Photo Editing Software?

[ILUVPOOH1]

Question- Which photo editing software do you use for digital pics? I'm looking at Adobe Photoelements 3.0. Is this a good one? I want something to help organize my pics as well as help to make my pics look better. I also want to be able to turn color pics to black and white and maybe keep one element in color. I've seen this done and it looks amazing. But most of all I need help with correcting my pics (lighting, contrast, etc.) So I welcome all your opinions. Right now I'm just printing off my dig pics at Walgreens.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Good Question. I would also like to hear the answer.

 

[scrapperjill]

I have found that PS Elements is a GREAT way to organize your photos...I love the way they set them up. I have PhotoShop Elements, PhotoShop 7.0 (I think that's the version)and an image ready version...Elements is more simple and your able to do basic photo manilpation easly...like black/white...sepia...cropping..and so on.. I think for most people taking snapshots and scrapbooking them..elements would do great. If your wanting to get more envoloved with maniplating your photos...a newer version of Photoshop may be more of what your wanting....but theres ALOT to learn in these softwares as you can do SOOOOO much with them. Elements was designed more for basic photo changes..and was designed to be easy to use.

 

[GrayFal]

This is not a photo program but if you try www.shutterfly.com - you can enhance your pictures before you print them,,,,black & white, sepia (sp?)aka color tone, saturate and soft focus. also border, borderless, 'special' borders, black line, blurred edge and even more stuff....check it out.

<a href="http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAtmzho3ZNWMY">Different Enhancements</a>

 

[wtpclc]

My db (electronics geek) highly recommends Photoshop Element. I had MS Photo Editor and thought it was good. However, I got PE with my scanner. I'd have to agree that it can do much more. It's got a pretty good setup to walk you through most items you'd want to do too. There's also a catalogging program that comes with it (can't remeber the name), but the indexing features are pretty cool.

 

[Queenie]

Never used Elements but I found Photoshop very complicated. I use Paint Shop Pro 8 to do my stuff and it works brilliantly. It can do all the things you listed above and also recolour b&w images (takes some practice!)

 

[ILUVPOOH1]

Thanks to all for your suggestions. I was leaning towards PS Elements. I've heard conflicting stories about it, some say it's great, some say it's hard to learn. I'm still leaning towards it though! Any more ideas would be great!
And I will make sure to check out Paintshop- thanks Queenie!

 

[JudithM]

We had a speaker recently at our local camera club who talked about Photo Shop Elements 3. He said PSE2 was powerful, but that PSE3 has the additional capability to work in layers. He said PSE has 90% of the capability of PS for 8% of the price. He discussed the three main features of PSE3 - tools, layers & filters in some detail.

We use PSE2 at home - I think it came with our scanner, too. I don't go into the detail that some of the photograohers I know do, but I can use it!