Photoshop Elements 10
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Photoshop Elements 10 is not as substantial an upgrade as version 9 was, but it builds on existing tools with several features to make projects and tasks easier. New features include visual search, Facebook friends tagging, YouTube upload, text on a path, cropping guides, three new Guided Edits, and new Smart Brush effects. These are discussed in more detail in my review.
• Photoshop Elements 10 Review
Pricing for Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, and the bundle is the same--US$99.99 for Photoshop Elements 10 or Premiere Elements 10 individually, or US$149.99 for the bundle. Users of any older version can now get an instant $20 discount on the individual software price or $30 off the bundle instead of having to deal with a mail-in rebate. Both products are shipping as of today, and the 30-day trial downloads will be available by the end of September.
• Photoshop Elements Tutorials and User Resources
• Reader Reviews of Photoshop Elements
What do you think? Will you be upgrading to Photoshop Elements 10? If you have questions about the new version, post them below and I'll do my best to answer what I can.
I dislike the Adobe business of selling what are essentially glorified (and not very far-ranging) updates as new “versions”.
I will carefully go through your review as I always do, to see if tweeks and features accumulated since version 6 might finally make it worthwhile.
To me using “real” Photoshop is like riding an elephant to work. Elements is like driving a dunebuggy. I know there are a lot of folk who depend on something as big as an elephant- I’m not one of them.
I *do* like Photoshop, I have a copy; it’s just too big, and a lot of what it does I don’t do. I bought a camera that came with Lightroom, and after registering and a couple of updates I joined a forum and received a coupon for Elements. Lightroom3 and Elements9 together do what I need and want to do. I still like Photoshop, but when it’s faster to do *that* in Lightroom, and it’s easier to do *this* in Elements, at waay cheaper prices, I’m going to have to do it again.
So yes, I’ll be getting Elements10- after the first pioneers get thru!