Well, I bought Elements 3 a few weeks ago, and my CS is scheduled to arrive today.
Elements 3 has the healing brush, which is something that Elements 2 really lacks. The main things that Elements 3 seems to lack are the pen tool, real raw/16-bit support, and edit->fade. No pen tool means a lot of cool editing tricks don't work. No edit->fade means you can't have as much fun with gaussian blurring, among other things. The raw support starts out looking much more user friendly. In CS you get enough slider bars to make five or six really complicated tools, but they are all packed into one extra-complicated tool. Elements 3 makes it simple, at the cost of losing control. Unfortunately, most of the things elements 3 can do don't work in 16 bit. In CS almost everything works in 16bit. My plan several weeks ago was to get really good at Elements 3, then buy real Photoshop CS. Unfortunately for me, I had a few weeks of learning with Photoshop CS on my desk at work, and had been reading about CS, and so I was a little dissappointed with Elements 3. Not enough to make the jump at $650, but enough to make it at $299. I'm not sure my computer will really enjoy running CS, but I'll find out. Photoshop CS has a lot of books written about it, and there are a lot of web pages to help you out. On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:32:32AM -0600, Ron Hofman wrote: >Could someone summarize some of the significant differences? It may be a >"no-brainer" to someone in the know, but to me, it's not so easy to decide >without knowing what the differences are in the two packages. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
