{"id":138,"date":"2009-09-25T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/bioit\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:02:41","slug":"photoshop-vs-photoshop-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/photoshop-vs-photoshop-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked if I can help users out with a copy of Photoshop for their lab or personal computer.\u00a0 Of course, I cannot &#8211; the Department of Biology does not have a site license for Photoshop nor Photoshop Elements.\u00a0 This leaves the burden of the license cost on the individuals using the software. \u00a0 The problem with Photoshop is that it is is fairly expensive.\u00a0 At the time of this writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookstore.colostate.edu\/ramtech\/\">RAMtech<\/a> over in the LSC currently has a single computer license for Phtotoshop CS4 running at $185.84 (check their list if you are reading this at a much later date as these prices may have changed).\u00a0 This is of course an amazing price, as without this educational pricing CS4 runs around $500+.\u00a0 On the other hand Photoshop Elements runs a mere $48.69 for version 7 (Windows OS) and $32.94 for version 6 (Mac OS).\u00a0 It comes to my understanding that most users are unaware that Photoshop Elements exists and by default <em>think<\/em> they need the full blown and more expensive version.\u00a0 However, when it comes down to the work being done on Photoshop, most would be just fine using the less expensive Photoshop Elements.<\/p>\n<p>I found this informative article on the differences between Photoshop Elements 7 and Photoshop CS4.\u00a0 It lists the tools included in CS4 that are missing in Elements.\u00a0 Overall, use this as a guide to see whether the extra $130 is worth it for the full blown version.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.digicamhelp.com\/processing-photos\/advanced-editing\/photoshop-elements-7-vs-photoshop-cs4\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\" wp-image-140 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/256px-Photoshop_logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"256px-Photoshop_logo.svg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/256px-Photoshop_logo.svg_.png 256w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/256px-Photoshop_logo.svg_-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked if I can help users out with a copy of Photoshop for their lab or personal computer.\u00a0 Of course, I cannot &#8211; the Department of Biology does not have a site license for Photoshop nor Photoshop Elements.\u00a0 This leaves the burden of the license cost on the individuals using the software. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-general-cnsit","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}