The way I see it, one cannot do any serious post-processing of scans without 16bpp editors. The last time I checked, PS Elements supported 8bpc only (but that was years ago). If you can live without all the marketing toys of consumer-oriented editors and if you are familiar with dark room workflows and their equivalents in the digital world, Picture Window Pro may be the best (budget) photo post-processing software you can get. http://www.dl-c.com/ Ad the Vuescan Pro version: if you go the RAW path, all the bells and whistles, ICC profiles, color spaces and FOREVER free upgrades just take up space on your hard disk. Petr On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Being sort of budget conscious I use Photoshop Elements, now up to Version > 7. It costs very little at CostCo (none down there I suppose) and has a > built-in pano function. I have used it to create a 360 degree scan from the > center of a park nearby and to put together a 11X17 print from college days > that had to be scanned in sections. Works just fine for things like that. > > DAW > >