sheepofblue

I had v2 and use it mainly to reduce pic sizes for the web (iPhoto leaves them huge) Well it no longer runs under OSX so it was time to do something. I got the upgrade version of Elements and on first impression

First it takes over your screen like some POS windows app hiding the desktop (have not found a way to turn it off). Second I was using the export to Web feature and had to change the options every single time. Also batch processing does not seem to support export to web

My opinion might change with use but right now I have to say save your money and buy something else. The only upside is the Apple Script support has improved so I should be able to automate what I want and not use that horrible GUI.
I give it three hooves down

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Geek

If you're just resizing pictures use Preview. Works fine for that and it's a breeze. It doesn't do batch processing but that's really the only down side I know of.

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sheepofblue

Not physical resizing (iPhoto does that on export) rather smaller file sizes. The save for web feature makes MUCH smaller .jpg files, Graphic Converter has a similar feature also

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You can do that with Preview. When you go to Save As just slide the 'Quality' slider to the left some and it will reduce file size. Naturally you'll sacrifice image quality but you can't have it all. I usually size pictures to about 1024x768 on decent quality and get files under 100kb. :idunno:

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sheepofblue

Nope it still leaves extras is my understanding. I did 80kb on medium using the save for web. 28kb on low quality. I used to know what it did but I think it strips stuff like color tables, previews, icons and such. Same picture using preview on least quality was 40kb

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