Which Photoshop?

[el_draco]

I've got a narrow window of opportunity to upgrade and would like recommendation on any of these:

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Adobe Photoshop CC 2015

Does any one of them stand out for imaging?

Thanks for any advice.

Rom

[glend]

Personally i use Photoshop CC 2015 which is a subscription based app and costs me $9.95 aud a month which i believe is reasonable, and it is always updated and is full featured. I believe CS6 may still be available but it does not have the full feature set of CC. Get your self a good colour calibrated edit/processing monitor as well, it helps.

[pluto]

Photoshop CS6 is the same as the version in the CS6 Master Collection. So you would only get the Master Collection if you needed Photoshop plus some of the other programs, like AfterFX, Premier, Illustrator, etc.

Photoshop CC2015 is part of the Creative Cloud subscription so if you "buy" this you are really paying a subscription to keep using it. If you stop your subscription then it stops working.

Tools wise they really haven't added anything major between CS6 and CC so really you should decide if you want to buy it outright, and get a version with no updates, or pay a subscription and always have the latest version.

Personally I use the Creative Cloud Photography Package which is Photoshop plus Lightroom and that costs me $12 per month: http://www.adobe.com/au/creativecloud/photography.html

[el_draco]

I can get a lifetime subscription for CC 2015 for $150 Au. Reckon that's a decent bet. I can go subscription later down the track if need be. I've been use photoshop 5.5 effectively for yonks for other work so this would be a significant upgrade i reckon... :)

Tanks for the insight

[pluto]

That sounds a bit fishy...? Never hear of Adobe offering anything like that, why would they - doesn't fit into their business model at all...?
I could be wrong but it sounds too good to be true...


EDIT: Yep it's a scam: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2013399

[el_draco]

Something a bit fishy going on me thinks.... The email came through a "secure server" so I hadn't looked really close Having the techies check it out.

[04Stefan07]

As mentioned below it's dodgy!

Just get the latest version of Photoshop. There are third part filters you can buy which I did as well and I highly recommend them!

[Merlin66]

I thought about PS - but the subscription worries me...
I ended up with the latest PaintShopPro X8 for $80.
It does 99% (and probably more) of PS. Has all the features, layers etc. etc.
Worth checking out.

[el_draco]

Yep... Dodgy. So much for filtering and secure servers.... but they said our information was safe... :question: :P

[gregbradley]

I use Photoshop CC 2015.5.

For a while there was no advantage to Photoshop cc beyond the sharpening tool that corrects for motion.

Recently though CC has added auto align of layers and auto blend modes which I find useful.

So that is the first really useful update.

On the negative side the interface in my opinion has gotten worse. The little windows that open for layers or navigator often seem strewn around the place and they resize and relocate way too easily. So I waste a fair bit of time reorganising these.

They sit where they should in CS6.

So I personally think that its about a wash between the pluses and minuses off cc versus CS6. I would lean actually towards CS6 as it probably operates a bit faster and loads a tad quicker.

Greg.

[Andy01]

I love PS CC 2015, it's soooo much faster on my mac, and nicely integrates with Nik filters (free from google), Annies Astro Actions, Astronomy tools, Gradient Xterminator etc. way better than the old versions imo.

[casstony]

Ken, in PhotoShop I can remove the background light pollution with just one step, no need to move separate layers around. Can you do the same thing in PaintShop?

[Merlin66]

Tony,
If you can tell me which plug-in or process you use I can certainly check for you.

[casstony]

Hi Ken, had to wait for the school computer and it's 13yo operator to come home to answer your question.

It's in Photoshop CS6, Image -> Adjustments -> Levels, then I grab the left hand pipette, click on a dark part of the image and the bright shroud disappears. That's about the extent of my current processing skills :)

[pluto]

PSP had levels even the last time I used it 15 years ago :)

[Merlin66]

Screen shot shows the PSP adjust/levels.....

[casstony]

Thanks Ken, so it's the same thing and a lot cheaper than Photoshop.

[seriousfun]

I do most of my work in lightroom. It does just about everything I need and its not subscription based. If I need retouching I go to photoshop elements as that's also not subscription based. With those two I feel set for then next decade ( but then elements V2.0 lasted me more than a decade- I'm a dinosaur )