what the heck is the big difference?

I have been trying to look them up to see about an upgrade from a very corrupt elements 4.0 that came with my camera and an antique elements 2.0 that I always fall back on.

I am not interested in graphics, animation, pasting layouts etc. I just want to down load RAW pictures and work on the images ready for sending off to print.
( I print upto A3 on an Epson but am looking at doing much larger stuff).

What do i need and what will it cost?

If you get the latest Elements it will come with the latest camera RAW which will handle at least the latest RAW files from the newer cameras.

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Sandy
Carried it in full, then carry it out empty.

I love Lightroom, simple to use with my work flow. Not for serious photo manipulation like Photoshop, but just perfect for tidying things up.

I upgraded from elements to photoshop years ago, cost a fortune, and a waste of money. Replaced a good basic program with something far more difficult to use, and didn't do anything extra i was going to use anyway! Elements or lightroom, definately. For image manipulation i'd go elements, for volume and tidying images lighroom as stu says.

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I buy the photography mags regularly and a lot of the editing tutorials are done in Elements, from a photo editing point of view it will do all you need and at times where the full version of PS has a particular feature there is normally a way around it in Elements. I'd buy Elements and spend the difference on something more exciting

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What could be more exciting than sitting alone at a computer every night, correcting white balance, making adjustment layers, and seamlessly super-imposing yer mates face onto an image of some fruit-loop shagging an inflatable pig?

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Fly Clips & Stands

Actually shagging the inflatable pig

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With heart and creel in common light,
Complete content, the day has brought it,
They fished for pleasure - and they caught it"

P F Morgan
taken from the catch record book at Llanthony Hotel, Honddu Valley, Aug 1942

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Haha love it!!

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Depending on what you want to do, Picassa is hard to beat. It's free, it does simple mods to pictures and it's a great way to organise your pictures. 90% of the time it's does what I need it to do, and it's a doodle to use.

Happy snapping

Andy

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Anyone use Serif Photo Plus? I was thinking of buying it and would be interested in hearing your views on this.

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