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Why I End Up Using Photoshop Elements 2.0
MORE than Photoshop CS3
4.25.08
Yes, that’s what I said. Believe it or else, or else I will harm you, I actually use an older version of Photoshop Elements (Elements being 1/3 of the full Photoshop program for 1/3 of the price) more often for my little Photoshopping endeavors than the glorified, brand-spanking-new CS3 version, that most n00b Photoshoppers would give their right arm to own, assuming that they had an attached and fully functioning right arm to begin with. Which in and of itself wouldn’t be a wise sacrifice, since Wikipedia says that 70-90% of our population is right-handed so the one-limbed n00b would need that arm in order to operate their new program, and we all know how accurate Wikipedia is.
Elements is a simplified version of Photoshop, so that’s why I like it: it’s simplified. All of the basic features are SIMPLE. CS3 is so bloated with its fancy pants features (which I do, in fact, love and use) that it forgot to keep the easiest tools quick and easy.
FOR EXAMPLE: In Elements, when I want to resize a layer, I click on the bounding box corner, turn on the aspect ratio, resize the motherfather, and click on the next tool. Elements immediately says, “RESIZE’D! DONE. MOVING ON. NEXT TOOL. LET’S GO.” The next tool is ready to use and I’m speeding through my project. Easy.
ON THE CONTRARY, in CS3, I do the same thing, but when I click out of the newly resized layer and onto the next tool, CS3 says, “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, WAIT. HOLD ON. It seems as though you may have just tried to resize a layer, and now you are being all hasty and wanting to just ‘move on’ to the next tool. Are you sure you want to make this resizing commitment? Are you REALLY sure? Because, look, we can discard it if you want us, too…”
Me: OMG I HAVE NO TIME FOR THIS.
And don’t even get me going on how I can see a multi-layered image, CLEARLY click on a CERTAIN layer, and no. Nothing. I can’t go to that layer that easily. I need to go up to the menu, open up the ’Layers’ drop-down menu, and select the layer I want. Silly me to think I could see something, click on it, and be able to do stuff with it! Boy is my face red!
Okay, so, I realize you are laughing at me for being a bigger nerd than that guy you knew who took his cousin to prom, and what did they do after prom?, but Photoshoppers are meticulous. They focus on tiny details. Everything. Has. To. Be. Perfect. We’re already on the verge of insanity and of tearing out our hair and the hair of those in close range of us while trying to clone one pixel onto another pixel without it touching any other pixels, so anything to simplify our detail-obsessed lives would be ever-so-peachy.
Well, eff. My left eye is twitching again.