Marnie, If you are working on a budget, there are 3 alternatives to Photoshop that cost under $100. First is Photoshop Elements (www.adobe.com), second is Picture Window (www.dl-c.com) and PaintShop Pro (www.jasc.com). I believe all have a trial version that you can check out at no cost for style of working. My personal preference is Picture Window. I have tried all of them and own all of them. Elements is quite similar to Picture Window without curves support but with layers support. PaintShop Pro has both but I don't find it to work as well for me - especially at color correction (I need B&W point style), but it does the best (natural looking) redeye correction. Anyway, any of those three might bring your cost down quite a bit vs. the full blow Photoshop.
HTH, Bruce Thursday, February 20, 2003, 9:44:56 AM, you wrote: Eac> In a message dated 2/20/2003 11:58:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> PE> Okay, lets cut to the heart of the matter here. If the >> *ist is the basis of >> PE> the DSLR will you buy it? Eac> Yes, probably, just on the basis of price alone. Well, I'd like 6 MPs or more. So we shall have to see. Eac> Any digital purchase for me is about a year down the road anyway, because I'd also have to upgrade my computer a bit, get PhotoShop, and a good (or very good) color printer. So that would be Eac> about $1,000 right there. Eac> But it's definitely looking good. And if it's a half-way decent camera, I definitely will be interested. Eac> I'd love to have the EOS-1 Ds (read a very favorable review of the LCD window where you can zoom in on one area of the shot you just took to check the detail), but at it's current price it will Eac> always be out of my range -- even used. Eac> Looks like Pentax may just have a winner (and a sales winner too, again, just on price alone). Eac> Doe aka Marnie :-)
