Digital BW, The Print

John,

you have a lot to learn. Eventually you will upgrade. Should you spend the 
money now or in a few months? Your call.

But, I would say you can easily stay in v.5.5 and get everything done you need 
to do. And, yes, you got good advice from others here, but what you will learn 
in PS 5 will not go to waist and you will not loose anything by staying in it for a 
while. In fact when you move to 6 ...  or 7 by then (another reason to wait?), 
you'll appeciate what they've done with color management and previews etc. 

If you can get a used or borrowed copy of Real World Photoshop 5, that will 
give you something to do (!) while waiting to buy the next upgrade.


Antonis

<jump-start tip: do not use sRGB in your RGB space, go for Adobe98 until you 
know enough to make your own choice>



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., John Schubert <johns@a...> wrote:

> We're just starting out. We have little Photoshop experience,
> if any. What we do have is Photoshop version 5.0.
> 
> My specific question to the group is: Should we IMMEDIATELY
> upgrade to Photoshop version 6.0?