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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
channel produces high-quality editing. Full RAW file support is also included, with
export to Adobe’s universal DNG format for long-term archiving.
Special effects range from painting simulation to surreal twisting, warping, and stretching
of the image. There is black-and-white conversion, sepia toning, and the option to
add depth with drop shadows, bevels, glows, and other effects. It lets you create composite
images, erase backgrounds, assemble panoramas, and add text and graphics,
shapes and decorative edges. The program includes 100 styles of frame, and plenty of
scrapbook page layouts for the avid scrapbooker. Basic slide show creation is provided,
with the option to add music and narration.
Output is one of its great strengths, with good sharing facilities, upload-to-the-Web directly
from the application, print ordering, creation of greeting cards and albums, and hardbound
photo book creation with delivery to the door. There are one or two unusual options like
creating real, customized U.S. postage stamps and the ability to create maps that indicate
automatically where in the U.S. you have taken your images. You can display the pictures
on TV, a mobile phone, or another handheld device, or email them directly to friends.
Photoshop Elements has good downloading and organizing facilities, with fast scrolling
even when you have accumulated more than 50,000 images. It can stack similar photos
on top of each other to save space, and then sort, compare, and select images for printing.
There is even an integrated online backup service provided by a company that specializes
in document security.
Figure 10.1
Adobe Photoshop Elements with additional plug-ins may be all you need for image editing.