![]() Photoshop Elements 6 for users of previous versions who now own an Intel Mac. Everything you have ever loved about Photoshop Elements is still there, covered by some crap for technologically-declined users, but still there. At a fraction of the cost of Photoshop, you still get most of the features-far more than all the Photoshop wannabe apps that have been getting attention lately. However, it's just not possible to lavish enough praise on Adobe for getting Photoshop Elements 6 running on Intel, even if took nearly three years. Well, PE6 still eats up between 5 and 10 percent of CPU cycles doing nothing, and sits on about a tenth of my RAM, so it's comparable there. There's just simply no comparison between PE6 on an Intel iMac with PE4 on a 1.25 GHz PowerBook. So is there anything good I can say about PE6 after trying it out for a day? ![]() Again, I guess I have better luck taking group photos because I don't have any to experiment with. Adobe Photoshop Elements is also a perfect tool to create photo collages, postcards, calendars and other similar goodies with your images. There also is PhotoMerge, which makes it easy to take elements from similar photos and combine them into a new picture. There is an assistive mode for correcting lens distortion too, but I don't have any photos to fix. This is the problem I'm having with PE6, and no new features stand out. GIMP gives artists the power and flexibility to transform images into truly unique creations. Who doesn't need help creating black and white photos? I know that's something I do every day. More positively, installation is quick and starting PE6 on a 2.0 GHz Core Duo iMac is very quick, as in a couple of seconds-wonderful!įor me, it's about image editing, and there are some exciting new features in PE6. Irritatingly, a few new directories pop up in your Documents folder like AdobeStockPhotos. Installation results in your Applications folder being populated with Photoshop Elements, Bridge, Help, and a Stock Photos application. PE6 still requires an installer and, curiously, that you quit web browsers before beginning setup. I jumped on the 1.27 GB download, and have to say I'm not disappointed, though maybe I should be. Available both on disc and as a download, PE6 costs $69.99 to upgrade and $89.99 for the full version. You can also buy Photoshop Elements or on the Mac App Store, but in the U.K. PE6 is a universal binary, requiring either a G4/G5 or an Intel multicore Mac running OS X 10.4.8 through 10.5.2, 512MB RAM-hahaha!-1GB recommended, and at least 64 MB VRAM, even if it's with some crappy integrated graphics. See our review of Photoshop Elements for more information. A little over a thousand days since Apple announced the transition to Intel, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is finally on sale.
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