Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0
Customer Review: Spectacular product
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using Photoshop Elements for a couple of months now, not only for photoediting and printing, but also for design of backgrounds for web pages. Photoshop Elements is primarily used as part of my business (I use it in the design of marketing materials and art for webpages).The program is a perfect fit for serious hobbyist. It also meets the needs of business users who are cost-conscious and do not need the full power of PhotoShop. Most of the programs features focus on delivering useful graphics and photo enhancement tools to the user. PhotoShop Elements provides few few kitschy filters and tacky borders that so many bundled programs force on users, apparently in the belief that most of us want to use photoeditors to send fun-house images of the family pet with purple and yellow flowered borders to all our friends.
PhotoElements offers an immensely powerful suite of tools focused on the results desired by the serious hobbyist (which is not to say they haven't included their a few of their own kitschy folders). While PhotoElements offers a wide variety of filters and special effects, most of the filters have a meaningful professional purpose, the filters produce excellent quality results, and most offer the users a high degree of control over the special effects.
Unlike some bundled packages, PhotoElements works nearly flawlessly. It seems to manage memory well and I've never had a crash while using the program.
PhotoElements paper user guide is excellent for a program in this price range. The only criticism would be that I found the on-line help, which downloads directly to the Internet, somewhat clumsy and poorly structured. It seems difficult to formulate search terms that get the desired result and for someone on a dial-up connection I would think this would be a painfully slow way to access help (I have high-speed cable).
This software offers extraordinary value for the price. It offers at least 70-80% of the power of Photoshop for little more than the price of a game. If you buy a digital camera, purchase and install PhotoElements before you waste disk space on the bundled photoediting software that came with your camera.
This was the best [inexpensive]software purchase I've ever made.
Customer Review: Exactly what I need
Summary: 5 Stars
I do basic to intermediate graphics work for my personal web page and post a lot of my digital photos online. Photoshop Elements fits my needs perfectly.It has this cool Web Photo Album generator which generates a nicely laid out photo album consisting of HTML files and thumbnails. It is highly customizable and is great if you have lots of photos you want to post immediately.
It's also a very good image editor. It has all the features from the full version of Photoshop that I need.
If you're used to the Photoshop interface, but can't afford to shell out ($$$)for it, Photoshop Elements is for you!
Customer Review: Adobe Photoshop Elements
Summary: 4 Stars
I think Photoshop Elements is great! It is a very powerful, user friendly image editing program. It can turn bad digital photos into great photos, manipulate them, clone sections of pictures (great for making web page banners) and add text to them (the text feature in itself is one of the best I've seen). The "recipes" can make a somewhat daunting task very easy. It puts lots of Photoshop features into an easy to use and affordable package for the average user.
Customer Review: Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0
Summary: 5 Stars
After a free 30 day download from Adobe I was convinced that Elements gave me all the flexibility to create what I was never able to do in a darkroom.When I purchased a digital camera it came with Photoshop 5.5 Limited Edition (a teaser so you want more) Elements gave me all I wanted and more, more than I could ever do with film and chemicals and I don't have to turn off the lights to do it.Thank you Adobe for making a retired photographer HAPPY again.Customer Review: Adobe Photoshop Elements
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm VERY unhappy with this software and consider it a collosal waste of money. I purchased the Adobe product thinking it would be user friendly. This product is NOT user friendly. Additionally I despise the fact that you cannot print more than one picture per sheet. This software limits you to only one picture per sheet - unless you choose the contact sheet. This needlessly wastes photo paper.