Elements 3.0, I can't believe they offered a demo

I was all hot to buy Adobe Elements 3.0 since the healing brush seemed
like a neat feature and I really needed a good photo organizing
program and it seemed like their offering would fill the bill.

Well, OfficeMax didn't have it, said they do not carry adobe products,
Sam's club had microsoft stuff but no adobe, Staples didn't carry it
and BestBuy (I hate the place) only had it with some dvd software
bundled for 149.99 or what is known as full list.

Well, my employer has nice pipes so I downloaded the 122+MB demo from
adobe to my sony v3, yes, the camera can be a file sharing device, and
hurried home from work to test it.

On a 1.2Ghz 512MB athelon, it took 90 seconds to load to the startup
screen. Organizing my pictures was very slow. I just recently tried
picasa2 which doesn't allow putting your culls into a little pile that
you can get to when you want to, which is one of the features, I
wanted from Adobe.

The good news, is that I took part of the money I saved and bought the
1.7x tele adaptor for my Sony V-3.

Just my little mini rant,

Wes


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|I was all hot to buy Adobe Elements 3.0 since the healing brush seemed
| like a neat feature and I really needed a good photo organizing
| program and it seemed like their offering would fill the bill.
|
| Well, OfficeMax didn't have it, said they do not carry adobe products,
| Sam's club had microsoft stuff but no adobe, Staples didn't carry it
| and BestBuy (I hate the place) only had it with some dvd software
| bundled for 149.99 or what is known as full list.
|
| Well, my employer has nice pipes so I downloaded the 122+MB demo from
| adobe to my sony v3, yes, the camera can be a file sharing device, and
| hurried home from work to test it.
|
| On a 1.2Ghz 512MB athelon, it took 90 seconds to load to the startup
| screen. Organizing my pictures was very slow. I just recently tried
| picasa2 which doesn't allow putting your culls into a little pile that
| you can get to when you want to, which is one of the features, I
| wanted from Adobe.
|
| The good news, is that I took part of the money I saved and bought the
| 1.7x tele adaptor for my Sony V-3.
|
| Just my little mini rant,
|
| Wes
|
|
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| Reply to:
| Whiskey Echo Sierra Sierra AT Gee Tee EYE EYE dot COM
| Lycos address is a spam trap.

I'm sure there's a point in here somewhere.

1.2 Ghz Athlon with only 512mb of RAM? Maybe you should have tried it on a
400 mhz Pentium III first!

Photoshop CS loads in about 10 seconds on my 2.8Ghz P4 with 1gb RAM for
reference. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

Eric Miller


wrote in message
...
I was all hot to buy Adobe Elements 3.0 since the healing brush seemed
like a neat feature and I really needed a good photo organizing
program and it seemed like their offering would fill the bill.

Well, OfficeMax didn't have it, said they do not carry adobe products,
Sam's club had microsoft stuff but no adobe, Staples didn't carry it
and BestBuy (I hate the place) only had it with some dvd software
bundled for 149.99 or what is known as full list.

Well, my employer has nice pipes so I downloaded the 122+MB demo from
adobe to my sony v3, yes, the camera can be a file sharing device, and
hurried home from work to test it.

On a 1.2Ghz 512MB athelon, it took 90 seconds to load to the startup
screen. Organizing my pictures was very slow. I just recently tried
picasa2 which doesn't allow putting your culls into a little pile that
you can get to when you want to, which is one of the features, I
wanted from Adobe.

The good news, is that I took part of the money I saved and bought the
1.7x tele adaptor for my Sony V-3.

Just my little mini rant,

Wes


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"Eric Miller" wrote:

1.2 Ghz Athlon with only 512mb of RAM? Maybe you should have tried it on a
400 mhz Pentium III first!

Photoshop CS loads in about 10 seconds on my 2.8Ghz P4 with 1gb RAM for
reference. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

Eric Miller

I don't think so. Everything else that I run loads in a reasonable
amount of time.

