Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
From: Adobe
Category: Software

List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $84.99
(as of March 10, 2010, 1:19 PST.)
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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 109 reviews
Sales Rank: 14

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Xp, Windows
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 1.5

MPN: 65045174
Model: 65045174
UPC: 883919176604
EAN: 0883919176659
ASIN: B002ID8R3Y

Release Date: October 13, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

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

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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences, and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips.

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:
  • 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:   Read 104 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars It'd be nice to have an instructional manual included....   March 10, 2010
Lynn
In the past, I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 so Elements 8 is quite an upgrade for me. Many of the features included in this program are easy to follow & lots of fun to use. You can read about most of them in Amazon's product description. Others have me stumped. I know I could figure it out if I had enough time. I'd appreciate it if a good manual was included so I can more easily understand the process.

Some layouts, frames, etc. are marked with a gold ribbon which means if I want to use them I need to pay for an upgrade. Adobe, please don't tease me with them, either leave them out or include them in the purchase price.

I had fun using the recompose tool & found it fascinating & mind-boggling, a very nice tool...but when I experimented by removing an unwanted 3rd person from the photo & using recompose, I couldn't quite get the editing to work correctly. I watched a tutorial video, but it didn't address the problem I had.

All in all, Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 is a nice program. There are many editing features a novice will find easy to use; others that won't be so easy, but with time, patience & an instructional manual it'd be doable.

Through Amazon's Vine program, I recently reviewed a nice photo editing program, PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio, which comes with an informative user's manual making the more difficult editing features easier for me to use. PhotoPlus X3 also comes with a guarantee.



1 out of 5 stars Disappointing   March 9, 2010
chris cox
This sofware has many good quality editing features. But the killer for me is that you can't print in high resolution. The highest it allows is 720,l not enough for professional quality prints. I've owned this for over three months now. I periodically call Adobe (avg. wait time on the phone is over 1 hour) and their answer is always the same; they are aware of the problem but don't know when it will be fixed.


5 out of 5 stars Daughter loves this program.   March 9, 2010
C. Trimble (Rock Hill, SC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

My daughter had used older versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements but she needed to upgrade with a new program. I ordered Version 8 for her and she loves it. She installed it in her laptop with no problems. She said it is "awesome".


4 out of 5 stars Photoshop Elements   March 9, 2010
James G. Connell (King of Prussia, PA)
I've been using the old Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition for many years now. My needs are simple and I needed a simple product to use for basic photo editing and this one fits the bill, price-wise and for ease of use.


5 out of 5 stars Love it.   March 7, 2010
Rose (Pennsylvania)
I have very little experience with Photoshop, and often have used Picasa. It's much easier to use than the earlier version I had (Elements 5). They have very helpful tutorials at their website and a free online magazine sample or two. In my older version to cut out an image I had to do it perfect or start over. In this one you can do a little at a time and redo sections. It seems to be smarter in outlining by itself most of the time too. I love the photomerging, and especially have used it for group shots to switch the best faces with just a simple line through the subject. Nice templates also.

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