So I get my rating on sales, support - and handling for an "average user".
Distribution and Fulfilment by Amazon (Premium Member) as always very fast.
More than 250 euros for a software - that you are not out all day and should in comparison to other photo editing programs (such as Corel, etc.) be considered for 50-80 euros thorough.
Teachers and students are with the 250 euros compared to nearly 1,400 more expensive identical version for "non-school related" really good there - but please note that you must submit a Proof at Adobe - and that is also really checked! A stamped and sealed tight certificate of school that you work there or learn enough. The then you have to scan and send in registration at Adobe - which you then after a few days (for me it was just one) zumailen your product code, this is in the school version did not include the package.
Does not matter, because you still can start right away - because 30 days must each try (and so long really nobody needs to get a certificate and submit it). Who is now even more impatient can also order before CS6 Extended for 30 days trial period of Adobe dressed (account there create, is for the activation anyway necessary) and then the "Beantragungskey" here on Amazon. The license you keep but only as long as your school activity lasts! For young teachers usually without problems, for high school students who do not immediately slip through to the university and a bit first "free time" or latency have a problem ...!
For those who no longer go to school: community colleges offers good courses (you will need something like that anyway, see below ...) and then also have special vouchers from Adobe where you sometimes even cheaper comes to Photoshop CS6 (though not "extended", but that does not see below), and equal to other very expensive Adobe products "with the basket" throw can - because right Deeper Discounts are.
"Jane Smith and Photoshop":
Anyone At length this program itself must be aware that not all that badly paid profession attended a long training and numerous expensive seminars and courses in order to use this program properly!
If you are not already Photoshop professionals and have no desire to buy expensive reference books to or to attend seminars, you stand with Photoshop Elements 11 or any Corel or Magix version much better there, because everything will make her with CS6 when "free trial and error "you will also considerably cheaper with these programs create well - and possibly even a lot more accessible and user-friendly.
The strength of CS6 is the infinity of possibility - but should you really know and do not you be afraid, for even the smallest effect through countless menus to crawl and make tiny adjustments that make a tremendous effect only in the aggregate.
I use the program now almost a year, have countless Lehrfilmchen considered to the Internet (there are really a lot, unfortunately, often tailored to CS5, but most can be transferred to), bought two expensive books (100) and worked for the most part and attended a 16-hour course "Professional image editing with Photoshop" (120) at the Adult Education Center.
And yet I scratch with my Photoshop knowledge just on the surface and have now perhaps so reached the point where I can really use Photoshop, and it would do no more cheap program ...)
Right there is the weakness of the program, revealed "the belief that time just to be able to":
In VHS course sat lot older men and women who wanted to do with this very expensive program easy things (change brightness ...) that they would have with any of a computer image free bundled software can do much easier. Or who now get such a free software somewhere and did not want to understand that Photoshop is Photoshop only really and they should invest now in 1400, in order to also apply the course content.
So let's not dazzle you, this program is designed for enthusiasts, for professionals, for people who very much want to spend a lot of time. Or for people who really do not care about the cost.
For meaningful work should their example relatively early at least 20-30 basic keyboard commands (combinations) can memorize in order to work quickly can. If you do not mind, first time to sit a couple of evenings with a table and cramming as the vocabulary, you are absolutely right here. (Of course it is also with the mouse, but then you reach a working speed which again will lead you to the cheap products ...)
For the home user, the costs do not mind, is perhaps interesting to note that of course but very, very much more precisely and more accurately anticipate the retouching and image repair functions than those of low-cost programs. Pimples, scratches or whole objects verschinden relatively easily from the images that one has learned quickly and CS6 calculates the new background extremely reliable and of high quality, which can effective programs not nearly as good.
The Extended function refers to 3D applications, also here can be Computer Arts. This is then, however, so complicated that I do not even have a closer look - I'll probably still need 4-5 years to get at least the basic functions speak reasonably safe.
Who can not be put off by all that a professional career in the area seeks - or a very demanding hobby searches and disappointments and hard times at the beginning of learning is not afraid, for there is no way to Photoshop - there is no real competition .. ,
