dusty3d wrote:
I have noticed that a lot of you like Elements. I started out long ago with elements but then into CS3 and now CS5. Just wondering why elements over CS. I know cost has a lot to do with it but I am no pro, just like to PP and have fun. Has anyone gone back to Elements, and if so why? Just curious.
Going back about 10 years, I got into scrapbooking, using my photos. It proved quite expensive buying the albums, adhesive stickies, decorations and having the photos printed. About six years ago I discovered digital scrapbooking and the people of the website I liked best, were using both PS and PSE (still do). I spent about a month finding and checking out various graphics programs, and finally decided that PSE would fit the bill for me. Especially when I discovered that there are numerous add-ons/plug-ins available, some for pay, many of them for free. Just when version 7 was released, I put it on my christmas wish-list, our son and daughter-in-law bought it for me, and now, five years later, I still enjoy working with the program, although I'm now up to version 12. Sure, some features I use all the time, other features I never use.
For my photos, correcting colour, lighting, moving a tree growing out of someone's head, have become easy tasks.
Using a photo for Christmas or Birthday cards and applying special effects, is a cinch.
Making a scrapbook page with say, 8 photos cropped to identical size and arranged on a page, is easy with layers and clipping masks.
In all fairness, I have not checked recently what I could do with PS that I can't with PSE, but then I have never wanted to do anything in PSE that I could not do with it.
Just my two-bits worth (although the program costs a heck of a lot more than that ;) )
EstherP