Adam Maas wrote:
Essentially, the price you pay for the capability of Photoshop (And rest assured, it's *FAR* more capable than anything similar) is the complexity. To reduce the complexity, you need to also reduce the capability. And that's exactly what Adobe did with Photoshop Essentials, which is more than adequate for 90% of photographer's work. In fact, the only reason I don't use Essentials is the fact my B&W workflow requires 16bit to prevent histogram jaggies, my colour editing is 16bit only to allow my workflow to vary less. Colour Management is useful, and I take advantage of it, but I could live without it.
If at some time you decide to get the lower-priced program, you'll have better luck finding it under the name Photoshop *Elements*
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