Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac Arrives
OK, I think I'm finally over Photoshop. I ordered Photoshop Elements 6 a few weeks ago thinking that I've enjoyed versions 3 and 4 and gotten a lot of use out of them in the process. I'm not a massive graphics artist - I'm a developer, but there are a lot of times that I need to have tools like Elements, and in those times, it's been really nice to have it in the toolbox.
But with Elements 6 it's a different story. Partly because of what Elements 6 is, and partly because of what's cropped up in the indie Mac community in the interim. For example, Elements 6 takes over the entire screen. Why? I hate that. Be a nice citizen of the machine - use your windows, but don't be so arrogant that you think there's no possible way anyone could want to do anything other than be in your app. Jimminy! That's horrible.
I'm sure it's got lots of features, I haven't even really started looking at it in any depth, but when I look at Acorn and DrawIt, I see two different kinds of apps and I'm much happier using them than Elements 6. I'm sure part of it is because I've changed, and part of it is because Elements 6 has changed. I'll try to get Elements 6 looking and acting like it should, but I'm guessing that in the end it's still going to be more obtrusive than I'd like, and come to realize that it's possible to get in other apps.
Too bad... Elements 6 could have been really great.