Unfortunately, I do not know anything about Photoshop Elements. I use the old version of Photoshop 7.0 which I highly recommend, but I think it's quite pricey as well. :P
Yeah, I'm kind of finding Elements is pretty light, especially given the price.
I finally got their download to work, and am running the 30 day free trial. I am not super impressed, as of yet. We'll see in 30 days if I can try CS4, and what it gives me, too.
Unless you are a professional graphics person elements will be more than enough. It has many many helpful funcions (more than I ever use). My friend who is a graphics professional and has used both said that CS4 is like a mazzerati and elements is like boxster. They'll both get you there in style, one just cost a lot more.
CS4 is much more for the deeper details of color manip and for people who need to know the exact # of the color they want and other arcane tools. Elements combines all of the most common and useful tools (but is less glitchy then GIMP in my opinion which always crashed my computer)
I haven't had too many glitch issues with GIMP. I finally got the download from Adobe to work for a 30-day trial... so far I haven't found much in Elements that isn't in other stuff.
I'm less looking for a 'fix' program and more of an 'art' program, one that'll let me play more with layering things and working less with exposure fixes than exposure effects. We'll see, though, especially if I can also give CS4 a 30-day run.
I agree with catku about Elements being probably as far advanced as you'll need to go. You can apparently even do animated gifs, but I haven't gotten that far into it. I DEFINITELY prefer it over Gimp and/ or Paint.Net. Picasa is just for uploading to their website, as far as I can tell. I tried to crop a photo once using Picasa, and woah, what a headache! So, yes, Elements is probably all you'll need. Their tutorials are pretty good, and I think there's also a big online community for it, either through Adobe or otherwise. Good luck with it!
See, I've had no trouble cropping in Picasa or doing minor touchups, and I haven't found GIMP to be too glitchy at all. I'm not finding much in Elements that I haven't found between the two of those. It might be better for animated GIFs, but I want to do more fooling around with layering and macro stuff. You can do some layering in Elements, I find, but there are options that seem to be missing.
We'll see. I finally got Adobe's download to work for a 30-day trial... and maybe then I'll try CS4, too.
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I finally got their download to work, and am running the 30 day free trial. I am not super impressed, as of yet. We'll see in 30 days if I can try CS4, and what it gives me, too.
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CS4 is much more for the deeper details of color manip and for people who need to know the exact # of the color they want and other arcane tools. Elements combines all of the most common and useful tools (but is less glitchy then GIMP in my opinion which always crashed my computer)
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I'm less looking for a 'fix' program and more of an 'art' program, one that'll let me play more with layering things and working less with exposure fixes than exposure effects. We'll see, though, especially if I can also give CS4 a 30-day run.
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We'll see. I finally got Adobe's download to work for a 30-day trial... and maybe then I'll try CS4, too.
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