I’m been impressed by Photoshop Elements 3.0 in the brief time I’ve been using it. Creating nifty effects is almost a trivial matter. I was so enamoured of the text effects in particular that I created some new site banners and buttons just for the hell of it.
It’s probably going to take me a while to get the hang of the photo editing features but the numerous tutorials and guides online should make the learning process a little easier.
I have discovered one thing about the program that bugs me, however. For some indiscernible reason, Adobe has decided two services, PhotoshopElementsFileAgent.exe and PhotoshopElementsDeviceConnect.exe, need to stay resident in memory even if you don’t make use of their features. According to services.msc, those services track files managed by Photoshop Album and launch Photoshop Elements Organizer when a device is connected. I’ve disabled those features in the program yet both services remain in the Task Manager list.
I suppose I could always manually disable them through services.msc but it annoys me I have to resort to that.
