Photoshop Elements 3.0

January 28, 2005 12:25 PM from

I have been reading a lot about this and was wondering if anybody here uses it, and what they think about it.

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Reply #1 January 28, 2005 2:33 PM from

I had been a user of Photoshop Album 2.0 with Photoshop Elements 2.0, and like both products. Adobe released the combination of those two in the updated version called Photoshop Elements 3.0. I downloaded and installed the trial edition. As for functionality, it looks and feels exactly the same as the two above products - though the Elements side is now called "Editing" whereas the Album side is now called "Viewing." I had thoughts of purchasing it.

My potential for purchasing it lasted all of 30 minutes. That's when I noticed that Adobe has installed and started two local services on the computer - one for monitoring your "Picture Folders" and another for monitoring for a connection to a digital camera device. Specifically, Adobe never asked if I wanted my picture folders monitored, and two, I *NEVER* connect a digital camera to my computer.

So two cpu sucking and memory eating processes were installed and set to automatically run without any use to me whatsoever. In my opinion, Adobe has no right to make those choices for me - and without allowing me to change their decision (you have to use services.msc to disable both processes).

I'm going to try out Google's Picasso 2.0 to see if it worth anything... At the very least, it's free.

Reply #2 January 28, 2005 4:10 PM from

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Interesting. I use psp 8 now. I was thinking of upgrading to 9, but I wanted to know if photoshop elements 3 was better.

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Reply #3 January 28, 2005 5:18 PM from

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I use Photoshop Elements 2 and Photoshop album and have to agree with Byron. Only that I have a worse experience with 3.0. I installed it on my daugher's computer because I did not want to mess my collection in case I wanted to get rid of it. And it looks I was right. This thing is incredibly slow. The computer is not a speed demon but is not incredibly outdated as well. It's an Athlon 1700+ XP and the apps are crawling on it.

Just maximizing the Editing app takes a solid 30 seconds while the app dances up and down, left and right and realigns to the full screen.

I really like the functionality and The layout and the looks. But the speed is unacceptable. If you have a fast computer you may gide it a try (there is a free tryout available). It trully is the best cataloguing app available, but it feels as if Adobe have no respect for their customer's time.

Reply #4 January 29, 2005 1:48 AM from

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If you don't like the services running just stop them. The program runs fine without them.

Reply #5 January 29, 2005 6:00 AM from

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Thanks for your posts about it. I am ready to upgrade and I'm just wondering what direction I should take this time. I was looking for a copy of photoshop 7 on ebay but I haven't found one yet. I was just reading that photoshop elements 3 was pretty powerful. I like the adobe interfaces better than psp's. I'm gonna have to think about this.

Reply #6 January 29, 2005 6:03 AM from

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Double post.

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