Digital Camera for use with Photoshop

[lillymirco]

Hello everyone,

I need to buy a digital camera, my first.

I use Photoshop Elements to edit my images and would like a camera that would allow me to easily download images into Photoshop for editing.

What would I need to look for when shopping? Any suggestions regarding specific cameras to look at?

I'm on a budget of course. Hoping for something in the $150 range that's easy to use, has a minimum of 3.1 Megapixals and a good macro feature, as I need to take close up shots of small items.

I've looked at both the Nikon Coolpix 3200 and the Canon Powershot A75. But, I'm not sure either would work with Photoshop.

Any advice?

Thanks, Liliana

[Hope]

Liliana,

Any good camera can download your images onto your computer. Once there, you can edit them with Photoshop. The Nikon Coolpix should do what you need it to.

[SensoVision]

hi Liliana! in my opinion first of all you need to decide what your camera would be used for. E.g. do you plan to take night shots (e.g. when you use manual controls of the camera). If this is your fist camera you probably would use automatic mode most of time and if so I would go Nikon 3200(from the photos I've seen, I believe that it has a bit better optics over Canon, although Nikon don't have manual controls they built in scene modes into camera which could help you to take better pictures than in automatic mode in some cases). If you going to use manual control now or plan to use them in future I would choose Canon.
As for using with PhotoShop Elements as Hope said it's don't really matter what brand you would choose, as most modern cameras connect to PC as a mass storage devices(which mean that you just plug it to PC and see camera's flash memory as another disk on your system).
BTW I'm fan of Minolta cameras for some reason, and would like to advice you to take a look on the their Dimage X series which I've used myself(I had X20) for some time, these cameras are really small have non-extrunding optics which make it's more safer to use IMHO, and it provide really good pictures for such small camera.
I've give only brief opinion about these cameras so if you looking for more deep explanation, here you can find reviews for the cameras you were looking for, hope that they would help a bit in finding right model for you:
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_a75-review/index.shtml
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/nikon/coolpix3200-review/
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/minolta/dimage_xg-review/index.shtml

you can also check this thread to find more sites with reviews here: http://forum.weblamp.net/index.php?topic=1485.0;all

Hope that once you choose a camera, you'll back here and post some of your photos