Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Curves for Photoshop Elements 3
Posted by James Fee in "SOFTWARE" @ 01:00 PM
"I use Photoshop CS normally, but picked up a copy of Elements 3.0 when it was released, in part out of curiosity. After rebates, it wasn't expensive and I wanted to see just how close to the "real thing" it actually was. The more I played with it, the more convinced I became that many of the features Adobe wanted you to believe they had left out were in fact only buried and inaccessible from the regular user interface. Authors such as Richard Lynch have seriously explored the possibilities in prior versions of Elements so I decided to see just what I could make Elements 3.0 do. One of the fastest ways to add functionality to the full version of Photoshop is through the use of Actions to automate a series of steps. Unfortunately, Elements does not provide direct support for Actions, but all the great image effects in the Styles and Effects palette bin are actually nothing more than Actions. It turns out that, in at least some cases, if you write an Action in Photoshop CS, you can convince Elements to run it without too much coaxing. If you poke around in how the Styles and Effects bin works, adding your own isn't that difficult."
The more I use it, the less enamored I am with PS Elements 3, but if you do like it and want "curve control" over your images, here is a great opportunity for a free plug-in for PS Elements 3.
The more I use it, the less enamored I am with PS Elements 3, but if you do like it and want "curve control" over your images, here is a great opportunity for a free plug-in for PS Elements 3.
