Does Elements have anything CS doesn’t?

Hi,

I just bought a Wacom tablet for some graphics classes. It came bundled with Elements 2.0, and although I already have CS installed, I was wondering whether there would be any benefit to installing Elements as well. I think I read that it takes some of PhotoShop’s more commonly used functions and makes them more easily accessible, and that it has some new features not available in CS. If this is not accurate or if it wouldn’t be worth installing it for some other reason, that’s fine, I’m just curious. I don’t use PhotoShop for anything on a professional level, just basic photo editing and amateur-ish graphics projects, at least for now 😉 Anyway, thanks for any feedback.

John

Hi,

I just bought a Wacom tablet for some graphics classes. It came bundled with Elements 2.0, and although I already have CS installed, I was wondering whether there would be any benefit to installing Elements as well. I think I read that it takes some of PhotoShop’s more commonly used functions and makes them more easily accessible, and that it has some new features not available in CS. If this is not accurate or if it wouldn’t be worth installing it for some other reason, that’s fine, I’m just curious. I don’t use PhotoShop for anything on a professional level, just basic photo editing and amateur-ish graphics projects, at least for now 😉 Anyway, thanks for any feedback.

Hi,

I just bought a Wacom tablet for some graphics classes. It came bundled with Elements 2.0, and although I already have CS installed, I was wondering whether there would be any benefit to installing Elements as well. I think I read that it takes some of PhotoShop’s more commonly used functions and makes them more easily accessible, and that it has some new features not available in CS. If this is not accurate or if it wouldn’t be worth installing it for some other reason, that’s fine, I’m just curious. I don’t use PhotoShop for anything on a professional level, just basic photo editing and amateur-ish graphics projects, at least for now 😉 Anyway, thanks for any feedback.

John

Are there
any potential problems I should be worried about if I install Elements on a computer that already has CS? Will it try to overwrite any files or folders, or anything like that? Thanks 😉

Since Elements 2 is based on the Photoshop 7 engine you shouldn’t have any problems. Now Elements 3 when it comes it will be based on the CS engine which means you could have some problems. I know when Elements 1 came out it wouldn’t work with Photoshop 6 running and since they shared many of the same files, etc. I don’t know if they got that fixed or not. But, for now with what you have you shouldn’t have any problems.

John

Are there
any potential problems I should be worried about if I install Elements on a computer that already has CS? Will it try to overwrite any files or folders, or anything like that? Thanks 😉

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Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements 2 on the same PC is absolutely no problem. I’ve seen both on one machine, no problem. Generally I feel that Adobe does relatively hasslefree software including installation questions. Less problems than with other software makers.

Are there
any potential problems I should be worried about if I install Elements on a computer that already has CS? Will it try to overwrite any files or folders, or anything like that? Thanks 😉

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Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements 2 on the same PC is absolutely no problem. I’ve seen both on one machine, no problem. Generally I feel that Adobe does relatively hasslefree software including installation questions. Less problems than with other software makers.

Cool, thanks for the info 😉

John

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Since Elements 2 is based on the Photoshop 7 engine you shouldn’t have

problems. Now Elements 3 when it comes it will be based on the CS engine which means you could have some problems. I know when Elements 1 came

wouldn’t work with Photoshop 6 running and since they shared many of the same files, etc. I don’t know if they got that fixed or not. But, for

with what you have you shouldn’t have any problems.

John

John Dolceamore wrote:

Hi,

I just bought a Wacom tablet for some graphics classes. It came bundled with Elements 2.0, and although I already have CS installed, I was wondering whether there would be any benefit to installing Elements as well. I think I read that it takes some of PhotoShop’s more commonly used functions and makes them more easily accessible, and that it has some new features not available in CS. If this is not accurate or if it wouldn’t be worth installing it for some other reason, that’s fine, I’m just curious. I don’t use PhotoShop for anything on a professional level, just basic photo editing and amateur-ish graphics projects, at least for now 😉 Anyway, thanks for any feedback.

There are a couple of nice features in Elements, notably the selection brush, but the feature set is otherwise a subset of CS. Both of them support Curvemeister, so no problems there.

It does start considerably faster,

Are there
any potential problems I should be worried about if I install Elements on a computer that already has CS? Will it try to overwrite any files or folders, or anything like that? Thanks 😉

—
Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements 2 on the same PC is absolutely no problem. I’ve seen both on one machine, no problem. Generally I feel that Adobe does relatively hasslefree software including installation questions. Less problems than with other software makers.