Macworld: Adobe to Show Off new Photoshop Elements 6
Adobe has unveiled Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac OS X. Adobe is already taking pre-orders for the new Elements for Mac and the company plans to show off the new version at next week’s MacWorld conference in San Francisco, but the software won’t actually be in users’ hands until the second quarter of 2008.
Photoshop Elements 6 is already available on the Windows platform (see Wired’s review) and featured a considerable redesign, which, judging by Adobe’s announcement, is present in the Mac version as well.
Commonly thought of as Photoshop “Lite,” Elements is Adobe’s somewhat more affordable photo editing option for those that don’t want or need all the features of Elements’ full priced sibling, Photoshop CS3.
Although Elements isn’t exactly cheap ($90 a license or $70 for those upgrading), it certainly a more economical option for the entry level photographer, which is why perhaps the most compelling new feature in Elements if the “guided” edit option which walks newcomers through the process of performing various common photo editing tasks.
Regular readers will know that I tend to discourage casual users from Photoshop since it’s generally overkill for their needs, but if you simply must edit images with something that has the word Photoshop in it, Elements 6 for OS X could be a good fit.
[via Macworld]
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