thank you will look at it. Too bad Photoshop has always been so expensive... not everyone who simply want to work on personal photos for hobby can afford what professional uses..
That's why I suggested one of the versions of PhotoShop Elements. Elements isn't just a "dumbed down" version of PhotoShop - it's a full-fledged image processing piece of software in it's own right. I still use a couple versions of it when I want to do some things. Heck, I've even got a copy of it installed in an antique Apple running OS 9 that does some things that later versions still don't do.
[This is going to sound like an out-and-out testimonial for Elements but it's not meant that way - it's a simple statement of the program's capabilities.]
For MOST people, the versions of PhotoShop are simply too involved and esoteric in photo manipulation for them to use effectively. For the bulk of the populace who want to be able to crop, resize, color adjust, color balance, correct red eye, export to other applications, import images from various sources (digital cameras, scanners, the Web), stretch, pull, distort, the list goes on and on - for the everyday person - some version of PhotoShop Elements is THE program to go to. MOST of Elements actions are based on it's "big brother's'" actions only not to that great a depth found in PhotoShop.
PLEASE, if you really want to work with photos, go read Barbara Brundage's blogs at barbarabrundage.com. Even she agrees, there are certain "versions" of Elements that aren't the greatest but buy-and-large, it's a great option for the average person who wants to play around with photos.
And you don't get stuck with a big bill for it.
And BTW ... don't take all the reviews of Elements (or anything else) on Amazon.com for granted. There are many people out there who grumble at anything and see posting a "review" anywhere on the web as their god-given right to run anything into the ground.
