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Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 8

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

55 reviews
Sales Rank: 141

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.5

MPN: 65045534
Model: 65045534
UPC: 883919176987
EAN: 0883919177021
ASIN: B002IJA1DC

Release Date: October 13, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days

Features:

•	Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software offers a complete solution for photo and video editing
•	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
•	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

Complete photo and video editing made easy

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software offers a complete solution for photo and video editing:

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.

Customer Reviews:

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Be aware of learning curve and system requirements. December 15, 2009
Jim
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

I came to the Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software bundle from version 7 of the same bundle. I therefore knew that editing video with Premiere Elements demands a great deal of a computer, and I now have a computer that is up to the challenge, that being an HP Pavilion Elite e9280t with Windows 7 Home Premium, 9GB RAM, an Intel Core i7-920 processor, a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, plenty of hard drive and backup hard drive space, etc. I've had no problems at all running the Elements bundle on this computer. My system exceeds the requirements listed on the box the software comes in, but every reviewer of the software whose review I've read says that Adobe's recommended system requirements are woefully inadequate to run the software.

It also helps that in addition to studying Adobe's Classroom in a Book Collection for the Elements 7 suite, I've worked with The Muvipix dot com Guide to Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 7 by Steve Grisetti (a version for Elements 8 is now available). In addition, I've done a lot of reading at both the Adobe site for the software as well as at the Muvipix dot com site - I'm registered as a free guest at each site. I can honestly say that if it weren't for the Muvipix site and book, I think I would find using Premiere Elements an overwhelmingly frustrating experience. (At present, the Muvipix community board has a set of free training tutorial videos for Premiere Elements 8 which can be downloaded or viewed online. The videos are basic but include some helpful tips.)

One immensely helpful tip I picked up from the Muvipix book and site is to convert HD (High Definition) video from my camcorders to DV-AVI (Digital Video-Audio Video Initerleave) before using the files in Premiere (using a conversion utility such as MPEG Streamclip). Steve Grisetti says, and in my experience with both Premiere 7 and 8 it's true, that things go the smoothest in Premiere when working with files that have been converted to DV-AVI. In my experience, just hooking up a hard- or flash-drive camcorder to the computer and downloading files directly into Premiere, can sometimes lead to needless (and for me confusing) complications.

I've begun to work with video footage shot against a green screen, and Premiere makes it easy to do this (and the Muvipix guide made it easy for me to figure out how to work with green screen footage in Premiere), and I am very happy with the results.

As for Photoshop Elements 8, I find it very easy and nearly intuitive to work with (as was my experience with version 7). My digital photo editing needs are simple and basic. I want to be able to organize my photos and do some basic editing, including cropping and resizing. My digital video editing needs are more than basic, as I like to make simple movies with soundtracks and sometimes special effects (such as the use of green screen). But I am a hobbyist rather than a professional, and Premiere Elements 8 gives me a lot of room to grow.

I think this suite may be more than what some consumer level users need. I have a friend who I would not recommend this suite to, simply because I know that she does not have the time to learn to use it, and although the software is intuitive up to a point, there really is a learning curve involved. (Plus, I know that my friend does not yet have a computer adequate to run the software smoothly.) I would recommend this suite to the consumer or prosumer who is closer to the consumer rather than the professional end of the continuum, who has a sufficiently powerful computer and who understands that learning to use the software, particularly Premiere Elements, requires time and effort.

5 out of 5 stars

Adobe Eight Review & Rate January 21, 2010
Gary A. Walker
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am an amateur photographer plus and resort to Adobe products in order to alter, change, highlight, etc many of the pictures I take. I don't just buy Adobe products because they're Adobe but rather what they can offer the purchaser with respect to new opportunities. I found Adobe Photoshop & Premier Elements 8 to fit in perfectly with what I already have, with what I intend to do.

5 out of 5 stars

Best for the person who needs "just enough" January 20, 2010
Sean Hoade (Tuscaloosa, AL United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

This really is a great deal -- it has more of the Photoshop stuff than I've ever even used, and Elements is fun and extremely useful. I'm not a graphics guru, but I was able to do everything I wanted with it -- modify pics and such for Facebook, edit PDFs, etc. I predict anyone who tries it will like it!

5 out of 5 stars

Don't understand the negative reviews November 29, 2009
Matthew S. Chan (Columbus, GA, USA)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful

I don't quite understand all the negative reviews. I think some people have unreasonable expectations for the price they are paying. I have upgraded each time since Version 4 and I have appreciated the improvements in each version. I have NEVER regretted the upgrade. Perhaps I am an entrepreneur and appreciate the time-savings and new features vs. the small amount of money I am paying for the upgrade.

The price of this bundle is still less expensive than many standalone equivalents. If you need super-powered features, you have to be willing to pay for it. For me, I like the incremental upgrades of each version. As I get better and more sophisticated, I become ready for new features and improvements.

Admittedly, performance can be slow at times but I am a fan of this Adobe bundle. I have tried the newest version of the competition such as Sony's and Corel's but I still come back to this great bundle.

For me, the simplicity of the interface is the reason why I keep coming back for more. But that simplicity does not mean you cannot tap into more sophisticated features within.

Overall, I would say before you pay too much attention to the harsh criticisms, you might want to consider why people also love this Adobe bundle.

Matthew Chan

5 out of 5 stars

Photoshop Elements and Premere Elements 8.0 December 11, 2009
R. Blank (Columbus, OH)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful

Outstanding software that talks to each other and compliments the tasks when in each program. It is my primary software for cataloging over 8,000 photos and making numerous Video/Photo DVDs.

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