I called onone today and told them that a few months back I purchased essentials for elements and I wanted to know if it was possible to get the update to essentials 2. He said sure, all I had to do was get into the program within elements and go to the help menu and do the update.

I had been looking on the internet for this and finally broke down and called them because I never found anything, but now I know how to update. Hope this helps those that have the earlier version.

Dear Jen:
Would you be so kind as to tell me were do you see the advantages on essential plugin?
Thank you.

Don, I have it and right now I mainly use it to enlarge images if I need to. Has great selection tools but have not gotten into that yet. You can also do some editing with it. Was it worth the money, not sure, yet. If I get the masking (selecting) down then yes it will be. Hope that helps

Thank's Suzi.