[Grumpy John]

Surely you have the option to customise the way the crop tool looks. There are many options in Photoshop including the option to never show overlay.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Thank you John - yes it has the drop downs listed lower down the page ... but the product still gives me the heebies via its being dumbed-down for new users. eg: every time I click the crop tool, it automatically loads a ROT grid across the image and tries to do its own crop of whatever the AI seems to think I am after

I'm gunna have to accept its foibles as I don't want to do to a monthly payment plan for any software, regardless of whose name is upon it
Phil

[Ironwood]

I had a look at elements, and a couple of utube vids of Lightroom, nothing I see makes me want to jump in, I prefer the simplicity and ease of my old favourite, aperture.
I started to apply for the free 7 day trial of the adobe photography plan, but stopped when they wanted me to enter my bank details to continue.

[Grumpy John]

Is this the post to which you were referring Ozzie_Traveller ?

[Ozzie_Traveller]

I did a posting here a month-6 weeks back for Isac & others showing all the drop-down menu options for Elements 2022
Perhaps Isac can find the link ind show it ... hopefully it will help a bit
Phil

[Ironwood]

Hi Sharon, great to see you here.

[SharonH]

Hi Brad

[Ironwood]

Hi Phil. Thanks for the welcome back. I will goggle the elements.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day Mate

Good to see you back again - and I will look fwd to many more of your beaut images

Software-wise .... I like it easy 'n simple and use PS Elements
Simple it may appear to be, but even with all its tools and tricks and other stuff, I am only scratching the surface of its capabilities
$127 outright licence-to-use purchase from various chain stores

Phil

[Ironwood]

Yeah, I checked out the different plans a bit more last night. I think I’ll probably go with the basic one too. I can’t imagine I’d use the cloud for storage either.

[Grumpy John]

I'm on the very basic plan. I don't use the cloud as such, I have portable hard drives. I prefer to be in control of my images.
My photography has been on and off this year for a couple of different reasons. At the moment we are in the process of selling our house and downsizing into a lifestyle village, so very little time for photography for a few weeks at least.

[avkomp]

Thanks mate

[Ironwood]

Thanks Stephen. I have enjoyed looking at your recent posts, you certainly haven’t lost your touch.

[Ironwood]

Hi John, good to see you here again. Are you on the 20mb plan ? I see there are other options with 1Tb, but I really don’t think I need that. Will have to study the options a bit more closely before deciding anything.
Do you use photoshop much ?

[Ironwood]

Thanks Alan. Yes Lightroom is attractive due to the DAM. I compared a few programs a couple of years ago, trying to decide on a new editing software, Lightroom was looking pretty good back then, it still seems to be a front runner.
The monthly payment always was a turnoff for me too, but I have gotten over the monthly payment for Spotify now, so maybe I can get over the Adobe payment as well.