A worthy and economical upgrade from Adobe

Category: Review on Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Win

Posted by: 4-Jun

Strengths: effective photo organizer and editor, excellent value for money

Weaknesses: No thumbnail representation while using the Action player

The Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Win is a better trade off in comparison to its big brother, Photoshop CS4. This new release Adobe product adds on a few advanced features and also makes the existing features of Adobe more user-friendly and powerful. Much more economical than its competitors, the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Win is a good take for all photo editing functions. If you take a close look at the feature front, the new Text Search box will help you search photo files that have keywords, tags or dates to track down the path. What impressed me a lot is the new SmartBrush function, which allows you to apply incredible effects to a specific area of a photo at a single touch. Adding a feather to its cap, the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Win allows you to recreate photos that were taken way back in 1980s. You can also give special memory photos an everlasting touch with the Old Fashioned effect. The interface and the whole lot of new tools which come along with it are more than enough reason for you to opt for this worthy upgrade of Adobe.

Though there are ample features to boost its performance, the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Win falls back with regard to prepress functionality and the advanced program’s graphic design. Further, while using the Action player to install actions, you cannot view their thumbnail representations.