Editing RAW in Elements 10?

[dmann]

Hey All,

I currently have a Photoshop trial and am wanting to purchase Photoshop Elements 10. Tonight was the first night I shot in RAW and LOVED the editing features for RAW in my photoshop trial.

My question is, are most of these same options in elements? If not, is there another software program that would be around the same price that would give me more?

Thanks!

I tried to look for this question already and didn't see it. If there is already a thread about this if you could be so kind as to show me it?

[dlambert]

As far as I know, Elements and Lightroom both share the same RAW conversion module.

[slugger]

Elements 7 which is what I use, has what appears to be the same RAW editing options (from what I've seen in video tutorials and screen shots of Photoshop) As well as the ability to then open directly in pse to edit as a jpeg, leaving the original file unchanged as it just saves an .xmp of the changes.

[brianxlt]

CS5 RAW and LR3 are comparable, but the elements version of RAW is limited. With elements you will get the basics no frills RAW. If you want all the bells and whistles you will need LR3 or CS 4 or 5. With LR you can export to elements for the more creative work.