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Re: adobe elements
Adobe elements is a great program. Although its aimed at the consumer, it has most of the features of Photoshop. For the cost though, I'd recommend Adobe Lightroom. For about the same price as Elements you get a professional tool that organizes and processes your pictures quickly and easily. I use Lightroom almost 100% of the time.
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Re: adobe elements
Elements is a good entry level program with allot of growing room. I use Paint Shop pro X4 ultra which is pretty much on the same level with maybe a few more perks. I like certain features of both programs. I haven't had the luxury of lightroom but I hear it's nice
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I use PS Elements (version 6.0) for about 60-70 percent of my editing. If all I need to do is basic stuff like cropping, overall sharpening/gamma/brightness adjustments, then I usually use the freeware program Irfanview for that. MUCH faster to load up than Elements...
I've heard many good things about Lightroom, but no personal experience with it. I do most of my organizing outside the actual editing process, so it hasn't been a big issue for me.
Jim
I've heard many good things about Lightroom, but no personal experience with it. I do most of my organizing outside the actual editing process, so it hasn't been a big issue for me.
Jim
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Re: adobe elements
Love. Lightroom.
I have elements but am wery to install since my computer already seems uber overwhelmed.
I have elements but am wery to install since my computer already seems uber overwhelmed.
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Re: adobe elements
I would recommend to look at both, Lightroom and Elements. Both of those programs have their usage that doesn't necessary overlap.
Lightroom is what you would use 95% of the time for everyday photo management and basic editing, like crop, contrast, brightness, white balance, etc. Lightroom is quite good and convenient for that. Even perspective correction can be done there these days. Sometimes though this is not enough. Operations that involve manipulating multiple images are pretty much absent from Lightroom.
That's when Elements enters the scene. First of all, Elements can be launched right from within Lightroom, passing in either original or a copy if your image for editing. In Elements you can do things like merging panoramas, HDR, or any other operations that involve combining several images. Also, ability to use layers for fine tune retouching is sometimes indispensable.
When you are done with editing, save your image as .psd file and return to Lightroom. All your modifications are visible there, you can continue using Lightroom as photo manager or you can launch Elements again and do some more editing. If you created a new file, just import it into Lightroom and save along with the original one.
Elements, as simplified version of Photoshop, is quite useful tool. I would definitely recommend to try it out.
Lightroom is what you would use 95% of the time for everyday photo management and basic editing, like crop, contrast, brightness, white balance, etc. Lightroom is quite good and convenient for that. Even perspective correction can be done there these days. Sometimes though this is not enough. Operations that involve manipulating multiple images are pretty much absent from Lightroom.
That's when Elements enters the scene. First of all, Elements can be launched right from within Lightroom, passing in either original or a copy if your image for editing. In Elements you can do things like merging panoramas, HDR, or any other operations that involve combining several images. Also, ability to use layers for fine tune retouching is sometimes indispensable.
When you are done with editing, save your image as .psd file and return to Lightroom. All your modifications are visible there, you can continue using Lightroom as photo manager or you can launch Elements again and do some more editing. If you created a new file, just import it into Lightroom and save along with the original one.
Elements, as simplified version of Photoshop, is quite useful tool. I would definitely recommend to try it out.