What Program do you Scrap with?

This will be interesting!

CS6

 

Soooo many out there I learned.

Photoshop CC. I started out when Stampin' Up had software in 2009, disliked that I couldn't have shadows, and used PSE. Then jumped to Photoshop when I couldn't separate the shadows and tweak them (back in 2010).

 

PS CS 5, so older photoshop now, lol

 

lol! So true... but I did give up at one point. I think in 2004, I tried PSE, whatever version was around, and found it so overwhelming, along with an infant that I was NOT up to the challenge. Said nope, and headed back to paper land for a bit. Now, look at us!

 

My first encounter with Digi was about 9-10 years ago when I was on a paper site and one of the members (a guy) decided to throw a digi challenge at us. He was trying to walk us through how to do a simple digi layout. He told us to make a brush and upload it. HUH???? But my layout had nothing to do with a brush, why would I want to add a brush to a layout? Does he want a comb too?????
And that's as bad as my first encounter with paper scrapping. I decided in 2004 I would start scrapbooking and soon joined my first on line scrapping site. When I first heard the words "Basic Grey" I though she was talking about the color of a piece of paper she was using and I answered that I didn't like the color gray!!! DUHHHHHHH!!!!!! Aren't memories fun!!!!

 

PS CS6. Last one before the CC subscriptions came

 

I chose CC and older PS. I use PSCC now, but I still have CS6 hanging around. DH has it on his computer and I used it for a long time. I have never used anything but Photoshop. I started on my husband's CS2 and have used every version since. He used to be a graphic designer and is Adobe certified, which is how I got in to digiscrapping to begin with - I was trying to get him to show me how to use it and he told me to go look up tutorials. That's how I found this awesome hobby

 

I started out using Paint Shop Pro version 4 back in the 90's. I took online classes and learned how to edit photos and make siggies just using different effects and fonts. I also used the program in conjunction with my flatbed scanner to scan old photos. In fact, just today I found a 3-ring binder of lessons from an online class I took in 1999 on how to use the program. At that time PSP was owned by JASC. It was later bought out by the Corel Corporation and is now up to PSP2018. This is the 20th version of the program. I am currently using version X8 (aka version 18).

I took a class on PSE a few years back (I had a freebie version of PSE10 I think) and IMO it wasn't as user friendly as PSP was but I'm guessing that was because of how long I had been using PSP. I'm too old to learn something new and deal with change so I'm gonna stick with PSP

 

PSE 15 but have used PSE 5 & 6, CS4 and CC in the past. Went back to PSE cause I couldn’t justify paying the sub each month when I wasn’t really using it much if at all.

 

I do all the bells and whistles in PS CC but it is Scrapbook Max 2.0 I start and usually end with. Mainly because my memory is poor and I've not taken the plunge to replace SbM yet. For the days when my brain is mushy but I want to digi play, I need a fairly simple to learn/use program. @MrsPeel gave me a recommendation, I've just can't find the note atm. . . one day . . . soonish.

 

I am using PSE 15 (at home) and the Project Life App (not at home).

I bought Affinity for my iPad, but have not gotten much use out of it yet; my kits are not yet easily accessible and Project Life is so easy and satisfying when I have 60-90 minutes to wait for a lesson/practice to be done! I've been adding the new kits I bought for MOC to my Dropbox, so next month I'll have something to play around in it with.

I subscribed to CC for a while, but I'm going to cancel it -- it seems like every time I want to use it, it has to install an update first, and by the time the update is finished, I don't want to -- or just can't -- scrap anymore. I don't think I have even opened up PS in the two years I've had the subscription!

 

In 2004, I first heard of digital scrapbooking -- I think from a magazine, I don't remember -- and I tried it in my husband's old Photoshop 5. If I had more time, I'd dig out the page to show you; it's amusing.

EDITED TO ADD I now I have time to add my first digital scrapbook page. Woo hoo! Created in Photoshop 5 and it was 2005!


A year or few later, I tried a cool photo collage program called Lumapix Photofusion. I wish I still had the collage capability that program had. After adding all your photos to a page, with one click you could see your photos rearranged. It did not have layers like Photoshop Elements though.

I got my first PSE in 2006, I think. I upgraded about 3 times before I switched to PSCC in May 2016. Not because I had a strong desire for full PS, but because I feared losing Lightroom to it being cloud only. I'm loving PSCC now though.

 

I didn't really know what I was? PS 5? or 6? lol I thought it was elements or older...
I am hanging on until my puter dies, then I will go to the cloud. lol

 

Photoshop CC 2018 -- I just pay the $10 each month to use

 

I do believe I still have some "Basic Grey" hiding in a scrapping tote somewhere in this house.

 

I'm a PS CC girl and I get the whole shabang! I love PS CC, love it!