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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

14 reviews

Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 1.5

MPN: 65045174
Model: 65045174
UPC: 883919176604
EAN: 0883919176659

Release Date: October 13, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 combines power and simplicity so you can easily go beyond the basics to tell great stories with your photos
•	Make your photos look extraordinary with easy-to-use editing options--whiten teeth, recompose photos, remove unwanted elements and more
•	Share your stories in beautiful, personalized print creations and web experiences, and share on popular devices
•	Easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips from one convenient place
•	Enjoy automatic online backup with 2GB of free storage, and access your photos and videos anywhere you are

Extraordinary photos. Amazing stories.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software offers a complete solution for photos:

Make your photos look extraordinary with easy-to-use editing options.
Share your stories in beautiful, personalized print creations and web experiences, and share on popular devices.
Easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips from one convenient place.
Enjoy automatic online backup with 2GB of free storage, and access your photos and videos anywhere you are.*

Top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

The toolbar says it all.

Quickly recompose your photos to any size. Click to enlarge.

Clean up and create composites with Photomerge. Click to enlarge.

People Recognition automatically identifies the people in your photos.

Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums, photo books, and more. Click to enlarge.

Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
Use Photoshop Elements 8 for all your photo needs. Manage, edit, and enhance photos; make unique photo creations; share in print, on the web, and on popular devices; protect photos with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage*--enough for up to 1,500 photos or 24 minutes of DVD-quality video; and view photos anywhere you are.*

Experience the ultimate media management hub
Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place, and easily find your best stuff fast. Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.

Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds
Get just the photo fixes you're looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. And now, when you perform one-step photo adjustments--including color, contrast, and lighting--you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.

Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds.

Adjust color, contrast, and lighting.

Whiten teeth.

Make skies a vibrant blue.

Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use options
Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.

Count on step-by-step assistance
Want to touch up a scratch? Create a scrapbook page? Add artistic effects that make a photo look like a pencil sketch? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast.

Easily create the perfect photo
Take advantage of amazing Adobe Photomerge technology to easily remove distracting elements from photos in just a few clicks, create perfect group shots and seamless panoramas, and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.

Get creative inspiration
Bring your ideas to life with relevant tutorials that appear just when you need them. New tutorials help you explore creative possibilities.

Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web
Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience. And share via public or private galleries--friends and family won't have to register to look.*

Show off your creativity with flexible layouts
Make amazing printed photo creations--like scrapbook pages, photo books, and cards--that you can customize to get exactly the look you envision. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.

Top new benefits of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

Recompose photos to any size--without distortion
Ever want to change the size or orientation of a photo to fit a certain frame? Now you can quickly resize--even going from landscape to portrait or vice versa--without distorting key subjects like people or buildings.

Get the best exposure
Want to capture all the details in a scene that includes light and dark areas? Snap one photo with flash on and one with flash off, and Photomerge Exposure will combine the shots into a single, perfectly lit photo.

Quickly find your best photos
No need to click through dozens or hundreds of shots to find the good ones. The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your media so you can easily find your most interesting, highest quality photos and video footage.

Find specific people in a flash
Quickly find photos that feature specific friends or family members thanks to People Recognition, which automatically identifies the people in your photos.

Get the big picture
See the full effect of your photos and video clips from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews, which let you make quick edits to photos while viewing them.

See the same photos and video clips on every computer
Forget trying to manually maintain your photos and video clips across multiple computers. With automatic syncing, media added or edited on one computer will automatically be synced to another.*

Give your creations fresh looks
Experiment with new artwork and templates to give your printed creations fun and stylish new looks.

Enjoy support for Windows 7
Take advantage of support for the new Windows 7 platform and the hands-on capabilities of Windows Touch technology.

* Available in the United States only. Internet access required. Also available at Photoshop.com; no purchase necessary.

Customer Reviews:

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Love it! November 16, 2009
J. Riggleman
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is my first try at this sort of thing and so far, it's great! Easy to use and understand.

4 out of 5 stars

There's a learning curve, but a solid product November 7, 2009
M. Weekley (Philadelphia, PA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Brief history:

We don't own previous versions of this program; so if you are an owner of an older edition you may want to consult some of the other reviews on here who upgraded. We consider ourselves amateur photographers who have a digital SLR camera and have used THE Photoshop in the past. Lastly, this review is to give a quick synopsis of the program. There are many reviews already written on the technical specifications and limitations of the product. We are writing this as a summary for those who want to cut to the chase.

