Elementary Photo-shopping

Advantages: Packed full of features, Great fun, Improve your digital images
Disadvantages: You need memory!!

...~~~~ Overview ~~~~ Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 is a software package used to manipulate and enhance digital images, whether they are from your digital camera, scanned images or pictures from the internet. I mainly use the software to improve the pictures I take with my digital camera; altering the contrast, brightness, colour saturation etc, and also cropping and enlarging images. I also regularly alter pictures for documents and other applications, to make them smaller by compressing the images so they don't take as much disk space up. The program is split into two main functions: ~ Editor: Allows photos and images to be enhanced and edited using a range of different tools. ~ Organiser: Allows your photos and images to be organised using several different methods. ~~~~ Editor ~~~~ The editor is very versatile, offering a whole...

kirkby100 17.04.2007 · Read review
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Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Lighting techniques

Advantages: Concise yet easy to follow, some impressive looking projects, well presented
Disadvantages: Special effects section, a little light (sic) on explanations

...One thing that often separates an average photo from a great one is the quality of light. Real life rarely serves up the sort of light we'd like (especially in the UK) and so we have to fall back on post processing and editing to tweak things. To the inexperienced user, this can be a bit of a hit and miss affair so I was very pleased to spot a copy of Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Lighting Techniques in the bookshop. The author Barry Huggins runs a multimedia and training consultancy at www.matrixtraining.com and has had his images used around the world so he ought to know a thing or two. The first thing that strikes you is the gorgeous presentation of the book. Ilex Press titles we have seen have always been impressive in this respect with superb quality brilliant white paper, excellent layout and flaps on the thick glossy cover...

ilaskey 10.06.2007 · Read review
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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 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...

ilaskey 08.02.2007 · Read review
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Elementally Flawed

Advantages: Some well composed and catchy tracks
Disadvantages: Spoiled by Orzabal's personal agenda against his former band mate.

...effort that just happens to be under the TFF name. The album met with moderate chart success (but nothing like the reception afforded the previous albums) with ?Break It Down Again?, ?Cold?, and ?Goodnight Song? released at various times and in various territories as singles. ?Break It Down Again? reached a modest position of 20 on the UK Singles Chart, with the album as a whole faring better with a top 5 showing. The album is currently available on Amazon for £2.98 on CD, or as an MP3 download for a bit more (£3.48). The CD insert includes the lyrics from the album, some acknowledgements and not much else. SELECTED TRACKS Elemental The title track kicks off proceedings in unassuming fashion with the tinkling of bells and a few drum beats before the main instrumentation kicks in to support Orzabal?s unmistakeable...

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Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - A work of art

Advantages: Fast, efficient, welcome 'web' upgrade for Photoshop, amazing number of features
Disadvantages: Might be a bit too expensive for beginners

...Adobe Photoshop is one of the most acclaimed graphics packages on the market at the moment. Not only is it sought after by many professionals for top-end graphics work, but is also a great learning tool for beginners too! Version 5.5 was well anticipated, but can Adobe live up to the hype? First Impressions - Prior to buying Photoshop 5.5, I had version 5.0 on my system. I was aware of the fact that 5.5 is only half an upgrade, but was curious to see what 5.5 had to offer. I was slightly dissapointed when I first saw that nothing much had changed! But after browsing round a few menus, and clicking a few "Save to web" buttons, I was pleasantly suprised. Tools - All the favourite tools are here. The Selector, Move, Text, Erase, Blur, Fill, Gradient, Paint brush, Zoom... etc... There is a tool for practically anything you want to do...

