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 Adobe's best value application November 22, 2008
D. Brown (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With most of the applications produced by Adobe requiring a small mortgage to purchase, it makes a change to see a program that represents good value for money. For less cost than many stand alone raw file converters you have a program that can import raw files using the same plugin that is produced for their full Photoshop application. On top of that you are able to do some surprisingly complicated image manipulation, including full lens distortion correction and white balance control. For the more graphic inspired amongst us it carries a wide range of adobe effects and brushes. For the less technically minded you can switch to quick or guided mode. The layout is good, and keeping the effect palettes on the far right of the interface works well on the newer wide screen monitors. It some ways the feature set may seem a strange mixture, but you have to remember that this is not a program built from the ground up, it is really a version of Photoshop with selected features removed. A bit like a budget Ferrari with cheaper seats, fittings, and fewer gears. Some fairly high end features are included whilst other, more basic features, have been stripped out. For instance, there is no basic colour balance control, (only a variations control) yet channel levels and hue and saturation controls are the same as found in the full Photoshop. On the up side, the basic engine is retained, it still has lots of power, and a quick search of the web will reveal plenty of people writing freeware plugins to fill the gaps.
 Hopeless with Vista October 27, 2008
G. Reynolds (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, despite this being a potentially fine piece of software it is ridiculously unstable. My latop is very powerful and was bought specifically for photo editing, yet with Vista 64 the program constantly crashes (around every 10 minutes) then requires a full refresh of thumbnails before it is useable again. This can take several times with a few thousand photographs, therefore taking hours for a single edit!
Come on Adobe, get this sorted!
 A good application for the price October 16, 2008
Dibbo (Surrey)
I am not very experienced with photo editing software, so bought this based on Amazon reviews, as I was looking for something I could easily use to improve my digital photos.
My first impressions are that the software is good, and relatively easy to use, but not particularly intuitive. You have to really spend a bit of time practising with this to become good at using it, it is not something you will master in five minutes. However this is relatively cheap compared to some editing software, so I cannot complain too much.
I think that as I spend more time with this programme, I will become more familiar with all it's capabilities, and from what I have seen so far, it does all of the things I need it to do, including a one touch, automatic photograph enhancer, which is very useful at times!
INFURIATING October 3, 2008
John Woodman (Isle of Man)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is perhaps the most infuriating software I've ever used. Having had problems with earlier editions, I checked out the available books and bought the top choice with the software. I wish I hadn't bothered. Photoshop crashes most times I use it, throws up all sorts of error messages, despite installing it no less than three times. When it does work, the editor takes about five minutes to load, and the whole package is to me totally counter-intuitive. I'm going straight back to Picasa.
Good September 6, 2008
rowan tree (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My photo editor "history" goes like this:
Elements (original - awful, slugged my PC into the ground)
PSP (very good)
PhotoImpact 12 (quite excellent)
I set out to update PhotoImpact to the latest version only to find there isn't one as Corel bought Ulead and have clearly ditched it (nutters!), leaving PSP and Elements as the two mainstream editors. So I decided to become a drone and buy Elements.
What a pleasant surprise, much better than its original version, nice interface, and not much to relearn over the previous one. The Organiser stuff is pretty much bloatware - I think you're much better just having a neat folder system of your own...
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