On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:26:46PM -0500, Glen wrote: > Hi John, > > I was upgrading from Elements 2, when I purchased the online version of the > upgrade direct from Adobe. By the way, that's a very inexpensive way to > upgrade from an older version of Elements or Photoshop LE. I'm not sure > what features were in version 3, since I skipped that one. However, > compared to version 2, version 4 had the following things that had me > hooked: > > It comes with the latest version of the Adobe CameraRAW plugin, which > allows you to open and intelligently process Pentax RAW files. This is the > same plugin that also comes with Photoshop CS2. This single plugin is MUCH > better than the software that came from Pentax! It was also the largest > single motivation for me to purchase Elements 4. > > Handles Adobe and sRGB profiles and does conversions between them. > > Many of the editing operations can be performed on 16-bit images, and you > can convert a 16-bit image to an 8-bit image. (Bits per color channel, I > should have said.) > > There is an elaborate, companion file browsing and cataloging program, > called Elements Organizer. This can also display thumbnails of your Pentax > RAW images, as well as most any other image format. One double-click on a > thumbnail will enlarge the image for detailed viewing. Of course, you can > also launch the editor directly from the browser, and the image/s you have > selected are automatically opened. The browser also displays all the EXIF > information embedded into any of the images you have. You can also add > captions, notes, and tags to images. Later, you can search for an image in > your collection, by searching for a caption or searching the embedded notes > you created. > > Whenever I put my SD card into my SanDisk card reader, Elements > automatically launches the Adobe Photo Downloader program to retrieve my > latest Pentax images, and asks me if I want to clear the card after the > transfer. After they have been transferred to my hard drive, I am presented > with a thumbnail viewing of all the new files, in Elements Organizer. I can > double-click on any image for a large view, or I can easily launch the > Elements editor to edit any file I wish.
All the above features are already in Elements 3.0 I'm looking for a list of the differences between 3.0 & 4, to see if it offers me anything. I don't need ACR 3.2, or whatever the latest version is; 3.1 (or even 2.3) works just fine with images from my D > There are lots of new features in Elements 4. I would suggest downloading > the 30-day trial version, as I did. I found that I just couldn't live > without version 4, since I also have the Pentax *istDS. Elements 4 makes it > a breeze to work with my Pentax files, compared to the drudgery of Elements > 2. > > take care, > Glen > > > At 03:29 PM 12/1/2005, John Francis wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:16:26PM -0500, Glen wrote: > >> At 12:00 AM 12/1/2005, William Robb wrote: > >> > >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Sanfedele" Subject: srbg to > >Adobe > >> >RGB ? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >>The stock stuff I submit has to be Adobe RGB - am > >> >>I screwed? or is there > >> >>a way I can take that tif and translate it into > >> >>Adobe RGB. I have a sinking feeling that I cant. > >> > > >> >Edit/ Convert to Profile. > >> >The window that opens allows you to covert the image to the new profile. > >> > > >> >Hopefully, Elements has that. > >> > > >> >William Robb > >> > >> Elements 4 has that. I can convert between Adobe and sRGB without > >problems. > > > >Aha! That's something that might make me consider an upgrade. > >Any other cool new features? The Adobe website isn't that useful. >
