PhotoShop 6.0 is indeed an excellent image editing and manipulation tool. The possibilities are too numerous to mention. I thoroughly recommend doing all the boring stuff and actually taking the time to read the user guide alongside a good tutorial book. I do have one little niggle though and that is the inability to print multiple images onto one page (easily). Yes you can do it by re-sizing your canvas and dropping your images on and then arranging but there are easier ways to do it than that (E.g. Paint Shop Pro 6.0 - Print Multiple Images option). Please don't read this and let it put you off - Adobe PhotoShop has far too much to offer to let a little thing like that put you off.
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PhotoShop 6.0 is indeed an excellent image editing and manipulation tool. The possibilities are too numerous to mention. I thoroughly recommend doing all the boring stuff and actually taking the time to read the user guide alongside a good tutorial book. I do have one little niggle though and that is the inability to print multiple images onto one page (easily). Yes you can do it by re-sizing your canvas and dropping your images on and then arranging but there are easier ways to do it than that (E.g. Paint Shop Pro 6.0 - Print Multiple Images option). Please don't read this and let it put you off - Adobe PhotoShop has far too much to offer to let a little thing like that put you off.
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PhotoShop 6.0 is indeed an excellent image editing and manipulation tool. The possibilities are too numerous to mention. I thoroughly recommend doing all the boring stuff and actually taking the time to read the user guide alongside a good tutorial book. I do have one little niggle though and that is the inability to print multiple images onto one page (easily). Yes you can do it by re-sizing your canvas and dropping your images on and then arranging but there are easier ways to do it than that (E.g. Paint Shop Pro 6.0 - Print Multiple Images option). Please don't read this and let it put you off - Adobe PhotoShop has far too much to offer to let a little thing like that put you off.
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Acrobat 5 is fairly fast and light. Run well under MacOS X Panther. Most of its job is done without using "sci-fi features" I currently use both the Mac and Win version and got no problem at all. Acrobat 6 - as, for all I can see, the whole CS series - is heavy and slow (on a 1,25 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM). Unless one needs some very high level feature, is better to stay sticked to the previous version.
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Acrobat 5 is fairly fast and light. Run well under MacOS X Panther. Most of its job is done without using "sci-fi features" I currently use both the Mac and Win version and got no problem at all. Acrobat 6 - as, for all I can see, the whole CS series - is heavy and slow (on a 1,25 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM). Unless one needs some very high level feature, is better to stay sticked to the previous version.
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Acrobat 5 is fairly fast and light. Run well under MacOS X Panther. Most of its job is done without using "sci-fi features" I currently use both the Mac and Win version and got no problem at all. Acrobat 6 - as, for all I can see, the whole CS series - is heavy and slow (on a 1,25 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM). Unless one needs some very high level feature, is better to stay sticked to the previous version.
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Acrobat 5 is fairly fast and light. Run well under MacOS X Panther. Most of its job is done without using "sci-fi features" I currently use both the Mac and Win version and got no problem at all. Acrobat 6 - as, for all I can see, the whole CS series - is heavy and slow (on a 1,25 Mhz G4 with 1 gig of RAM). Unless one needs some very high level feature, is better to stay sticked to the previous version.
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Photoshop Elements is an excellent package. It takes the important functions from Photoshop and repackages them in an easy-to-use format for home users. The user interface is clean and tidy, there's little in the way of clutter. It seemed to be more memory efficient than Photoshop LE and the user manual proved easy to understand.
The main shortcomings for the enthusiast is the lack of colour management options - it's hard to get to the state of what you see on-screen is what you get on your printer. It's close, but for some subject matter, not quite close enough.
The other shortcoming is the lack of ability to print mulitple images on one page - something a home user is likely to want to do.
Photoshop Elements is an excellent package. It takes the important functions from Photoshop and repackages them in an easy-to-use format for home users. The user interface is clean and tidy, there's little in the way of clutter. It seemed to be more memory efficient than Photoshop LE and the user manual proved easy to understand.
The main shortcomings for the enthusiast is the lack of colour management options - it's hard to get to the state of what you see on-screen is what you get on your printer. It's close, but for some subject matter, not quite close enough.
The other shortcoming is the lack of ability to print mulitple images on one page - something a home user is likely to want to do.