Photoshop - Help in what to buy from where??

chunter

As stated above there's a Photoshop Elements out there that most certainly will do the stuff needed for a GCSE course.

There was also to be a cheaper and pretty decent package called Paintshop Pro - and I see it has a education version
https://store.paintshoppro.com/1184/purl-MSL_EN-mLic_PSPproX7_edu

I don't understand why any teacher would recommend a commercial package for a schoolchild. Must be some school..

Gloomendoom

Simon7685 wrote: »

Thanks for all the info and suggestions you have given me. Not being very tech minded, I am still struggling on what to do for the best, the school have advised to stick to Photoshop and Illustrator as they are the programs they use at school, so I think that makes sense rather than getting a different cheaper one.

So the one on Adobe at £15.88 a month includes Illustrator. If I opted for that what exactly do I get?
I am assuming you download the program from Adobe and install it onto the laptop, the subscription then allows you to receive all updates and newer versions automatically?

Thinking about a worst case scenario and for whatever reason I found myself unable to keep up the subscription (not that I expect it) do you still have access to using the programs, or does it stop working?

Sorry if this sounds a bit thick but I am just a bit concerned about forking out £15 a month and not actually owning a working program that you can keep. Or am I barking up the wrong tree? I am not used to all this, when I wanted Microsoft Publisher many years ago I went out and bought it and owned the program for life!

In effect, you are renting the software. If you stop paying, they take it back.

Photoshop Elements is Photoshop and, as said, is unlikely to be found wanting.

gjchester

Simon7685 wrote: »

So the one on Adobe at £15.88 a month includes Illustrator. If I opted for that what exactly do I get?
I am assuming you download the program from Adobe and install it onto the laptop, the subscription then allows you to receive all updates and newer versions automatically?!

Correct, its also more than just Photoshop and Illistrator, but that depends on what your daughter will use.

Simon7685 wrote: »

Thinking about a worst case scenario and for whatever reason I found myself unable to keep up the subscription (not that I expect it) do you still have access to using the programs, or does it stop working?

You lose access to the programs, and also any files stores on the cloud service. That said the Adobe formats can be read by other packages so as long as the files are saved locally you can still use them with other packages.

Simon7685 wrote: »

Sorry if this sounds a bit thick but I am just a bit concerned about forking out £15 a month and not actually owning a working program that you can keep. Or am I barking up the wrong tree? I am not used to all this, when I wanted Microsoft Publisher many years ago I went out and bought it and owned the program for life!

So was the entire industry about it, however that's the way Adobe went, and Adobe knows the industry uses them.


However think of it another way, £15 a months is £180 a year, mot people would have bought Photoshop and Illustrator outright, and to buy them and upgrade them on a year or two year basis probably comes out about £360 every two years so its about the same, just a monthly payment not a one off charge.
If you use a lot of Adobe software it can actually be a cheaper option than buying outright.

chunter wrote: »

I don't understand why any teacher would recommend a commercial package for a schoolchild. Must be some school..

Possibly as that's what they teach, and teaching different packages is harder, or possibly because they know the creative industry uses Adobe and it gets people ready for work.


Paintshop Pro used to be good till Corel bought it and threy ion a lot of extra features it didn't need, now its OK, but nothing to recommend it over GIMP, both have similar tools, GIMP is free.

Big_Graeme

What is a school doing expecting parents to shell out for expensive software?

If they want work done outside school on said software then they should be supplying it.