- ISO
- Histograms
- Image Stabilization
- Exposure Modes
iPhoto
- Non-Destructive
- Simple layout, easy to find photos
- Easy to edit photos with filters and effects
- Easy to upload to photo-sharing sites
- Quick and easy file transfer from camera to computer
- Plenty of options for printing photo products (i.e. Books, cards, calendars, prints, etc.)
- Only works on Macs
- Not a lot of editing tools
- Doesn’t upload to enough third-party sites/programs
- Not enough features for more advanced photo editors
- Can add music
- Can do batch editing
- Hides files
- Faces
- Places
- Easy to upload to other Google applications (Blogger, YouTube, Google Earth, etc.)
- Can create videos for YouTube
- Plenty of ready options for printing photos
- Can automatically pick up photos from designated folders
- Compatible with both PC and Mac
- Free
- Sometimes run slowly when finding photos throughout the computer
- Program interface is more cluttered than iPhoto’s
- Not enough features for more advanced photo editors
- Keeps files in original spot
- Face Tagging
- Place Tagging
- Privacy
- Embed Flash Slideshow
- Panorama stitch
- Vista + Windows 7
- Its abilities are almost limitless, but it is also difficult to learn and use. That said, learning the basics of photo manipulation — how to resize images, how to auto-correct exposure and contrast levels, and how to convert or save as file types — requires less time and effort.
- It was designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions, available online, and you can also download many free "actions," or prerecorded sequences of tools and keystrokes that format and edit images in predefined ways. Photoshop is compatible with Macs and PCs, and with a little work, it can be run on Linux systems. A resource hog, it requires a robust system to run on, with about a gigabyte of RAM at a minimum, and benefits considerably from even more RAM or an advanced video card.
- Advanced Website Development
- Control: If you like having control over every aspect of your image adjustments, you won’t find that in Elements. You’ll have to go to Photoshop CS5. Elements has good automatic tools for selection, touching up, filters and image adjustments, but Photoshop CS5 usually goes about five steps deeper in options for specific controls: the lighting controls, healing brush tools and cloning tools are vastly improved.
- Advanced Text Formatting: Photoshop Elements has basic text options but not enough to satisfy the serious typographer. Tracking (space between letters), typing along a path, full justification and other advanced formatting is not possible in Elements. However, there are some simple text effects like warping text in Elements that make it fun for the hobbyist.
- Offset Printing with CMYK: If you don’t know what CMYK is, chances are you won’t need it. CMYK or process color is basically a different color format for offset printing. Graphic designers need this when using images in page layout programs like InDesign or Quark Xpress. Today most printers can print digitally, so CMYK is not as important if you’re designing full color brochures or flyers as opposed to catalogs.
- Layer Masks: If you’re creating web designs and graphics where you’re doing a lot of experimenting and cutouts, you’ll really appreciate layer masks. Elements has basic blending tools from one layer to another where you can blend two photos together, but nothing like Photoshop CS5’s masking power. In Elements, if you want to cut out a person from the background for instance, you can erase the photos you don’t want, but if you make a mistake or change your mind, there’s no going back. In Photoshop CS5 if you apply a layer mask first and then just paint in the mask, you can erase or show whatever you want at any time. The way masks work is anything that is black is hidden and anything that is white is shown. You can even paint with different shades of black and it will affect the opacity of the layers. This gives you limitless possibilities.
- Compositing: One really cool feature of Photoshop CS5 is its compositing capabilities. If you have multiple photos that are roughly the same, like a series of family shots that were taken at the same time, you can have Photoshop CS5 automatically align the two pictures and then you can just delete the parts of one photo you don’t like. Facial expressions, vehicles, birds that fly through and ruin your scene, etc., are all removable.
- Custom Automation (Batches): Photoshop Elements has some great basic tools for processing multiple files at once. With Elements you can rename files, resize images, convert files, apply “Quick Fixes” and add watermarking or captions to multiple images at once. This covers about 90% of the batching tasks people use. However, you are limited with just these options. With Photoshop CS5, you can create your own automated “actions” to apply to anything you want. You simply start “recording” a series of actions you make to one file and then stop recording when you’re finished. Then you can apply those same steps to thousands of other images with the click of one button. Photoshop CS5 does the work for you. You could literally walk away, come back hours later and it would be done.
Photoshop Elements:
- everything but not... Photoshop
- great tools
- Photomerge group shot – combine the best photo of each person in group shots into a single photo. Great when you can’t get the whole family smiling in a single photo.
- Photomerge scene cleaner – Say you’ve taken a series of shots, but when your subjects looked their best, but a car was intruding in the background. You can wipe away that annoying car with this feature.
- Map Your Memories – like Picasa, in Elements you can tag your pictures with a location and view them on a map.
- Online Adobe Flash creations with great animated templates like maps.
- Create PDF – easily create a PDF of your Photo book for an easy format to email or save.
- Save for Web feature – Elements allows you to easily compress photos that you wish to upload to the web. This is a great feature in the full version of Photoshop, and it’s available in Elements now as well. Elements also allows you to convert files to many different photo formats.
- Can remove red-eye
- adjust colors, lighting, contrast, shadowing, and highlights
- create composites from multiple photographs
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