About Photoshop Elements

ADOBE -- The biggest feature in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 is its ability to handle photos in camera raw format. This format preserves the camera image as a "negative" which mean it lets you open the images and edit them without any kind of loss in the image. Photoshop Elements has a Camera Raw dialog box that lets you save the settings for a specific camera or a specific lighting condition and reuse them when opening another camera raw file or a batch of camera raw files.

Cool features in Photoshop Elements include:

• Organizer that creates useful subsets for timeline viewing, among other things.
• Photo Review can be set to music, with each photo in a full-screen view.
• Version Sets track multiple versions of edited or shared photos by automatically creating a stacked "history" of the multiple copies.
• Wizards make easy work of slide shows, calendars and greeting cards.
• Stacks keep less-than-perfect shots behind the best ones of a batch.
• Quick Fix helps with colour and lighting adjustments.
• Noise removal cleans up bad scans.
• Zit Removal is done with the "spot healing brush" and erases blemishes with a single click.
• Red Eye Removal continues as a separate tool.
• Cookie Cutter is like the marching ants of Photoshop.

The program does more than these things but these features work magic for amateur photographers.

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Scott Kelby -- The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) ISBN 0321269055 (New Riders, 2004)
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