If you're a RAW shooter you may already be using Lightroom as part of your workflow, as it covers a few of Photoshop’s weakest points: organizing your photos, tagging your photos, and applying quick fixes and enhancements. Launched as a RAW workflow tool, Adobe has been steadily updating it through four iterations (a beta version of 5 is also available) and if you don’t need to slice and dice your images too intensively, it's a great alternative to 'full strength' Photoshop. Lightroom isn’t a Photoshop alternative per se.
Mac users beware though - you'll have to make do with ACDSee Pro 3 for now. ACDSee Pro 6 doesn’t offer many of the facial-recognition, geotagging, and distortion-correction whistles and bells of Lightroom and Aperture, but both pieces of software offer extensive RAW-format support out of the box.
If you’re using Windows and looking to replace the one-two punch of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom entirely, ACDSee Pro 6 (a Lightroom alternative) and ACDSee Photo Editor 6 (a Photoshop alternative) may get you some of the way there for a fraction of the price.ĪCDSee Pro 6 offers RAW processing, image tagging and organization tools, and exposure/color enhancements, while Photo Editor 6 is the more-Photoshop-like tool for layer-based, pixel-level edits.
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4 GB free hard disk space (additional free space required during install process). 1GB of RAM (2 GB for HD video functions). Print, share and publish on the Web your photos and photo creations using easy and fast selection and uploading tools. Online Albums enables you to present your photos in a unique manner, using dynamic, animated templates. Create web travelogues and show your journeys by viewing and sharing photos on an interactive map based on the locations where they were taken (only in English and for U.S. Create high-quality photo books using multiple customization options such as viewing spreads, rearraging pages and flipping through your book. Adobe Photomerge Scene Cleaner lets you remove unwanted elements that changed positions between photos to get a resulting photo just the way you intended to make it look. The new Adobe Smart Brush allows yu to select a photo and apply effects with one stroke. Search photos by tags, dates and other file information. Access and view your photos from any computer with Internet access. Express your creativity using web galleries, slideshows, photo mail and other presentation methods.
Built-in templates, tutorials, ideas and seasonal artwork to help you get started but also inspire you. The program contains basic editing options that allow you to quickly fix common mistakes but also advanced editing options to further enhance your images. Adobe Photoshop Elements is an advanced photo editing software for Web, print and e-mail designed for ease of use.