• Enhanced Photo Books – This allows you to create professional looking photo books that enable you to view spreads, flip through your book, and rearrange pages. Then, when you are satisfied, you can order one by clicking on the order button and have professionally printed and delivered to your door (Note that this is available only in North America and Japan).
• Enhanced Sharing – You can share your images via e-mail, online galleries, as well as burning to CD from the new Sharing Center.
• Enhanced Interactive Sharing – using Adobe Flash Technology by creating animated web galleries.
I really like the changes to Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0. It uses the dark interface to make your image clearer, and the background less distracting. There are two work areas which may seem confusing to some users, but coming from the Photoshop background, it makes perfect sense to me. In Photoshop you have Bridge to organize photos, and the main editing program to process them. In Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, you have Organizer and the Editor.
If I had one complaint, it would be that more basic items should be in the Guided Edit. Techniques like Whiten teeth, remove glare from glasses, etc. Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 is an amateur's dream come true. All of the basics of its big brother Adobe Photoshop, with a lot less of the hassle, learning curve, and the price.
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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!