There's a 3rd party plugin which adds Curves to PSE 3 -- it came with a book Unlocking Secrets of PSE ... or something like that. I've heard there might be other "hack-type" solutions as well.
My guess is that the only advance PSE 3 makes over PS 7 is the "SaveForWeb" save option, which allows you to optimize the JPEG size, and the Bicubic Sharper/Smoother algorithms, which are better than PS 7's straight Bicubic. You lose not only Curves, but I think also Adjustment Layers as well.
My suggestion would be to edit mainly in PS 7, save a flattened TIFF of the final result, and then use PSE to resize (if necessary) and optimize that for the web.
For comparison, I still use PS 5.0 : )
Message edited by author 2006-04-11 01:03:57. |
