What is new and what I really like about the Photoshop Elements 2 menu bar is a tabbed section called the 'Palette Well', shown below. There is a search engine built into the menu bar, a nice feature. The items that have been added to the Shortcuts bar are are available in PS 7 from the drop down menus. The top row, called the 'Shortcuts' bar, provides access to Common commands. The first thing that you will notice is that there are two rows in the Elements 2 menu bar as opposed to the single row in the Photoshop 7 menu bar. The menu bar in Elements 2 is better organized and more functional than the menu bar in Photoshop 7.īecause of the length of the Elements 2 menu bar I have cut it in half for display purposes. There is also one change that I wish that Photoshop 7 had. While Adobe did remove the advanced feature from Photoshop Elements 2 there are a few improvements and some new powerful features aimed at providing help to the beginner. What's different between Photoshop 7 and Photoshop Elemets 2 Listed below are the feature not found in Elements 2. It still offers the main features of PS 7 and the interface is virtually the same. Photoshop 7 with the more professional features removed. Unofficially Elements 2 will run on OS 10.2.1. The version 2 upgrade adds a few new 'auto' features but also adds OS X native support. Adobe then introduced its latest effort called Photoshop Elements at $ 99. These early versions of a less expensive Photoshopesque type application seemed to be lacking and were not well received. In the past Adobe has released several different variations of Photoshop LE. With a price tag of $ 609, Photoshop 7 is a large investment. Additionally the use of Layers for the creation of text, logos and art for import into FCP.

In particular, the sizing and preparation of photos for the conversion from square pixels used by computers to rectangular pixels used by video. However, there are still many situations that call for prepping art in Photoshop for import into FCP. 'Final Cut Pro has the best Text generator around, its called Photoshop.' Since Final Cut Pro 3 now includes Boris Calligraphy Text Generators: 'Title 3D' and 'Title Crawl' this saying has lost some of its meaning.

There is an old saying that goes something like this. Unofficially Elements 2 will run on OS 10.2.1 Can Elements pull the load for Final Cut Pro?

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