Photoshop Elements 11 - £32.97 Today only

Thanks for the heads up. I had Photoshop CS3 but it stopped working after I upgraded to Lion. I have used 30 day trials on Elements 9, 10 & 11 and I did see a sale like this once before and missed it!

Again many thanks for this X
 
Morning John,

Just saw this whilst ordering some Christmas bits for my wife.

I have the Nikon d5100 and only have the Nikon view nx software that came with the camera.

Is this a good buy at this price as sadly I know little about the programme and notice the offer is today only??

V
 
Vinny v said:
Morning John,

Just saw this whilst ordering some Christmas bits for my wife.

I have the Nikon d5100 and only have the Nikon view nx software that came with the camera.

Is this a good buy at this price as sadly I know little about the programme and notice the offer is today only??

V
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I'm tempted too. According to Amazon it's a 48% discount.
 
I've had a quick look around and can't see it brand new any cheaper anywhere else.

I know a lot of people use it and I understand it supports RAW so think I'll just order it and see what I think when I give it a go?

V
 
I saw it suggested elsewhere that you could order today while its cheap, download the 30 day trial from Adobe and send back\cancel if you don;t like it.

It is supposed to be pretty good though.
 
I'm sorely tempted to go for this (currently using Elements 7 and Lightroom 3). My only reservation is that as far as I can tell, Elements 11 (like the other versions) still doesn't support full editing of 16 bit RAW files without first converting them to 8 bit. Not a huge problem I know, but since using Lightroom I'd like to keep it 16 bit throughout my workflow.

What's the cheapest alternative to Elements that allows 16 bit editing?
 
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Yep, just tested Elements 10 - imported a Cr2 as 16bit and noted the tab name ending (RGB/16) so it looks like its 16bit.
 
Is there much of an upgrade from 10 to 11?
 
JohnN said:
Yep, just tested Elements 10 - imported a Cr2 as 16bit and noted the tab name ending (RGB/16) so it looks like its 16bit.
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Thanks John. Can you use features such as the Magic Wand and Selection Brush on the 16 bit image though?

I've just seen this:

There is very little 16-bit support in Photshop Elements. You cannot create or convert an image to 16-bit, only open images that are already 16-bit. While working with a 16-bit image you cannot work with layers. The following tools do not work: Magic Wand, Selection Brush, the family of Type tools, Recompose, Cookie Cutter, Straighten, the brush based tools (Paint Brush, Eraser, Dodge, Blur, etc), or the shape based tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, Custom Shape, etc). Many filters do not work, mainly those featured in the Filter Gallery.
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From here, but it doesn't mention which version of Elements (unless it means all versions).
 
Good catch, I didn't notice that - the article looks new and I just opened the 16bit image in PSE10 and you're spot on - no layers and to me no layers = stay in lightroom.
 
JohnN said:
Good catch, I didn't notice that - the article looks new and I just opened the 16bit image in PSE10 and you're spot on - no layers and to me no layers = stay in lightroom.
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Don't forget you can convert the image to 8 bit and use all the features though (In my version, PSE7, it's Image\Mode\8 bit). It's just me being a bit fussy since spoiling myself with Lightroom so if I'm going to upgrade my Elements, I'd like it to be to something that can fully edit files in 16 bit if possible.
 
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Wondeful spot, just placed my order. Thank you.
 
Aye spotted that - converted and it came to life - but if you've a 16bit workflow, which if I'm honest I've no idea if I am or not (probably though using lightroom) then you'll want to keep that quality I suspect.
 
For the majority of my PP and definitely if I'm prepping stuff for print = Lightroom.

If I'm doing stuff for web, like a bit of graphic design which may need layers, etc = PSE.

For web purposes, converting from 16bit to 8bit is going to make no discernable difference at all to the image quality. And £600 for the full version of PS - for what I need to use it for - is way too much when compared with £60 (or £32 today) for PSE.
 
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