Opening in full screen and unable to be shrunk (very annoying - have Adobe forgotten how most Mac folk work for a moment?), the screen offers a bunch of tools down the left-hand side, as well as three main windows on the right titled Edit, Create and Share.Įdit, as it implies allows you to edit your photos applying filters, masks or simply and more likely, fixing your images for contrast and red-eye.
This is where phase two of the software kicks in and you get a paired down image editor aimed at enthusiasts rather than professionals. Once you have got the hang of organising and assigning keywords to your images you can move on to image editing itself. Again it's not a bad thing, but it's worth noting if you are switching and expecting this feature.
However, it seems that the transition to Adobe Bridge (which is a good one) means that one of the new PC features - Smart Folders - that allowed you to automatically create folders based on metadata, such as pictures taken with certain cameras, lenses, and other information, has been lost. One to file under "simple, but useful" it's a small tweak that's likely to help you out, but not change your life.
The basic premise is that if you have multiple images of virtually the same thing you can stack them together to save space and save you time when searching. New to this version is something that Adobe calls Stacks. Keywords can be attached so you can find your images quickly and it's considerably easier to manage than Adobe's Lightroom interface. The interface of Bridge is incredibly easy to use, offering you a main window where images are displayed, with further secondary windows offering you the chance to filter the information presented or to see specific details regarding the photo - like the camera used - all at a quick glance. It is the same image organising software bundled with Adobe's more professional and considerably more expensive CS3.įor the most part you get you get the same functionality, however some of the advanced organising tools and features have been disabled for Elements users - mainly access to Adobe's Stock Photos online, Adobe's Photographer's Directory, Version Cue and Device Central, all of which the average Photoshop beginner isn't going to miss. If you think you have heard of Adobe Bridge before, that's because you have. The Photo Editor and Adobe Bridge, the organiser. But with iPhoto bundled free in the box of every laptop and desktop machine sold by Apple should you bother? We get image editing to find out.įollowing Adobe's shift to the charcoal grey interface, Elements for the Mac has been broken down into two programs.
Now 6 months later Apple Mac OS X users get to have a go too. A spot healing brush removes pesky objects or people from your shot.(Pocket-lint) - Adobe launched its entry-level photo-editing package Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 on the PC last year.
When it works, it works very well, and there are various opportunities to tweak the results, such as altering the opacity and brightness of the effect or using the Refine Edge feature if the effect is not as precise as you’d like. This guided edit - step-by-step instructions that walk you through the effect - offers several levels from removing haze to completely replacing the sky, but it’s not the magic bullet that’s guaranteed to salvage every single dull landscape shot. This great feature is buried under the Enhance > Adjust Facial Features menu. Because these are modest adjustments and not wholesale compositional changes, the edits tend to look natural. The new Face Tilt feature lets you coordinate portraits so people are more or less facing each other or the same way, while the Adjust Facial features command gives you additional options to adjust the angle of the eyes and other facial features. The subtle Face Tilt feature can align faces toward each other and the viewer to vastly improve portraits.