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This book is just what I was looking for to enable me to learn how to use Photoshop Elements. He takes you step-by-step through the techniques to accomplish whatever that lesson is about. I am so very pleased and excited to learn what the next chapter will hold. I highly recommend this book for any beginner...like me.

I am sure this software is fine for users familiar with desktop publishing titles, but for someone who wants to exhibit, share and create photos from a scanner or digital camera, there are many others I've used that do not require prerequisite knowledge not readily available within the software. The "tutorials" are not much help either if you don't have the basics down and know what they are talking about. It was a real disappointment and an expensive lesson.

I love this program. I can't learn enough fast enough. Bravo Adobe.

I bought Photoshop Elements about a year ago, after running Adobe PhotoDelux for years. I tried it and did not like it at all. It's much more complex than PhotoDelux and required different commands to do the same operations. I did not want to learn a new photo software editing package. So I stopped using it about a year ago. However, a month ago, I got a new computer (2.8Ghz) running WinXP; unfortunately, XP will NOT run PhotoDelux and Adobe no longer supports it. So I was forced to get out the Photoshop Elements and loaded it on the XP machine. Now I have to learn photo editing all over again. The software runs much faster, which takes some of the pain out of the process, but it is hard to do things that were simple in PhotoDelux. They changed all the keyboard shortcuts (WHY, WHY, WHY did they have to do that??!!!). Some tasks no longer have shortcuts at all and tasks that were one keystroke with PhotoDelux now take many mouse clicks. Some tasks that PhotoDelux did easily, Photoshop Elements does not do at all. For example, it places no free space gutter around pictures, which makes it hard to work on large blow up images at the pixel level. Does not do drop shadows with the shadow as an adjustable layer like PhotoDelux. The list goes on and on. If I had it to do again, I'd probably go with some other software, since I'm having to learn photo editing all over again anyway.

I'm VERY unhappy with this software and consider it a collosal waste of money. I purchased the Adobe product thinking it would be user friendly. This product is NOT user friendly. Additionally I despise the fact that you cannot print more than one picture per sheet. This software limits you to only one picture per sheet - unless you choose the contact sheet. This needlessly wastes photo paper.