Yes. Even if you only use it just to retouch photos you'll have fun with it. Plus there are endless free tutorials on the web for specific tasks you may want to perform.
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I hope you all don’t mind that I plucked your name off the thread for some buying advice.
I would like to get my 13 year old stepson, who is an excellent freehand pencil artist, involved in some way in computer graphics. I’m a patent attorney and have pretty good experience with Visio, but I don’t think that really is what he should start with.
He has no experience with any graphics program, but currently draws Manga style art.
I bought today a Wacom $125 tablet and was prepared to sign up for the Adobe Creative Cloud based on a conversation I had with an art supply clerk today, who said that we would do well with Photoshop and Illustrator.
I have no experience with Photoshop or Illustrator FWIW; I tried working with Gimp a little but it never took. I plan on getting a Lynda.com account and learning along with him, whatever we do.
What do you all suggest? Would a stylus and the CS2 suite work for starters? This has to be Windoze based. Or is even CS2 too big of a first bite and we should start with something simpler? I would grade he and I as mid-to-high in technical capabilities.
Cost is not a huge factor as I am willing to spring for Creative Cloud if need be.
thanks
Freedomlover