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Bill Machrone
A Photoshop made for digital cameras--do more with your pics

Bill Machrone
Contributing Editor PC Magazine
Friday, April 13, 2001
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If you've bought a digital camera, chances are you got a copy of Adobe Photoshop LE (Limited Edition) with it. And chances are that even with its limited functions it had way more than you needed. And chances are that even with all of its features, it didn't have everything you needed.

Adobe Photoshop Elements replaces LE and will help you get your images onto paper, into e-mails, and onto Web sites far better than its predecessor. It's clear that Elements designers studied what digicam owners do and want to do with their images, and built the product accordingly. PC Magazine's review has details on features such as the Recipes Palette, which guides you through a bunch of common tasks, step by step; the Web Gallery Wizard; the Save to Web feature; and canned routines to eliminate red eye, balance illumination, and fix other problems that haunt digicam users.

Too often, people use their image editing software to just crop, resize, color balance, and print. Photoshop Elements can do so much more, much more easily than you would imagine. Even if you get LE for free with your next digicam, you might want to spend the extra money for Elements. GENERATE EVEN MORE PAPER--WITH YOUR PDA

Remember the promise of the paperless office? Along came computers, laser printers, fast copiers, and suddenly paper consumption has trebled. Remember the promise of the PDA? No more little notations on the backs of business cards. No more bulky paper-based organizer. Now SiPix introduces the Pocket Printer A6, which promises to turn you into a portable Gutenberg.

I can think of all kinds of things I don't like about the idea: thermal paper, expensive supplies (10 cents a sheet), small format, two pages per minute. But if you've got a killer app for a portable printer, the Pocket Printer A6 will astound and amaze your friends and co-workers with its wireless infrared operation and decent (400 dpi) resolution. You can read PC Magazine's review to learn more.

Do you use Photoshop to get more out of your digital photos? How do you feel about a portable printer? TalkBack to me

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