Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 8

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	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.

Complete photo and video editing made easy

• Make your photos look extraordinary, and share them in unique print creations and web experiences.
• Create incredible home movies with professional-quality effects and sound, and share them on disc, the web, and virtually anywhere else.
• Creatively combine photos and videos to tell amazing stories.
• 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 & Adobe Premiere Elements 8

Use photos and videos together in creative ways

Get the most complete solution so you can do more with your photos and videos
Get all the powerful, easy-to-use functionality of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements software, and take advantage of integration that delivers even more ways for you to creatively use photos and videos together--all for a great value.

Experience the ultimate media management hub
Bring all your photos and video clips together in the powerful, easy-to-use, fully featured new Organizer that's accessible from either product. Now it's easier than ever to find and view your photos and video clips and even protect them with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage*--enough for up to 1,500 photos or 24 minutes of DVD-quality video.** Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.

Quickly find your best, most relevant photos and video clips
Want to easily find your highest quality photos and video clips? The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your media for quality and interest.

	Premiere Elements 8
Easily manage everything from one convenient place. Click to enlarge.
Drop subjects into new scenes with videomerge. Click to enlarge.
Add visual appeal with hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions. Click to enlarge.
Enliven the action with artwork and motion-tracking animations. Click to enlarge.

Instantly add cinematic flair to your photo slide shows
Create a traditional photo slide show, and then let InstantMovie automatically add video-style effects, transitions, motion graphics, and more. Preview the slide show in full screen and then burn it to disc or upload it to the web to share with family and friends.

Do more with individual video frames
Capture a single video frame; add text, graphics, and other enhancements; and then put the frame back in your movie for a fun or dramatic freeze-frame effect. Or use it to create a personalized disc cover for your movie.

Include treasured memories in your movies
Add visual depth and variety to your movies by including digital stills and scanned film photos.

Share photos and videos in amazing ways on the web
Share your memories in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of new, animated templates that let you showcase photos and videos together. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos and videos for an entertaining experience. And share via public or private galleries--friends and family won't have to register to look.*

Get help at the right time
Get lots of help bringing your ideas to life--or just try new editing tricks--with relevant tutorials that appear just when you need them.***

Create extraordinary photos and tell amazing stories

Make all your photos extraordinary
Easily get the results you want with your photos. Get whiter teeth and bluer skies in seconds; recompose photos to any size without distorting key subjects; quickly combine multiple exposures into a single, perfectly lit shot; get step-by-step editing assistance; and much more.

Tell your stories in unique photo creations
Use flexible themed layouts--including many all-new options--to create everything from photo books and postcards to scrapbook pages and disc covers. Take advantage of online offerings to upload photos directly to the web to order greeting cards, prints, U.S. postage, hardbound books, and more. (Services vary worldwide.)

Share in amazing ways
Entertain family and friends by sharing photos and videos in visually stunning Online Albums with one-of-a-kind, interactive templates--including all-new options. Share everywhere on iPhones, TVs, and CEIVA Digital Photo Frames. (Services vary worldwide.)

Easily create movies with incredible results

Make incredible movies with less effort
Enjoy a smarter way to create movies, with powerful, automated moviemaking options that give you incredible results. Create movies instantly using creative techniques from Hollywood directors--just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically finds your best clips, trims away bad footage, and edits the clips together with coordinated music, titles, effects, motion graphics, and credits. Or customize your results with less effort using automated options that trim unwanted footage, fix bad footage, and intelligently balance your audio elements.

Add professional-quality effects and sound
Add entertaining graphics, text, or effects that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes. Give your movies professional style with dazzling visual and audio effects, including many new options. Easily combine elements of different videos for entertaining results, or impress your audience by adding animated titles; rich audio; amazing special effects; TV-style transitions; and custom, professionally designed motion menus.

Share your movies virtually everywhere
Easily share your movies on DVD or Blu-ray Disc; broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube; share in dynamic Online Albums or on your personal website; or play movies on mobile phones and other devices.

* Available in the United States only. Internet access required. Also available at Photoshop.com; no purchase necessary.
** Photo capacity estimate based on JPEG file at 1,944x2,592-pixel resolution. Video capacity estimate based on DVD MPEG-2 video and audio. Actual capacity will vary based on your content.
*** Available in the United States only. Internet access required.

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Big jump from PSE 5, November 23, 2009
By David Crabtree (California, USA)
The negative reviews seem to be focused upon certain applications and are no doubt valid for those concerns.
Now for the rest of us with amateur or semi-pro photographic needs.
I have been using PSE (Print Shop Elements) 5 for the last couple of years and it has worked wonderfully from minor fixes, to detailed repairs of damaged pictures. As my fun, and experiences expanded, I found that I needed more options and features. PSE 8 has fit the bill just fine as the differences between #5 and #8 are significant.
The manual is on the disk which is fine, but I like a hard copy manual especially when I'm first learning a program or if I have a new or particular need. So....I've put one of the after market books on my Wish List.



Trial Version Issues - Sour Lemon, November 19, 2009
By R. Hirko (Chicago, IL United States)
These reviews were so helpful! I spent nearly a full weekend trying to fix the errors, upgrading to 2.5 GB RAM (needed to be done anyway) and reading blogs to downgrade QuickTime and iTunes versions. Yet it is still very, very slow and freezes incessantly.

I need a new program to burn home videos and hope I can find one. At least I didn't buy it... this was the first one that looked good but ended up being a lemon.



Crash and Burn, November 16, 2009
By Ken (Rogers AR)
I cannot believe the problems with this program, i have a very updated computer with huge HD capacity and 12 gigs of ram, i only run this program alone without any other program running in the background and each time i have used it the program freezes, locks up everything and looses any and all work that i was attempting to complete. The final straw came when trying to print a picture, the program locked up as usual etc.etc. Did a restart and the blue screen of death lit up before i could even get to the safe mode, each restart same thing, not even to safe mode. Lucky for me i have an IT depatrment available, lugged in my 50# computer and after a couple of days the results were in. Photoshop corrupted several files ( I never told them what program i was running) and corrupted one of the hard drives which had to be replaced. I have been using earlier versions and dont know what Adobe has done to this program but i am not about to try it again. By the way, a reinstall ( after all this is not an inexpensive program) resulted in the program being loaded twice with conflicting error messages that did not allow either one to be uninstalled and they now lurk in the background taking up space, support just wasted my time and had no clue what to do to even get to a safe screen to start from, nor could they help fix the conflicting error messages. I am like i said lucky to have an IT department who were able to get me up and running. i am just very disappointed with everything to do with this program.

Lighthouse 2 by the way has worked very well, just dont know if i can relax and trust it!



Doesnt work for me, November 15, 2009
By T. Bradley (NY)
Bought this bundle to edit mp4 HD videos from my Kodak Zi6. Have a decent computer with plenty of memory. This program just freezes up when I start messing with imported video clips. Very disapointed. I thought Adobe would be a quality product since photoshop is usually awesome. Should have bought Corel or Sony..



I am so sad... I should have read the reviews!, November 4, 2009
By EEB (Novi, MI United States)
Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements V8 - just does not work. I have been flooded with error messages since installing. I've contacted Microsoft (thinking it was a problem running under Windows Media Edition) and also contacted Adobe and stalked the message boards and forums. The best advice I received so far is to uninstall and return the product for refund. My system meets all of the minium requirements, so I am sad to report - I really don't have an idea on WHY it doesn't work.