Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0
Customer Review: Overrated, overpriced
Summary: 3 Stars
I downloaded a trial version from Adobe because I was thinking about upgrading from the free Ulead PhotoExpress software that came with my scanner. In my opinion, Photoshop Elements is easy to use and did a very good job at photo manipulation. However, to my surprise, it didn't really do anything better than PhotoExpress. True, it has some features that PhotoExpress lacks. But PhotoExpress has an easier-to-use touch-up mode for removing scratches and dust, and it also has a more robust "projects" section for creating greeting cards and other printable creations. I'll save my money and stick with Ulead, which seems better suited to the typical home/family user.Customer Review: Photoshop Elements Rocks !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This incredible software is for "the rest of us". If you have the inspiration , but not the education to master Photoshop 6.0, this is the perfect match ! You get most of the necessary features of Photoshop without the need to have the manual in your lap the entire time you are working. I found this software to be so user-friendly that it has given me the confidence to work through other progams that I never would have tried. I recommend this software for anyone who wants to clean up a photo or go all the way to complicated layers.Customer Review: Waste of Money
Summary: 2 Stars
I was using Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition and decided to purchase Adobe Photoshop Elements because I wanted a program that saved the EXIF information such as the date the photo was taken. With PhotoDeluxe when I enhanced and saved the photo, the new file didn't include the date the photo was taken. With Photoshop Elements I love the way the EXIF information is included in the changed photo.Another thing I want in a photo editing software is: WHEN I DECREASE THE IMAGE DIMENSIONS I WANT THE RESOLUTION TO INCREASE.
Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition to does a great job of this. With Photoshop Elements, if I have a photo that is 1280 by 960 pixels, Photoshop Elements will list the width as 17.778 inches and the height as 13.333 inches and the resolution as 72, and this is fine. What I want is a 6 x 4 picture, and if I change the width of 17.778 inches to 6 inches and change the height from 13.333 to 4 inches, Photoshop elements will continue to list the resolution as 72ppi, unless I type in something different. Why can't I just enter in 6 and 4 and have Photoshop Elements figure out the ppi? I love the way PhotoDeluxe makes this so easy because all I have to do is scroll down to either "4x6 landscape" or "4x6 portrait." I called customer support about cropping photos. I was told to enter the dimensions as 6 x 4 and enter the resolution as "250 or 300." I explained to him that if, for example, I crop the photo to half the size I will unnecessarily be making the file size way too large. He didn't have a good answer.
A small grip about Photoshop Elements is I'm unable to find an "Instant Fix" command. It is hard for me (a novice) to properly adjust the color in Photoshop Elements.
What I do with most of my pictures is get 4x6 prints from Shutterfly.com. I love the way Shutterfly prints the date the photo was taken on the back of the photo.
I'm now using the trial version of Image Expert 2000 and it seams to have everything I need.
Customer Review: Better, Faster, More Intuitive than PSP5
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought Paint Shop Pro 5 two years or so ago, to work with scanned images. I found that a totally frustrating experience - I could never bring the scanned images up to par with my own quality expectations. Then last August I bought a digital camera with 2.1 megapixels - and started having some real fun. It came with MGI Photosuite - and Adobe Photoshop LE Business Edition (not the full version of LE). Between these 3 programs I was having a heck of a time viewing, fixing, and printing my photos. I was beginning to think that I had gotten into another time-wasting situation, and was looking for a way to do what I wanted to do with my photos, faster.I read the ZDNet review of Elements, that lodged in my brain. Then, on a whim, I bought Elements at Best Buy. (Yaaah, so I paid full price!). I got it home, installed it... opened one of my infamous scans - clicked "sharpen" - and Viola! It met my quality expectations that easily! (Yes, I had done the same thing with PSP5, but it looked like hell...)
I deleted MGI photosuite and the Ps LE Business Edition, but I'm keeping PSP for now. It loads much faster (can't say if that's true of Version 7..), and I can resize and compress photos to email folks much quicker, since I'm more used to that program.
BUT... Elements is definitely the winner here. Perhaps because I have some image editing experience, I find the manual perfectly understandable, and there is new (to me) info in there that is clearing up some stuff for posting to the web (like the whole pixel/resolution/size situation.
I'd say that Elements is ideal for editing photos and preparing stuff for the web - I'm looking forward to figuring out if it's more versatile than PSP for making graphics. The target audience for Elements is the new digital photographer, so if that's you, grab it!
Oh, fwiw I'm using Elements on 2 different machines - a Pentium II 400 desktop with 96 megs of ram, Win Me, and a Sony Vaio laptop, Pentium III 500 with 64 megs. It tends to choke and produce "artifacts" on the screen with the laptop - must buy more RAM - but is fast and fine on the desktop (not to mention that stuff is easier to see on the monitor). I can't imagine using it on a slower machine, or one with less ram. Just my opinion.
I'm already looking forward to Ver 2!
Customer Review: Everything it Promised
Summary: 4 Stars
I needed an editing software package for my blossoming digital photography hobby. With very little background in photo editing software, I was able to begin the most basic tasks without referrencing the book or help screeens! This software can do a lot, so it will take quite a while to get through all the learning curve, but that's not because its' hard, its' just packed full of a lot of features. I love it!