RPS DIG Goes North Event

You do not have to be a member of the RPS to attend this event.

Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 special offer from Adobe

Here’s your chance to get Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 and your own customizable Behance ProSite to host your online portfolio – all for £8.78 per month! Yes, that’s correct, from today until December 2, 2013, you can sign up for this offer – and you do not have to have owned a previous version of Photoshop to qualify. You will need to commit to a one-year plan.
 If you would like Photoshop and have not upgraded in recent years then this seems to be a good deal.  If the price stays the same then it would be 6 years before you will have spent the same amount as buying CS6 from Amazon (£616 currently). 
 See the website for more information.

The way we buy Photoshop is changing

Adobe have announced that there will be no more CS versions of Photoshop.  They obviously want us to subscribe to the Creative Cloud and Photoshop CC.  I have found some interesting articles which are worth a read.  It looks as if we will no longer be able to buy Photoshop CS as a boxed version but can still buy as a download. 

Here are the three links which I have read.  All by Photoshop evangelists or, in the case of the FAQs, an Adobe employee.  The first link helps if you are a Lightroom user who also uses Photoshop CS or Elements.

http://lightroomkillertips.com/?p=4896

http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2013/05/adobe-photoshop-favorite-features-for-photographers.html

http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/05/answering-your-questions-about-photoshop-cc.html

One answer to a FAQ is of interest to people like us who are hobbyist photographers was this:

Q: Can I still buy a boxed/perpetual version of Photoshop?
A: Photoshop CS6 is still available for purchase as a perpetual software license, via electronic download from Adobe.com and authorized resellers. The Photoshop team will provide bug fixes and security updates for Photoshop CS6 while it is still available for purchase. New features and all the other Creative Cloud services, however, will not be added to Photoshop CS6. 
Adobe and authorized resellers are no longer selling boxed software, as the company has moved to delivering features and services on a more continuous basis via Photoshop CC. See “Breaking from Tradition: Photoshop CC.”

New website with tutorials

A friend of mine, Ken Payne, has a new website with Photoshop CS5 and Elements tutorials.  He will be updating this as he makes new tutorials.  There are also training disks for sale at a reasonable price.  Click on this link www.kp-digital.co.uk

Photoshop Bridge Update

There are updates for Photoshop and Bridge CS5 available from the Adobe website. However, you may have a problem as I did in installing the Bridge CS5 update. I kept getting a message to tell me to close Bridge CS5, even though it wasn't open. If this happens, open Bridge and go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced and un-tick the check-box that says, "Start Bridge at Login." Then close Bridge, download the update and everything should be fine. The same thing applies to the Camera RAW update which is also available.

A good source for Photoshop Tutorials

If you want to know how to achieve things in Photoshop there are loads of good tutorials from a very knowledgeable photographer here http://www.crhfoto.co.uk/knowhowlist.htm .  Clive uses the full version of Photoshop but a lot of the tips would work in Elements too.

Paula