Photoshop Elements is the little brother Adobe Photoshop, which is a professional graphics editing program. Elements has all the necessary tools for beginners to intermediate users and really has everything needed for digital scrapbooking, collage, and fun photo editing.

Photoshop Elements allows you to easily use layers, which is essential for collage and digital scrapbooking. It allows you to play with opacity of layers and blend. Adjusting colors, converting to black and white, photo effects, all very easy. Plugins, filters, and actions and be added for more flexibility.

Photo fixes include one-click fixes or step-by-step assistance that makes editing easier than ever. Advanced options for making finer adjustments, add artistic effects, and experimenting with easy-to-use compositing tools are also easy to use.

Photoshop Elements is easier to learn to use than Photoshop is, although similar and with many of the same features, the high end, more techincal features are left out, so as not to confuse or overwhelm. Less crowded menu options make it more user-friendly.

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