dream as they have been made to work together well and so load times are a lot quicker than previous versions and it handles large files well (RAM dependant obviously).

Overall an incredible program but one that comes with a price tag to match (usually around £700) but you really do get what you pay for with this piece of software.

Nowhere near as good but a free version is available called GiMP http://www.gimp.org/ which aims to mimic a lot of features available in Photoshop but without the price tag attached.

Summary: An incredible program but one that comes with a price tag to match

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