Digital photography and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5?

burn the images to a cd/dvd and take that to wherever you're getting the editing done.

I certainly do not have all these programs, so some of what I tell you will also just be based on what I have read. I do, however, have a friend who has both CS3 and Lightroom. His experience with Lightroom is pretty much as I have read. It uses the "darkroom" aspects of Photoshop, while skipping the ability to do all the tricks and graphic stuff. In other words, Lightroom gives you all the tools you need to do terrific editing to photos such as exposure, levels, curves, b/w conversions, etc. He says he is using it more and more instead of CS3. So I suppose it depends on just how far you want to go with your photos. If you want to just enhance the photo to make it the best it can be, then Lightroom will be all you need. If you desire to get into some serious manipulation or graphic creations, then you probably need CS3. Personally, I would think having both is a waste of money, but this friend of mine is a software junkie! I would forget Elements. Just reading your question tells me you are beyond it and / or would soon outgrow it. I also use a Mac, but have just not seen enough advantage to Aperture to download it. Maybe I don't know what I am missing, but I have also read reviews, and am just not impressed with it over the Photoshop I have now. Oh, by the way, I thought Lightroom would not run on a Mac? Or do they have a version for Mac now? Or... perhaps it only runs on the Intel Macs, which mine is not. So, anyway, there is some more info to ponder! :-) steve

You will most likely need to get a card reader. Although *most* new computers come with a card reader built in. I didn't know till a friend pointed it out to me. If you have a laptop (mine is a dell inspiron) it should be under the headphone and microphone jacks. If you're on a desktop, try looking in the front bottom compartment where 2 USB slots are usually held.

Theoretically, if you right click >open with> Photoshop, edit your photos, then save properly, WITHOUT changing the size, direction, or file type you should be able to edit your photos with out any problems.

When you attach your camera to your pc to download photos the pc recognises it as an external drive. If you go into "my computer" and look at my computer you will see an additional drive probably wiht two directories, one of them is DCIM or something similar and the other will be MISC. There may also be a sub direcory in DCIM, depending on the make of your camera. Look into each of them till you find where your camera stores its images.

You can then drag and drop your amended photos into the that folder and the camera will read them as if they hav just been taken, and you will be able to get them printed out form the card at your local supermarket.

Good luck

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