hey photoshop elemts 4??

Question

is it any good?? and what does it do lmao?? i mean does it do more than microsoft paint...cause i had adobe photoshop trial and all it let me do was fix the photo and crop it?? thanks

Answer 1

Largely dependendent on projects used at work that require integration with other digital graphic programs and licensing support.

Reviews below. Generic users may benefit as follows:
Paintshop pro (PSP)
A primarily bitmap graphics programs that store graphics as a collection of 'pixels' (dots) with limited vector graphics tools.

Pros
- Paint Shop Pro 9 supports many user definable shortcut keystrokes.
- Fully user customisable interface; Create tool palettes for specific tasks, save workspace, recalled by going to the menu and selecting Workspace – ‘Your-saved-space’.
- Materials palette with frame tab understood by laymen, the outside frame is the hue selector, click on the desired colour and the central area becomes the gradient selector.
- Overview palette a quick way to navigate to any part of the opened image.
- May be cheaper than a fully fledged PSE4.

Cons
- Not necessarily in use at formal design offices.
- Working with Layering convention applies to related animation and graphics programs.


PhotoShop Elements 4 (PSE4)
The integration of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign is very much Industry standard software. PSE4 will give decent results with photographs in RAW format with RSE.

Pros
- Layering approach - multiple layers, layer styles and adjustment layers to group editing.
- Other editing tools not in Microsoft paint: Face tagging, auto-red eye correction, automatic extractor and selection tools, skin tone colour correction, automated stitching multiple photos to create panoramas.
- Pan & zoom, clip art, text & audio captions, advanced transitions.
- New Face Tagging feature saves time tagging people to pictures.
- Extraction, selection tool and font menu with previews.
- Organises photos with tags in Photo Browser, search and share photos in Creations.
- Creations: slide shows, video CDs, cards, email, calendars, Web galleries.
- Editing tools: correction and photo enhancement, dawing, painting and text, cropping, light & color adjustment, sharpen with previews before and after application.

Cons
- Sluggish performance, RAM required.
- Screen flickering when switching modes and drawing screen elements.
- Low detection rate of automatic red eye detection feature, and correction thereof.

Answer 2

I use PhotoShop Elements 4...there is no comparison to Microsoft Paint. Photography is a huge hobby of mine. You can do the obvious crop and inverse, lightening and darkening. But you can get very creative with colored filters, noise, distortions, negative, sepia, picture in picture, cloning, air brushing, glowing outlines, layering, color swap. etc. Your options are endless. It is very easy to use...everything is at your finger tips. You wont be disappointed.