ACDSee vs. PS Elements 3.0?

ACDSee vs. PS Elements 3.0? Which is "better" in your opinion and why?

Please, I have not used either and would greatly appreciate any information and

guidance the generous and learned members of Photo.net could give, thank you.

image editor or album

For image editing I use picture window pro, which I prefer to ACD and elements 2

or if you only need 8 bit editing, the gimp which is free

On the previous release of elements I used not ACDSee but Picasa as a way to organize my image files. Not a bad pick for its prize.

When I upgraded to 3.0 however I have found that the integrated environment with the image/browser/finder fully integrated with the editor makes it very easy for me to work with the ever increasing number of images that I have.

I like:

That it is easy to create and maintain a tree-structure of categories and tags. This way I can filter out until the number of images on the display is manageable. I can also search on words in image tagline for specific images.

I also like the fact that I can now work with Raw files and that there is a number of improvements to the editor.

I really like working with an integrated environment rather than jumping between products.

The only thing I do not really love is that the incremental backup apparently does not work directly to removable media but has to land on a hard drive. Still there is a pretty good backup feature built into the product and any backup is better than none.