Beginning Info For Adobe Photoshop Elements

Adobe has included a photo editing program in their lineup geared toward the non-professional. Photoshop Elements is an answer for the daily used who seeks professional results without heavy program knowledge. Many features of the industry standard Photoshop are achieved through simplified processes with fewer user controlled options.

Elements was released 2001 and has been updated annually with the exception of 2003. After two unsuccessful attempts at designing a user friendly photo editing program, the goal of Elements became to keep the learning curve low while incorporating powerful features of an advanced program.

At it’s core, users have the ability to edit and organize photos within the program for publishing and web distribution. The standards of home photo editing programs are there, including red eye reduction, skin tone improvement, and color and contrast correction. Additional special effects allow users to transform photos into drawings, black-and-white or sepia. The layers function has given users remarkable control to sequentially edit photos or create drawings from scratch.

Organization of photos with the program is hugely improved through a simple graphic interface. Searchable indexing and facial recognition serve as the basis to find and batch edit multiple files. In addition, a free online account offering 20GB of file storage and additional tools allow users to share and access photos over multiple computers.

The latest release has seen facial recognition, better indexing options, batch change ability and online file backup. Progressive versions of Elements have more effectively achieved advanced tasks through simplified single push button actions. This comes at the expense of user defined options like scripting (for repetitive tasks), or the Pen tool’s vector path determination. An additional major difference that defines Elements is its inability to export files in CMYK color mode. This is replaced by the RGB file type that is the standard used by home printers.

Photoshop is the standard amongst professional photo editors. It is also expensive, challenging to learn, and offers many features that the novice will seldom use. While not as complex as Photoshop, there are enough features in Elements that the common user will be lacking no tools. Photoshop Elements has become an cost effective and powerful alternative to advanced platforms, and one worth checking out.

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