Well, it's certainly not worth the difference in price of £150 if you
aren't interested in the larger printing capacity. It's a good program
that's certainly worth it if it comes free with something you want
anyway. Photoshop LE has been replaced with Photoshop Elements, which
lists for $99 here, for everything but freebie bundles. I got 5.0 LE
with an Epson 1270 and find it very useful, but gather from reviews that
Elements is as good or better. After about a year I upgraded to full
Photoshop 6.0, but still use 5.0 LE quite often 'cause it loads much
faster and does most things I need most of the time.
If you want to play with pics as well and scanning paper, make sure to
get a scanner with a light in the lid and slide/neg adapter. You can
probably then correct for the print exposure problem, but you may not be
entirely happy with the detail available at the dpi resolutions of
reasonably priced flatbed scanners.
Your specific proble of 'moon shots' could be solved by different
printing. The problem is that the automated printers balance to the
average brightness of the average consumer snapshot.. Since you have
lots of total black in the frame, the printing process overexposes the
bright moon image to bring the overall brightness up to the 18%. That
blows out all the highlights. Since I scan (film scanner) and print
images I like, I don't know anything about getting processors to adjust
your prints, but others on the list have commented extensively on many
options.
Alternatively, get a longer lens or bigger telescope, so that the moon
fills the frame!
Moose
Brian Gray wrote:
I would welcome some comments/advice on the merits of PhotoshopLE.
Thus, I am hoping shortly to buy a scanner and a printer for my
recently assembled computer so that I can play with some of my
photographs, as well as scanning and printing paper documents (ie the
Scanwit does not meet my needs).
But I am not inclined to seriously consider buying the full
version of Photoshop without much more experience of scanning
photographs - it seems to be agreed that it is good, but it is a lot
of money. However, I find that some printers come with
Photoshop5.0LE bundled with it for about UKP150 more than the next
model down eg Epson Perfection Photo 1290 cf E.P.P. 890. I certainly
do not need an A3 printer instead of an A4 version but like the look
of 5.0LE - which does not seem to be available separately according to
the Adobe website. The alternative bundled software on the cheaper
printer is sometimes PhotoDeLuxe.
Assuming that my chosen scanner is adequate, one thing which I
know I want to do is to reprint where I can see that detail has been
lost in the standard printing process eg pictures of a lunar eclipse
where no details of the moon's surface are visible on my consumer
grade prints but I can see them on the negative using a loupe.
So, would Zuikoholics expect a beginner at scanning to be able to
benefit significantly from having Photoshop5.0LE?
Brian
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