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I bought the older version with the scrapbook CD added in for a much more reasonable price than the newer PS 9 or brand new photoshop that costs huge dollars. If you ask me I don't know why the average user would like more than this 4.0 gives, it seems to have everything you need and I still had to buy a step by step tutorial book to figure it out. It is not childs play. It is a complicated powerful program, but I love what it can do and am bound and determined to learn. I would start at this one and work my way up as I became proficient at photoshop. I'd like to try Adobe Premier 2.0 but this photoshop program 4.0 will definitely keep me busy for a long while. I highly recommend it for the learner.

I had to purchase this software for a class in my masters program. It doesn't do much more than the free image programs that came preloaded on my computer. I rarely use it now that my class is over. I use the full version of Photoshop at my job so it was pretty annoying to find that it wasn't similar to the full version at all. It was like using a completely different brand of software. And the photo manager that came with it was pretty annoying too. Advanced users will probably be annoyed by the program, but it is fairly simple enough for moderate computer users. If you already have image editing software on your computer you might as well stick with what you have. If you don't have anything at all, this program does get the job done. I wouldn't have bought it if I didn't have to have it for class. Although I didn't use the scrapbooking stuff that came with it, it did look like it had some cute ideas for making photo albums.