March 2008
Beginner
230 pages
7h 45m
English
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PHOTO MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
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So, iPhoto works beautifully as a standalone application and can also serve as the world’s
coolest photo plug-in for Aperture.
One area where it trumps its bigger brother is the handling of movie files recorded with
your digital camera. iPhoto can catalog those files, including keywords and descrip-
tions, right alongside still photos. If you like to capture video with your digicam, iPhoto
becomes even more useful.
Key benefits include an attractive, intuitive interface, a short learning curve, a wide ar-
ray of output options, incremental backup for Mac OS X 10.5 users (via Time Machine),
movie handling as well as still photos, compatibility with other Apple apps, and low
cost. (As noted earlier, it comes bundled on every Mac sold.)
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements has borrowed a page from the Lightroom modular approach. Its
four work areas—Organize, Edit, Create, and Share—divide the workflow into basic tasks.
Beyond that, Elements provides snapshooters with step-by-step assistance by enabling them
to simply choose the task they want to perform, such as touch up a photo, and then click on
the Guided button. Users are then escorted through each step in the correct order.
Adobe Photoshop Elements combines great technology
with a user-friendly environment.
ADOB ...
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