Other than the obvious complaint about the idiocy of the 3 year lease, which has all of the worst features of a subscription with none of the benefits, here are some of my other observations.
Even though it was a 20 generation jump over the version I use in Snow Leopard, most of the essential features work the same and are easy to find.
Missing and missed is the 'Color Variations' feature. This provided an easy way to deal with crossover. In the later versions you may be able to solve crossover by playing with HSL, but more likely you will need to select the deep shadows and do a levels change on only that portion of the photo.
Still no multi channel curves which would give on an alternative approach to crossover.
A couple of irritants. Somehow going from 32bit-4core to 64bit-gads-of-cores Adobe managed to introduce a slight lag when making adjustments in Levels and HSL. This can really slow things down when you have to wait a couple of seconds to determine where an adjustment landed. Typically I will go down, up and back down through Levels channels making as many as half a dozen changes on any one channel. So a 15 second tweak can now take a couple of minutes.
Another irritant is the tool control bar. It takes up valuable real-estate at the bottom of the display and will more than double in height without either reason or request. The crop tool will often arbitrarily try to pick a crop, usually neither an aspect ratio or area I am interested in. I am guessing this is some sort of Anti-Intelligence feature.
Now this is installed on our second computer, it's used mainly for internet and email browsing. It's there so my wife has a reasonably familiar photo editor without moving over to our older computer. I had Elements set-up in my profile and her profile. I then needed to use it in a test profile so I could do some comparisons. Adobe killed Elements in both of the other profiles. Did not tell me it was doing that nor did it offer me a choice of removing Elements from just one profile. Literally only one of us can use it at a time, but Adobe chose to limit its use to only 2 profiles on the same computer.
Even though it was a 20 generation jump over the version I use in Snow Leopard, most of the essential features work the same and are easy to find.
Missing and missed is the 'Color Variations' feature. This provided an easy way to deal with crossover. In the later versions you may be able to solve crossover by playing with HSL, but more likely you will need to select the deep shadows and do a levels change on only that portion of the photo.
Still no multi channel curves which would give on an alternative approach to crossover.
A couple of irritants. Somehow going from 32bit-4core to 64bit-gads-of-cores Adobe managed to introduce a slight lag when making adjustments in Levels and HSL. This can really slow things down when you have to wait a couple of seconds to determine where an adjustment landed. Typically I will go down, up and back down through Levels channels making as many as half a dozen changes on any one channel. So a 15 second tweak can now take a couple of minutes.
Another irritant is the tool control bar. It takes up valuable real-estate at the bottom of the display and will more than double in height without either reason or request. The crop tool will often arbitrarily try to pick a crop, usually neither an aspect ratio or area I am interested in. I am guessing this is some sort of Anti-Intelligence feature.
Now this is installed on our second computer, it's used mainly for internet and email browsing. It's there so my wife has a reasonably familiar photo editor without moving over to our older computer. I had Elements set-up in my profile and her profile. I then needed to use it in a test profile so I could do some comparisons. Adobe killed Elements in both of the other profiles. Did not tell me it was doing that nor did it offer me a choice of removing Elements from just one profile. Literally only one of us can use it at a time, but Adobe chose to limit its use to only 2 profiles on the same computer.
