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The current plan is that the August meeting will have a comparison of Digital Cameras, followed in September with a program focused on how to use photographs taken by Digital Cameras, including how to reduce the size of a digital photograph so that it does not take a long time for someone to download when you email it to them (or post it on a web page) yet where the image will still look ok when viewed on a monitor.
In Paula's presentation she pointed out that while Photoshop® is a very powerful program for the serious graphics user, Adobe has another program, Photoshop® Elements which provides many of the powerful features Photoshop offers, at a much more affordable price. Following the presentation Mike Sheehan emailed Paula and pointed out that at egghead.com Photoshop Elements 1.0 is $82.99 with $30.00 in box rebate (Expires Dec 31, 2002) and Amazon mail in rebate of $40.00 (expires Jul 07, 2002) + free Super Saver Shipping so the final price is $12.99 if ordered before July 7.
Here is the offer he referred to, but go to http://www.amazon.com and do a search on Software, specifying Photoshop Elements to pull it up yourself (so you get a page without my customer number in it).
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My criteria is based on how fast I can: 1. Get an image from my scanner or digital camera 2. Crop it 3. Fix red eye 4. Adjust overall brightness, contrast, color. 5. Darken or lighten specific areas 6. Save it .jpg Practically all the software I've used can do all of my list, although some packages can't darken or lighten specific areas. Some programs are so simple that they become hard to work with; It takes forever to crop a picture with Microsoft Picture It. Adobe PhotoDeluxe will only save as a .pdd, you have to do several extra steps to export it as a .jpg. I really don't use all the extra features and filters and special effects, although PhotoMerge is pretty cool. I know my way around a darkroom, but photography isn't my life. I just want to clean up pictures and move on. Adobe Photoshop Elements allows me to improve and correct my pictures quickly. But when I want to do something artistic, it works great. Look... Buy or Go to your local library and check out the book "50 Fast
Digital Photo Techniques". It has a CD that contains trial versions of
Photoshop Elements as well as several other programs. Try them side by
side. Find the one that works best for you, I'll bet it's Photoshop
Elements.
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I ordered it and while waiting for it to arrive, decided to look into the new features and learn the basics of how it works. I went to the Adobe web site and found a 30-day trial version I could download. I installed the trial version and took a look and was surprised to basically find LE with a better interface. While it has some improvements over LE, there are not many and it was mostly just simplified editing tools. After a day of exploring and testing, I returned to Amazon and cancelled my order (sorry Amazon!) If you don't have either of these programs and you are an amateur or novice graphics person looking for a basic graphic/photo editing program, I would definitely go with Elements -- it has everything LE has plus more. I've tried a number of other programs and Photoshop is my overwhelming favorite. For that reason it gets five stars. But my only note of caution is just for those looking to upgrade from LE. I would suggest you download the trail version first and see if it is really worth the investment. For me it wasn't, but it probably depends on what features are important to you. And actually, even if you have not used LE, you may want to go to
Adobe's web site and try it out first anyway. I appreciate when software
makers do this so we can take it for a test drive. It suggests to me that
Adobe is confident in their product and they believe that after trying it
you will like it and want to buy it.
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