Elements? Lightroom? or CS4?

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Square Peg
Jan 14, 2009
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I would like to learn to do some graphics and photo editing for personal use. I am wondering which product I need. I am inclined to get Elements and then see if I need more than that.

I want to do some basic photo editing such as red eye reduction, contrast enhancement, cropping, and scaling.

I would alse like to do some special effects such as creating a photo collage in the shape of a child’s name for framing or printing on placemats, mugs, or t-shirts.

I have a little experience with graphic programs such as Visio (mostly for flowcharts), Paint, PageMaker (many years ago), and Publisher.

What does the full Photoshop have that Elements does not that I might need?

Finally, the Elements NG seems fairly quiet. Can questions about Elements be posted in a.p.windows?

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bmoag
Jan 14, 2009
I am a CS4 user.
I find Elements useless.
You may want to look into Paintshop Pro.
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Square Peg
Jan 14, 2009
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:37:07 -0800, "bmoag"
wrote:

I am a CS4 user.
I find Elements useless.
You may want to look into Paintshop Pro.

Can you say what it is that is lacking in Elements that is present in Paintshop Pro?
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Cliff
Jan 14, 2009
Square Peg wrote:

I would like to learn to do some graphics and photo editing for personal use. I am wondering which product I need. I am inclined to get Elements and then see if I need more than that.

I want to do some basic photo editing such as red eye reduction, contrast enhancement, cropping, and scaling.

I would alse like to do some special effects such as creating a photo collage in the shape of a child’s name for framing or printing on placemats, mugs, or t-shirts.

Elements is a good choice under these circumstances. Inexpensive (compared to PS and LR), very robust photo editing capabilities, a little lacking in vector graphics capabilities, and database management for cataloging and rating photos. IMO, a great learning tool and a first time image editing program. Some people stick with it forever.

If you decide on PSE, I would recommend staying away from Ver. 6 and go with Ver. 7. V6 was somewhat buggy and V7 cleaned up some of the problems.


Cliff

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