Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 3-Mega Pixel photographs taken in a variety of surroundings using the batch file processing function in the Elements Editor. We performed all of the auto fixes, including Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Colour and Sharpen before resizing the image to 640x480 and saving as a high quality JPEG.


The normal P5K3 Deluxe actually out performs the Premium in all cases, and the average 1,500MHz memory time was actually slower than 1,333MHz.

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.



In contrast the 1,500MHz memory time actually comes out trumps here, with the low latency 1,066MHz Premium coming a close second between large and small compression. The 1,333MHz memory is several seconds slower but overall the P5K3 Deluxe memory is overall slower than the Premium.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.



Again the 1,500MHz memory comes out top in the Premium, with the low latency 1,066MHz a close second. With the exception of the 1,066MHz low latency large file compression on the Deluxe, the timings are all slower than the Premium.