Elements 2018 - can you match colours?

Perhaps also consider either Affinity Photo/Designer or PhotoLine. Less expensive than Photoshop Elements, and (far) more feature-rich. And if you need to prepare images for print, both support CMYK out-of-the-box, while Elements does not. Either one will be able to grow with you, while Elements is sort-of limited in many areas, because Adobe doesn't want it to compete too much with big brother Photoshop.

Just a thought.

I can do this in my Elements 12 so I can't imagine they'd have taken that away in newer versions. I'm downloading 2018 right now so I'll find out soon.  I've never seen any photoshop software without a color chooser where it will give you a hex code.

Thank you for your reply. Relativeky basic graphics. I’d want to be able to swap backgrounds (be able to select the images to stay behind and create new backgrounds). To create simple images - striping, textures, etc. It could become more advanced as time went one.

Also, is the quality decent for printing?

I am investigating the trial issue now. Thank you for the suggestion!

amandap67382286  wrote . I am wanting to Be able to touch a colour on an image and either get the hex (etc) code for it to use in a new image,

Yes, you can do that with the color picker

amandap67382286  wrote Is it decent for picture editing and from scratch graphic creating?

Excellent for picture editing. Don't know the level of sophistication you require for graphic creating.

amandap67382286  wrote I cannot get the trial version to open on my pc so im not sure if it can do the above.

This is a major concern. Suggest that you investigate this as a priority. The trial version is the full version.