Who has Photoshop and how did you get it?

Question:Did you buy the full version?
Did you buy a student 1/2 price version?
Did you get it from work or a friend?
Did you use a crack on the free trial?
Or what?
It's like everyone has Photoshop, I wonder how 12 year-olds are springing for a $700 program.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Did you buy the full version?
Did you buy a student 1/2 price version?
Did you get it from work or a friend?
Did you use a crack on the free trial?
Or what?
It's like everyone has Photoshop, I wonder how 12 year-olds are springing for a $700 program.

I acquired a used copy of Photoshop 7 when a friend of mine got out of doing image restoration. He sold it to me cheap and transfered the license for $200. \

Since then, I have followed the upgrade path through Adobe. I have CS2 now.

I think a lot of people say Photoshop but they mean Photoshop Elements or Lightroom, not the full blown CS versions. Either that or they are getting pirated software which is a big no-no.

Also, Photoshop has become a standard word for whenever someone does post processing on their digital images on the computer. They could be using any number of image editing packages.

Good question.

My first Photoshop was version 4.2 and I bought it from someone who never used it for about $25 ... years ago. I was able to buy the upgrade to version 5.0 later for under $150.

Then when attending a class in field geology, bought PS v. 7 at the student price of under $250 and it included three other Adobe products. ... from that point on, I have been buying the upgrades for around $150 for each upgrade.

I will be taking an advanced class in photoshop this fall and will be buying PS CS3 Extended at the student price.

go to bestbuy. anycosmogirl would know.

Maybe they mean Photoshop Elements, I have it and I paid ￡80 (~$160) or something for it in a regular computer store, I think I might have wasted my money.

I mostly use Elements for tilting the picture like 0.4 degrees if I took it wrong by mistake. For everything else I use freeware like Photofiltre which is much faster and easier to use.

Full version since the early to mid 1990's + upgrades + beta tester versions (all official)... and $700 is nothing, here in the UK we pay closer to ￡700 - around double what you pay!

Don't forget there is now the free online Photoshop Express, as well as Elements of course.

I got my Photoshop from a friend. It's the Adobe CS3 Master Collection

I downloaded a trial version it lasts for 31 days.
You can just redownload once the 31 days are up.. So whats the point buying it? :S

I have CS2, and my mom got it for me with an educator's discount because she (at the time) worked at a local college.
=)

An early digital camera, (I think my old Nikon 990), came with Photoshop 5 Limited Edition. This got me familiar with using he program. I then was given a version of Elements, can't remember the number, by a friend when he bought Photoshop 7. I used Elements until I got my first Apple computer and bought Photoshop CS bundled with the computer. Still using CS. "Upgrading" at each new version has just never seemed cost effective to me. I'm kind of from the old school that believes if you get it right in the camera in the first place you do not need that much help with photoshop. Plus CS will do more than I will ever be capable of as far as graphic manipulation is concerned..when I am in the mood to do that kind of thing.

There is now a beta online version of photoshop you may want to look into:
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landin...

steve