Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Great Product for Organizing and Fixing Pics
Summary: 5 Stars
I have only recently purchased PE3, and so far I am very impressed. To anyone thinking about purchasing this product, I recommend taking the FREE 30 day download from Adobe. For me, this helped confirm my decision to purchase PE3. My favorite part is the ability to keep my photos nicely organized. I have started working with some editing features, and have found I can get very creative with my pictures. For example, I made a picture look aged by adding sepia tones, and "noise" with some of the filters. Don't forget, test drive the program for 30 days free of charge at adobe.com before buying it. By the way, I found mine at Sam's club for just under $80.00 Customer Review: Triumph of Marketers over Programmers
Summary: 2 Stars
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 was a tremendous breakthrough for the casual digital image enthusiast. With a huge portion of Adobe Photoshop's functionality, it was for the average photographer all the program he or she would need. The weakest part was it's photo browsing and library management. These failings were addressed with the release of an ancillary program, Adobe Photoshop Album. While not to everyone's liking, Photoshop Album was powerful and very well designed, and together with Elements made a comprehensive set.
With the release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, Adobe has pulled a fast one on its customers. Instead of adding significant functionality to PE, it has given it lots of what programmers call "chrome" - the shiny bits of the user interface. It has merged in the features of Photoshop Album, but this is useful only to those who don't already have Photoshop Album.
For your money, the upgrade to Photoshop Elements 3 offers, essentially, one new tool: The healing brush introduced in Photoshop 7. While the healing brush sounds great, I found it to be inferior to careful use of the 'good old' clone stamp tool.
Given that I was not won over by Photoshop Album, was unimpressed by the healing brush, and don't care much about chrome, I found the net advantage in this upgrade to be nil.
On the downside, however, users get plenty. For one thing, each time you want to edit a photo (Photoshop Elements) or work with a library of photos (Photoshop Album), you must load both programs. Remember, in version 3 they have been combined. It would not be accurate to say this adds twice the load time and overhead; it seems to have added more than that. Photoshop Elements 3 is slow where 2 was fast, bloated where its predecessor was lean. It is, however, very, very shiny.
I have tried Photoshop Elements 2 and 3, Photoshop Album, and Photoshop 7. Having tried all these, I now use Photoshop Elements 2. For managing my library I rely on ACD System's ACDSee, far faster and more flexible than Photoshop Album.
I can't recommend this upgrade; it offers almost no real new features, and the addition of Photoshop Album is only of interest to Photoshop Album fans. The programmers at Adobe must have been working on other projects; this upgrade seems to be the work of the marketing department.
Customer Review: Almost a full-sized PS without the full-sized price
Summary: 4 Stars
I've used the 'real' Photoshop for a number of years professionally but was hesitant to pay the 'real' Photoshop price for home use. Elements 3 lacks the bells and whistles and uses some 'short cuts' that seem to me kind of crude but for 90% of folks E3 is more than adequate. I am very happy with E3. (Beware of what rebates maybe offered by Adobe, however. If offered, read the 'fine print' if there is fine print. I felt mislead but Amazon 'made good.')Customer Review: Photoshop Elements 2 FAR superior to this disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
I've been very happy with PE2...works nicely, not clunky, even the great sunflower confronting one on opening. So I thought I'd upgrade to PE 3 -- a great mistake and waste of money. I'm still using PE 2; PE 3 is clunky in its operation (and my computer has over 500 meg or RAM and 1.5 ghtz processor, 160 gig hard drive). There is just no comparison in the ease of operation with P.Elements 2 and this new Vers. 3, which also takes forever to load as it goes thru all the fonts or some such thing. Finally, to add insult to injury, they've removed the pretty sunflower and you're confronted with this grinning woman as you open the program, and no way to switch her out for another pic...jeez, give me back the sunflower any day. P.E. 3 may have a few more features, but nominally so over P.E. 2, and the trade off does not begin to compensate for the overall clunky operation of the P.E.3 program. What a waste of money!!
Sincerely, disappointed buyer of P.E. 3, Robert A. Fesmire
Customer Review: WARNING
Summary: 1 Stars
DON'T BUY THIS PROGRAM UNLESS YOU WANT HOURS OF HELL TRYING TO INSTALL IT.