text: photoshop? i need to know what exactally the photoshop is and where i can get it the cheapest. when i went to amazon to look it up it said that it costs around $600. is is like a program that or something entirley diffrent? photoshop is one of the top photo editing software programs you can get.  very few people really need the main photoshop software unless they are editing pictures for a living.  it is made by adobe which has a lower end product that you can buy for a lot less that will do a lot of the same type of stuff.  if you absolutely need this software you then hopefully you are a student or work at a university.  if so then you can get a discount from them that will make it less than half that price.  beyond that you should try ebay as people often sell it there for less.