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I currently use Aperture for it's organizing/workflow........not totally satisfied with it's editing capabilities. I used to use Photoshop with my old PC .......my question is.....can you do layers and curves with Photoshop Elements? I am looking for something to help fine tune my photographs and Aperture only goes so far? I have already purchased Photoshop once in the past and they were very adimant about not giving me a MAC license at a nominal fee (even there sales dept.) ........will Elements do this type of editing or am I out of luck?
 
you could also try Gimp it is free but a challenge to up load (at least for me) it can do lares and all kinds of stuff it is over my head so I can not really explain it very well here is a link http://www.gimpguru.org/ and another http://gug.sunsite.dk/ hope this helps sorry I can not answer your question about elements but I never used it
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The new aperture may step this up a bit, hard to say.

You could run your current photoshop license under parallels - would save you the extra cost.

I find the levels adjustment for aperture is all I need most of the time, but use CS3 for denoise and other more aggressive PP work.

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So for those who have used Elements and Photoshop.......what exactly does photoshop have that elements ddoes not?
 
I attended an extensive Photoshop series of classes. There was virtually nothing that Elements could not do vs. Photoshop. There was a work around for everything. Scott Kelby wrote a good book on Elements: "The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers". Check it out.
 
Just to point out the last post in that thread is completely incorrect--there has never been a trial version of PE 4.
 
Many people find aperture or lightroom + Elements is enough. The problem for you is that there is no free curves add-on for PE 4, the current mac version, although there is a shareware one, booster elements, that Richard Lynch (hiddenelements.com) touts.
 
Lightroom has a tool called tone curves. Whether it is exactly the same as curves in PSCS I'm not sure, but I thought it was essentially the same.

With a Lightroom+Elements combo, would you not then have both curves capability as well as layers and other pixel editing tools such as cloning, etc?

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PE 3 AND 4 do not have such things as layer masks, curves, pen tool, layer styles, among others.

Photoshop Elements 5.0 is Windows only and does include curves and correction of lens distortion, shadows and highlights plus others.

Professional Photoshop’s latest release now comes in 2 versions – Photoshop CS3, and Photoshop CS3 Extended. The Extended version is even more expensive and includes scientifically useful tools. CS3 is an amazing program and is the application against which all other image editing programs are compared (and in my opinion, all the other programs do not come close PS CS3 capabilities). You pay for what you get.
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mrbill62 said:
Graphic Converter has added basic layer support to version 6.
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Problem is that I believe that GC still won't edit 16 bit TIFFs. I'm a happy registered user (many great features) but haven't upgraded to the latest because from what I can figure you can still only import 16 bit TIFFs but not edit as or save as 16 bit. (Also you can't do spot correcting (only the whole image) with nearly all the adjustments AFAIK.)

Still worth having for all its usefulness, but I want an image to stay 16 bit until I'm ready to go down.

Am I correct about this? : )
 
Elements does have layer styles, just not as many controls for customizing them. Curves. Layer masks are avaiable as add-ons (not the pen tool though).

PE 4 has shadows/highlights.
 
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