Consider looking into Affinity photo software. They have just about everything PS has at a fraction of the cost ($50 u.s). It's a bit more complex that ps (think if ps and gimp had a baby) but well worth the price. Also try a gaming laptop or desktop because they're built for graphics and usually have more cooling options (photo/video/rendering editing can fry your mobo).
photo/video/rendering editing can fry your mobo
What? Tell that to my Dell E139761 mobo with stock cooling. Photo editing will not fry your motherboard.
As far as photo editing goes priorities should be:
- Ram
- Storage Speed (get an SSD)
- CPU (large 50mb raw images or 5mb png/jpg images) a more modern CPU is desirable if working with raw images. More cores if you plan on batch processing.
- Monitor (obviously you want a high resolution)
- GPU (this depends on what you plan to edit). Animations/3D graphics? yes get a decent card otherwise any mid-tier GPU would be fine.
The most CPU intensive actions as far as photo editing goes is encrypting/decrypting to and from bitmap/source. (unless its GPU accelerated)
Processing bitmaps is on the GPU. The biggest bottle neck will be drive speed.
Photoshop is more CPU intensive than it needs to be. GIMP can do 99% of what any other photo editing software can. Add in the Python engine and it can do anything... And it's not a CPU hog.
Just trying to save this user some money... No need for an expensive gaming rig for just photo editing.
No no need to spend a bunch of money for sure. I fried a tricked out Dell Vostro monster business laptop 15 years ago converting videos so yeah, I fried the mobo. Now I use a gaming device and it works- eh ok. I would never use blender or anything like that with it however, I do some 3d stuff with it.
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