PS cost me about the same as my 77 Ltd, so I tend to think of the expense as I would purchasing a high quality lens. It's a tool that I deem necessary.
I first started using PS to do photo restorations. It was several years before I actually used it to edit my own pictures. Unless you intend to do photo restorations/retouching, or graphics, the full version of Photoshop is overkill. But I don't just use it's levels & curves features, so I think it's worth the price. WRT, LR I'm going to give it a miss & get the CS3 upgrade instead. The RAW development tools of LR are going to be in the revised ACR, plus the other goodies that will be in CS3. As to the cost, assume a 2 year product upgrade cycle and it works out to about NIS 600/year (~AU$184), or 50/month. Not much when you think of it like that huh? ;-). Also when the next version comes out, you only pay the upgrade price, should you choose to upgrade. Cheers, Dave (apprentice enabler) On 2/7/07, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there. > > Apparently I cannot pay to Adobe either with my international credit > card or PayPal. Further, I must have a legal postal address so that if > any of you agrees to buy the sucker for me, it still will be unsupported. > > So I turned to Adobe representative in Israel. LR costs $285 regardless > of whatever introductory price Adobe has in USA. Bummer. I asked about > CS2. CS2 costs in Israel $1000+. Big bummer. > > I am not entirely sure I will enjoy shelling out NIS 1,200 just because... > > *Deep sigh* > > Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
