Nothing is "better" than CS3. It is The Best, but the most expensive and most complicated.
The Next Best Thing is PSPXI. Cheaper and easier to use.
Next is PE5. Not quite as powerful and feature rich as PSP, and a bit harder to work with, but still all most people need... and then some. It is "mini-photoshop".
To me the Best Bang For The Buck is to get Lightroom and either PSP or PE5. You'll drop a bit less than $400, but darn, what a combo! And that much cheaper than just CS3 alone.
Only one other thing might affect your decision- if you want to run actions, the full Photoshop is the only one that will do that. (But PSP runs "scripts"- the same thing).
Just my opinion (yes, I have LR, PE5, and PSP). |
