Photoshop cs3 vs. photoshop cs3 extended?

It won't surprise you that Elements 6 is a build of CS3. If you notice the release times of Elements and Photoshop, you'll see Elements out in the Fall and "its" Photoshop out in the Spring. Elements 7 is a build of CS4, Elements 8 a build of CS5 and Elements 9 a build of CS6 (which should be making its debut next month).

Elements actually contains a lot of Photoshop code which doesn't show up in the Toolbar or in the menu commands. Programmers take advantage of this to put out extras like Elements Plus which add a lot of Photoshop functionality to Elements. http://simplephotoshop.com/elementsplus Download the free demo version (which self-installs in the Effects Palette under Photo Effects and is fully functional and not time-limited).

I've downloaded a pdf of the shortcuts for CS3 and find that a number of them (but not all of them) work in Elements 6;-) http://morris-photographics.com/photosho... Differences? The Layer Styles Settings. In Photoshop you have a huge dialog with a gazillion sliders.

Elements' Layer Styles Settings dialog is pretty skimpy ...but the user has fewer decisions to make. Also, no making paths using the Pen Tool because Elements has no Pen Tool and there's no add-on for one. I just use the Polygonal Lasso Tool instead.

Speaking of the Pen Tool, Elements doesn't have the graphics capabilities of Photoshop. I use CorelDRAW and there's always the free, open-source Inkscape if you have to do vector work/tracing. There's no masking in the Filters>Distort>Liquify filter but I mask/select before using this filter.

Elements' ACR has fewer settings but the ones that are there have always been enough to process my RAW files. Elements has a Content Palette with backgrounds, graphics, frames, etc. ...the little fun extras that you have to make from scratch in Photoshop. And you can make more to them if you burrow into the files and note the file types, resolutions and sizes of the files.

Elements also has the Quick and Guided editing modes for newbies which Photoshop lacks. I've only used Photoshop 7 and CS but those versions lacked Elements' Magic Extractor which makes removing an object from an image easier than doing it with the selection tools - especially for beginners. I've added so much stuff to my Elements 6 that it's hard to remember what the plain installed program can do:-) Elements can use just about every plugin developed for Photoshop, actions, shapes, brushes, textures, etc. so once I fill it with things I need, it almost becomes a different program.

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