donweiner Loc: Boston

Looking for recommendations for the best tutorial book for the new Photoshop Elements 11....Thanks in advance

MtnMan Loc: ID

Kelby and Koskowski. I understand their Elements 11 update is due in a few weeks.

If not the Elements 10 version probably applies 99%.

WhiteEagle Loc: Waycross, GA

Photoshop Elements 11 the missing manual by Barbara Brundage form O'Reilly is a good instruction manual, Photoshop Elements 11 for Dummies by Barbara Obermeir and Ted Padova is also good, I tend to use the missing manual more.

MtnMan Loc: ID

I have to revise my last statement above. I bought a copy of 11 for my wife today. The interface overhaul is quite significant. I'd wait till the new manual is out.

I must say the overhaul looks really impressive to me. I have one independent data point. My wife just hopped into it and is using it. I wasn't able to do that with 10 for more than a few minutes without cussing at it. I am far more adept at computer software than she is. Looks like Adobe did a good job on this one!

Robin Poole Loc: Missoula, Mt

I have Elements 9. What do 10 or 11 have that justifies up grading?

Thanks, Robin

hzaifert Loc: Monroe Township, NJ

I am also using Elements 9 and would like to know is it worth upgrading to 11

angiehunt Loc: Florida

I just upgraded from PSE 10 to 11 and I love it! It's more like Photoshop, it has a new "history" button (which Elements 10 didn't have), and it seems to work faster and run out of memory less often than PSE 10 did. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly enjoying the difference.

I haven't needed a manual to make the switch--everything is quite intuitive and easy to find, but things tend to be at the bottom bar instead of on the top. :-) I am really loving it.

hzaifert Loc: Monroe Township, NJ

Thank you

Robin Poole Loc: Missoula, Mt

Angie, thanks much for your reply on Elements 11. What does a history button do?

Robin

angiehunt Loc: Florida

I first became aware of the history button when I was taking a course on digital painting by Scott Deardorff. Anyway, he was using photoshop, and I was working along in Elements, and he kept going back to the history button to redo things he had done before and then painted over. I googled "history button in Elements" search for some kind of work-around, but came up with zilch--except lots of comments about how people wished PSE had a history button.

Well, now we do. Basically the history button (it's actually a TAB) writes down every step you've taken as you work on a photo, even if it's one a single layer. If you decide that you want to go back to a certain step, you simply find the point in the history list and click and presto! You are back there with everything undone to the point at which you clicked.

I'm certain there are other applications, too; I'm just happy to have another useful tool.

Now--the only thing I wish PSE had is the patch tool. People use it all the time in photoshop, and PSE 11 doesn't have one. But you can still color me happy with it. :-)

Robin Poole Loc: Missoula, Mt

Appreciate very much your informative reply!!!

Robin

MtnMan Loc: ID

After a year learning PSE 10 I recently moved to Photoshop. I agree the content aware patch tool is much better than the clone stamp.

Adobe has to keep a number of things out of PSE to justify the high price of Photoshop. I think you get far more for you money with PSE and can do most things most photographers would want to do with it...plus a lot more. PSE actually has more capability that Photoshop in a lot of areas such as effects.

I only wish they had PSE 11 when I started. I think it would have saved me months of frustration with the terrible user interface of earlier versions.

I know I'm not a good evaluator because I have learned the stuff in PSE 10. But I was impressed last night when my wife dove right into 11 and was doing stuff without cussing.

Boone Loc: Groundhog Town USA

I have PSE 11, used PSE 8 since it came out, after using 11 I wouldn't look back. PSE 11 is really that great, love it. Boone

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