Originally Posted by The Ghost

There's something commonly said about post, similar to what you said above.

Photoshop (post) can only make a good photo better. It can fix a bad photo. I can tell you from experience it is MUCH easy to try an take the photo correctly, then to depend upon photoshop to fix mistakes. The time factor alone makes it worth taking your time.

That's why if he understands CS2 and shoots in RAW, it would make his life a little easier. But it all takes practice.