Photoshop Elements Question

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snarfie.mcdougal
Dec 30, 2003
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I’m a rank beginner to image editing — zero experience — but have been a tech hound for many years and am very comfortable with the standard Windows interfaces and am a quick study. I’m looking for a graphical editor that I can use to create some GUI elements for a web site I have just started building. The HTML, ASP and SQL Server back end are all cake — the graphics are anything but. I’d like to be able to create a logo — text over a background image, along with some navigation tab images, to start. I’m confident that there will be other, relatively basic needs that I’ll realize I have along the way, but for the most part I just need the capbility to do a sharp logo along with a few other, color-coordinated page elements.

Is Photoshop Elements a good choice for me ? I checked in with Adobe.com and it seems more like a digital photo editor than anything else, although perhaps the needs I mentioned above are within its realm. If PE isn’t a good choice, would anyone care to offer any alternatives ? I’d rather not spend a month learning to use it either — an intuitive, uncomplicated GUI with the tools to create and manipulate easily would be just the ticket. Thoughts ?

Thanks all,
Rick
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Dec 31, 2003
On 29 Dec 2003 16:05:25 -0800, (Rick)
wrote:

I’m a rank beginner to image editing — zero experience — but have been a tech hound for many years and am very comfortable with the standard Windows interfaces and am a quick study. I’m looking for a graphical editor that I can use to create some GUI elements for a web site I have just started building. The HTML, ASP and SQL Server back end are all cake — the graphics are anything but. I’d like to be able to create a logo — text over a background image, along with some navigation tab images, to start. I’m confident that there will be other, relatively basic needs that I’ll realize I have along the way, but for the most part I just need the capbility to do a sharp logo along with a few other, color-coordinated page elements.
Is Photoshop Elements a good choice for me ? I checked in with Adobe.com and it seems more like a digital photo editor than anything else, although perhaps the needs I mentioned above are within its realm. If PE isn’t a good choice, would anyone care to offer any alternatives ? I’d rather not spend a month learning to use it either — an intuitive, uncomplicated GUI with the tools to create and manipulate easily would be just the ticket. Thoughts ?

Thanks all,
Rick

Consider posting this question to: adobe.photoshop.elements if you have this newsgroup available on your server. It seems to be a very responsive group.
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JJS
Dec 31, 2003
On 29 Dec 2003 16:05:25 -0800, (Rick)
wrote:
I’m a rank beginner to image editing — zero experience — but have been a tech hound for many years and am very comfortable with the
tandard Windows interfaces and am a quick study. I’m looking for a
graphical editor that I can use to create some GUI elements for a web site I have just started building. The HTML, ASP and SQL Server back
nd are all cake — the graphics are anything but. I’d like to be
able to create a logo — text over a background image, along with some navigation tab images, to start. I’m confident that there will be other, relatively basic needs that I’ll realize I have along the way, but for the most part I just need the capbility to do a sharp logo along with a few other, color-coordinated page elements.
Is Photoshop Elements a good choice for me ? […]

If you are going to be doing high-end interactive web graphics coupled to dynamic web pages, maybe database or any serious animation you really need to get Flash and learn it. (Sorry, Adobe, but it’s the truth IMHO).

But you also need a real rendering program, and nothing is better than either Adobe Elements for CS (Photoshop V8). Which to get? If money isn’t a dire problem, shoot for the best and get CS. If you are on the fence, try it by downloading a free, full-functioning version from Adobe. If _all_ you are going to do with it is produce web graphics, then in my most humble opinion Elements will do. If you are going on to do press published work, you need CS. If you are going to do work from NTSC, PAL formats, you need CS.
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Alan Wonsowski
Dec 31, 2003
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Consider posting this question to: adobe.photoshop.elements if you have this newsgroup available on your server. It seems to be a very responsive group.

Not available on Usenet. Can anyone help by identifying the newsserver? Thanks.

Alan
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Brian
Dec 31, 2003
Alan Dubya wrote:

Not available on Usenet. Can anyone help by identifying the newsserver? Thanks.

Ddirect your newsreader to adobeforums.com

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