Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 Complete package

Advantages: Excellent range of features, styles
Disadvantages: Learning curve, price

...Photoshop is the power house of the graphics world, think of any 2D image or effect you'd like to create and Photoshop is more than up to the task normally with its in-built tools and effects but alternatively with 3rd party plugins that extend the functionality even further. However all the power comes at a price both literally and in the fairly steep learning curve that confronts you in mastering both the interface and its tools. For the vast majority of home users Photoshop is over complicated, too sophisticated and too expensive. For 90% of users cheaper alternatives such as Adobe Photoshop Elements or JASC Paint Shop Pro will exceed the functions required. Bearing in mind the steep learning curve and high price thing at least twice before buying.... Read review

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Advantages: Value for Money ! ! ! !
Disadvantages: Doesn't work with CMYK

...I recently bought a copy of Adobe Photoshop 5 .0 LImited Edition from an auction site I always recommend, www.ebay.co.uk. I was nicely surprised for the quality of the product. I am an experienced user of adobe photoshop full version and, I have to say, I found this limited one, very very similar to the original. If you have not ever used photoshop , this is the gateway to the Photoshop experience, Adobe Photoshop Limited Edition 5.0 software delivers a basic set of the image-editing tools preferred by graphic design professionals around the world. Scan pictures or download photos from your digital camera, and then edit and enhance those images to create sophisticated, compelling visuals for print and the Web.... Read review

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Advantages: Great selection tools, pan & zoom in slide shows, price, printed manual
Disadvantages: file browser gone

...Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 aims to be everything the photographer wants for tweaking and fixing their images. Whilst the professionals prefer its more expensive big brother Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements isn't to be sniffed at and offers 80% of the power for 10% of the price whilst making many tasks much easier. The biggest surprise coming from version 3 is that the file browser has gone. Adobe, what are you thinking? Well, it's clear what they're thinking, they want you to use the Photoshop Album interface which merged in to Photoshop Elements with version 3. It's actually a very powerful interface and lets you import and catalogue your images with ease and flexibility but sometimes, you just want to get down and dirty with the file system and the loss of a file browser hurts. As a sort of apology, Adobe have added the ability... Read review

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