Photoshop Elements worth it?

scribe · Jan 26, 2002

Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50 rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE -- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

Mike Fenech · Jan 26, 2002

Here's a thought...

The Epson 1650 Photo scanner (~$250 at Circuit City) has Photoshop Elements as part of its software bundle.
-m

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

--- Mike

Hammam · Jan 26, 2002

Mike Fenech said:
scribe said:

Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

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Mike

You might want to check Adobe's website. Now that Elements (great piece of software, by the way) is bundled with some cameras' software, I think they're offering a free, or economic, download of the application. Not sure, though.
Frank

Jaime Gallego · Jan 26, 2002

The Adobe site is offering a 30 day trial period of Elements which you download from their site.

Jaime Gallego

Frank said:
Mike Fenech said:

scribe said:

Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

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Mike

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You might want to check Adobe's website. Now that Elements (great
piece of software, by the way) is bundled with some cameras'
software, I think they're offering a free, or economic, download of
the application. Not sure, though.
Frank

Jan Castermans · Jan 26, 2002

Just get the Gimp for windows. It's very close to the real Photoshop.
AND IT IS FREE!!!

Get it here:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

Jan
-- http://users.pandora.be/jancastermans/g2galleries.html

JohnL · Jan 26, 2002

Depends whether you are looking for a graphics package or for a photographic manipulation package.

EL derives from graphics, it shows, and graphics folks will find it familiar. It does not take photoshop automation plugins, but does take a lot of the other Photoshop plugins.

'Picture Window' for example is aimed specifically at the manipulation that a photographer would want to do. Its perspective distortion, vignetting correction and chromatic aberration correction are very useful. It is not a general graphics/drawing package nor does it take Photoshop plugins. It is around $90 from http://www.dl-c.com . It is also a fully 48bit program.

I have a Pro90 and both EL and PW I find I rarely use EL, but my endpoint is printed photographs not highly manipulated artwork for documents and brochures.

...John

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

FrankR · Jan 26, 2002

Try PhotoBrush (www.mediachance.com) I've tried many programs out there, incl. PhotoShop Elements and Photoshop 6.01, but this is the best for me. Red Eyes, perspective correction, bridging etc. extremely easy to use but no compromises in the results. ( I don't work for that company, I'm just a happy customer)

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

Jan Castermans · Jan 26, 2002

Just to make some points clear - this is NOT illegal software! The Gimp is 'free (GPL)' software and does hav layers, channels, (see more at: http://www.gimp.org/the_gimp_about.html )

Jan

Jan Castermans said:
Just get the Gimp for windows. It's very close to the real Photoshop.
AND IT IS FREE!!!

Get it here:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

Jan

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wmdunn · Jan 26, 2002

Jan - forgive my ignorance. What is Gimp?

guy schlacter · Jan 26, 2002

Jan - didn't mean to offend you in the mail - sorry.
does the GIMP do lossless jpg rotations?
guy

Jan Castermans said:
Jan

Jan Castermans said:

Just get the Gimp for windows. It's very close to the real Photoshop.
AND IT IS FREE!!!

Get it here:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

Jan

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Jan Castermans · Jan 26, 2002

No problem,

No the gimp doesn't do lossless rotation (photoshop doesn't as well).
A list of programs that do lossless rotate is here:
http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/losslessapps.html

Jan

guy said:
Jan Castermans said:

Jan

Jan Castermans said:

Just get the Gimp for windows. It's very close to the real Photoshop.
AND IT IS FREE!!!

Get it here:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

Jan

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Jan Castermans · Jan 26, 2002

Bill Dunn said:
Jan - forgive my ignorance. What is Gimp?

Quite funny - it's like asking a windows user 'What is MS Word?'

The Gimp originally comes from a unix/linux background as a replacement for photoshop (somewhere in 1995).
It's by far the best image manipulation software for those systems.
Read more at: http://www.gimp.org/the_gimp_about.html

Follow the link in my original message for a windows port.

