In article , Big Al
wrote:

I agree with the bloated software comments. The full Photoshop CS# is
full of stuff that I've never thought of or knew of. My daughter works
as a graphics editor for an ad agency and they have the latest and
greatest of Adobe anything, and she uses probably every tool and app in
the complete line, knows more keyboard shortcuts, can fix an image in a
matter of a minute where it takes me over 1/2 an hour. I find myself
emailing her photos I just give up on.

photoshop is professional software, for professional work. it's not for
consumers. pros *do* need what it can do and do not consider it
bloated.

photoshop elements is the consumer version, and priced accordingly, $99
msrp and usually about $50-60 street price, and even that does more
than most people need.