Re: the retail price of CS3, I too can't understanding the pricing of it in UK ... official exchange rates seem to play no part at all, in that it's roughly dollar for pound for CS3 over here, which doesn't make sense
Luckily I got it for less than half price as a special offer to upgrade from Elements 5 which was pre-installed on my laptop, otherwise I'd never have bought it. IMO Adobe are worse sharks than MS will ever be! Have you seen the pricing of their other products as well
Well, the two Elements books were collected today for return to the book club ... thanks for advice in that regard
I did keep the 3rd book I'd ordered from them, which is Adobe Photoshop CS3 A-Z by Philip Andrews (hadn't bought CS3 yet, but figured it'd be useful for Elements), so that should give me an overview of the tools + features to get me started. I'm also hoping it's not going to be too different from using Serif PhotoPlus, just with more features I hope. Haven't used CS3 yet, but I'm sure I will enjoy it.
Oh, had a little go with Elements 5 (just to crop an image) but wasn't very impressed.