Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

dpast says

RE: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7

I'm using it, and happy for now. Some additional improvements (the most important for me) were not mentioned in this review. 1) PSE7 Organizer now really WORKS with RAW files. PSE6 organizer HAVE lots of problems with cataloging RAW files. It's constantly crashes on modern PC's with multiple processors. This issue is not fixed by Adobe in PSE6 (and will be not fixed as I understand). But Adobe have posted workaround (I do not consider this as solution) to use some tricks to limit your PC to use only one processor (to reduce the performance of your hardware): http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403728&sliceId=1 This official workaround was developed by USERS from adobe users forum: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b53bee 2) Camera Raw 5.2 (also available for PSE 6) now have camera profiles for quick RAW conversion. Very useful if you shot in RAW some pictures which you do not want to spend much time for post processing. Some experience with PSE7. I open in Camera Raw multiple RAW files (up to 5 RAW files same time) for conversion. After several times of this "heavy use" (or approx. half hour use) Camera Raw can not open RAW files and give error [Not enough RAM!]. Restarting PSE7 - helps. I have 4GB RAM on Windows Vista Home Premium - Dell XPS M1530 laptop. Adobe Lightroom worked fine on this system (have tried trial version with the same amount of files (3000+) in catalog.) I do not have any other performance issues or bugs with PSE7. Some expirience with PSE6. Useless for RAW files cataloging (in my, and not only my, case). Very terrible customer support! - Always try before you buy (check the trial version)and only then buy, and pray! If you have PSE6, then you have to pay money to upgrade to PSE7 where RAW files cataloging issues present.

09 January 2009 13:48