pet2000:
Not recommended unless you have a really powerful computer, too much clutter. For smaller computers or notebooks you can get free small photo editors easy.
Of course, if you want the best, you can always save up for real Photoshop CS4.
Sorry but this is simply not true. PSE runs very very well on most machines as it takes not nearly as much as any of the CS suites.
The smaller editors do not nearly as much as elements even if it is the baby of the range. It is still a great piece of software .
I agree that CS is vgood but unless you are a pro there is generally not much point in spending several hundred pounds on this.
All said and done though you can get the PSE boxed for same cost in PCW at the moment.
Thanks for posting OP
vicky j