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Any one? I have a few small questions Ta !

Nope, but post your questions anyway. Elements, supposedly, has a fair bit in common with full-blown Photoshop, which I have.

Aye, for most users, they're functionally identical

Ask the questions.

Just out of interest... what is the difference?

dunno exactly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop_Elements

£400.

I have naughty versions of Photoshop. Basically I want to go legal but I don't know if I should spend £60 on something that won't do what I do.

I need to know if.

It supports plugins.

It does gradients, strokes, opacity and so on (all the tools I use to draw objects).

I grabbed a demo, going to give it a go now and then decide whether to buy it or not

It looks like it does, yes.



I'd be astonished if it didn't. So: yes.

I think it's got most of the obvious stuff & it's just the backend that's changed. Stuff that your average user wont go near (not sure what that means for plugins). The demo can confirm or deny though.

Prepare to be astonished

It does strokes, outer glow etc but it doesn't have patterned strokes or gradient strokes.

Literally within 10 seconds I started to realise the limitations. Oh well, nice of Adobe to give a 30 day trial. Saved me from wasting £60.

It doesn't have layer opacity settings either. So it's completely useless

Prepare to be astonished

It does strokes, outer glow etc but it doesn't have patterned strokes or gradient strokes.[/quote]

Well, it does the basic stuff you asked in your original question, so I'm not particularly astonished. I don't think I've ever used a gradient stroke, but I use pattern strokes fairly regularly in Illustrator.

Still, it's not for you, so stick with Photoshop.

No layer opacity????

That's a big problem in my eyes.

They can do surgery for that now.

Who said that?