The Rundown:

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 is a solid program for those who want some of the best aspects of the Daddy of Photoshop, but don't need the extensive extras (or want to pay for them). My wife and I started off trying to use Photoshop from one of our friend's computer but were completely overwhelmed. The original Photoshop is an amazing product, but we needed something that reflected our current level of expertise. We have found Photoshop elements to meet and exceed our expectations. There's a lot of powerful tools in this program that will meet the needs even of some demanding editors out there (in our opinion). Over the past couple of weeks, we have been able to do amazing things with our photos. It's a program that has some amazing tools in bringing out the best in your pictures. Overall we're very satisfied.

In terms of 'cons', I think people have to come into this knowing their expertise level. This is a program that has a steep learning curve and requires people to explore through trial and error. Some people want advanced tutorials and there are some that are provided; however this is a program that requires some instruction beyond following a tutorial or 'wizard'. With more power comes more responsibility from the user. If you are a novice, you will be probably overwhelmed at first with all of the options and some of the terminology (we were and still are in many ways). Photoshop elements requires some training (or exploring) in order to utilize it. People who are willing to do some legwork in learning how to use some of the powerful tools will NOT be disappointed and will grow and learn to do more with the program in the process. This may turn some of you away, but if you're a novice or intermediate photo editing user who is not at THE Photoshop level but interested in becoming better at it, this is for you.

For those looking for basic editing of red eye and touch up of photos, there are plenty of cheap (and free) products out there that meet your needs. This is Photoshop Jr. which will push you to go a little deeper to truly get the most out of your digital photography experience. After exploring a lot of what elements has to offer, we feel that this will fill the needs of most photographers. For those of you who may need more power beyond this program...well you have the Daddy of them all (and the price to boot)

Overall Photoshop Elements is great product if you're looking to do more than basic editing at a respectable price. It works fine on our Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit version computer and we've had no issues.

2 out of 5 stars

Not excited. November 5, 2009
A. Jepson (Blackfoot, ID USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

I bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 primarily for digital scrapbooking & I so far I have spent way more time trying to figure out how the program works, that actually using it. I have never owned a Photoshop before, and to be honest, I wish I hadn't spent the money on this program. I've heard that it can do amazing things, but all I've created so far is a ton of frustration.

3 out of 5 stars

Do you *need* the upgrade - probably not October 28, 2009
Robert S. Tobias (Arlington, VA USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Firstly, if you don't already own Photoshop Elements and have any desire to quickly and effectively enhance or modify a digital image then go push "But it Now" and I'll wait for you to get back.

However, if you already own the previous version then the question is if it's worth the cost for the additional features. The answer lies in how you handle your workflow. There are certainly a lot of "improved" features but the big deal in this version is the organizer. That's not an issue if you typically shoot some pictures, pick out the ones you want to print or send to a web page, and then move on with your life. However, if you maintain a library of 10,000 images and need to find specific shots based on a number of criteria like subject, date shot, location, your rating, lens used, etc, then you need some kind of organizational capability. (The pros and other people wanting to sound important call this Digital Asset Management or DAM.) That's what's been significantly enhanced in PSE8.

A great suggestion (someone who I now respect called that) is to go to the Adobe site and download the fully functional 30-day trial of this (or the entire creative suite) and see if it meets (or exceeds) your needs.

FWIW, I prefer to use Acd Systems ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 2.5 - Windows for DAM (I want to sound important) and use PSE for when I have to move bits around.

5 out of 5 stars

A great product and a terrific deal with the rebate offer October 28, 2009
M. Morton (Odessa, MO United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is a fantastic photo editor and organization solution. I'm not sure why there are so many bad reviews. I had no problems at all. If there was one thing I would change, it would be to have two different launchers. One for the standard splash screen to select edit or organize and one launcher for the editor only. You can get around this by right-clicking on a photo file and select 'Open with' (Vista) and choosing the Photoshop editor. This will take you directly to the editor with the photo loaded and ready to go. This is the first "Elements" product I have owned, although I have used an older version of the regular Photoshop product. This is every bit as good for photo editing and much better in many ways. Overall I would highly recommend it to my friends.

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