Also, I wonder which Photoshop Elements Doug is using. I discovered that I have a Photoshop Elements 6 on my scanner's software and I loaded it on to my iMac. Yet I cannot say that I have mastered the art of joining two images into one (obverse and reverse) - the user guides on the market are masters in concealing the basics, and I lack the intuition of coaxing them out of my Mac.
All the best,
Schatz
I currently use Elements 6 and did give a link to step by step instructions for joining photos using it
complete with screen shots that I thought would suffice (look in that other
thread several notes before you posted you
had Elements). Elements 6 is the oldest one I would recommend right now and might require downloading some update files especially for tasks like RAW conversion which is about 999 lessons beyond joining images and requires you have an update if your camera came out after your
software program. I am too
cheap to update to 8 unless someone convinces me that I would gain something I want. 6 added a
very good shadows/highlights tool and magic wand selection tool which come in handy in processing coin photos. I started with Elements 2.0 which came with my first DSLR and have never felt the need for full Photoshop either for coins or my non-coin photography. Currently, I
still do RAW conversion of non coins using Canon's free Digital Photo Professional (
comes packed with their cameras) but do everything else with Elements 6. I use Elements to do RAW conversions of coins mostly because it is easier and the controlled lighting of my coin shots make the difference between the two programs less important. I'm
still taking my coin photos with my old Digital Rebel because its
quality is
good enough for me and I don't have to keep tearing down the set up whenever something else wants to be photographed. My camera is not for coins alone:
http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/121779776I am not a major fan of the organizer that
comes with Elements but have learned to
work with and around it. With a PC, you can open photos in the editor section from the Windows file system using the 'open with' command (right click an select from the menu) but I do not speak
Mac.