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It works better than any other photo program.
By Roxanne on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2022
This programs was easy to download. It took awhile because it's a big program. But my computer is clean so that may have been why it loaded so easily and so well. This program has three modes. First there's the quick mode. That's where the computer improves the photo for you. In this mode you can see the before picture on the left of your screen and the after photo on the right. The second mode is called guided. The computer helps you make additional improvements to the photo beyond what quick mode does. Then there's the expert mode. It lays out all the tools you could ever need to make changes large and small to the photo. You can really do some intricate and sophisticated alterations in this mode. My only complaint is the text for the buttons is so tiny, it's hard to see if you have less than eagle vision. I've only had it a short time, but so far it's made many of my photos better. If you have shadows obscuring faces, you can mitigate them. Changing background is also fun. You can turn a cloudy day into a blue sky day. It's really a fun program. I highly recommend it.
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Adobe junk installed
By CM on Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2021
I have been using Photoshop Elements since the early 2000s. I currently have PSE 2014 installed on another computer and got PSE 2022 for Christmas for my new MacBookPro M1 assuming similar behavior. First, PSE 2022 will not run natively on Apple M1 machines - it goes through Rosetta translation which greatly slows down the app. This is not satisfactory for a CPU intensive app. Adobe should have created a native PSE or clearly warn users of the Rosetta need in the description. Secondly PSE 2014 installed cleanly on my old computer, no junk added, but PSE 2022 added a long list of so called Creative Cloud Apps which are not removable as doing so renders PSE unusable. I now have a folder in Launchpad called Adobe Junk with ten, yes ten, Adobe junk apps whose purpose or functions are not clear to me or anyone, double clicking them does nothing. Further, I launched Activity Monitor and some of these apps, the main Creative Cloud for instance, are hogging my RAM even when not using any Adobe apps. This is also unacceptable. I know Adobe is trying to sell its Cloud services but I don't need cloud storage, have plenty as is. I wish I could return PSE (I am going to try even though it has been over 30 days, just installed it today, Christmas day). I will do a Time Machine Restore using a backup from last week to get rid of this junk, I see no other way to clean up my machine. In summary DO NOT BUY PSE if you have a MBP M1. This will be my last PSE purchase.
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