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Summary: Photoshop 7 Lite for the Mac
Review: If you have a scanner or digital camera and don't own Photoshop 7 for the Mac, buy this software. It will do anything the average person needs. My Epson came without software for Jaguar on my G4. Elements 2 does it all for me and far more than the Epson software did on OS 9.
The best buy around for Mac digital imaging to file, print, e-mail attachment, web construction, slide shows, you name it, Elements 2 does it.
It grabs your digital camera shots and interfaces any scanner with a TWAIN driver or its own control software, and then gives you complete control of resolution, contrast, color size, etc. It enlarges little prints from my scanner to 8 x 10 photo paper on my HP 940C printer with no loss of quality. You won't need your friendly photo shop or Wal-mart any more if you have a color scanner and printer.
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Summary: Powerful, easy, and fun to use
Review: If you enjoy using your digital camera, you'll love using this program. It allows you to easily correct common problems with digital images. It provides quick fixes for brightness, color correction, focus, and image rotation. You can accept the preset fixes for each of these, or provide more customized control. You can preview, accept or revert from each change.But this is only the beginning of the creative control the program provides. The traditional darkroom tools of dodging (lightening an area) and burning (darkening an area) are available, with a large variety of "brushes" and intensity. The "clone stamp" allows scratches and tears to be fixed in older photos that have been scanned. Blur, sponge, and smudge can also be used to remove blemishes or blend an image. The red eye brush is also useful. Image areas can be easily and precisely selected using several tools. Two of my favorites are the "magnetic lasso" and the "magic wand". With these it is easy to draw around a face, object, or landscape feature and select it precisely for moving, removing, darkening, or incorporation in to another image. These tools work so well that an object selection that took me several hours with a competing product I was able to complete in only a few minutes with better results. Control of image layers allows you to compose images of several components. For example, begin with a colored gradient background on one layer, add a portrait on another layer, a landscape object, on a third layer, a full moon on the fourth, and artistic text as final layer. These layers can be turned on and off so the resulting image can show any combination of these elements. A gallery of filters and effects allow artistic, textures, blurs, lighting effects, and surprising and useful distortions and 3d effects. Free form painting, custom shapes, image transformations, video capture, blending of multiple images into a single panorama, and a wide variety of import and export tools make this a very powerful and versatile package. These powerful features are surprising easy to use and make this program useful to both the casual and expert user.
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Summary: Almost perfect
Review: You get most of the horsepower of the full Photoshop for a very small fraction of the cost. Great deal.
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Summary: The Baby Photoshop
Review: I used the previous version of this product for a few months and was both so pleased with it and so impressed with the power of Photoshop that I then bought the full sized Photoshop 7. Elements has most of the Photo editing functions that are found in the full version, lacking mostly a few filters and Adobe Image Ready. Now, I am considering the purchase of Elements Version 2.0 to send to my Granddaughter away in college. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Best idea for handling pictures
Review: Just getting started but like the product better than other packages. ...
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Summary: Watch out AOL users
Review: I recently purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. When I try to use the "Help" buttons, I get an error message. Adobe technicians have explained that the problem is created because I have AOL as my access to the web and AOL somehow overrides the normal path Adobe Help is suppose to follow. Thus, I cannot use the quick drop downs for Help which are suppose to be a click away. Their solution was to establish a special Help icon on my desktop. Anytime I need Adobe Help, I have to minimize Adobe, click on the special desktop icon, and then go in search of the specific item I need help on. It does not key back to the specific item on which I needed help, but instead presents the normal main Help menu from which to begin the Help search. Seeking help for me is formidable and time consuming task !! Adobe understood and recognized my problem/delima. Adobe technicians tell me they do not know when, or if, a solution will be available.
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Summary: Wonderful Software!
Review: I received Photoshop Elements 2.0 a few days ago and was a bit intimidated. I also purchased Mikkel Aaland's book, Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions, The Art of Digital Photography. I don't recommend buying the software without this book. I read the book first and it made the software much easier to use. I have had a digital camera for a little over a year, and just upgraded to a better camera. For the extra money I spent, I wasn't seeing dazzling improvements in my photos. My salesperson recommended that I buy this program in the hopes of improving my pictures. The software did just that! No more blurry faces, no more pale faces. The shrubbery in the background looked "good" before using the software, but after, it popped off the photo paper! What an incredible difference! If you've been using the software that came with your digital camera or scanner, toss it in the trash and buy Photoshop Elements 2.0. It is well worth the money you will spend! My results were amazing!
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Summary: Excellent photo software - a bargain
Review: Adobe has a real winner in this product. It provides all of the functionality that the average person needs to edit their photographs and it does so at a very reasonable price. In addition, it works on Mac OS X AND Windows! This means that you can use the same product on two different platforms - you don't need to learn to use a different photo editor when you work on a different platform. Great concept. I like the user interface, the help is comprehensive and installation is a breeze. Highly recommended. Too bad more application developers don't provide software that works on Windows and Mac.
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Summary: Advice From Another Professional Photographer
Review: Along with my collegue who wrote a review on Elements, I also work with Photoshop almost every day. I've found Elements to be a great supplimental program. Granted, it's not the easiest to learn, but once you learn it, there's no limit to what you can do. Anything that you learn in Elements won't be wasted should you decide to upgrade to Photoshop later in life. With the exception of the patch tool and healing brush that are in Photoshop 7, there are work-arounds in Elements for many of the tasks that can be done in Photoshop, and in several cases with less steps. For example, to straighten and crop in Photoshop is a multi-step process. It's one mouse click in Elements. It really gets old reading about "the steep learning curve" in Photoshop and Elements. Yeah, there's a learning curve, but there is in anything worth while. Like I said, once you learn it, you most likely won't ever switch.
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Summary: I recommend!!!
Review: The strong program. For today it is the best program for creative reconstruction and correction of a photo.
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