Photoshop Elements only?

LouCioccio

LouCioccio

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Gorf,

One of the downsides (I consider it downside) anything above 10 in Elements completely changed with tool bars being locked. You might find that disconcerting or not. You can download a 30 day trial from Adobe and later look for sales on during those black friday sales. Depending on the size of your monitor it may make a difference or not as it more constrained than before. I am coming from a Mac perspective as we did not get Organizer I think 10 had but before that Mac users used bridge. I always like the floating tools and pallets and I would hide the bin so I would have more space for the image. If you do a lot with Layers and Masks you might want to look at Perfect Photo Suite as it does Layers.

Lou Cioccio
 
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Eyelight

Senior Member
LouCioccio said:
Gorf,

One of the downsides (I consider it downside) anything above 10 in Elements completely changed with tool bars being locked. You might find that disconcerting or not. You can download a 30 day trial from Adobe and later look for sales on during those black friday sales. Depending on the size of your monitor it may make a difference or not as it more constrained than before. I am coming from a Mac perspective as we did not get Organizer I think 10 had but before that Mac users used bridge. I always like the floating tools and pallets and I would hide the bin so I would have more space for the image. If you do a lot with Layers and Masks you might want to look at Perfect Photo Suite as it does Layers.

Lou Cioccio
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Not sure on some of this because me no speak maceese, but the tool bars and menus and bin can all be toggled on and off in PSE 11 (PC).

But your comment reminded me to say that a lot depends on what one wants to do with a RAW file as to which program is the best to use.
@Gorf , there are a few threads that compare Elements and Lightroom that might be worth a read before committing to either or an alternative.
 
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Thanks guys

I have used Elements & now use LR/PS. I would definately not buy Elements again as LR/PS is so much better. I was hoping that my wife could make do with Elements, but this seems unlikely unless she sticks with JPG.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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Gorf said:
I have used Elements & now use LR/PS. I would definately not buy Elements again as LR/PS is so much better. I was hoping that my wife could make do with Elements, but this seems unlikely unless she sticks with JPG.
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Elements, in my mind, really is designed for, and marketed to, a much more... Casual user, shall we say. To my way of thinking, if you've decided to shoot RAW you've not only made the de facto decision to post-process, you've committed to doing so on a much deeper level than what you would do if you were post-processing a JPG image. This is because RAW files require so *much* processing, at least typically speaking. Almost without exception they're going to require adjustments to white balance, contrast, color (both hue and saturation) and sharpening. And while you can do all of that in Elements, it's a bit like rowing a boat with a soup ladle: It'll get you where you wanna go, eventually, but there are such better tools for the job you really have to ask yourself why you're not using one of those better tools. Then you start playing with Photoshop and you discover it's *not* hard to learn and that as a photographer you only need to learn a tiny little fraction of what Photoshop is capable of doing and the next thing you know you're doing exposure blending and HDR and using actions and looking at Wacom tablets... At which point you are, officially, "One of Us".

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