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Missing Features
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Their Purpose?
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Who’ll Notice?
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Comments
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Colour Balance
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Colour adjustment
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Wide audience
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Adjustment Curves
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Tonal and colour corrections
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Advanced users
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Channels Palette
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Colour adjustment
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Advanced users
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You still can edit colour channels separately by using the Levels dialogue.
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CMYK Colours
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Pre-print image processing
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Printing industry pros
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It doesn't matter if you print your image with your jet printer or in photolab
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Transform Selection
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Selections
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Wide audience
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Quick Masks
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Selections
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Wide audience
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Layer Groups
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Manipulation, design
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Wide audience
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You can't change individual layers in a layer group (for example, when working on file created in full Photoshop) This problem may be solved by ungrouping layers.
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Some Layer Style Functions
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Manipulation, design
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Wide audience
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You can't, for example, create a separate layer from layer style.
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Layer Masks
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Retouching, manipulation
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Wide audience
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Elements supports only adjustment layer masks.
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Smart Objects
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Non-destructive transformations
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Advanced users
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Smart Filters
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Non-destructive filtering
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Advanced users
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Pen Tools
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Design
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Advanced users
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You can't create or edit vector paths and masks. This may be partially resolved by creating path from raster selections and preset shapes.
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Vector Masks
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Design
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Wide audience
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Paths
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Design
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Advanced users
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Actions Palette
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Automating work
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Wide audience
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You can use the existing actions (pre-packaged macro commands) available in the Effects palette; however, Elements won't let you record custom actions.
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Some Web Components
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Web graphics
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Web designers
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You can't slice images; comparatively weak GIF animator, quite sufficient though to create a simple animated banner or button.
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