>> And what is price for Photoshop Elements? > > For Windows users the latest Photoshop Elements runs about $100, about $150 > when bundled with Premier Elements for video production. I do not know about > Mac version pricing. You can also find a 1 or 2 generation old version > bundled with a Wacom Bamboo table for $100 which is an excellent buy in my > opinion. These are retail store prices and can probably be beat with > diligent internet searches.
PSE for Mac OS X is around $90 depending upon where you buy it. I would NOT buy an outdated version ... it limits which version of Camera Raw you can use with it, which limits RAW conversion capabilities ... depending upon what camera you are using, you might not need the latest Camera Raw, of course, but the other thing is that in PSE you only have the 'basic' mode Camera Raw operation without all the more sophisticated capabilities. Enough for a lot of work but less convenient. The Mac OS X version of PSE does not include the 'album' image management components that the Windows version does, IIRC. This, to me, is a major lack ... no different from PS CSx, but one of the reasons I am so big on Lightroom. To me, the major editing deficiencies in PSE itself are a lack of color management options (not important for many, I'm sure) and the lack of the Curves tool palette (essential to my PS editing methodology). I'm not sure whether the latest version has Curves tools. I also don't know how sophisticated the current version is regards layers and 16bit editing capabilities. Layers in particular (one of the primary ways of implementing any and all forms of compositing including HDR, creative localized sharpening, etc) is one of the major reasons why I go to Photoshop nowadays since everything else is handled so well by Lightroom for my kind of photographic editing. -- Godfrey www.gdgphoto.com www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto www.twitter.com/godfreydigiorgi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
