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05-07-2013 02:09 PM #1 keepitsimple (Member)
Which version of photoshop is best for affiliate marketing?

What version of photoshop is best for affiliate marketing? I've been using gimp for the past 2 years and it has gotten the job done well enough but there are still some features / quirks about it that occasionally frustrate the hell out of me so I want to make the switch to photoshop since it seems to be overall the best product out there for graphic design.

They do have a lot of different products / addons though and I would appreciate any feedback you guys have. I will mostly be using it for creative work, i.e., static banners / animated gifs. I don't need dreamweaver or any of that stuff for webpages as I would prefer to just code it myself.

Pricepoint is not really an issue as I consider this an investment into my business, but I don't want to overpay for features that I don't need / will never use.

Thanks in advance!

05-07-2013 02:19 PM #2 Mr Green (Administrator)

Anything CS4 and above is more than fine to do your AM work!

05-07-2013 03:24 PM #3 caurmen (Administrator)

If you're on a Mac or have access to one, there's a discussion of replacement tools for Photoshop over on Hacker News right now.

And the new Creative Cloud pricing means that you can get Photoshop for $20 a month too, which is nice.

Personally I'm on CS5, which is absolutely fine for affiliate purposes. Content-Aware Fill is a godsend for manipulating some pictures, but that's about the only CS5 innovation I really use a lot.

Anyone know how Photoshop Elements compares these days?

05-07-2013 03:33 PM #4 britannia (Member)

looks like PS is moving to subscription only http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22432171

05-07-2013 04:08 PM #5 cent01 (Member)

Shake Reduction

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/04/17/...n/?fromcat=all

05-07-2013 11:05 PM #6 zeno (Administrator)

I'm on CS5 - upgraded to CS6 and then rolled back, certain things changed for no apparent reason and I found myself getting irritated at tools not doing what I wanted.

05-07-2013 11:08 PM #7 ironman (Member)

cs5 ftw

05-08-2013 03:39 AM #8 rafael (Member)

On a related note, I'm currently using Photoshop to create my banners, but using PS for making animated GIFs seems a bit harder than it should be. Is there any other tool that is better at it?

05-08-2013 05:24 AM #9 zeno (Administrator)

What are you finding particularly difficult about PS may I ask? I quite like it, since you just make a frame -> duplicate -> change blending options or shift slightly -> dupe frame again -> edit etc. A frame by frame approach isn't necessarily trivial but you shouldn't have many frames in your gif or your ad size is going to get huge.

05-08-2013 07:38 AM #10 maynzie (Moderator)

I'm stoked with CS4/CS5

I saw Mr Green toying around with CS6 in Am'dam looks real bad ass in its black presence, but if Zeno mentions tools changing I'll just stick to 5

05-08-2013 08:49 AM #11 fjk87 (Veteran Member)

On with CS6, looks sick with the black layout gotta agree with Maynzie. Actually I'd bet anything CS4+ does the job pretty easily, I mean, we're here to create ads / simple designs and not to win a design award aren't we ^^

05-08-2013 09:03 PM #12 rafael (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
What are you finding particularly difficult about PS may I ask? I quite like it, since you just make a frame -> duplicate -> change blending options or shift slightly -> dupe frame again -> edit etc. A frame by frame approach isn't necessarily trivial but you shouldn't have many frames in your gif or your ad size is going to get huge.
I don't know, maybe I just don't know what I'm doing, which is pretty likely because I don't know much about PS beyond the basics.
Gonna hit youtube and look for tutorials.

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