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Editorial Reviews Product Description The Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Software for Windows s an intuitive, yet powerful, consumer image editing application for Windows. The software is designed in a way that anyone can use it, bringing the legendary power of Photoshop into the hands of even the most casual photographer.The software features tools that let you organize images into albums, retouch photos, create digital photo albums and share your photos with friends and family. A membership to the Photoshop.com is included, giving you 2GB of online storage for pictures and videos. You can share your Online Albums via a personalized URL, allowing you to view your galleries from anywhere with an Internet connection. Pictures automatically sync between your computer and your online account. Amazon.com Product Description The newest version of the #1 selling consumer photo-editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 combines power and simplicity so you can easily tell amazing stories with your photos. Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place where you can easily find, view, and manage them; protect them with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage; and then dive right into a full range of creative activities. Make your photos look extraordinary with editing options that let you recompose photos to any size while keeping key subjects intact; combine multiple exposures into a single, perfectly lit shot; and quickly preview a range of adjustments before choosing the perfect one. And share your stories in unique photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, and interactive online experiences.  A complete solution for photos. Extraordinary photos. Amazing stories. Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software offers a complete solution for photos:
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.
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Customer Reviews Daniel G. Lebryk Said: More Evolution - Not a huge upgrade from version 7 ( Nov. 24th 2009 )The new features in Elements 8 are more of an evolution from version 7 than anything revolutionary. I am not certain the upgrade is really worth the price. This review will focus on the differences between the previous version of Elements 7 and this new version 8. In general, if you are looking for a very powerful, stable, fairly easy to learn photo editing package - just purchase this software. Photoshop Elements continues to be one of the best consumer grade photo editors available. As a pure piece of software, this is a 5 star product. In the realm of upgrades, just barely 3 stars compared to version 7. For up graders - this is the easiest, fastest Elements upgrade yet. It actually couldn't get too much easier, insert the DVD, select install Elements 8, point to your previous catalog, and the software is completely updated. Earlier versions are not removed, and Adobe gives a cryptic warning about only running one version at a time. I upgraded from Elements 7 to 8, and my catalog of 28,000 images was imported, the catalog converted in under a minute. All my albums, stacks, tags, and photo ratings carried over to this version. Even the viewing preferences I used were carried over. Pretty darn smart upgrade. First run I had to enter my Adobe client information - big deal, I set up the account a long time ago and have never used that service. 2Gb of free backup space, hardly worth the trouble for my 65Gb collection. There is a new welcome screen that does appear significantly quicker than version 7. Instead of selecting what to do across the top, the organizer or editor choice is down the left side of the splash screen. The majority of the launch window is advertisements for Adobe products and services (I kind of hate that aspect). The software still annoys you with all those silly offers and warnings across the bottom of the organizer screen (you can turn them off in the Edit / Preferences menu). New to this version - you can now select between charcoal gray background and a slightly gray version. Some people will find that useful. I particularly like the gray background because it does not distract me from viewing the images. New is a View, Edit, and Organize in Full screen mode (found in the Display menu). This is one very slick mode. The picture expands out to fill the monitor. A thumbnail roll is on the very left edge of the screen. Center of the bottom houses navigation controls (much like the thin bar at the top left corner of the old full screen mode). The left side of the screen has two panels for tagging pictures and doing quick edit (crop, color correction, red eye, etc. all those tools that were present in the old simple edit mode). I liked this view a lot. Faces ID is probably one of the least useful tools added to this version. The idea is to select some pictures with people's faces. Let the software find the faces and then you manually give them names. Then the theory is, you've trained the software to find these faces and you'd like to let it scan all your photographs for that person. In practice, it's a pain in the rear end to use. It requires confirmation of the face detection after the software thinks it has found the same person. In working with 30 pictures, the software mostly found faces, misnamed people several times, and identified background elements as people about 5 times (requested names for these selections). With 28,000 pictures spanning 10 years, this will never work for my collection. Run Auto-Analyzer is another new feature. Select a series of pictures and run the Auto-Analyzer; the software automatically critiques your picture, focus, how many faces found, sorts them into image quality (high, medium, and low), and then tags your pictures with those attributes. It took a very long time per image (I am running a very very fast powerful computer) and the information gained or tagged was not