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Most helpful customer reviews 801 of 813 people found the following review helpful. If you are serious or semi-serious about editing your photos I highly recommend that you purchase this. In addition, an important advantage of learning (and using) Elements is that if you decide to someday move up to the full version of Photoshop all the stuff you learned translates to the more expensive program. Also, there is a TON of instructional material available online (most of it free!) and in books that will help you learn this program. I’ve included a short video showing a few of the features of Elements 10 and how they compare with the same features in Photoshop CS5. If you just want an easy program to use to edit a few photos now and then you can find cheaper software programs, and many online programs that are free. One good free online application is Sumo Paint. My recommendations to current Photoshop Elements users: 1. Element 9 Users: The new features in Elements 10 basically deal with organizing your photos and some quick and easy templates and photo effects. For the most part, I wouldn’t recommend upgrading to Elements 10 if you have Elements 9. 2. Elements 3-8 Users: I recommend upgrading to Elements 10 because there was a huge improvement between versions 8 and 9 (content aware, puppet warp, and the ability to add masks to layers). I hope this helps! 424 of 432 people found the following review helpful. Note: This review assumes some familiarity with digital photography and digital image concepts, and previous exposure to earlier PSE versions. Installation: -Unlike PSE 8, PSE 10 does not require users to decide whether to continue using an earlier version or use the new version exclusively. You have the option to use –or remove– both version 10 and an earlier version (but you can’t do so at the same time: I tried!). -The license for this product permits installation on one primary and one “mobile” computer, with the restriction not to use on both computers at the same time. -Total installation time (including entering the registration code and skimming the EULA) took less than 10 minutes. This was followed by PSE 10′s “Organizer” peforming its own indexing of the digital images on my computer. Cataloging nearly 50,000 digital images took slightly less than an hour. If you’re a Windows user and store your images in a non-default “My Pictures” location under your user name: you’ll have to tell PSE where to browse for this indexing. Function and features: -PSE 10 recognized the scanner on my system, and immediately allowed imports of scanned images using both the scanner’s proprietary interface (Epson software) and the generic WIA Windows Image Acquisition, the successor to TWAIN) options. -Output to the printers on my system was trouble-free. Accepting the default printing options yielded fine results, but advanced options for those who like to tweak are readily available. PSE 10 successfully offered options to print to the two physical (laserjet, inkjet) and two virtual (Acrobat and Microsoft Document Writer) printers attached to my desktop. Issues: -Adobe also continues to also push its online services hard. At install, and *every* time you launch PSE 10, you will be invited to enter your “Adobe Online ID”. If you register (and you’ll probably want to just for update notifications), you’ll get some free services (2 GB of storage and some sharing functions). This seems to be aimed at two things: As long as you download the .pdf file so you have access to help files when offline, and remain aware of what *any* software company may be doing when they solicit you to use the online extensions of their products: these are not serious shortcomings. But my suspicions about how Adobe might track user behavior and over-reliance on online help files are what move this from a 5-star to a 4-star review. Finally: My copy shipped with a $20 gift card for online printing services from Shutterfly (available with any purchase of $20 or more), a trial version of Adobe Premiere Elements 10 (for video editing; $79 to activate), which installed concurrently (and optionally) with PSE 10. I have a functional earlier version of Premier Elements, so just uninstalled this trial version. Also included in this package was an installation CD for a 30-day trial of Lightroom 3, which I did not install. The physical media for PSE 10 consists of thee 3 DVDs, One is for Windows users (Disc 1), one for Mac users (Disc 3). I was never prompted to do anything with the mysterious “Disc 2″; perhaps it is Mac-unique? PSE 10 is a powerful image editing tool priced right for consumers. Purchase with confidence. Is it worth upgrading from version 8 or 9? Probably not. But if you’re ready to do take on some powerful editing of your digital images, PSE 10 is a good choice if you don’t already run a recent earlier version. 165 of 174 people found the following review helpful. As to the other reviewer who gave this program 1 star, I have to point out that Adobe Photoshop Elements is NOT movie editing software. It is photo editing software. Perhaps she was referring to Adobe Premiere Elements, which is a movie editing software application. |
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