I have recently purchased a new laptop, as my desktop is getting well past it's "Best before" date. My digital imaging programs are no longer supported. In short, I have to get up to date.
 I have downloaded a 30day free trial of Photoshop Elements 9 into my HP Pavilion DV7 I thought I liked the new program, but I'm begining to have second thoughts. The program "freezes" when I am trying to "OK" a specific action, & no matter where I place the pointer on the screen it stays the same & nothing can be done other than to go for ctrl>alt>del then cancel the program.

However here's a picture I did manage to alter with no big problem. I had been playing with layers & colour effects in Elements 9 Then I did a soft focus uing Picasa3 as an afterthought