Adobe Photoshop Elements Review

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Adobe Photoshop Elements
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jaxhogan's review of Adobe Photoshop Elements

“My anticipation was high as I loaded the Adobe...

★★★★☆

written by jaxhogan on 08/05/2006

Good Points
Fairly easy to use, and has all the features your likely to need for photo
editing.

Bad Points
It doesn't always work first time! Closing and saving files is a bit
torturous.

General Comments
My anticipation was high as I loaded the Adobe Photoshop Elements software.

After all, all the reviews had been good, and previous Photoshop software

worked like a dream.



However, my dreams came crashing down when I tried to run the edit option. I

waited... and waited... but my system was stuck fast. The screen was frozen,

and according to Task Manager, the software is not responding but is using

up all my CPU!



I tried everything to fix the problem, including reloading Photoshop,

removing anything remotely resembling 'photo software', reinstalling Norton,

updating windows XP, resetting my screen refresh rate, and reducing my

hardware graphics accelerator.



Then after a month of bemoaning this waste of money, I called Adobe.......



A very helpful tech support person, talked me through some checks, and then

asked something very Bizarre.... "Was I running in English?" When I checked,

I discovered that the default language on my PC had been set to Welsh.

Apparently Photoshop doesn't like this (I don't think it's just Welsh

though!). I changed it to English, and voila, it worked fine! You won't find

this on their FAQ page, but if you have problems it's certainly worth a try.

I can recommend their tech support - something I rarely do.



The software itself is very good with all the features you could possibly

want. The layers take a bit of getting used to, but once you do, it's easy.

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