Adobe announced the next version of Photoshop Elements 3 , its consumer - storey image editor , yesterday . This $ 90 program takes much of the pixel - pushing power of Adobe ’s $ 649 pro - plane Photoshop CS and puts it in an sluttish - to - use interface - reducing many of the most tiresome tasks to a mere click of the mouse or a drag of the onscreen slipper .
I ’ve been run with a genus Beta of Photoshop Elements 3 for a duet of calendar week now ( one of the perks of this job ) and I have to say I ’m pretty impressed . Here ’s why :
Some people can count at a unfit photo and tell you precisely what ’s wrong with it - there ’s too much blue , the high spot are blow , and so on . But the rest of us just see that it looks like a bad , observational photographic film from the 70s and require it fixed . And this is one of the field where the novel version of Elements really shines .
The update include a new Smart Fix push button that will analyze a photo ’s colors , firing , and contrast and endeavour to fix all of these problems in one go . Of course , it ’s more successful on some images than others . But from what I ’ve seen , the feature does a good job than what you ’d get by just utilise the Auto Color and Auto Levels commands from the previous version . An improved Quick Fix musical mode generate you large Before and After images so you could settle if you wish the results before you apply them to your photo . If you do n’t , you may adjust a Smart Fix yellow-bellied terrapin to scale back the amount of prototype discipline . So it ’s not all or nothing , as so many one - click mending are .
Of course , if you do want to get your hands dirty with coloring material correction , levels , cover , and so on , you certainly can . All of those characteristic are still available through the unconstipated carte du jour and tools . Which intend you wo n’t rapidly outgrow the computer program . And this , I think is where Photoshop Elements really gets it ripe .
There are a with child number of Mac user who made the leap from cinema to digital photography in the last few year and who are now looking to get more from their growing photo collecting . “ That photograph of Sue would be so cunning if only the lighting were ripe , ” they say to themselves . iPhoto ’s built - in epitome - correction tools are keen for some of these quick readjustment , but helpless with more complicated tasks . This is where Elements tread in .
Adobe is billing Elements 3 as a complement rather than a replacement to iPhoto . The new version tightly integrates with an existing iPhoto catalogue , so you may quickly and easily move between the two course of study - using iPhoto to organize and store your photos and Elements to edit out them . And that means that you have way to develop your redaction attainment at your own pace .
