It runs pretty fast on my 18-month-old MacBook Air, which, with its 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM is not the speediest and newest machine on the planet, opening and handling images across my wireless network impressively well. You can also create PDFs and web galleries in Bridge – there are several templates available, including a Flash gallery. You can flip through images in full-screen mode, rating them as you go. And you can create composite images: so if Aunt Edna looked more than a little squiffy on one too many champagne cocktails in some of those Christmas shots, you can save her blushes by transposing a shot taken before her third Singapore sling.Īs on previous versions, the image management application Bridge is included, and it too has gained a few tricks. If you've since ditched a boyfriend who appears in all the pictures from last Christmas, he can be airbrushed from history in just six steps. More usefully, it's now reasonably easy to remove unwanted elements from photographs. And there's cosmetic surgery – you can whiten teeth with, yes, the toothbrush tool. So what else is new? Elements 8 has acquired some of the tricks that full-fat Photoshop did in CS4, including intelligent resizing, which means you can stretch/squash an image without distorting it. Come on, Adobe, it's time you joined the rest of the world and your Mac apps could be dragged into the Applications folder.Īnyway, the good news is that it works with Snow Leopard – I had a momentary "oh hell, what if it doesn't" wibble. It's still a sucky routine, though – double-click the DVD icon, find the installer app, double-click that. Another improvement is a slightly faster install time: 15 minutes instead of 20.
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