Noob to Digital Editing

[loom001]

I am looking for a very easy to use package for digital photo editing. Would like to do red eye correct, color correction, lighting correction, you know thw basic stuff. I have been using a digital camera for 4 years, just have never really taken the time to figure out how to correct photo's. Any help would be appreciated.

[Gary]

One of the easiest to use is Photoshop Elements 2. It has a lot of power yet remains easy to use with simplified editing for auto adjustments and a red eye removal brush. It offers extensive help files and on line help and also has a great forum full of help on the Adobe site. It will suit most 90+% of photographers up to the point you become a very advanced amatuer or pro. I've seen it in Walmart for $64.00 and it probably had the rebate ticket inside. Even at the $99 I paid for it it came with a $30 rebate.

[Big-H]

I agree - and even better value, Adobe are selling Elements 2 packaged with Photoshop Album 2.
Another very good bargain is to consider buying a Wacom Graphics tablet. Wacom are offering Elements 2 with some of these at little more than the cost of elements 2!

[loom001]

Thanks for the help I am going to check elements 2 and the tablet out. Thanks again!

[SBrasure]

Another option is Jasc Paint Shop Pro. For under $100, you get the power of Photoshop, and I find some of its features easier to use than Photoshop. In comparison to Elements, I think Jasc's print layout menu much easier to navigate. However, I will agree that Photoshop Elements has enough power and features for most of us everyday digital photographers.

Good luck....whatever you use will help you produce better pictures. And remember that it is not much different than what photographers use to do in the darkroom....do some reading on Ansel Adams and how his darkroom techniques were responsible for his great pictures.

Steve

[swishman]

Reassonable priced but with some hiher end features limited would be Adobe Elements for my choice... If money not as much of an object and want all the professional features definitely Adobe PS 7 or CS. If want all the high end abilities but don't have the $$$ then I would go download The Gimp http://www.gimp.org If is an Opensource GP/GNU licensed software.. so in otherwords.. IT'S FREE! LOL