3 ms·
I get clients sending me PSDs, every once in a while, that I can't just export as-is with Wenovo PSD Viewer. It's kind of a pain to have to chase down a design
by bkyan 15y ago
I get clients sending me PSDs, every once in a while, that I can't just export as-is with Wenovo PSD Viewer. It's kind of a pain to have to chase down a designer pal just to have him or her turn on/off a layer or two and export to PNG for me. I do this maybe 8-10 times a year, so it's hard to justify paying for a Photoshop license just to perform some exports.
- batista 15y agoGet Photoshop Elements then. Way cheaper. And it's ironic that I would get downvoted for proposing this, but you can get a copy of Photoshop for free of the intertubes. (I say, ironic, because in other threads I would get downvoted for saying that "freely sharing" commercial software should remain illegal and it doesn't matter if it's "only a copy" and "you wouldn't ever buy it anyway". Make up your minds people...).
- bkyan 15y agoHmmm... I thought that was a separate product rather than a "viewer" version of Photoshop. Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out!
- bkyan 15y agoWhile I want the best deal possible, I'm not desperate enough to go the free route... ;-)
- maguay 15y agoI would absolutely recommend getting Photoshop Elements. It's got most of the features of Photoshop you'd ever use, and is much cheaper. You can get it bundled with Premiere Elements for $74 on Amazon right now, in fact. In fact, I bet you'll be surprised how powerful Photoshop Elements is; I could follow many detailed Photoshop tutorials in it with no problem at all. The only problem you might hit with Photoshop Elements is that you can't group/ungroup layers in it by default. If you need to do that much, you might want to get Elements+ (http://simplephotoshop.com/elementsplus/ http://simplephotoshop.com/elementsplus/) as well, which is an addon that unlocks some of the hidden features of Photoshop in Photoshop Elements.