Presently on PcPro's `A-List', Adobe Elements is a cut down version of Adobe's £500+ Photoshop/Photoshop Extended CS4, and costs considerably less while still having a lot of useful photo editing capabilities. Photoshop CS4 has a steep learning curve, but Photoshop elements is far more home-user friendly. A lot of the program is geared towards image storage and management of the photos on your hard drive, helping with emailing, web output and scrapbooks of your images. The program can auto-downloads your images from the camera to folders, set up using the date, and can even process the images, say automatically removing red-eye, while it does it. Using stacks you can set up image databases [smart albums] using keywords like names, places, events, ... Read More:
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With most of the applications produced by Adobe requiring a small mortgage to purchase, it makes a change to see a program that represents good value for money. For less cost than many stand alone raw file converters you have a program that can import raw files using the same plugin that is produced for their full Photoshop application. On top of that you are able to do some surprisingly complicated image manipulation, including full lens distortion correction and white balance control. For the more graphic inspired amongst us it carries a wide range of adobe effects and brushes. For the less technically minded you can switch to quick or guided mode. The layout is good, and keeping the effect palettes on the far right of the interface works well on ... Read More:
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With most of the applications produced by Adobe requiring a small mortgage to purchase, it makes a change to see a program that represents good value for money. For less cost than many stand alone raw file converters you have a program that can import raw files using the same plugin that is produced for their full Photoshop application. On top of that you are able to do some surprisingly complicated image manipulation, including full lens distortion correction and white balance control. For the more graphic inspired amongst us it carries a wide range of adobe effects and brushes. For the less technically minded you can switch to quick or guided mode. The layout is good, and keeping the effect palettes on the far right of the interface works well on ... Read More:
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i think this product is great yes it is slower loading in at the start but this is because it is a bigger program and to be exspected to sum it up i love it full marks
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Photoshop Elements 6 (MAC)
Don't buy this. It's rubbish. PC program trying to run on a MAC. Spend extra and buy Aperture which is a proper MAC program. Let the PC anoraks buy this rubbish and the proper MACs win again.
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was very dissapointed with the graphics on the cd....there also doesnt appear to be a search facility...definitely not worth the money...
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I have used this for a couple of years now and rely on it for all my photo needs. It is truly a fantastic program. The cataloguing function enables you to find any photo within seconds. I have approx 16,000 photos in my computer and this program has them all tagged for instant retrieval. The editing functions enable you to do pretty much anything and would be all you could want unless you are a professional. Its worth getting a book to help with the more advanced functions if you want to experiment.
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Whatever bugs they had in Lightroom 2, they seem to have fixed in the 2.1 patch.
I've been using the free 2.1 trial for a month and it's a joy to use, so much so that after writing this review I'm off to order the full copy by post from Amazon, because the digital download from Adobe is £40 more expensive !
I can't see that much difference from version 1, but there again I haven't gone through all the video tutorials that Adobe have up on their site.
For a digital SLR user, I just can't do without it, it's that good.
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I know that nothing will persuade die-hard Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop supporters to abandon their favorite software, but when you see what you get for £100 with Corel X3, when compared to about £1000 for the Adobe equivalent, the case is made, at least for me. I have to spend my own money when I buy software software.
Having used earlier versions some years ago, I found X3 easy to use and very stable in Win XP. Newbies should expect a steep learning curve, but that is only to be expected with software of this power and capability. Perseverance pays off, and once the initial effort is made learning becomes faster and easier.
I frequently prepare detailed sketches and scale technical drawings, and I find the ability to work exactly to scale, and to ... Read More:
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I know that nothing will persuade die-hard Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop supporters to abandon their favorite software, but when you see what you get for £100 with Corel X3, when compared to about £1000 for the Adobe equivalent, the case is made, at least for me. I have to spend my own money when I buy software software.
Having used earlier versions some years ago, I found X3 easy to use and very stable in Win XP. Newbies should expect a steep learning curve, but that is only to be expected with software of this power and capability. Perseverance pays off, and once the initial effort is made learning becomes faster and easier.
I frequently prepare detailed sketches and scale technical drawings, and I find the ability to work exactly to scale, and to ... Read More:
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