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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Cool! All my favourite Photoshop features for only US $99

I was under the impression that the ‘Elements’ series of software products from Adobe were nothing like their big brothers. But Photoshop Elements 6 has some really powerful features borrowed from its sibling.

Image stitching from Photoshop: Once you have taken a series of shots, and stitched them together into one huge detailed image,’ you’ll be hooked on creating huge mega pixel monsters. I’m impressed with the way the function handles random areas like waves in water, and chooses what features to include and what to leave out. The coolest aspect is the way the process leaves your layers intact so features can be brushed back into the final result.
Shadows / highlights process: This is great for restoring areas in photos that are too dark or over exposed.
Layers: Enhanced with 'adjustment layers' for non-destructive edits of functions like Levels and Saturation.
Raw support: Less fully featured then Photoshop’s
Reduce noise: Less fully featured then Photoshop’s
Saves and loads Photoshop files: This is great for if you upgrade to Photoshop in the future, or take your files along to a bureau.

The attached photo shows a panorama I built and the individual images the program used to create the file.

Photoshop elements 6 screen

There is a demo that you can download from Adobes site to try the program out for thirty days.
If you do any video, you might want to download Premier Elements at the time and pay a reduced price for both.