No way! I’ve had a few messages about the upgrade recommendation appearing on the Elements 9 welcome screen, Adobe effectively wanting us to dump the £50 or so we spent on elements 9 and purchase Elements 10.
Elements 9 automatically goes on line so we can expect more of this kind of thing.
This is totally unnecessary. There are no improvements that I can see in 10 that will benefit the serious photographer, a few gimmicks perhaps but otherwise nothing of note. Elements 9 automatically updates the raw converter if you go to “help” then “updates” and this is only necessary for the owner of very new cameras.
It does seem that they are holding back with the Fuji x10 (and Sony Nex7 among others) Adobe camera Raw update (ACR 6.6) which is already available in Elements 10 but I expect pressure from the Adobe users forum will eventually remedy this.
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