Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 (Mac)

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 to... Read review

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Advantages: Massive amount of features, endless ways to manipulate pictures
Disadvantages: Takes a while to learn how to use it

...these sometimes), just Google search Photoshop tutorials and it brings up loads of free websites to help you along you way. Like other professional programs this on is not cheap, you are looking at paying around £600 for it, but I think its well worth the price tag. You can get a demo of this program so you can try before you buy. This program is very easy to install, its available for either a PC or Mac, and roughly takes around 10 minutes to install. A must for designers, amazing program packed with features... Read review

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Advantages: Can make photos better.
Disadvantages: Very expensive.

...I think "Adobe Photoshop CS4" is a great program that helps you make your photos better. It is not very easy to use this program, because it has many options, but there are some DVDs and sites that can help you learn how to be a professional of this program. One of my favorites things to do with "Adobe Photoshop CS4" is to take out pimples , give a tan, make red eyes be normal, give my a optical plastic surgery, change the background and many, many more. In my opinion the price of this program is too high. It is from 500$- 600$. I think that not every body van buy this program. I am very happy that I got this program free from a contest. If I had to buy it I would really say NO, NO, NO, but for people who works with photos I would recommend to buy this program, because it is great. So if you like making you look like a model and making... Read review

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