At a fraction of the cost of Photoshop, you still get most of the features-far more than all the Photoshop wannabe apps that have been getting attention lately. However, it's just not possible to lavish enough praise on Adobe for getting Photoshop Elements 6 running on Intel, even if took nearly three years. Well, PE6 still eats up between 5 and 10 percent of CPU cycles doing nothing, and sits on about a tenth of my RAM, so it's comparable there.

There's just simply no comparison between PE6 on an Intel iMac with PE4 on a 1.25 GHz PowerBook. So is there anything good I can say about PE6 after trying it out for a day? Again, I guess I have better luck taking group photos because I don't have any to experiment with. There also is PhotoMerge, which makes it easy to take elements from similar photos and combine them into a new picture. There is an assistive mode for correcting lens distortion too, but I don't have any photos to fix. This is the problem I'm having with PE6, and no new features stand out. Who doesn't need help creating black and white photos? I know that's something I do every day. More positively, installation is quick and starting PE6 on a 2.0 GHz Core Duo iMac is very quick, as in a couple of seconds-wonderful!įor me, it's about image editing, and there are some exciting new features in PE6. Irritatingly, a few new directories pop up in your Documents folder like AdobeStockPhotos. Installation results in your Applications folder being populated with Photoshop Elements, Bridge, Help, and a Stock Photos application.

PE6 still requires an installer and, curiously, that you quit web browsers before beginning setup. I jumped on the 1.27 GB download, and have to say I'm not disappointed, though maybe I should be. Available both on disc and as a download, PE6 costs $69.99 to upgrade and $89.99 for the full version. PE6 is a universal binary, requiring either a G4/G5 or an Intel multicore Mac running OS X 10.4.8 through 10.5.2, 512MB RAM-hahaha!-1GB recommended, and at least 64 MB VRAM, even if it's with some crappy integrated graphics. A little over a thousand days since Apple announced the transition to Intel, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is finally on sale.

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