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Adobe’s Photoshop Elements has been out for about 10 months and as some evidence of its 
success is the proliferation and the significance of 3rd Party
books that start appearing on the shelves of the local book stores in the 30 to 40 dollar range. Two reasons that
this is significant is that the program comes with a very good 280+ page printed User Guide as well as built in
online tutorials, hints, recipes and the program sells for less than $100. The full retail boxed program generally
available for around $70 with special pricing and/or a $30 rebate. The $30 rebate applies to owners of Photoshop
LE, PhotoDeluxe, Paint Shop Pro, PictureIt!, MGI PhotoSuite, Ulead and others, which makes the rebate almost a
given if you have a graphics program that came with a scanner or printer. There is even a free 30 day trial download
from the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com.
Photoshop Elements is a very interesting offering from Adobe. Where previous programs like PhotoDeluxe and Photoshop
LE were single layer, aimed at the consumer or small business user and pretty limited in functionality, Photoshop
Elements shows more of its commonality with its elder, Photoshop 6, in the look and feel of use. Photoshop Elements
could be called a user friendly version of Photoshop 6. It is clearly priced to compete with Paint Shop Pro and
Photo Draw, products which in themselves offer many of the features of Photoshop but feature ease of use without
the technical complexity of the high priced spread. Adobe has crafted “Elements” to provide a very powerful program
at a reasonable price but the Graphics Artist will still want Photoshop to get all its features and capabilities
for which it is the standard.
Photoshop Elements is a professionally boxed product which comes with printed manual, a 4 sided folded quick reference
card, CD in a jewel case, and support materials. System requirements are Windows98 or later (appears to works fine
on XP), 150 megs of hard drive space, 64 MB of RAM, Pentium class computer, and 800X600 256 Color or better resolution.
On the CD will also be found Acrobat 4.0 reader along with tryouts of several other Adobe programs.
3rd Party support. Que has a book out for “beginners” called “Introducing Adobe Photshop Elements” and there is
a website at http://www.arraich.com/elements/psE_intro.htm
that is loaded with useful information. A search on the Internet can reveal many other books and resources for
Photoshop elements.
The details:
Opening Photoshop Elements
Palette Heaven
Other Features
Product Differentiation
Finale!
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