Railfan Technology > Photoshop Elements 13 vs Corel Paint Shop 7?

I'm still chugging along with Photoshop CS2 and am wondering if the stuff I do to restore old negs, etc, is available in these two and which would be the better choice?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/15 10:09 by Frisco1522.

If you can handle the computer techiness stuff, you might find gimp
a good proposition. You find it best at their website:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

find a suitable mirror, choose gimp-2.8, and then choose windows.
gimp-2.8.14 is the latest.

I've been using it in linux for maybe 15 years and find it quite
satisfactory. It does require a bit of learning, but heck! It's
free, and it will blow the pants off of a lot of other graphics
programs.

*DO NOT* do an internet search, and download from a site other than
the gimp one, as you are likely to also download garbage: it's a
popular program among graphics types, and lowlifes will try to
capitalize on the uninitiated downloading their junk...

John.

It dawned upon me that I already have Corel Paint in a student Corel Draw suite I bought a few months ago.    It's very similar to Photoshop.   I think I can download a trial of Photoshop Elements and see how it looks.

I have never used Paint and it has been awhile since I used CS2 (reluctantly bought CS5 when newer hard and software were incompatible with CS2).  And I occasionally use Elements on my laptop.  In my experience the big difference between CS and Elements is in color adjustment tools.  But if you are working with B&W negs that should make no difference.  Elements is a hell of deal of the money. Paint may be even a better deal of the money.

JBWX  
 

Don...I use Elements 8 and I'm happy with it.
Chris

Thanks guys.    I downloaded a trial of Elements 13 and have been playing around with it.  Seems to do everything I want it to do.