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Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

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 ...
...As a sort of apology, Adobe have added the ability to browse what it calls unmanaged folders to replace the file browsers functionality but it's not the same. That said, it's also about the only down side in Photoshop Elements 4. The album interface also allows you to quickly find faces in images allowing for quicker tagging, remove red-eye on import and other fancy tricks. Call me sad, but having been raised on the BBC's Blue Peter TV program, I'm ...

ilaskey 08.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Complete package

Complex drawings made easy

Advantages: easy to use for vector drawings
Disadvantages: huge - takes long to open

Description Adobe Illustrator CS is a highly developed graphical software program in the range of the Adobe Software products. Illustrator is a so-called vector drawing program and therefore designed for drawings and less for photographic images. For those of you, who are not familiar with the expression of vector-drawings: The drawing is basically described by start and end points of individual lines and not by colour dots that builds a complete ...
...2-day training with a certified Adobe Trainer enabled me, to make use of a wide range of features and benefits, the software is able to offer. Just to give you a brief overview, I'll give you a list of the key features, the software is to offer. For graphical software users, this is probably a good check-list, if Adobe Illustrator CS is made for you:  Industry-standard tools  Industry-standard drawing tools  Integration ...

Nicole78 08.11.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Illustrator CS 11.0 Complete package

The best graphics package on a pc?

Advantages: Full suite of programs with good interactivity between all of them
Disadvantages: A lot of money to spend on software if you are only a casual user

I finally forked out the cash for Creative Suite a few months ago, after I got some work requiring a genuine copy. I have to say that I am a somewhat experienced user of Photoshop but I had not really had a chance to use In Design. I am going to get straight to the point now, there are very few tasks that as a freelance graphic designer and photographer I have come up against, that I have not been able to solve with Creative Suite. Photoshop is great ...
...a superb tool for creating leaflets and web site layouts. Illustrator is probably the only program around that use can really use to create your own professional graphics, and better still it works seamlessly with photoshop and In Design, importing images from one program to another. All in all I would recommend Creative Suite to any professional or to someone with a large budget who is a keen hobbyist. ...

steveg54 26.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard Complete package

My photos look good now!

Advantages: Powerful, Versatile, Flexible. Does everything you want it to.
Disadvantages: Dearer than some alternative packages.

This is a really great bit of software to go with your digital camera. Not only does it contain all of the editing software you need to do mundane things like fix redeye, refocus immages, adjust the contrast, or brightness, but it also has a lot of fun features too. A myriad of masks and filters can be applied to pictures. It is fairly easy to use, but a little background knowlage of photography would be helpful, as there is a lot of technical jargon ...
...tools, that can be a problem. I can find myself searcing for a tool that I know what I want it to do, but I dont know what the tool is called. Do I want to adjust the saturation? Is it the hue that needs altering? It can get a little confusing. However the help file is useful. It does allow you to find what you want fairly quickly, but expect to have to consult it quite a lot at first. The organisational feature of it is very good. The photographs ...

Snay 27.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Complete package

Adobe Photoshop CS2 review

Advantages: The best photo editing/graphic software you can get!
Disadvantages: The application takes time to load + it may take a little time to get used to.

this is the best computer graphical program ever! Do you really want to know why? Yes, I bet you do! Simple answer; Because I can use it! I am hardly computer technical and I hardly have a good knowledge on using computers but for me to be able to use it comfortably when photo editing etc and to result in high quality outputs really does say something! Firstly I got this product for free from a friend who lent me the disk to use. I shall be honest, ...
...hate is the time it takes to load the application. However when first opening the application it was highly confusing and remained this way for a few weeks until I got used to the icons and tools. For example, the magic wand tool is a tool which is used to select all pixels on the image which are similar or the same to the pixel you had originally clicked. Since using this product for over 2 years my skills have increasingly developed through my ...

gbninet 28.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe Photoshop CS2 Complete package