I’m an illustrator; I normally use Painter for my illustrations and Photoshop for some tweaking of color and value and maybe use some of the layer effects as well. Does anyone know what was left out of Photoshop Elements in comparison to the full version of Photoshop? The much lower price is very attractive…
What was left out?
Most of it.
No CMYK. No channels. No curves.
You can do a free 30 day trials of Elements by downloading it from the Adobe website.
I’m just a dabbler, so Elementals is enough for me. But it has a lot of special effects buttons that are not adjustable – if you don’t like what it does, too bad.
Also, it only has ONE “undo” buffer, which can be a real hassle when you’re winging it.
You mean there’s no History palette?? That settles it…
Elements does have a History Palette, though the lack of channels support means that sophiscated masking is pretty much out of the question.