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| Photoshop Elements v3 for PC | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
Buy New: £19.99
Buy Used from £19.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1121
Language: English (Original Language)
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.8 x 2.1
MPN: 29230086
EAN: 5029766624102
ASIN: B000649LJG
Release Date: October 22, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 software provides powerful photo editing functionality plus intuitive organizing and sharing capabilities. Make quick fixes when you need to or use advanced editing options when you want more control. Organize the way you want
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Photoshop Elements 3 September 29, 2005
There seem to be some strange comments here: PSE3 works fine under Windows XP SP2; the help system is fine.
PSE3 has never crashed on me and I run it on my desktop and laptop.
The processes are all straightforward.
Organiser is no problem, except possibly for backups.
Apart from lack of CMYK information (invaluable for checking skin tones) it does 99% of anything you could want. You can manage without curves, but see Power Tools for PSE3 book (Lynch)!
However, PSE4 has just been released so perhaps wait for the newer version? But you won't be disappointed with this one.
 May drive you insane... June 16, 2005
23 out of 33 found this review helpful
PSE3 is the best bit of photo imaging kit on the streets at a silly price. BUT, it will drive you insane with its totally irrational and inexplicible behaviour. If you wish to lead a normal life under no circumstances use the organiser package as it is total PANTS!!! It has no logical basis to its behaviour. You will go loopy trying to figure how it actually works. The editor bit is great, very good, but use the organiser at your peril!
Mixed feelings May 6, 2005
125 out of 126 found this review helpful
This could be a really great product. It does everything that ambitious digital photographers could want to do, and offers photo organisation features that should help manage 1000's of pictures easily. But (and for me it's a very big BUT) it has some incredible bugs that leave me tearing my hair out with frustration. Other posters have suggested Adobe rushed this product out - I would agree - they have not tested this product thoroughly enough, and are not quick to fix serious bugs. The two big problems for me are: 1. The help system does not work with Windows XP SP2 - which is the version of XP that many people now use (all new PCs will come with this version of XP). I cannot get help to work at all from within the application. 2. The 'backup your image catalog' feature does not work if you backup to DVD. This is the feature that allows you to safely backup your precious images to removable media - pretty fundamental and important stuff. I have just spent several hours, and several trashed DVD disks trying to get this to work - it doesn't. I searched on the user forums on the Adobe site only to find many others who have found this bug - acknowledged by Adobe, but no fix at present. I have applied the latest update to the product - to version 3.0.1. My suggestion would be for existing frustrated users to vent their feelings in forums like this (I feel better already), and for prospective users to either look elsewhere, or wait for Adobe to get Elements 3 right.
 Yes it's a bug, but we won't tell you if we'll fix it. May 4, 2005
62 out of 68 found this review helpful
PSE 3 seems to contain elementary bugs that suggest it has not been properly tested. Try reporting these to Adobe and you will be asked for your credit card details. Though they won't charge you if they accept you are indeed reporting a bug, they then refuse to tell you whether the bug will be fixed - even for the most basic bugs. Moral of story? Nice product if it weren't for the bugs and the arrogance of their support approach.
 Easy and Powerful April 17, 2005
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
I have tried MS Photo Editor, ULead's PhotoImpact and this. Elements is definitely the best of these. It is very easy to do the basics, the interface is easy to use and declutter for example when you aren't using layers. When you do want to do more then it is very powerful. I use the Neat Image plug in to clean up noise and many other Photoshop plug ins work with this software. When I can afford it I will go for Photoshop CS but in the meantime this is almost as good. Not 5 stars because of the limited batching and actions capability.
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