Does anyone use Photoshop ELEMENTS for PP?

rickgraham

Hi all,

There is no way that I can justify the cost for the full-blown Photoshop for the amount of work I do with rendering, but was wondering if the baby brother (Elements) could do PP work since I already own that? I mean it has a lot of touchup tools and it can take some plugins.

So, is there anyone who uses this? I would also love a tutorial on PP techniques. If there is a website already, I'd appreciate links.

Thanks!

Rick

glenn

Elements works great for me. I'm using v4, can't spend the $$$ to stay current.
There are many tut's for PS, you might need to revise a few steps to use in elements.
Also, search tutorials for elements.
Glenn

eeva

if my work would be only architectural, then Elements would be fine. but since i also do a lot of grafic stuff, unfortunately elements does not do the job.

IMHO the main difference is, that Elements only handles RGB colour formats, and the big Photoshop handles also CMYK colour formats.

otherwise i find most of the commands in both versions, sometimes though in different places. in europe the newest Elements version costs around 80 euros, and i think that is resonable. the price of the big Photoshop is a different matter...

dedmin

A great alternative to blowout and expensive Photoshop is Photoline32 - PRICE Euro 59!!!

http://www.pl32.com/

32/64 bit application
Image Processing

* 16 bit per channel, support of CMYK and Lab
* Color management with ICC profiles
* Lossless imaging
* Process digital photos
* Retouch, correct, ...

Browse

* IPTC and EXIF data handling
* Rotate images lossless
* Rename images and create catalogues
* Create HTML galleries
* Add and edit keywords
* Powerful search capabilities

DTP/Layout/Text

* "Real" PDF Import and Export (not just a big image)
* Multipage documents
* Calendar and barcode creation
* Rich text functions

Internet/Animations

* Create Flash and GIF animations
* Web Export
* Tile images, create buttons and image maps

Many more

* Batch conversion
* Create slideshows
* Record actions
* Print multipage documents, flyers and labels
* USB-Stick support
* Multiprocessor support

Better user interface

* Adjustment Layer Palette
* Palettes improved

Image processing

* Liquify Tool
* Color Filter
* New Filters

Miscellaneous

* Morph Vector Layers
* QR-Code
* Ghostscript Import
* OS X: Scanning With Image Capture

and much more ...

pilou

Free on line toshop like : Sumo Paint

leedeetee

Gimp is free and does some things very well.

Mike Lucey

I have a license for PS Element, cost around $55, If I remember correctly. I only got it for use with some plugins that I found interesting. I use Canvas X most of the time as I paid bigish cash for it an got used to using it.

Can anyone tell me is the Content-Aware (or whatever they all it) will be on Elements some time soon?

Mike

jim smith

There is a free and powerfull photoshop alternate -- "GIMP"

http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml

Has a significant learning curve, but the price is right.

Edit--(didn't see Leedeetee beat me to this alternate)

dale

I use Elements, Gimp, and an older version of PS, depending on what machine I'm on.
I am really getting fond of Gimp. Within its filters menu you can create bump and normal maps that are easy to do and not to bad.
If colors are very important,and you are going to the published page, the The CS suite from Photoshop is a must.

dedmin

To do a publishing Photoshop is not a must! It can be done with Photoline or CorelDraw or SerifPage Plus or Canvas or Xara or Scribus or ...

More than 100 free video tutorial for Gimp

http://meetthegimp.org/