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Adobe Photoshop is 'the standard' photoediting software. This is the cut-down version, Elements, which means an affordable product with most of the power that you'd use on a day-to-day basis. Actually with v9 I don't even know what Photoshop has that Photoshop Elements doesn't have. I use it for editing photos and scans of pictures, mostly.

I use it to prepare pictures for the web, for printing and emailing. I use simple tools such as colour balance, stretching the dynamic range (so instead of the whole picture looking a sort-of muddy brown with hints of colours ie the way the camera sees it, the picture comes to life the way your eyes see it). I use it to crop the picture, select just the bit that's most important to me. And to save for Web, ie chose the level of compression and quality that gives me the best result for the smallest file size (which Photoshop Elements does by showing you a preview and file size as you play around with different options). I've also used more powerful tools like the lens distortion corrector (which straightens people up when you used a fish-eye lens) and squeezing people closer together without distorting them (you lose a bit of background - which really doesn't matter!).

The big change in v9 (and I've used Photoshop Elements since v7) is masking of photo layers. This is absolutely ideal for taking people out of photos and putting people in. In previous versions and in other photoediting products, you select the background you don't want (ie for the person you are going to insert) and delete it. But if you delete too much, then you have to undo the whole delete and try again.

If you do more work on the photo after the delete then you have a real problem. With a MASK you can make part of the picture transparent, but if you've made too much transparent then you can make it opaque again. If you've got something transparent in the picture (eg in one picture someone had their glasses on their head) then you can make this partially transparent, so when you add this person to the group photo, people can see the new background distorted through her glasses. It makes it look very realistic! Delightful product.

The only thing better is the combination with Premiere Elements, which I bought for my own laptop. But Fran only needed photoediting on hers. My 2-star rating actually reflects 5 stars for features and functionality, but -1 (yes, minus 1!) for interface. It's a great pity that there is no facility for me to insert a few screen clips to demonstrate the sheer awfulness of the Photoshop Elements 9 (PE9) user interface (UI). I had been using PE5 for a number of years with no problems, and it was really brilliant - definitely worth a 5-star rating despite the odd minor bugs. But then well into this year (2011), for no identifiable reason the program frequently (but not always) failed to run, eliciting a curt 'Attempt to access invalid address' error message, which, it turns out, very many people have been experiencing, with no clear cause of the problem being evident - almost as though Adobe had programmed each respective version of PE to start misbehaving thus after a few years of flawless operation, to 'encourage' users to spend further money on upgrading. Home pages available for mac.

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So, I reluctantly upgraded to PE9, then to be faced with an interface that is not only extremely ugly to me - though I appreciate that some people would like greys (mostly dark) on black - but in parts is really difficult and indeed in places near impossible to read. I have very good and acute eyesight, so I dismiss out of hand the odd users' claims that the likes of me just have gone a bit senile in our eyesight and need to set a larger text size and so forth. The program has no facilities whatsoever for user configuration of the woefully anti-functional UI colour scheme, and that itself is a major design gaffe in a program that by its very nature is 'visual-intensive' and which many users would be using for long hours on end. What is all the more amazing is that this abominable UI colour scheme has existed in a number of versions since PE5, and Adobe still hasn't woken up to the fact that there is a major and serious design flaw in the program that makes it difficult and stressful for many people to use - notwithstanding the fact that there are also people who claim to like it that way. Unfortunately, Adobe is just too big to respond properly to customer complaints. Many people have complained about this issue in the Adobe Photoshop Elements support forum, but sadly, all the forum's Adobe representatives have so far done is to say that they are 'listening' and uttering some empty platitudes.