Photoshop Elements: Which should you choose?įor the vast majority of users, Photoshop will be overkill. Plus, it's easy to share your photos from the Organizer interface to social media and via email. When it comes to printing from Elements, in addition to single-image pages, you can easily create 'picture packages' or contact sheets, with several images automatically laid out on a page. JPEG, TIFF, PSD, PNG, nearly all Camera RAW formats and a variety of video formats. TIFF, JPEG, PSD, PNG, various video files and nearly all Camera RAW files. Just about every format (plus some audio and video formats) including PSD, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, large-document format PSB and all Camera RAW formats (via the Camera RAW utility). PSD, BMP, GIF, jJPEG, PSE, PDF, PXR, PNG, TIFF and all Camera RAW formats (via the Camera RAW utility). Learn by seeing what happens when you push sliders or tap/click to apply edits. Not as steep a learning curve as Photoshop, but still requires a certain mastery. However, the tutorials and online help are great aids. Interactive step-by-step Guided Edits, tutorials available within the interface, useful online help. Image processing on the go with images stored on the cloud. Just about anything you can think of doing with an image.Ĭomprehensive image- processing, batch processing with images stored on local hard drives. Professional and serious photographers using a desktop computer.Īll photographers who want to quickly process, prepare and share images. A simplified subset of what's available in Lightroom Classic. An industry standard-setter.Ī digital equivalent to a film darkroom on desktop computers.Ī cloud-based system for image processing. $9.99/month (Included in the Creative Cloud Photography Plan).Ī simplified subset of what's available in Photoshop.Īdobe's most powerful and comprehensive photo editor and image creation software.

$9.99/month (Creative Cloud Photography Plan, includes Photoshop, Lightroom CC and Adobe Portfolio and 20 GB of cloud storage. Includes 100GB of cloud storage, portfolio website, premium fonts and social media tools. $99.99, or $149.99 bundled with Premiere Elements.

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