OddJobber wrote:
I want to vote heavily for this comment by Ziza. I had PSE 9 and wanted to upgrade to 11, but with the Black Friday deals, it cost less to go with 12.
Click on Frapha's first link and you'll see that what 12 does more of is better communication with smart phone and tablet and the ability to upload to Twitter. I don't do any of those, so it doesn't matter to me.
As for the new "content aware", (sorry, HT), this is the most over hyped unusable tool they have had yet. They expect you to believe that after you move an object, it's smart enough to know what can't be seen and fill in the blank space. It just can't be done and doesn't work!
As for the features eliminated in PSE 11, almost all of them can be reinstalled or worked around to satisfaction, and the refine edge tool in 11 more than makes up for the elimination of the magic extractor.
So in answer to your original question, "What are the advantages to moving up to version 12?", for my money, very little. Hold off until there's another major upgrade.
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Regarding the content-aware move tool: It works best with a background similar to the background existing already where you want to move to. Usually some touch-up work is required. I watched an Adobe video that advised "If you don't like the results, move the selected object again as this will force the program to re-evaluate, possibly giving a better result." I have found this to be true. This is not entirely a useless tool, but as I mentioned before, I don't often find a need for it.