Digital Art with Photoshop

Mixed Media Art Questions for Milliande


I am new to the site and just love it,I am trying to absorb as much of the great information as I can. I have a problem, I posted in the Daises, but I haven't heard back and wanted to know if you would help.

I need advice, I am retired and on a fixed budget, but was interested in trying Digital Art, I found the following on line -Adobe Photoshop CS3 V.10 for $175, which is within my budget. Now the question, is this sufficient to do digital art?

I have sent messages to a couple of the firefly's (Digital Art and Artful Artisan) in the last few days and have not got any response either, so maybe I am doing something wrong?

THANKS FOR PUTTING UP SUCH A AWESOME SITE.

Marlene

Mixed Media Art Questions answered by Milliande

Hi Marlene,

I am glad you are enjoying our art community , it is a busy little creative hive now with over 3100 members.. a pool of inspiration .

Re Photoshop CS .. I would say any of the photoshop software, even the older versions are sufficient for doing digital artwork .

As long as the program can inport a picture, alter it with different settings of opacity, sharpness, colored filters etc ..and then add layers to create altered digital collages it is fine .. I believe Photoshop 10 is quite capable of that .


I personally use paintshop pro and the smaller version of the Photoshop family called "Photoshop Elements" as I have found it more user friendly for the way I comprehend information and with enough features to play with what I do ,...but then I am not a digital artist per se, I just dabble a bit ..

I will put the question out here, so that members may jump in with their own recommendations for creating digital art

hope this helps
..milliande