Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Keeps getting better
Summary: 4 Stars
I started with Elements 3 and thought it worked great. I have Elements 4 and can see it got better. Customer Review: Poor, Slow, and a disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
Being familiar with some Adobe products, we opted to try this at work as a cheaper alternative than some other packages for simple web graphics work. Boy, were we disappointed.
Simply put, this tool is not so much a tool, but a hindrance. Utilities such as transparencies, are not only difficult to make work properly, but hidden in non-intuititve locations. Dialogs are non-standard, which requires getting used to strange layouts in design. While seeminly small for just a couple items I've mentioned, multiply this by the supposed feature set of the product and you start to get an idea of how cumbersome the tool really is.
As has been mentioned by plenty of other people, it is also slow. If you want a simple image viewer, find anything else - even freeware, as I have never come across an image utility that takes so long to load, regardless of it is the first time or the umpteenth time.
While I could go on about the unsatisfactory qualities of this product, I will simple reiterate what others had also said; it is cumbersome to use, slow to use and load, un-intuitive with poor layout and design, and lacks many basic features one would expect in this form of utility.
Customer Review: Poor -- don't bother
Summary: 2 Stars
I am in agreement with others here who indicate that 4.0 is a downgrade from 3.0. Performance is very poor, especially the organizer. It's depressing to see how fast alternative programs are, such as Mac iPhoto and even the Canon software that came with my camera, compared to Elements. Recently, I've been getting lots of crashes, though everything else on my system is completely stable. The only reason I gave it more than 1 star is it does have some nice functionality, when it works correctly.Customer Review: Decent but room for improvement
Summary: 3 Stars
I use this software primarily to make desktop wallpapers and other graphics. I love the magic extractor tool to drop out backgrounds. Once I got used to the tool I found it much easier than just the lasso because you don't need such a steady hand. However, I would like to see some additional features, like more shapes and a better help manual (the current one is awful. I find myself googling all my questions because the Help function is useless). It also baffles me that I have to hunt online to download additional shapes, gradients, patterns, etc. Why can't adobe just offer these themselves? Maybe I'm nieve but I think it would be nice if they had a section on their website where users could share any shapes, gradients that they have created for FREE. I can't believe how many websites want to charge a person to download some shapes. Anyways, great software with hopefully some improvements in the future.Customer Review: Not Worth the Cost
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this software primarily so I could create slideshows with music and other special effects. Since I got it, I have had nothing but problems. First of all, it would not install completely on my computer. The techs at Adobe could not figure out the problem. After I reformatted my hard drive, I finally got Photoshop to install properly. Then another problem. When I burned my slideshow photos to a VCD, they came out just awful (unlike Adobe's demo video showing a perfectly created slideshow.) Boy, was I deceived!
I cannot say that this software is all bad. It does a nice job in correcting exposure errors in digital photos. However, if you want to create neat slideshows, Photoshop Elements 4.0 is not worth the cost.