In the first part of this field report I reviewed the Organizer of Photoshop Elements 8. In this part I review the Editor of PSE 8. It is based on Photoshop CS4.

Adobe cropped some functions and tools of CS 4 in PSE’s Editor but added some new ones which were designed for beginners.

Whether these crops constrains my work flow or not shows the following report.

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Hobby photographers will look for a photo organizer and editor sooner or later. Especially if you are working with RAW photos  you expect a optimized work flow from such a “all-included” software with media organizer, raw converter, photo editor and additional built-in tools.

Photoshop Elements 8 (PSE) contains all these compounds and the manufacturer Adobe® is known for high quality and  professional graphic software as Photoshop CS and Lightroom.

PSE 8 is divided into two parts: the Organizer, which manage all your media data and the Photo Editor, the image processor. The first part of this field report is focused on the Organizer.

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