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Question

Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 12

Mar 14, 2015 4:03AM PDT

Could someone explain the difference between Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 12 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5? thanks.

And for that comparison, how are these two compare to Adobe Photoshop?

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Could be asking a lot. Why?
Mar 14, 2015 4:31AM PDT

A quick look finds each product can do more than 100 things. To break it down I guess one might have to make a study listing each feature then a spreadsheet with rows for each feature and checkboxes for each product column.

Wow. I see why you asked. That's too daunting. Let's tackle this another way.

What do you want to do?

For me, most of the graphic things I need to do are in the free editors listed on Ninite. Why Ninite?
Read http://www.howtogeek.com/201354/ninite-is-the-only-safe-place-to-get-windows-freeware/

What Imaging tools and editors are there?
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Paint.NET
Image Editor 4.5.5454.39504 (requires .NET 4.5)
Picasa
Photo Manager by Google 3.9.139.161
GIMP
Open Source Image Editor 2.8.14
IrfanView
Image Viewer 4.38
XnView
Image Viewer 2.31
Inkscape
Vector Graphics Editor 0.91
FastStone
FastStone Image Viewer 5.3
Greenshot
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This just in. The CNET Cheapskate deal is on.
Mar 14, 2015 5:05AM PDT