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Imserba Webstore - Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
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List Price: $99.99
Our Price: $78.49
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Manufacturer: Adobe
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
EAN: 0883919176659
Feature: Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 combines power and simplicity so you can easily go beyond the basics to tell great stories with your photos
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Adobe
Manufacturer: Adobe
Model: 65045174
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Adobe
Release Date: 2009-10-13
Studio: Adobe
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Features
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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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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Love it!
Comment: This is my first try at this sort of thing and so far, it's great! Easy to use and understand.
Customer Rating:
Summary: There's a learning curve, but a solid product
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not excited.
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Do you *need* the upgrade - probably not
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great product and a terrific deal with the rebate offer
Comment: 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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