bkford wrote:
As a matter of fact, maybe I should ask this: the thing I HATED about my trials of PS and PSE was all about the "layers." As I mentioned, I was trying to learn to use it for digital scrapbooking. I have a satisfactory software in place for that now and am only looking for photo editing. Might it be that the photo editing capabilities of PSE would be exactly what I need and it would not be that complicated to learn to use PSE for THAT? In other words, for photo editing in PSE, can I avoid the whole layering thing? Sorry for such a silly question, but I have a negative mindset about the layering thing at this point.
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When I first learned PSE, I was not shown how to use layers and edited my photos quite well without them. I understand there are things you can do only with layers, but for what editing I do, I haven't needed them. Maybe I am working simplistically but I can manage a whole array of adjusts on a copy of the original image.