Photoshop Elements 8
Adobe has finally released an update for the Mac version of Photoshop Elements. Version 8 is now shipping and provides a nicely affordable way to edit imagery. You can find a review of the software at Macworld.
Photoshop is simply too expensive - even with an educational discount it’s over $200. Elements has 90% of the features for less than $80 (even lower with the educational discount). Additionally, the auto adjusting toolset of Elements makes it a more easy-to-use product for folks that just want to re-touch their images quickly, and not compose new works of art. It’s supposed to be shipping now, but they’ve missed the date; nonetheless I’d expect it to ship this month. This is a great tool for image editing on Windows as well as Mac, so If you are looking for an inexpensive but good image editing tool regardless of platform: this is it.
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What do you think of Picasa? I have heard good things about it (and it’s free), but I don’t know much about it. I tried it and found the organizational tools a little confusing, but I didn’t spend much time trying to figure them out (and they may be similar to Photoshop anyway, so I don’t know if it’s a big difference).