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Photoshop Elements 6.0 for Mac, Revisited

As soon as I learned about Photoshop Elements 6.0 (PSE) for Mac, I posted my impressions on my business blog. With the intention of being more informal about it, I’m revisiting the topic here on my personal blog (here.) One other thing that made me think about it was an interview that Victor from the Typical Mac User podcast did to the product manager of PSE.

Some of my complaints that I had back then when PSE was announced, were that Adobe.com had the announcement tied with photos from PSE for PC not for Mac, this was somewhat confusing. They have updated the images since and now you can how this new version is looking.

Victor touch on some topics about this new version that are making me very anxious about upgrading, the first and not discussed item is the fact that this time the application is universal (PPC and Intel compatible.) The interview touched on the guided edit functions, I’m hoping I got the idea right because having a small help video that shows you systematically how to get the desired results is awesome.

The group shot feature is cool and all but I don’t think I’ll be using it a lot, the concept is that sometimes you try to get a group shot and someone closes their eyes. Then another person don’t even smile, and so on, you can now with a click of a button merge images of the same group shot to create a perfect one. Clever, but I don’t take that many group shots anyway.

One thing I didn’t get from the interview was how they made a big deal about layers on PSE, that has always been there and PSE is not the only software that works using layers. I love the flexibility of having the layers option because it’s so easy to add and/or remove elements when you are just playing with your images. That feature alone makes PSE worth the expense.

Here is a comment-plus-tip comment about Bridge, and this application comes bundled with PSE. The function of this application is more of a photo organizer, for most of us, iPhoto is our only way of organizing photos because it makes it easy and convenient. The way I use Bridge is by only organizing photos that have nothing to do with me or my family, in other words if it’s client related, blog related, or anything else, I use Bridge.

Regardless of your taste in photography, unless you are a pro or work in photography for a living, I recommend PSE to everybody. I’m dying to get my hands on it, I’m sure it will be worth it. Chat with me about this, leave your comments on this post, I’ll make sure to replay to everyone. Thanks Victor for such a great interview.