4/01/2012

Elements Editing Software - 10 Years Old Far Better Than Ever

By David Peters




Adobe Photoshop Elements is now ten years old. Considering an over impressive version, it's not surprising when Adobe often struggled to enhance it each year. The last update is the exception, with Layer masks disclose lots of superior technology and Guide mode aids typical users achieve complicated effects by taking benefit of resulting wizards. Can version ten keep this speed?

The number of new features comes out in Organize module. Object Search permits users to specify an item in the image, while it scans the rest of the gallery to find examples of the same item. It is simply theory though. We allow it to scan 37000 photographs in our gallery, but after a lot hours of importing and making lists (and altered all files, stopped our raising back up route), it could not bring any suitable images. There're other strategies to search and filter images, but there are no containing folder names - a vital shortage.

The face protection shown in version eight has been strengthened by the integration with Facebook; download friends' names to link tagged uploads to their Facebook accounts. It's an excellent feature, but it doesn't know that family members often have the same surname.

Organizer has a few fantastic qualities but it can't compete with Google Picasa - quicker and more efficient. Nevertheless, you can use Picasa for managing your pictures and Adobe Elements for editing - that they may do best. When editing color tools of Picasa are fundamental and Raw processing is pretty poor, Adobe Photoshop Elements is good at both.

Most advancements for main programs are the extension of present features. Smart Brush Tool has a lot more brushes, apply the complicated process such as oil pastel effect rain effect and colour tints by simple brushes.

Guided Tab consists of numerous new tasks, like focus slightly or polaroid look for a photo. Our favorite among new addition is Depth of Field, which blurs the image while keeping selected areas sharp - it is useful skill to imitate the shallow depth of field of SLR.

We had a problem to edit the area we wish to keep the sharpness by using Quick Selection, an option bringing us to Lasso tool will be better. People who know how to use Layer masks can alter the results with any tools they choose, but because Guided mode exists in its own field, it does not illustrate how techniques are used to modify or transfer to other tasks.

Now you may make the text follow in a curve. It includes drawing a curve and typing, and the curve can be edited later by dragging the nodes. The text can take the advantage of simple shapes such as ellipse and triangle, or an area you may choose with Quick Selection brush. But, characters that follow too closely the selection, while curves tighten in handmade strokes, make letters stay with one another and become hard to read, and there's no control to delete spaces to solve this issue.

This isn't the must have update for version 9, and if users consider the upgrade fee - '69 of Adobe Photoshop, they must stop. Nonetheless, it is not weaker than version nine. To edit photographs, nothing else in this price can compare with Photoshop Elements about its power and precision and it is interesting to use, so it deserves one more Best Buy Award.




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