nice graphics app, a bit off-topic, but what the egg...

[Klaus Major]

Hi Cubist and Richmond,

> sez richmond at mail.maclaunch.com:
>> 2.  Digs about developers not owning photoshop: some of us
>> are 'struggling artists' and
>>      photoshop is very expensive.  Of course if Meister
>> Kuijpers is feeling generous he
>>      is more than welcome to buy me a copy of Photoshop!
>    Sympathy re: the high price of Photoshop. It may be relevant that 
> Adobe
> sells a program called Photoshop Elements (basically a "junior" 
> version of
> Photoshop) for under $100 US; if you're curious to know whether PsE 
> might do what
> you need, Adobe's own website has a bunch of info on it, including a
> downloadable 2.6-MB PDF of "printable overview of features, 
> innovations, and benefits of
> Photoshop Elements 2.0".
>    Hope this helps...

i recently received a license of PS Elements 2 and i can confirm what
you say. It is kinda PS + ImageReady Lite but only light in the sense 
that it
does not support the CMYK color space and some other pre-press features
which web-/multimedia-/application-designers likes us :-) hardly miss.

It has got layers, effects, the wonderful "Save for web" dialog with 
lotsa
options (including the ability to create gif-animations, if someone 
might
not have found that slightly hidden feature) and can save in the most
usable and RR-friendly formats like JPG, GIF (with 1 bit transparency,
animated) and PNG (1 or 8 bit transparency) :-)

It is definitively worth its price.

If you're looking for a great allround-graphics app, check it out :-)


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de