Many years ago professional Mac users might have owned a version of Adobe CS and used it for years, but the slow rate at which companies updated probably lead Adobe to switch to a subscription model. Understandably there are lots of Mac users who are disappointed that Adobe doesn’t sell a ‘perpetual license’ for the full version of Photoshop any more. If you want to take a look there’s also aħ-day free trial so you can take the software for a test run. If you’re a creative professional though, or are used to the full-blown version of Photoshop, then you may find too many tools missing from the box. You will have access to features like masks, layers, colourisation, image manipulation and other useful, more consumer-level effects with Elements. The benefit of Photoshop Elements is that you can buy it outright and install it on your Mac.
