I’m hornswaggled
Whenever I have to do something graphic-y for work, I have to bring it home to my personal copy of Photoshop. They’ve made it stupidly expensive to buy now because they want you to sign up for a subscription service instead (in fact, I’m not sure you can even buy a standalone copy now), and it’s just not worth it for the amount of stuff I have to do.
Then I get home and my willingness to do work crashes through the floor. I am so behind.
I finally decided to give Photoshop Elements a try. None of the comparisons were good at telling me what the difference was, but I figured I could at least do basic layout with it.
Well, lemme tell you – there isn’t a difference. I did some fairly complex masking and layering today and I have yet to find a single function that was missing. Even the keyboard shortcuts are the same.
The only thing I can think is that my copy of Photoshop is so very old that the program has changed enormously in the interval. Elements is like a 15-year-old copy of Photoshop, I guess. If that’s true, it makes me kind a curious what a 2024 Photoshop can do – but obviously not enough to pay £20 a month for a subscription.
As the history society I work for is a charity, I got a legal working copy of Elements for £69. w00t!
p.s. yes, I did try GIMP. It is free and full-featured and I’ll use it in a pinch, but I find the interface hella irritating.
August 5, 2024 — 6:48 pm
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