I left out W2K SP4 from description.

Wes

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"Beano" wrote:

I'm sure there's a point in here somewhere.

You had to include my entire post to say that?



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wrote:
I was all hot to buy Adobe Elements 3.0 since the healing brush seemed
like a neat feature and I really needed a good photo organizing
program and it seemed like their offering would fill the bill.

Well, OfficeMax didn't have it, said they do not carry adobe products,
Sam's club had microsoft stuff but no adobe, Staples didn't carry it
and BestBuy (I hate the place) only had it with some dvd software
bundled for 149.99 or what is known as full list.

Well, my employer has nice pipes so I downloaded the 122+MB demo from
adobe to my sony v3, yes, the camera can be a file sharing device, and
hurried home from work to test it.

On a 1.2Ghz 512MB athelon, it took 90 seconds to load to the startup
screen. Organizing my pictures was very slow. I just recently tried
picasa2 which doesn't allow putting your culls into a little pile that
you can get to when you want to, which is one of the features, I
wanted from Adobe.

The good news, is that I took part of the money I saved and bought the
1.7x tele adaptor for my Sony V-3.

Just my little mini rant,

Wes


Just wondering what, besides your slow computer, turned you off.
Granted, the Organizer is a bit buggy, but the editor is unmatched at
this price level. With Amazon rebates, it cost me only $49.95. The
trial version (NOT DEMO), is a bit slow, which is a pretty DUMB way to
disable a trial program, in my opinion. Perhaps you can get someone to
let you try the installed commercial version on a machine similar to
yours. I find it quite acceptable on my 1.3ghz laptop. It is a bit
slow to load the editor portion from the Organizer, but one open,
doesn't have to reload.


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Ron Hunter

wrote:
"Eric Miller" wrote:


1.2 Ghz Athlon with only 512mb of RAM? Maybe you should have tried it on a
400 mhz Pentium III first!

Photoshop CS loads in about 10 seconds on my 2.8Ghz P4 with 1gb RAM for
reference. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

Eric Miller


I don't think so. Everything else that I run loads in a reasonable
amount of time.

I left out W2K SP4 from description.

Wes


Load speed isn't a major advantage of PSE3, but once you get it loaded,
it does a good job.


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wrote:
"Eric Miller" wrote:

1.2 Ghz Athlon with only 512mb of RAM? Maybe you should have tried
it on a 400 mhz Pentium III first!

Photoshop CS loads in about 10 seconds on my 2.8Ghz P4 with 1gb RAM
for reference. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

Eric Miller

I don't think so. Everything else that I run loads in a reasonable
amount of time.

I left out W2K SP4 from description.

Wes

E3 is not a fast loader, but a good machine (generally means both speed
and RAM size (512 is small for serious graphic work) will load it a lot
faster than that. ... I just tried mine and it loaded in 13 seconds.

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Joseph Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

Ron Hunter wrote:

Load speed isn't a major advantage of PSE3, but once you get it loaded,
it does a good job.


Full PS is also very slow loading.

Joseph Meehan wrote:
wrote:

"Eric Miller" wrote:


1.2 Ghz Athlon with only 512mb of RAM? Maybe you should have tried
it on a 400 mhz Pentium III first!

Photoshop CS loads in about 10 seconds on my 2.8Ghz P4 with 1gb RAM
for reference. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

Eric Miller

I don't think so. Everything else that I run loads in a reasonable
amount of time.

I left out W2K SP4 from description.

Wes


E3 is not a fast loader, but a good machine (generally means both speed
and RAM size (512 is small for serious graphic work) will load it a lot
faster than that. ... I just tried mine and it loaded in 13 seconds.

It takes 22 seconds to load to Organizer on my AThlon XP 2200+ (1.8
Ghz). Loading the editor after that takes another 30 seconds (rarely
necessary). I can wait that long.


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Ron Hunter