We all use Photoshop to create those "breathe taking" layouts everyone sees on Xanga. One day, I was planning on purchasing Adobe Photoshop CS thinking the price wouldn't pass $200. Well, when I visited the Adobe website, the price read $650 +!!! That was WAY beyond my budget. Sadly, I didn't purchased it so I got JASC PSP for only $200. How many of you guys actullay went and purchased the ACTUAL Adobe Photoshop program? Not the "bootleg" version, I mean the real $650+ version. Is it too expensive? Or does the price reflects the quality and features of the program?

yeah it is pretty expensive. i think some digitial camera CD's come with it. i know that Mac's come with photoshop 2.

its far too expensive for me

you payed $200 for PSP???

PSP is only 100 bucks....


i think it works quite well, although i have never used photoshop.

i am, however, having trouble getting rid of the 'trial' part of the 'trial version' which means i loose it after 30 more days...

which, of course, sucks.

i hope i can reinstall it...

my computer cant support CS. damn this windows 98

psp8 is down to $70, and can be lower with rebates and psp9 is still only $100 also

ive pretty much made my psp8 trial permenant, so long as no one resets the computers date. turing it back however killed my photoshop 7 trial, so i never even had a chance to learn to use it

setting back my clock has just told made it tell me to change it back or i can't use it...

darn it. i don't want to go back to using psp7; my version has bee corrupted i think.

I have psp8 and 9. Also I have photoshop 7 wich i got for free from my school. they paid for it because i took the technology art class. cool huh!

Ya only paid $100 for PSP?...I got ripped off..

I didn't buy cuz it is way too expensive. But I have to say, the CS version is very good. 7.0 is almost the same. I'm currently using 7.0. If anybody can find a place where i can download the full version of CS, please PM me. I have a ton of cracks...but no CS. >_<

yes. you did indeed.

yea i think it is expensive
i have 7.0 now
i dont think ill be able to get any version higher than that

it IS expensive, but maybe they're just doin it to kinda cancel out with the # of people who downloaded it for free illegally...its becoma real problem.

my cousin got her photoshop for only $70 bucks! and she got her psp for only $90 aswell! but im lucky!

I would never pay anything near $650 for a flippin computer program

i want something like that... maybe i should take graphic design...

meh! http://academicsuperstore.com/item/?tname=...e+Suite+Premium

$600 for it is actually not as expensive as you think. Most graphic design programs are way into the 1,000s and some even more (Maxon Cinema 4D - $700, and the studio bundle being $2995). Software isnt cheap to make and therefore not cheap to buy. You pay for what you get and you get one of the premier design programs there are. Although you are paying a little more the name thats how business is done. The name means everything and that raises the price. I personally get my copies for free because my grandpa is a graphic designer and he gets graphic programs from his firm all the time, but when he was just starting up he had to buy everything. This being the early age of computer before all the warez bull.

whoa...

they have tones of good stuff there.

like poser.

whoa. all for really cheap.

3-d designing software... whoa.

once i'm in college, i'm going to get a job; build myself a computer capable of handiling these programs, and then buy them all.

minature pixar!

sweet... Solidworks CAD... 2000 bucks MSRP, 66 bucks student version

i need this...

I would never pay that much for a computer program.

I had an older version of PS before cause I got the disk from my cousin, but now I'm using CS.

i would never pay any of that for some software unless i NEEDED it....guess thats why i dont make my layouts...well maybe when i get a job i will

i dont know and i dont care cause im getting it for free! *gloats*

yah i know, i was pretty suprised when i saw how expensive it was at amazon. It was only 580$ there. But i didn't want to download it from the internet. i dunno just seemed like the cheap version, but my mom payed a bundle for it, and just gave it to me for christmas. lol so i dunno if she actually payed the 600 or found it somewhere else cheap, cuz there are some places where you can get it for 200$ and this other site was offering it for under 100$ so i dunno

i was wondering who would actually pay that much for their own purposes? i mean its possible for companys to buy them for ppl buying them for themselves individually, i think not

well photoshop is expencive because the people at adobe made it for webdesign students and industries that design stuff to use it and buy it. not for like 11 years old to try at "make" all the little swirly things. thats just my 2 cents

There are free programs. Like the Gimp and Paint.net.

i cant get the gimp to download

from the sourceforge page?

from whatever links youve posted previously

lol i d/l it and got it free i'm now using adobe photoshop cs and image ready cs :) i would say i'll give it away but that would be spaming and i'm not here to do that :)

photoshop costs to much, there's always a way to getting tho these tings for free tho and thats always cool.

actually if i had the money, and if i were strongly against illegal downloading, i'd pay for it to support adobe ;P

Somehow, I kind of did buy the ACTUAL cd. I went to web-design class and we all had to buy the cd; so we payed ?$ for it; and it also came with a "Classroom in a Book" book. But I doubt I payed $650+ for it.