Oh Good. Maybe it'll be in time for my birthday .

I have one. Or I did until my grandson saw it.

I never got the classy Pentax bag, but I had to fight off someone from Canon to get my camera .

I had a tour of the old factory - from Adrian Newey .
Frank Derney and his wife were friends of ours.

Exactly.

I don't need full Photoshop, I wouldn't use a quarter of all it offers. Nor I suspect do most people who use it.

I don't know Lightroom, but it is usable with Elements - Elements can do things Lightroom can't, just as full Photoshop can.

Elements does all I need it to do, and quite a bit more besides, for a good price. Until PSE 9 workarounds, or plug-in were needed for some things, like layer masks, and no doubt still are needed for other tasks, but it is a good price, especially if you don't buy it from Adobe, and offer4s most things an amateur photographer needs.

I would never download it. I tried that with PSE4 and failed miserably - it took weeks to get Adobe off their behinds to sort it out and eventually they sent me the CD-Rom - twice. I told them if they wanted the second one back they should pay the postage. I heard nothing from them.

I bought PSE6 elsewhere for about 60% of the Adobe price. The upgrade never seems financially worth while to me.

When brightening them are you adjusting the levels or just the brightness. Maybe they would benefit a bit from some levels adjustment just to lift them a bit.

Is your monitor calibrated?

Me too. I am still on PSE6 at the mo.

I shall wait a bit and see who else has it on offer.

74.47 GBP on Amazon.

The K-7 also has a lockable mode button. The one on the K-5 is just a tad bigger.

High ISO and faster AF, more fps, all reasons to upgrade if you really need them .

63.46 GBP upgrade, 77.46 GBP full version.

It allows for proper layer masks, and has the new content aware healing brush too.
The Mac version now comes with organiser instead of Bridge.


The price is why they don't merge it with Lightroom. Not everyone needs Lightroom or is willing to pay 232.65 GBP for it.

These are the prices on Adobe UK. No doubt, as usual, you can get them cheaper elsewhere.

I'm just happy Williams managed two drivers in the top ten .

Grandson's birthday today so we went round earlier and suffered the noise and chaos of a 4 year old's birthday. We didn't stay long as I have a stinking cold, and there were huge numbers of people there.

At least his present was a hit - a radio controlled Subaru Impreza.