Photo gadget of the decade

[pewidane]

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I have a trial version of Lightroom 2 on my new Max OS X pc and have worked with my old raw files and i can make many of them much better,so i bye Ligthroom 2 at the beginning of 2010,but so i will lhave Elements 8 of my Windows pc and it is not very convenient .So i must by a new copi of Elements 8 for Mac OS x.

[Stephen]

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I have a trial version of Lightroom 2 on my new Max OS X pc and have worked with my old raw files and i can make many of them much better,so i bye Ligthroom 2 at the beginning of 2010,but so i will lhave Elements 8 of my Windows pc and it is not very convenient .So i must by a new copi of Elements 8 for Mac OS x.

Peder I have read that the Mac version of Elements is better than the PC version. Also if you buy Lightroom on a disc, rather than a download, you get a Mac and PC version.

Good to hear you have a Mac now and like Lightroom

[pewidane]

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I have only tried Lightroom 2 for a few days,adjustment brush is a great tool ,i bought Mac OS X the largest model as a chrismas present to myself,so i was sure to get something i was happy with. A happy chrismas to you and all on the site.Peder.

[Ian]

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Peder I have read that the Mac version of Elements is better than the PC version. Also if you buy Lightroom on a disc, rather than a download, you get a Mac and PC version.

Good to hear you have a Mac now and like Lightroom

There are minor detailed deifferences between The Mac and PC versions, but the biggest differences I'm aware of are that the Windows version has face recognition search and the Mac version doesn't, and you get a version of Adobe Bridge for the Mac instead of the Organizer tool in the Windows version of Elements 8. Bridge is powerful, but I wouldn't call it user-friendly. Elements Organiser is actually quite powerful and it's certainly a lot more user-friendly.

Ian

[Stephen]

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I read on a Mac forum, that PSE8 for Mac also has the full ACR rather than a Lite version as in the Windows edition. I can't confirm that though. As for face recognition, I'm personally not sure about its value, though thats just me, who doesn't use Twitter or Facebook or other social networking sites However Picasa 3 has face recognition, and Pedar maybe pleased to know that iPhoto on his new Mac has it too.

[pewidane]

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Yes,Jan i have downloaded a Mac version of Elements 8 and it is quite horrible to work with comparet to Windows version and i do not think I`ll bye that.I do not understand why they are not equal?.I simply love Elements and have use version 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8.Stephen says Mac also have the full ACR,what,s ACR ?.Peder.

[Stephen]

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Yes,Jan i have downloaded a Mac version of Elements 8 and it is quite horrible to work with comparet to Windows version and i do not think I`ll bye that.I do not understand why they are not equal?.I simply love Elements and have use version 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8.Stephen says Mac also have the full ACR,what,s ACR ?.Peder.

Ah, sorry Peder, ACR is Adobe Camera Raw, the raw conversion engine in Adobe products such as Elements, Photoshop CS and Lightroom

[pewidane]

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Now after having worked with Adobe Bridge in Mac OS X in a few days.i am quite satisfied.There are actually many things that are better than the Windows version.

[bouffie]

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I have had Elements 7.0 for about a year and am still learning, this is a powerful editor although not always intuitive (maybe just I am not bright), couldn't justify the expense of Photoshop. Would agree with the Gadget Show

Just sorted out the batch processing in C4.5

[Josh Bear]

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Now after having worked with Adobe Bridge in Mac OS X in a few days.i am quite satisfied.There are actually many things that are better than the Windows version.

Hi

just chipping in on lightroom. I recently switched from pc to mac and downloaded lightroom to my mac. I found the serial number from my PC download activated the mac version. Great to see this sensible approach by a company.

Loving MAC BTW.

[Josh Bear]

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The Gadget Show on Ch5 announced their Gadgets of the Decade last night. Interestingly the Photo gadget award was given to Adobe Photoshop Elements. Are there any members here that use it?

Yes. I have PSE 8.

I process in lightroom and then do any cloning or sharpening in pSE.

best regards

Josh

[Stephen]

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Hi

just chipping in on lightroom. I recently switched from pc to mac and downloaded lightroom to my mac. I found the serial number from my PC download activated the mac version. Great to see this sensible approach by a company.

Loving MAC BTW.

Thats interesting Josh, it had never occurred to me they would allow that, its why I always got the disc.

[Josh Bear]

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Hi

yes it also asked me for the serial numbers for lightroom 1 as well. By sheer luck I still had that so all was okay.

Best regards

Josh

[mike_j]

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Lightroom took some time to win me over but now that I mainly shoot .dng and have spent some dozen boring evenings keywording files I would be reluctant to change back. I have a copy of PS 6.5 for actual photo manipulation as opposed to simple editing.

However if I nominated any single bit of software it would be Picasa. Simple to use, does much of what Lightroom does and is free. Beats any of the manufacturer's bundled software that I have tried hands down.