What version of Photoshop to use?

Hello,
I "used to be" a professional photographer but am now retired.  I would like to get into using Photoshop but don't know what version to use.  Can someone help?  I have an HP w/AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor w/6GB RAM and all the bells & whistles that go along with that.
Thanks,
Jerry

Jerry
Your just starting you need to ask yourself a couple of question. How serious do you think you want to get into post processing.  If you want to alter images things like removing objects, adding objects replaceing backgrounds then you will need a good editor and have a lot to learn.  If on the other hand you just want to enhance yout images so develop your images better then to come from your camera you get by with less.
in anycase Adobe is the gold standard when it comes to Image processing and you can download 30Day free trials of the products.  However you not going to learn any of then well in 30 days.
My suggestion would be to buy alicence for Photoshop Elements.  It a subset of Photoshop with a price around $100 compaired to $700 for Photoshop. Anything tou learn in Photoshop Element will go a long way if after a year or so you deside you need full blown Photoshop.   Photoshop Element has a little more hand holding for the novice user then Photoshop which has none.  With Elements you can also use Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) with some minor limitations to develop you RAW files into RGB images.   If you find that all you wind up doing you may wing just needing Lightroom alonf with Elements for Editing for removeing, adding and replacing objects. Lightroom is onle $300 has great image organiastion feature using databases and an output module the has some niced fretures for createinf I beleive slideshows, Web Photo Galleries and prints. I don't use Lightroom or Elements I just user Photoshop.
Right now your better of with Element to learn Photoshop. The Latest version of Photoshop CS6 is very buggy and there issue with some hardware and software  you need to be careful to meet the right hardware requirements and install the proper drivers.  You did not state which Video card you machine has.  Check Adobe Web site to see if they have tested the card your machine has. Adobe is working on fixing CS6 who knows by the time you learn Photoshop maybe CS6 will be fixed or there will be a newer better Photoshop.

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