Adobe Photoshop Elements 11

The latest version of Adobe's top-selling consumer photo-editing program, Photoshop Elements 11, builds on and polishes rather than overhauls this venerable application. The interfaces of both the photo editor itself and the Organizer helper app get a sleek, simplified redesign, and Maps have been integrated to locate your geo-tagged photos. Photoshop Elements 11's new filters can turn your photos into illustrations, and its new Guided Edits can easily produce effects that would take some major Photoshopping in the company's industry-standard pro photo tool, Photoshop CS6 . Many small improvements combine to reaffirm Photoshop Elements' position as your top choice in consumer photo editing software.

Installing
Photoshop Elements is not a small app. On my system, it takes up a massive 2.6GB of disk space, so make sure your hard disk has plenty of headroom. By comparison, Corel PaintShop Pro X5 (, 3.5 stars) uses a scant 245MB. Elements is available for both Mac and Windows, but there's still no native 64-bit version, something that would be helpful as mega-megapixel cameras' file sizes continue to grow. Installing is a multi-step process that involves first downloading and installing the Adobe Download Assistant and then requires a reboot. This review is based on the Windows version, running under Windows 7.

Interface
With Photoshop Elements 11, the program's interface gets a refresh. It's a simpler, cleaner look?the direction the whole software industry is going, from Google Chrome to Windows 8. When you start the program, a new welcome screen reveals the new look: Organize and Edit have been replaced with Organizer and Photo Editor, making it clearer that your choice is between launching two different apps.

Yes, the separation between the organizer app and the actual editor remains, and yes, you can organize and edit photos within one and the same app with Picasa on the low end or Lightroom on the high. But Photoshop Elements is meant to be a Photoshop-lite, rather than a consumer photo workflow app. The Organizer is akin to Adobe Bridge, where you import, organize, and export the photos. The organizing includes face tagging, and now with this new release, geo-tagging with built-in maps. And new for Elements 11 is the editor's ability to display albums created in organizer right in the Photo bin of thumbnails along the bottom.

Elements' Organizer interface still outstrips products in its own category?Serif PhotoPlus X4 Digital Studio and Corel PaintShop Pro. Serif's organizer is even less integrated and capable than Elements'. Corel's offers a bit more integration, but its organizer isn't as slick or powerful as Elements'. One thing I miss in Elements, though, is a split window to show before and after editing comparisons.

The full-screen view of Organizer with hide-able toolbars lets your photo take center stage, but I wish a similar view were available in the full editing app. It does let you drag the image view onto a second screen for a nearly unencumbered view, though there's still a window border. I do like how double-clicking a thumbnail in Organizer's gallery view switches to a full-window preview, and double-clicking again switches back to the gallery.

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