• Enhanced Library Performance – They have sped up your ability to scroll through your photos, apply tags, view, and retrieve your photos.
• Dedicated Project Bin – This allows you to gather the photos you need for a specific project into one place. It provides you with easy access to all of your open photos, photo book pages, and saved albums.
• Enhanced Step-by-step assistance – will walk you through each step needed to edit blemishes, touch up scratches, or other tasks that will improve your photos.
• Enhanced Fine Tune Exposure – gives you more power to adjust color, brightness, and contrast in your photos while preserving much of your original photo data.
• Selections – With this new technology, you can make image selection in a snap. You only have to brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the adjustment blend into the background.
• Enhanced Clone Tool – If you need to remove unwanted details such as a telephone pole, a car passing by, or Uncle Vinnie, all you have to do is copy one portion of an image, and apply it over another to cover it up.
• Enhanced Spot Healing Brush – Brush away wrinkles, and unwanted objects. You can preview your changes prior to commitment to get the best results possible.
• Enhanced Black and White – Transforming your color originals to Black and White has gotten better with the new slider controls for contrast adjustments. You also have larger previews that make it easier to get the results you desire.
• Photo Blending – Now you can take multiple images and compose them into one great one. The new photo blending technology allows you to combine the best facial and body language from a series of shots to create a perfect composite. See below.
Article comments
1 - Imagine
I have found that this version is really rocks. It is so much easier to use, and faster as well. I like the photo blending and selections the best!
2 - Randy Sills
Thanks for the news, I am going to have to upgrade my version 5.
3 - Big Dave
I downloaded it to upgrade from v4.0. There isn't as much of a difference from 4.0 as I expected. It certainly isn't any faster. I have a 2.0G/1M Vista machine with a 13k photos/30G collection of personal photos. It works OK but leaves me not completely satisfied. I've now spent $300 over the years on purchasing and upgrading Elements and may go the Google Picasa route next time. The business model I would prefer is Free Upgrades for Life but enticements to pay for additional new features. I might pay more for the photobook feature that is included in 6.0 if I didn't have to upgrade for $75 already.
This latest upgrade was forced on me because of a lot of bugs with 4.0's non-integration with Vista. I paid Adobe to fix their own bugs.
4 - T. Michael Testi
Thanks for the comments Big Dave,
I cannot really comment on how it runs on Vista since I have not made the move to it as yet and at this point no real plans to.
One thing I would disagee with is your comment about these being Adobe's bugs. Photoshop Elements 4 was never made to work with Vista. This would be no different than if you tried to run PSE 4 on Window's 3.1; won't work there either.
Which is why when I bought a computer earlier this year, I did not get Vista, rather got XP. I'll wait till it becomes more mature.
T.
5 - hgjgjhg
Where can you find brushes??
Everywhere I look, its only for Photoshop CS3
6 - Jim T.
I'm using Adobe PS 4 on my Mac and thinking of upgrading to 6. I had a few questions. Will PS 6 handle Raw CR2 files and if not, what would be a suitable companion for my Raw files. Thanks.
7 - T. Michael Testi
Hi Jim,
Photoshop Elements 6 will handle Raw files and you can read more about it here.
I would suggest that you download the evaluation version and see how you like it.
Another option would be to get Adobe Lightroom which is wonderful at processing Raw files as well.
Thanks
T.
8 - mary
I'm using adobe photoshop elements 4.0, this does not have CMYK, or Curves. what software would be suitable for my mac? can adobe photoshop elements 6.0 work for me?
9 - chip towle
I don't have a left index finger and right thumb and ring finger. This has made using a keyboard quite a challenge! Can Photoshop Elements help me to regrow these missing digits? No, it can't, as I have tried using various brushes and crop tools to effect these changes, and I also have stopped reading the Bible, because the language doesn't make much sense, and I have spent too much time nauseated as a result of all the "thees and thous."
10 - Gary Shaw
I have adobe photoshop elements 6
and after loading it FAILS and with a connAPI.DLL error report.
not very usefull
11 - Gary
I recently purchased Photoshop Elements 6.0. When I tried to load it I got the following message:
"Error 1503 Error reading from file C:Program FilesAdobePhotoshop elements 6.0MEdit_Libfnp.dll. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it".
I am not very computer savvy aneed need help.
Thank You
Gary
12 - Gary
I forgot to mention.....My computer has Windows XP.
Gary
13 - Sage
Where can you get it for free? Is it even possible to get it free anyways? Does it work on a PC? Sorry for showering questions onto you here!