Product Description

Make ordinary photos extraordinary with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. The best-selling consumer photo-editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements has everything you need edit, organise and share your pictures in one powerful yet user-friendly package. Easily improve and perfect your images; fix flaws, add incredible effects and create perfect photo composites. Find photos in seconds with keyword tag or date searches, and create personalised albums or interactive web galleries to share your favourites with friends and family.

Effortlessly select an area and simultaneously apply incredible effects with a single stroke of Adobe Smart Brush. Click to enlarge.

See all your photos in one convenient place where you can scroll through them, apply visual keyword tags, and view and retrieve them fast--even if your library includes thousands of photos. Click to enlarge.

Edit

New Smart Brush Tool--Select and transform specific image areas with a single sweep of a brush; get whiter teeth or bluer skies in seconds. Includes eight libraries with a choice of over 50 effects.

Easy and Advanced editing options--Perfect your pictures with a single click; say good bye to red-eye and easily perform common adjustments such as colour, lighting and contrast correction or enhancements. Before and After views let you instantly see the results of your changes. For more advanced edits, retouch and fine-tune your photos with step-by-step Guided Edit assistance.

New Photomerge Scene Cleaner--Has a passer-by walked right through your perfect picture? With Photomerge Scene Cleaner you can take two or more shots of the same scene and simply brush away unwanted elements to create a faultless composite.

Photomerge Group Shot--Never let a frown or closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. Photomerge Group Shot lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create your perfect picture.

Easily upload photos to your website, iPhone, or CEIVA Digital Photo Frames, or view them on your TV.

Enhanced support for working with RAW files--Get the highest quality results with non-destructive editing of camera raw files from a greater selection of camera models. Enjoy finer control over lighting and colour adjustments, and save time by applying the same set of adjustments across multiple raw images simultaneously.

Organise

Tag photos by keyword--Tag pictures by people, places or events, then instantly access all your photos of someone or somewhere by clicking on their/its tag.

Find photos faster than ever--Find photos in a flash using tag keywords, dates and other file information with the new search box. Group related photos into stacks for easy file location and clutter-free folders. A dedicated Project Bin provides easy access to all your open photos, photo book pages, and saved albums.

Create

Design your own photo books--Quickly and easily create your ideal photo album with simple options to flip through pictures, view threads and rearrange pages. Add professionally designed, colour coordinated layouts and a range of frames or artwork effects for a personalised finish.

Combine image elements for totally personalised pictures-- Take elements from different photos and combine them into new scenes. Add relatives to a family portrait, put a friend onstage with her favourite singer and more. Use Photomerge technology to combine features from different faces for entertaining results.

Step-by-step creative guides--Use your photos to create cards, scrapbook pages, CD/DVD labels and more with easy to follow on-screen instructions.

Share

Build and share unique online albums--With a choice of dynamic, animated templates you can create visually stunning online showcases for your shots. Adobe Flash® technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience.

Sharing Centre--E-mail photos, burn to CD or create online galleries from one convenient location. Create e-mail sharing presets to regularly update family and friends with new pics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2008-10-08
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 5.03 pounds

Customer Reviews

Amazingly good value for money
I switched to Photoshop Elements 7 from Corel Paint Shop Pro X, mainly because most of the digital photography textbooks that I have been reading (and their attached tutorial DVDs) seem to use Photoshop Elements as their photo manipulation programme of choice. I was also looking for a programme a little more advanced than Corel Paint Shop Pro. Photoshop Elements is not for the faint hearted. It is a big, powerful aid to photo manipulation that contains lots of hidden depths, and ideally you need some training to get the best out of it.

That said, for most elementary tasks the software is straightforward enough, and it makes a doddle of jobs such as red-eye correction, image rotation, cropping, and sharpening. Side-by-side "before and after" images greatly simplify the task of applying changes in lighting and colour. Entering text on the image is remarkably easy in comparison with Paint Shop Pro, and the clone stamp tool seems a lot more effective in Photoshop Elements than in other photo manipulation programmes that I have tried. Photoshop Elements allows the user to quickly magnify the image almost to individual pixel level, and this allows images to be altered with as much subtlety as the user desires. There is a huge Adobe user's guide available as a downloadable PDF file, and there are plenty of tutorials available free of charge on the Internet.

I found Photoshop Elements easy to install on my very basic Asus Barebones desktop computer. It opens up quickly, runs smoothly, and doesn't seem to have had the slightest effect on the computer's speed or efficiency. One is frequently aware of the programme's very considerable hidden potential, lying just below the surface. With the assistance of tutorials, I have already enjoyed exploring some of this potential, and I look forward, when time permits, to further experimentation. In short, amazingly good value for the price, and highly recommended.

What's new in this version?
I have been buying and using Elements since it first came out. There were huge differences between v1 and v2 and between v2 and v4 - but versions 5 and 7 (perhaps it's the odd numbers?) are in between versions with no real enhancements to shout about. Yes, Version 7 has a different splash screen heralding its features - but I cannot see any real substantive improvement on version 6.

Version 6 introduced the grey/black interface - making screen shots for tutorial materials very difficult to print and often difficult to read. This is continued in v7 and I wish they would give a retro option to revert to a white background.

Also for some strange reason the use of the zoom via a mouse wheel is not default and has to switched on in Options - rather strange.

Of course it is still good value - but not if you have Version 6 - or even version 5. It might be worth looking for an earlier version second hand than going for this release.

Excellent beginners tool, with powerful experienced user tools
I use Adobe Photoshop CS4
My daughter wanted to do some basic manipulation of images, but CS4 is a really steep learning curve, not suitable at all.

I got Elements 7 for her as the simpler interface and helpful starter screens direct users to the section they need; with hand-holding for usage once there.

I tried it and found that by going straight into the program, its still had the really powerful tools that Photoshop has, just not all the advanced and extra tools - which were of no interest to most users anyhow!

Installation was painless, the program is very able in setting itself up and runs well on a medium powered machine, no hassles.
Compared with the competition at this level, Photoplus and Paint shop pro
It far exceeds the capabilities of the first and is far less crash prone than the (at times) painful paint shop, which I used for 10 years until it got bloated and unreliable.

So far my daughter has had no problems using Elements, its intuitive and simply to use for most effects and she loves the extra levels of 'undo' and 'effect previews' - always a good thing when experimenting.

Amazon reduced the price dramatically-prompting me to buy it immediately;
well worth the investment and I'd say good for starters, intermediates and experienced users that don't want to pay hundreds more (literally) for the full blown Photoshop.