terribly accurate (found two faces in a portrait, and that the picture was out of focus). From the organizer, full edit starts up much faster than in version 7. The editor is much the same as before, nothing really new in the layout here. In full edit there are a couple of mildly useful new photo editing tools. New, Photomerge Exposure - select a couple of pictures in the photo bin, select the Exposure Photomerge, and the pictures are blended together to make an evenly exposed picture. The software does all this automatically and does a decent job. I tried a few picture combinations and this would not be an easy tool to use invisibly without a tripod. The example is a flash picture with people in foreground and a black background. Then a second picture with the people underexposed, but the background lit up nicely (typical nighttime picture). This would probably work most of the time. In general, a tough effect to plan on using. Recompose is probably one of the worst tools yet. In theory this is a cool tool, mark objects to remove and keep, and then slide the picture border to resize the image. Instead of cropping or stretching the image; there is a smart deletion of unwanted elements, and eliminating background between kept elements. In practice, if the background is even moderately complex, all kinds of artifacts show up and really ruin the picture. It also significantly changes the composition of the image. In summary - a couple of new editing modes, a new way to use the organizer that focuses on pictures, facial recognition, and some new picture templates. Not a huge amount of change, and not necessarily worth the upgrade price.J. Donaldson Said: New features, old problems ( Nov. 21st 2009 )I've used Photoshop Elements for several years. The version I was using before this arrived was V4. I've always had a love hate relationship with PSE. I really like the organizer and the editor is very powerful. However the required switch from the organizer to the editor to edit a photo takes way too long. Then when the photo is edited and I want to save it and return to the organizer not only is it slow but I'm required to respond to THREE popups. Imaging doing this on 20 or more photos. It is very time consuming and not something you can walk away from while it does its work. Unfortunately this has not changed in V8. Clearly this version requires more computer resources than V4. My 4 year old Dell laptop with a 2GHz Pentium processor with 2G of RAM can run the program but everything is much slower than with the prior version. I removed V4 from this laptop just prior to installing V8 so I was able to experience how much slower it runs. I'll try it on my Quad processor desktop next. On the good side there are a few editing features directly in the organizer which helps a lot. Here are my photo needs: - I want to easily locate photos for viewing, and view them in logical groups such as vacation, places, people, family, etc. - I want to perform a few types of edits on many of my photos; sharpen, crop, straighten, shadows and highlights. - I want to perform a few types of edits on a few photos: clone tool, spot healing, resize, noise filter. The good news is sharpen and crop are available from the organizer without switching to the editor. And they can be used in batch mode to sharpen lots of photos in one operation. Great! The bad news is to straighten (I have a tendency to tilt the camera slightly), or use the shadows and highlights tool I'm forced to switch to the editor. There is no question that the editor is very powerful. Should I need to do anything complex I feel confident that the tools I would need would be there. There is also no question for me that the organizer is just what I need. What I like about the editor is the ability to create a hierarchy of tagged photos, a feature that is lacking in almost every other photo organizer. The hierarchy ability lets me do something like this: Vacations ...New York ......2004 ..........Watkins Glenn ..........Conesus Lake ......2007 ..........Reunion ...Florida ......2007 ..........Brother's house ......2009 ..........West Palm Beach .............Sister's house .............Boating ...California ..........Lake San Antonio ..............2005 ..............2006 ..............2007 ..............2008 Furthermore I can multiple tag any photo or group of photos. With that I can tag every photo of our son and see them regardless of where his photo falls in the hierarchy. The PSE organizer is superior in this area. So I like the Editor and I like the Organizer. I just don't like the time consuming and effort consuming switch between them. Another reviewer pointed out that ACDsee Pro is an alternative. I've downloaded the demo and I agree. ACDsee Pro is $169 so way more expensive than PSE but I'm going in that direction. The other reviewer was correct in that ACDsee seems to have everything PSE has but all in one package without the described painful switch. So for me 3 stars and a warning for others. I had a computer failure. I was able to take the old hard drive out of the dead computer and use it as an extra drive in the new computer. My 18,000 photos were there (and on backup media too) but the PSE catalog was gone. I'm now faced with reorganizing all my photos. Apparently there is a way to avoid this problem by saving the catalog from time to time which I wasn't aware of until I ran into the problem. If you use PSE you might want to look into this should you have the same problem.J. Riggleman Said: Love it! ( Nov. 16th 2009 )This is my first try at this sort of thing and so far, it's great! Easy to use and understand.M. Weekley Said: There's a learning curve, but a solid product ( Nov. 7th 2009 )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.A. Jepson Said: Not excited. ( Nov. 5th 2009 )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.« Back Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Windows NEW Win XP, Vista, 7
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