does anyone have this? i had an old version of photoshop...however, i can't seem to find it for the new laptop....it had the magic wand tool which you could set tolerances on and auto select parts of the image and then inverse the selection and modify.....basically what i want to be able to do is select portions of images and modify them to b/w and retain color in other portions of the image...i looked on adobes web site and couldn't find the answer.......can this be done in elements?

Yup. I have PSE 2:

Here's PSE 4 (on a Mac, should be the same on that other platform).

great....thanks for the info

You mean Linux?

hang on just a bit if you want to buy Photoshop Elements. I understand that the new version 5 comes out today (9/29)!