Do you Photoshop your photos?

I use Photoshop extensively, most of the time Photoshop gets a bad name, I look at it like being creative in the dark room. When I would add color dye to a high contract sunset to bring out the color of the sun, or use different filters on the enlarger to create different moods of the nature photos I'd shoot. I consider photoshop a digital version of the darkroom but in my opinion, photoshop can't be used to adjust composition, poor lighting or out of focus images. They have tools for that but then you're changing the nature of the photo.

Creative Cloud is what I use, it's about $10.00 a month and you get the full version of Adobe Photoshop, Light Room and Bridge, as long as you're paying the subscription you get access to free upgrades and patches. I highly suggest to take a class at the local community college on Photoshop so you get the most out of the program. Some of the basic actions are not real intuitive as they are in other programs but you have a lot more control over those basic actions.

I do use Photoshop, especially Lightroom in my post processing. I have played with several other products, Corel's Paint Shop Pro On 1's suite, etc. But I keep coming back to Photoshop, maybe because it's what I'm used to but the work flow just seems smoother.

My processing is usually pretty minimal. I try as much as possible to compose in the camera, it's a lot easier and better to get it right there than it is to tweak it extensively in processing. I'll adjust the exposure a little, maybe touch the saturation and color balance a bit, and on occasion throw in a filter or two, but rarely more than that. On rare occasions I'll play with more extreme editing, but mostly I'm just looking for an image that pleases the eye.

One nice thing about digital vs film, you're free to experiment since it costs no more to take 10 images than it does to take 1.

Most definitely, I make some sort of adjustment to nearly every single photo I take. Of course, I shoot in RAW to the product straight out of my camera is essentially unusable. There are some purists who feel it is wrong or cheating to post-process photos, but it is really not that different from film photographers adjusting exposure in their dark room. Mind you, we now have the ability to change a background, remove a person, add a person, etc. which takes things into a new realm. I don't get into that much since I do most of my post processing in Lightroom where most of the tools are for correcting a photo, not creating a new image.