CS v.s Elements

I am NOT a professional, by any stretch of the imagination, but I was wondering what the main differences between CS and Elements are. What features will I be "losing"?

-Support for CMYK and L*a*b images.
-Professional color correction controls, including Curves and Selective Color. -Support for spot color
-Support for layer masking and (IIRC) adjustment layers

If you are not doing anything intended to be printed on a printing press, you won’t miss the CMYK support, and you probably won’t miss the color correction support.

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What was that about layer masking and adjusment layers…not at all in Elements?

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What was that about layer masking and adjusment layers…not at all in Elements?

Elements has adjustment layers and layer masks, just not the same variety as Photoshop. Rough rule of thumb, if CS costs less than half your total photographic investment, go for it, otherwise you’ll probably be very happy using Elements, and spending the rest of your budget on other things.

The latest version of Elements, v3.0, includes 16 bit support, and camera raw, and a number of other features. Here’s one of many articles about PSE
3.0:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=110 55 —

Mike Russell
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Mike Russell wrote:

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What was that about layer masking and adjusment layers…not at all in Elements?

Elements has adjustment layers and layer masks, just not the same variety as Photoshop. Rough rule of thumb, if CS costs less than half your total photographic investment, go for it, otherwise you’ll probably be very happy using Elements, and spending the rest of your budget on other things.
The latest version of Elements, v3.0, includes 16 bit support, and camera raw, and a number of other features. Here’s one of many articles about PSE
3.0:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=110 55

Adjustment layers are included in Elements and layer masking can be accomplished with a simple work-around. Additionally, Richard Lynch will be releasing his new book and software tools next month and levels, masking, color channels and much more functionality can be added to Elements with these tools. PSE 3 does add the healing brush and RAW conversion which bridge the gap to CS and the Organizer which is an awesome photo management tool not included in CS.

There are, however, other differences between the two. Most important to me is the ability to create actions and droplets and the easier masking tools, as well as curves and more robust color management. Also, 16 bit is very limited in PSE 3. Here is a comparison of the two that hits the major differences:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/misc/Photoshop_compared .pdf

If you are not so professional, you just need a photo management software to organize, browse, optimize, edit, share, search your images, then you can try AnyPhoto Manager at
http://www.any-photo-album-software.com
Just have a try with the small but excellent application.

I find the ‘filter gallery’ feature in PS 8 quite useful. It allows multiple filters to be chosen before applying to graphic.

Also, like the Shadows and Highlights filter in PS 8.

Best,

Conrad
Conrad Weiler
Camp Sherman, Oregon