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All the Elements of a Great Film

Advantages: Good story, Great acting and effects
Disadvantages: Aliens looked out of place and Zorg was annoying

...Although this film is set in 2257 we start 5000 years before this when a small temple in Egypt is visited by friendly aliens who explain about the 5 elements and the stone but then they are about to leave the 5th Element, the stone of life is broken and smashed. Back in the present, 2257, the hand of this statue has been found amongst some wreckage and with the technology which they have they re-grow the person who the hand belonged to. Also on Earth there is the presence of a massive planet shaped weapon which has come to claim the stones or it will destroy all life. The President gets a shock when he learn of what is needed to save the planet. Back to the regenerated person, it turns out to be Leeloo who makes an escape and falls into the taxi of Korban Dallas, played by Bruce Willis, he reluctantly agrees to help her as all...

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Elemental or complicated?

Advantages: Colourful, wacky and amusing
Disadvantages: A bit too wacky, way too loooooong

...perhaps isn't necessary to learn more about him, but I just felt that I didn't have the chance to take breath before the action started - I didn't even get to grips with his name until half way through the film. Milla Jovovich gives a great performance as Leeloo. She really convinced me that she couldn't speak English anyway and I thought she did a fantastic job of looking terrified. She also looks amazing, very gamine and slender. Then there are the more comical actors. Gary Oldman is Zorg, who visually looks like Morticia with a really bad lop-sided hairdo. Gary Oldman does evil very well, so he is in his element here, able to ham it up at every opportunity. Chris Tucker is also in his element as the rather strange Ruby Rhod, who is incredibly camp and talks in a high voice. Lee Evans pops in for a cameo role in which he gets to act daft...

sunmeilan 17.07.2008 · Read review
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Digging the elements with this hand trowel

Advantages: good size
Disadvantages: none

...I have been staying at my daughters for a day or two and was helping her in the garden when it was sunny. I used her hand trowel it was a Spear & Jackson Elements Hand Trowel. She has had this trowel for a while now and it looks like it will last her many more years. Spear and Jackson is an old reliable firm making tools of a good standard. . This Trowel has a 5 inch/12cm ash handle which has been weatherproofed and finished with a lacquer /varnish. A hole is drilled through the top this has a leather strap threaded through it so you can easily hang the trowel up on a hook. . The hammer finished epoxy coated head gives improved resistance to rust, scratches, humidity and alkaline in the soil. This has a small stem which fits into the wooden handle firmly with a ferrule of the same material as the blade. The blade is strong will...

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My Photoshop is Welsh?

Advantages: Fairly easy to use, and has all the features your likely to need for photo editing. Included tutorials. Technical Support.
Disadvantages: It doesn't always work first time! It isn't wildly fast unless you have a very powerful PC. Closing and saving files is a bit torturous.

...My anticipation was high as I loaded the Adobe Photoshop Elements software. After all, all the reviews had been good, and previous Photoshop software worked like a dream. However, my dreams came crashing down when I tried to run the edit option. I waited... and waited... but my system was stuck fast. The screen was frozen, and according to Task Manager, the software was not responding but was using up all my CPU! I tried everything to fix the problem, including reloading Photoshop, removing anything remotely resembling 'photo software', reinstalling Norton, updating windows XP, resetting my screen refresh rate, and reducing my hardware graphics accelerator. Then after a month of bemoaning this waste of money, I called Adobe....... A very helpful tech support person, talked me through some checks, and then asked something...

innovator 08.05.2006 · Read review
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The Fifth Element review

Advantages: Good story, wacky costumes, gorgeous visuals
Disadvantages: None

...The Fifth Element is a sci-fi fantasy action film written and directed by Luc Besson (who also directed Leon) and stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm and Milla Jovovich. Set 300 years in the future, cab driver and former special forces soldier Korben Dallas (Willis) is going about his day when a woman comes crashing through the roof of his taxi and asks for help. He obliges, and loses the heat that were following her. He soon finds out that she is the fifth element, a perfect being who has been sent here to save the universe. Every 5000 years, when the planets are in alignment, a great evil appears, and will kill every living thing it comes across. So the fifth element, along with the other four elements (which are stones with lines carved into them) have to travel to a special site in Egypt which focuses their power...

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