Photoshop Elements
 

Ok, first off I'm a complete Photoshop novice, never even used it but it's something I've been promising myself I'd get for more than a while now and the photo's we had done professionally last month have made me mind up, it's about time I was able to do/use the effects they used.

So, which version? Which add ons? and what's the best training resource?

Which are you lot using?

Many thanks in advance

M

Photoshop CS3 or CS4 is what I recommend as the best Photoshop versions these days. You need a bit of ram to run these, at least 2 gb to do a lot of stuff with big files without your pc collapsing.

Photoshop elements 6 or 7 for just the photo manipulation stuff is probably what you need though, but I haven't used either of those to be honest.

For training you probably want to get a highly recommended book on amazon or so but I used www.vtc.com for CS3 training myself and they have elements training too. Is good online training in my opinion and isn't too pricey a month.
Hope that helps a bit at least.

Oh dear...i've only got Elements 2 and can't drive that properly! I'm not bad at cloning stuff out though. Not good either...