Reviewing Photoshop Elements 7
Adobe’s laying on the Web subscription message thick with their latest versions of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements. For example, take a look at the Welcome screen, which is your first encounter with the applications. The first thing you see is a large, rotating slide show telling of the many benefits of the free and $49.99 Plus memberships for Photoshop.com (more project templates, remote backup, and 20GB-plus of storage space). It’s couldn’t be any more annoying than if it set itself as your desktop. It is really too bad simply because Photoshop Elements is a great midrange photo editor; unfortunately all of these bells and whistles increasingly detract from its core strengths.