Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

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great:
The photoshop elements 7 is a fun way to edited photos. If you are new user of photoshop, as I am, I would recommend getting a manual or tutorials to accompany it. There is a lot to learn, and much of it is not obvious.

To Buy or Not to Buy Elements 7:
Prior to purchasing Elements 7, I was using Elements 5 and before that 3.0. Over the years I've also used the usual assortment of editing software programs and all have features I like but none had or have all the features I'd like to use in one program. Elements 7 comes the closest. Reading the negative comments here about Version 7, I hesitated before proceeding to checkout. Instead, I took advantage of Adobe's free 30 trial. What I found, subjectively, was faster loading and faster edit processing. With Version 5, anything over 20 photos would cause my computer to creep and the program to crash frequently. Version 7, on the same machine, is much faster loading and processing -I've done over 60 photos at one time (average size 3.5 MB) - no crashes and acceptable speed - my computer has 2GB RAM which I'll be upgrading shortly to 4 which should improve speed even more - 2cpu 32 bit Vista at 1.80GHz. Reason for 4 stars and not 5? Version 5 gives a count of the number of photos open - Version 7 doesn't (or I haven't found it yet but it's not on the Edit page to my knowledge) I did find the count on V.5 very useful. One wonders why a program upgrade deletes features found in the previous version. Neverthless, faith in Elements 7 has caused me to uninstall all other photo processing software (though I do retain the original program discs in case of need) I would buy a book to learn Version 7 - I did and it's already saved me quite a bit of time for how-to look-ups. I'm not recommending my book, though it seems fine, but it's the only one I've read or used and that's unfair to the many books out there on this subject. I've ordered Essentials 2 as a companion program to Elements 7 and will report on it when it arrives and I've used it for a while. Do I recommend it to friends and others? Yep!

adobe photoshop 7:
Seems ok but too much commercial links offered. No handbook so following the screens ok if you have some experience with older versions of photoshop.

No idea how to use it.:
I'll have to get back to you on this product. I installed it and have no idea how to use it. Doesn't look that easy. Adobe does not provide a manual, in either PDF, download, or hard-copy (HAH!). What good is a product if you can't use it?

Always dependable....:
I have used Adobe Photoshop for years and found it to be the most user friendly software for enhancing and/or needed corrections of my photos. When I changed to Microsoft Vista, Adobe Photoshop was one of my first upgrades of software. I have not used Elements 7 much but it is a comfort to know that it is there when I need it.