Jan
-- http://users.pandora.be/jancastermans/g2galleries.html

NKH · Jan 26, 2002

i use both photoshop 6.0.1 and photoshop elements 1.0. elements is actually a nice little program. what i like most about it over photoshop LE is that it has multiple undos as well as filters specifically for working with photos. i HIGHLY recommend downloading the 30-day free trial from adobe first and giving it a whirl...it is fully functional and you can save, etc. and then comparing it to LE on your own. btw, in addition to the epson scanner bundle, it is also bundled with the wacom intuos2 graphics tablet. oh, and just one more thing...version 1.0 has been out for awhile now...i wouldn't be suprised to see a version 2.0 very soon.

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

Harv · Jan 26, 2002

Good idea. Go to adobe.com and download the trial version for 30 days. I have both PS 5.5 and Elements. The latter is an excellent program for its price.

Marie R · Jan 26, 2002

I just ordered PS Elements. Would you say it is somewhat easy to learn for someone like me who has no Photo Shop software experience at all?

Thanks

Marie

binkybarnes said:
scribe said:

Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

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Dan Ferrin · Jan 26, 2002

Marie,

How easy Photoshop, or Elements, is to learn depends on how much you want to learn. My twelve year old daughter has been using it, having learned it on her own other than about fifteen minutes of introduction by me, and is able to do just about anything she wants to do with it. I've been using it professionally for about ten or eleven years, and still feel overwhelmed by its depth and power sometimes.

Dan

Marie R said:
Thanks

Marie

binkybarnes said:

scribe said:

Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

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--I must be a photographer - I keep running around in circles of confusion.

Verne Arase · Jan 26, 2002

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

Hmmm ... went online, started downloading the Photoshop Elements Demo -57MB! - and got to a page where there was a "Buy i t now!" button.

I'd read the caveats that Adobe had posted about running under MacOS X (some things are a tad flakey) - but figured that since they were allowing a $30 upgrade credit from Photoshop LE or Photo Deluxe I might as well take the jump and pick it up. Only about $70 upgrade price.

So ... I ordered it.

The download finally ends, and I try to install it.

The first install hangs, so I cycle classic. The next try at installing it goes smoothly.

Now I launch it.

I get a dialog with: "This version of this product is not compatible with Mac OS X. Result code: 48". I hit OK and it quits.

Anyone know if this puppy (the real version) does this as well? I spend most of my time in OS X, and very little in MacOS 9. If it won't even run in classic, I'll probably have to call Adobe and tell 'em to forget it - maybe wait for an OS X version. (Which considering it's Adobe might come out after I've given up digital photography

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johneb2 · Jan 26, 2002

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

I found it was worth it. But to really learn how to get the most out of it, I would reccomend a book by Gregory Georges. It is called "50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques". It steps you through all the techniques for manipulating & editing your pictures. It includes a cd to practice on also. I found it helped me greatly, since I am new to digital pictures.

Matt Gannon · Jan 26, 2002

Can someone explain the difference between Photoshop, Photoshop LE, and Photoshop Elements? I am getting a G2 which comes with LE. Do I need to buy any additional software to produce and print good images.

Matt.

scribe said:
Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

Bob Williams · Jan 26, 2002

LE is a crippled edition of the expensive full version. It does
not support color management, and that kills it for any serious
use. Elements I have never run, but from what I understand,
it does not support color management either. PS is the number
one editing program, but it is expensive. PhotoBrush, Picture
Window, and a few other smaller programs are as good for
editing as LE is. PhotoPaint is the other biggy out there, and
it has ninty percent of the functionality of PS, and is about half
the price. When you get the camera, between LE to edit, and
Photorecord to get started printing with, you will be fine.
Most likely you will choose to replace both of them with better
software after you get comfortable with what you are doing and
find out what you want and need to do.

Matt Gannon said:
Matt.

scribe said:

Just got a PRO90, and saw a post here the other day about amazon
offering Adobe Photoshop Elements, 1.0, at $44.99 -- after $50
rebate from upgrading. The camera arrived with Adobe Photoshop LE
-- is it worth the $45 to upgrade to Elements? This is my first
digital camera, so I welcome all thoughts! Thanks!

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