Photoshop elements or monthly subscription?

[dfen5]

Hi, I have Lightroom 5 and Adobe Premiere Elements but I'd like Photoshop Elements too.

Looking at the Adobe site, it seems they're now offering a monthly subscription of £7.49 (£8.78) that seems to give the full version of Photoshop and Lightroom desktop.

Confused. Worth the subscription for the full version or just get PE12 from PC World for £49.99?

[Derek Smith]

What do you use it for?

What do you expect to get from the full Photoshop that you won't get from PE that will be of use to you?

[MartinP]

If you need full fat PS then I'd say the subscription is well worth it (if you hadn't aleady got Lightroom it would be even better value). If you don't need all the bells and whistles of PS then save some money and go for Elements. Elements does pretty much everything except the really advanced stuff.

[dfen5]

I only use it for home editing of photos, nothing professional. I sometimes edit a few pictures for a newsletter which can include merging a sequence of shots into one (like the primate to man sequence sort of thing).

Just trying to get the hang of this Intuos pen/touch tablet at the minute - I hopes it would make life easier but I'm not so sure..


As it's only £50-ish quid more I might try the subscription for a year - is the full fat version harder to use than PE?

[The_Jackal]

Just download the trial and use it for a bit to see if you like it.
Remember you wont be left with a copy of Photoshop though if you stop the subscription in a year, and it would have cost you £100.
Unless you crack it, but then you wouldn't take out the subscription in the first place.