what is the difference between, photoshop and photo shop elements??

Question

thanks guys!!

Answer 1

photoshop is a software and photoshop elements are its plugins

Answer 2

Biggest difference - Photoshop Actions. Elements doesn't do actions. An action is a sequence of steps that you can record, then replay to repeat. On the net, there are boatloads of people who are VERY talented who create these "actions" and allow you to download them from the webs, import them into Photoshop, and then use them yourselves. Some of the actions are incredibly sophisticated. If you take alot of digital photos and really want to be creative with them, Photoshop is the way to go because of the ability to run these actions. Sometimes I'll take several hundred photos and apply 100 steps of photoshop cleanup to them using pre-define actions. What would take me days to do by hand can then be accomplished with a couple of clicks of the mouse and then watching it run for a half hour on an entire directory of photos.

Honestly, that's probably the biggest difference between the two that you'll spot right off the bat. They both allow you to extend it's ability with plugins. For the money, Elements is a fantastic buy. Most home users don't need Photoshop.

Elements is not really made to be a program that is subservient to Photoshop: it is intended to be a different product entirely that focuses on digital photography and basically an RGB workflow. Adobe chose to hide some of the features in the interface (e.g., Curves, Channel Mixer, Color Balance, CMYK, channels, calculations and running actions, all of which are all possible using work-arounds). This can either be seen as an attempt by Adobe to distance the product from Photoshop, or, and it seems more correctly, as a means of keeping the interface easier and more manangeable.

Answer 3

Several 100 dollars. Elements is probably good for about 90% of the average people doing photo editing. But if you want to get into professional editing, good color balancing, extreme graphics etc than you really need the full version. There are far more tools and much greater potential in the tools in Photoshop.

Answer 4

Its the basics of Photoshop. They took all the things a basic person would be able to do (and use) and put them in Elements. Its not bad. The problem is right when you need something more powerful it can't do it.

Answer 5

Photoshop is a fairly complicated product to master. It allows maximum flexibility with the potential to add in special tools for additional graphics effects.

Photoshop Elements is still quite powerful, but is made for the advanced novice. More powerful than the basic photo-editing tools, yet not too complicated, it allows you to make numerous adjustments to your graphics files and output to web, print, etc.

check www.cnet.com for reviews of the products

Answer 6

Photoshop is the main program with the necessary functions, while the elements are plugins (add ons ) that enables your photoshop to have new functions