>Photoshop Elements. Around $100, probably does about 90% of what
>Photoshop does for a sixth of the price.
Actually, it does about 25% of what Photoshop does. It's just that most people
don't know most of what Photoshop can do; your average home or amateur user of
Photoshop sees and is aware of only a teeny fraction of Photoshop's power.
Elements can't produce color separations, can't work in spot color, has no
Curves command, does not let you work directly in channels, does not let you
create layer masks, does not let you create clipping paths, has no "extract
image" command, has no healing brush, does not allow you to work interactively
with the History palette, can't work with high-bit images, can't record
actions, can't do selective color correction, and so on.
For most people, those things don't matter. Most people have no idea what
"color separations" are, what "spot color" means, or how to use channels and
masks. So for most people, the great bulk of Photoshop's power is utterly
invisible.
You'll see eople saying things like "GIMP can do almost everything Photoshop
can do" or "Paint Shop Pro can do almost everything Photoshop can do" or
"Elements has most of Photoshop's functions"--which is far from true, but the
reality is that these programs can do most of what the speaker knows how to do
in Photoshop.
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