New to photography

caesar2164 wrote in post #8695095
as for the blueMarine website being down, here's a sourceforge link to download it:
http://sourceforge.net​/projects/bluemarine/

thanks

crapysniper007 wrote in post #8704075
I will check out lightroom my problem with Iphoto is it will not resize the photos I have not had time to play with it much because of work and school.

if your only concern is to resize photos: use what u have. iPhoto DOES resize photos (cf. link above). so DOES DPP.

dont spend a couple of hundret $$ for resizing photos, when you can get it for free. well thats my oppinion, and it's your money. Lightroom is one fine piece of software, but come on, for resizing photos its an overkill...

Welcome to POTN. The 85 f/1.8 is an excellent lens. I use it for indoor HS sports. I also feel that it's a bargain considering the quality/price.

For software, Photoshop Elements is a good program with a lot of features for less than $80. I now use LR and PSE 7. Between them I have no need for CS4.
Start out with PSE 7 and see if you need more. You may want LR if you are shooting RAW because the raw editor in PSE doesn't have as many features as LR does.