You'll love Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 so long as you understand what it is and what it isn’t. It is a user-friendly image editing application for digital-imaging enthusiasts, it isn't a complete substitute for Adobe’s professional Photoshop product.
Installation was easy in both Mac OS 9 and OS X. In Mac OS X, two VISE installer icons appeared in the Dock: one icon for installing Photoshop Elements and another for installing multilanguage support.
The first new thing we noticed about Elements was the File Browser; while its interface smells slightly of Windows, it’s nonetheless useful for browsing, organizing, renaming, and rotating images. Plus, the File Browser displays any selected image’s EXIF (exchangeable image file) data in the lower-left panel. Note that if you’ve already cataloged your pics in iPhoto, you can set Elements as the default editing app in iPhoto.
The resemblance between Elements and Photoshop is easy to see, as Elements has most of the same tools, palettes, and filters as its big sibling, with notable exceptions including the healing brush, patch tool, and Brushes palette. It also shares most of the pro version’s brightness, contrast, and color controls, as well as a few unique tools, like a brush for red-eye removal and a selection brush for selecting or masking image areas.
One very important feature Elements does not have, however, is CMYK color support, which is crucial for professional designers looking to output their files to a professional printer. In addition, several tools and palettes aren’t as rich as their Photoshop counterparts. Elements’ many palettes behave much the same as Photoshop’s; you can nest them all in the toolbar or arrange them in tabbed, multipalette windows to suit your work habits — but the default arrangement presents just the Hints and How To palettes onscreen, with the remainder crammed into the toolbar where new users might never find them. Also, you can’t save multiple Workspaces (palette arrangements) as Photoshop lets you do.
Elements contains many help tools for the digital photography hobbyist. For example, the Quick Fix dialog’s Enhance menu lets you try out brightness, color, and focus settings before you commit to the adjustment, and also provides a tip on what the selected tool (Fill Flash or Adjust Backlighting, for example) does. Once you learn your way around, you can bypass the Quick Fix window and invoke tools directly from their respective toolbars and menus.
The How To palette has Recipes (mini howtos) for common photo-editing fixes and crafty projects like creating a coloring book, as well as a direct link to more Recipes available on Adobe’s Web site.
Photoshop Elements is best suited to propping images either for output on an inkjet printer or for the Web. For printing, a feature called Picture Package (in the Print Layouts menu) allows you to print multiple pictures on one page. For the Web, a Save For Web option sports a two-up preview window and an option to create a Web photo gallery.
While hardly a substitute for the professional Photoshop product. Elements is the best combination of bang for the buck and user friendliness we’ve seen in image-editing software. With a powerful set of tools and a ton of self-help features, it can make any hobbyist look like a professional pixel pusher.
Rebbapragada, Narasu. (December 2002). Photoshop Elements 2. MacAddict. (pg. 40).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
SheepShaver
