Very excited!

Since I started dabbling in digiscrapping about a year ago, I have been managing to teach myself a fair bit using Photoshop Elements. I have come to love many things about this program and it's ability to not only edit photos easily, but also to create digiscrap pages that I can be proud of!

That said, the version I have been using up until now is version 2. To give this some sort of reference point, this program came free with our computer. Which we bought when we got married. Over six years ago now!!

Ideally I would absolutely love to buy a new computer and have something decent to be working with, but unfortunately with me working part time this isn't a huge priority right now. But I have been toying with the idea of seeing if I could at least upgrade our version of PSE so I can start doing more of the tricky things I would like to do in the world of digiscrapping.

I wasn't sure if our computer would even support the new version of PSE, but today I downloaded the free trial of PSE 7 with much hope and excitement. And many exciting things ensued:

1) It worked!!
2) So many things are in similar places, so I didn't freak out about not knowing what I was doing
3) The new format makes so much more sense! You can see previews of the effects you want to try, scroll through fonts with your chosen text to try them out on the page (this step alone used to take me forever on my stoneage version!), and they are only the first couple of things I noticed in the first few minutes.

I love that they haven't reinvented the wheel since version 2, just added so many features that make it much easier to use, as well as being able to customise things that you wouldn't dream of in the old version.

And yes, it's probably pathetic to be excited over this, but damn it I am! I love digiscrapping already but can only imagine the possibilities with the new improved version.

The other bonus is I was looking at possibly paying $150 plus for PSE 7 if I was going to purchase it, but I currently have a 30 day trial which will take me past my birthday, so guess what this little black duck is asking for! And I have noticed we can just class it as an upgrade because we have a stoneage version, and there is a redemption code as well, so we should be able to purchase the new shiny version for under $100!

Very happy :)