Alternative to Photoshop
The other day I posted at this forum asking about free word processors and learned of Open Office and Libre...had I not learned of Libre, Open Office would suffice. For years I have used Photoshop CS...
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mikeleblanc413 wrote:
THANK YOU so much for all of the comments. I have downloaded and installed for a 30 day trial Photoshop Elements 12...and my initial evaluation is that it is very comparable to Photoshop CS2. There are many features I really love...for example: three levels of performance: guided, intermediate and advanced. You can change the levels from image to image. From what I have seen so far, many of the tools are very similiar to Photoshop CS2...and I have virtually zero learning curve.
Comments always welcome!
You will find the RAW processing in Elements considerably de-contented from Camera Raw in CS or Lightroom, but with a simpler interface. Part of what drove me to Lightroom was the absence of lens-specific corrections in Elements. But there are many other things about Elements I liked better.
To protect your original image files in Elements, turn on versioning, so any save (including save on exit from a module) creates a new file. Otherwise some functions may replace the source file without asking, while others might ask, and it takes a while to learn just what happens when.
