Photshop Elements+, Seriously lacking exposure

[DannyFree]

Hi Everyone.

This is not so much a question as thinking out loud and getting info out there for others in a similar position to me.

As I said in my first post. I am new to the DSLR realm, I did have a Digital "point and shoot" but nothing that required (at least at the time and with my lack of knowledge) an editing suite such as Photoshop.

With my D3100 I received Photoshop Elements 11 as a Christmas present, which, lets be honest, for someone like me is a brilliant bit of editing software, but there are omissions to keep the price down, a prime example is one thing I want to do is HDR which is not part of the package.

As most people will know a full Photoshop is, erm, expensive to say the least, certainly out of my wallet range for a while. I had heard, rightly or wrongly, that with earlier versions of Elements you could buy individual "features" as add ons as you wanted, so I started hunting the net. I came across "Adobe Elements +", which is a simple download and unlocks features within Elements, after checking it I was amazed to see the features it unlocked and yet it is UNDER £10!!!

My dad who is a keen amateur Digital photographer, has used Elements for years had never heard of it, nor had any of my friends who are also keen Photog's.

Why has this been kept quiet for so long? Maybe I've not been moving in the right circles but I can't believe all the people I know who use Elements would NOT have heard of it all this time. I've certainly never seen it advertised, although I confess I have been known to miss what is right under my nose sometimes.

As I said, it will not be as powerful as a full Photoshop, but for some who need more functions then Elements provides, but don't need a full Photoshop this could be the ideal solution, not to mention, much much cheaper.

Hope that is of some help to others.

[donoreo]

The big feature people want out of Elements + is the Curves Adjustment tool. That can be found for free if you look around for it. This is not news either, one of the magazines did cover add ons to Elements once and Elements+ was included.

[John H]

Had a quick look online, can you supply links to these elements+ updates
Thanks
John H

[2Beers]

try here

http://simplephotoshop.com/elementsplus/

[2Beers]

Originally Posted by John H

Had a quick look online, can you supply links to these elements+ updates
Thanks
John H

posted a link but a mod need to approve

[DannyFree]

Originally Posted by John H

Had a quick look online, can you supply links to these elements+ updates
Thanks
John H

John H, since links need approval if you enter "Adobe Elements+" into your search engine, (I used Bing) it should be one of the first results, taking you to "Simple Photoshop", scroll down the page a touch and you will have a list of the features (and links to the contents in each feature) in the upgrade for each version, 6 - 11, 1 - 5 are at the bottom of the page.

A prime example of additional features, just one of many in the upgrade, as I said I want to try to work on HDR photos, which Elements won't allow, one of the many features in Elements+ is "Exposure" which now allows me to work on HDR photos.

donoreo, I appreciate this is not news and may have been covered in a past magazine, but as I said I didn't know anything about Elements+, so I figured others may not know about it either and I was simply trying to get the information out there to help others that were in the same position as me.