Product Description

Make ordinary photos extraordinary, create incredible movies and even combine the two in amazing cinematic slide shows with the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and Premiere Elements 7 Bundle--two powerful yet easy to use products in one great value package. Fix flaws in your photos at the stroke of a brush, make movies in minutes, easily add special effects; with full integration between Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements software, you can do more with your images and videos than you ever imagined.

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

Easily make movies and get incredible results with Adobe Premiere Elements 7. Click to enlarge.

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

Transform your images--Select and transform specific image areas with a single sweep of the new SmartBrush; apply incredible effects, and get whiter teeth or bluer skies in seconds. Correct colour and contrast or remove red eye in seconds; or retouch and fine-tune your photos with step-by-step Guided Edit assistance. Quickly create the perfect photo by cleaning your scene of unwanted elements or making great group shots with Photomerge.

Create amazing movies in minutes--New automated options select your best clips for you; or instantly edit them into existing movie using ‘Hollywood style’ creative techniques. Drag and drop thumbnails of clips, transitions and effects to the Sceneline to create any story you want.

Enhance individual video frames--Add text, graphics and other enhancements to a single video frame, then re-insert into your movie for a fun or dramatic freeze-frame effect, or to create a personalised disc cover for your movie.

Add visual appeal with hundreds of effects and transitions, interactive disc menus, animated titles, and professional credits. Click to enlarge.

Add stunning visuals and sound--Give your movies the professional touch with dazzling visual and audio effects, including animated titles, rich audio, TV-style transitions and customised interactive disc menus. Easily combine elements of different videos for entertaining results.

Centralised photo and video clip access--Find all your photos and video clips in one convenient location, no matter which application you’re using.

Add treasured memories to movies--Add digital stills or scanned film photos to your movies and give old memories a new lease of life.

Easy find and view options--Keep your photos and video clips at your fingertips with powerful search capabilities including custom tagging and new text searching. Scroll through your photos, apply tags and view and retrieve photos quickly--even when your library grows to thousands.

Make unique photo creations--Use flexible themed layouts to create everything from photo books and postcards to scrapbook pages and disc covers. Share photos in visually stunning interactive web galleries with one-of-a-kind templates. Take advantage of online offerings to upload photos directly to the web to order prints and more, and easily share on your TV and iPhone.

Share photos and movies everywhere--Easily burn footage to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, play movies on mobile devices, and share your clips and pictures with friends, family and even worldwide audiences by uploading direct to your personal website or sites such as YouTube.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #230 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2008-10-13
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.97" h x 7.87" w x 9.84" l, .57 pounds

Features

• Photoshop Elements 7.0:
• Get fresh inspiration just when you need it: Giv
• Backup your memories automatically no scheduling
• View your photos virtually anywhere: Show off yo
• Share photo memories with your favorite people:

Customer Reviews

Buy this, not Pinacle
Are you wanting to edit AVCHD from your SD card? I tried the latest Pinnacle Ultimate and it was a disaster. It kept crashing my new pc despite the high spec - quad core, 512mb graphics card etc - so after much wasted time and with considerable frustration I decided to go for the Adobe suite. The user interface has a steeper learning curve and is not as friendly as Pinnacle. The pre-canned effects are not as good. But what use are these if the computer keeps crashing? Adobe was remarkably stable producing a good quality edit in HD. The program is highly configurable so if you have the time you can create to your heart's content. The integration with photoshop is very good and especially useful if you like to mix animated stills/slideshows with movie clips. So if you have the dosh go for the Adobe bundle.

I also liked the way you can archive all the files used in a movie. This means you can keep these off the pc saving a lot of space, avoiding losing treasured memories while retaining full flexibility to re-edit your masterpiece later. Pinnacle leaves your pc in a mess of files.

If you are not into HD video then maybe the Pinnacle product would be OK but in this case the free software from Microsoft - Moviemaker and Photostory - can be tweaked to do an excellent job instead. Indeed I have produced HD animated slideshows from stills using photostory and wmm. There's quite a lot of help on the web showing how to do it. And they're free. Unfortunately moviemaker can't handle the AVCHD codec so once you are into HD video go for Adobe and save yourself a lot of heartache!

PsE and PrE v7 Review
I have used Photoshop Elements for many years and although there are things about it which are less user-friendly that other 'domestic' focused tools, its professional heritage does show through when you want to do something difficult ... for me that is good. I recently bought a Digital Video Camera, so wanting to keep my database compatible, it was logical to buy Premier Elements ... so I decided to upgrade PsE at the same time so bought the v7 bundle.

PrE is obviously from the same 'professional stable' and is very capable and/but shows its heritage in the user interface. It does require a reasonable (even high) performance PC with lost of Internal Disk (USB Disk is too slow and it goes away and sulks). My dual-core Lenovo X200s (which is no slouch!) is clearly on the edge. It handles edits just fine and is acceptably fast in most things; but it is rather inclined to crash, and as (re)opening projects take minutes, Saving often is recommended. I'm hoping to get it sorted, but right now, some icons don't display; it doesn't like running when there is anything else running on the PC; and recording Narration just hangs the machine. And be sure you disable the External Video Card option (default ON) if you haven't got one, that cured quite a few problems in itself.

But (perversely) I would still recommend the program because of its professional feel ... and I'm sure these bugs will be cleared in 7.n (hopefully soon!). And they are a great team.

Excellent
I have used Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0/3.0/4.o and Premiere Elements 1.0/2.0 and I must say, that Elements 7.0 is the best buy I have done for a long time.

Regards
Poul Anthonsen
Denmark