Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

I was not very impressed with this program. While I realize I am not a computer or Photoshop guru, I am able to work my way around about any program. I found Elelments 4 to be as the former reviewer stated. Bad support as well as poorly planned out. I thought of going to Elements 6, but will wait for reviews before I waste time and moneyagain.

POOR

This is a review on a dual 1.8 Mac G4 running 10.4.11

If you have Elements 3, keep it. If you have Elements 4, go back to 3.

To me, not worth the money, I'd pay more for Elements 3 and I thought 3 was overpriced.

Superb image editor for a non-professional. Not too distant from Photoshop unless you're doing some fairly exotic editing.

Bloat, slow, worthless support and worthless help without resorting to the manual (which is very good).

Elements 4 no longer contains an image browser. Its a separate program called Bridge and IMHO, stinks. You have to open another app to browse pics. Bridge is not integrated within Elements and does not assume you are using Elements when you are in Bridge. My default JPEG app is GraphicConverter. So when I use Adobe's Bridge, it opens all JPEG's in GraphicConverter (great integration). There are two ways around this, change the default app to Elements and wait an eternity for it to open every time you want to see an image or, go through a number of steps in Bridge (image by image) to get a JPEG to open in Elements. Really lousy execution compared to Elements 3.

I tried to like Elements 4 but moved back to 3 as a result of the Bridge.

Photoshop, Photoshop Elements 3 & 4, GraphicConverter.

Its the Windows world, non-existent.