Re: Photoshop elements 6.0

PhotoShop is a JOKE added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

Do you recommend elements 6.0 for a novice photographer. I
may or may not aspire to start using Photoshop in the future.
Not sure yet.

And do you recommend the video editing program that is
sometimes bundled with it? Is it better than Windows Movie
maker? Thanks for answering.

Avoid PhotoShop ANYTHING. It's only a 16-bit math platform,
even the latest $700 CS3 is 16-bit math, no better than
Windows 1.0 from 22 years ago (16 bit Windows 1.0 started in
1985). 32-bit wasn't started until Windows 3.0/3.1. PhotoShop
isn't even as good as Windows 3.x software. It may look
"pretty", but it's a 2-decades-old crippled and suffering dog
that should have been put to sleep that long ago. It also only
has bicubic for its best resampling algorithm, last-century's
technique. Anytime you resize or rotate an image to level it
the fine details become smeared and blurred.

I know zero.zero about anything PhotoShop, I'm a PSP fan. But, I
do know something about both integer and floating point
arithmetic on CPUs both the SW and the HW instruction set kind.
So, while I clearly agree with you that anything in this day and
age that is still using 16-bit code isn't even worth of the term
"yestertech".

Now, if we take the math out of the "equation" - sorry, couldn't
resist the pun! - what besides the brief comments of your above
cause you to vehemently condemn PS, even CS3? Yes, I know they're
the market leader because of their past rep and because so-call
pros use it, and yada, yada, but in listening in around here,
there are few people who don't like it, some are very very sold
to the point that even mentioning an editor past Irfanview gets
you flamed for being less than intelligent.

Next spring I intend to get a new quad-core CPU PC built for me,
probably running Vista after the crap associated with that gets
sorted out. My beloved PSP 9 will probably run OK but not at all
be able to take advantage of all that expensive new HW. So, I
will take a look at your link below and start to get smarter.
Thanks. FWIW, I don't think much about MS's photo editor and was
at least casually thinking about PS Elements, so I would be
interested in your more detailed comments and those of others.
All I can say with my self-professed zero knowledge of PS is that
it seems hard to believe that Adobe could sell a $700 app that
smears and blurs an image after only a simple rotate.

Try some of the other editors listed on the page below. You're
sure to find one with the capabilities and price-range you
need. And something that's not working on 20 years old
programming foundation. There are many of them that are far
better than PhotoShop and for much less cost. Some of them are
even free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_raster_graphics_editors

--
HP, aka Jerry
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