Topic: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0

[Simon]

When I launch the above, it seems to take an age to load and start up - something like 35 seconds last time, on my new PC, which isn't a slouch.  Does anyone else use Elements, do you find it slow to start, and have you any tricks to make start up faster?

[Sandra]

I use photoshop CS3 and that takes ages loading all its extras so I expect its a similar thing Simon. If I just want to view a jpg or some other picture file and not mess around with it then I just tell it to open in something else to save time 

[Simon]

Thanks, Sandra.  At least I know it's not just me! 

[sam]

Irfanview is really good for just quickly looking at an image, and has some good tools to mess around with it. If I was using windows and needed to crop something quickly or resize something then I'd use that over photoshop any day.

[GillE]

My Paint Shop Pro v9 also takes ages to load.  So does the Gimp since I 'upgraded' to Vista.

[Simon]

That's the thing isn't it?  I don't mind waiting for it if I'm going to do some sort of project or something, but just to, say, save a screenshot, it's a real pain.

[Tony]

It takes 5 seconds or less, but I'm still using version one 

[Simon]

Get with the times, Bro!