We're pleased to see that Elements now includes some basic color management, letting you choose to ignore any color settings in the file or automatically optimize them for Web or print. Elements contains all of the essential image-editing tools, including free-form selection tools and special-effects filters, as well as a few advanced features, such as adjustment layers and gradient maps. The standard Adobe interface lets you dock all of your palettes at the top of the screen for easy access and displays relevant tool settings below the menu bar.
Of course, if you're already familiar with Photoshop 7.0 or Elements 1.0, you'll feel at home in version 2.0. Based on our experience with a beta copy, only Elements' native support of Mac OS X justifies spending $69 to upgrade from version 1.0 or from a competing product. But as a next step up from newbie image editors such as Microsoft Picture It, Photoshop Elements 2.0 misses the mark it's still too complicated.
In fact, Adobe's Elements 2.0 even tosses in a few interesting new features and enhancements.
For $99, this stripped-down version of Photoshop delivers all of the digital image-editing tools that most graphics enthusiasts need.
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