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1. (halinsalem),

Feb 23, 2008 9:14 AM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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I have Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 on an iMac (20" intel) with 2 mgs of RAM and a 500 G hard drive and it runs just fine. Most of the time slowness is caused by not enough RAM or a hard drive that is getting full. Also, a Windows machine is so vulnerable to being infected by "crap" off the internet that your trouble may be adware or spyware or something else that crept in off the internet. That is the main reason that I switched to Mac in 2003 - I got tired of cleaning out the "junk" that was being placed on my hard drive in spite of the fact that i had both a hardware firewall and a software firewall.

I understand that Adobe is going to come out with Photoshop Elements 6.0 for Mac in March (PSE 6.0 is already available for Windows). I use Photoshop CS on my older Power Mac for most of my photo processing and just use the iMac and PSE 4 for some of my printing, so I may not upgrade, but, who knows?

Good Luck!
Hal

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2. Buko.,

Feb 23, 2008 9:24 AM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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This is the Photoshop Forum If you ask in the elements forum you will get more answers only halinsalem seems to use both.

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3. (Al_Vuxton),

Feb 23, 2008 2:39 PM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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Thanks, This has got to be the most convoluted forum I've ever used, most of the time I don't know where I am!

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4. John Joslin,

Feb 23, 2008 2:50 PM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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It's not helped by Adobe's naming policy.

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5. (Phos±four_dots),

Feb 23, 2008 2:58 PM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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>"... most of the time I don't know where I am!"

All you have to do is look at the "breadcrumb" trail at the top of the pagethose links underneath the "User to User Forums" image.

The page you're on presently is the last link to the right. Following them to the left navigates you level-by-level toward the root of the structural hierarchy.

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6. (halinsalem),

Feb 24, 2008 8:20 AM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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I have visited the Elements forum on two or three occasions, more or less just to see what is there - and I found very little of value - it is nothing like the Photography forum or this Macintosh forum where, for the most part, people are very helpful.

I originally bought Elements because I had people asking me what kind of software to use for printing pictures - mostly mom and pop point and shoots - and I didn't want to advise them to buy a $650 program that they did not really need. I have found that Elements 4.0 for the Mac has "Bridge" for organization and also has most of the basics: adjustment layers, cropping, resizing, text, sharpening, shadows/highlights, etc. It has an adjustment layer for levels, but not for curves. It is probably adequate for most non-professionals.

Hal

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7. (Phos±four_dots),

Feb 24, 2008 10:23 AM in reply to (Al_Vuxton)

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Yep, I recommend Elements to many of my friends and family, as opposed to any other consumer-level image manipulation app.

That way, if I'm called on for helpand that's inevitableit's much easier because I'm familiar with Adobe's UI and procedural conventions.

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