Product Description

Make the most of your photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software. A powerful yet user-friendly package, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 takes you beyond the basics to help you easily improve and perfect your images. Fix flaws, get greater control over colour and lighting, and create perfect photo composites. Find photos in seconds with easy to use keyword tags, and create personalised albums or interactive web galleries to share your favourites with friends and family. And because it’s designed with the needs of Mac users in mind, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 works really well with iPhoto too.

Edit

Instantly fix common flaws--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.

Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before.

Get exactly the look you envision with flexible layout options.

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 adjust specific areas in an image--Make image selections in seconds; simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make it blend perfectly with the background, or use professional darkroom tools such as dodge, burn and sponge to create the effect you desire.

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.

Easily organise your photos with visual tagging options.

Create the perfect group shot Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. Enhanced Photomerge technology lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite.

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.

Organise your photos your way-- Automatically copy photos to your preferred storage area, rename photos as they download and even automatically tag photos with your name and copyright. Group related photos into stacks to find what you need faster and reduce clutter.

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: #467 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2008-04-08
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

A no brainer for digital photographers
After trying this software you might come the the same conclusion as me in that Adobe has gone barking mad. A few pennies over seventy quid may seem expensive (given that most if not all cameras come bundled with free photo manipulation software) but compare that with a whopping £600 for Elements' big brother Photoshop CS3 and you begin to see what a bargain this software really is.

Crammed with many of Photoshop's tools and filters it is presented in an altogether more attractive interface which will appeal to more mainstream users. Adobe holds your hand through several potentially complex areas and has thrown in a few gems such as 'Photomerge' and the 'Convert to Black and White' tool (which, incidentally, is much easier and more intuitive than the programme's big brother).

I do have a few niggles - it looks more Windows than Mac and the install routine is overly complicated - but those aside I can find little to quibble about especially given the price.

As said in the title, this is a no-brainer for digital photographers of all abilities and it may lure more seasoned Photoshop users. Well done to Adobe for bringing Photoshop within the reach of the masses. And my advice to you? Buy it before they realise their mistake.
GR

Great value
This is great value. I hesitated about purchasing partly because of the reviews, including the ones that say it steals the full screen. If you work in Full Edit mode it does NOT do this (or not on my MacBook at any rate) - the desktop is visible and accessible at the bottom of the screen behind the dock.

I also wondered whether I might end up paying nearly £100 for something that was not a lot better than iPhoto but much less functional than full Photoshop. In actual fact it is a significant advance on iPhoto for image manipulation and does everything I want just as well as the full version would.

The only downside I have encountered is that it is not intuitive to use and the included documentation is poor. To be fair, Adobe do recommend that you use their website Help, but I'd recommend anyone who does not have Photoshop experience to also purchase Barbara Brundage's "Photoshop elements 6 for Mac The Missing Manual".

Most of the functionality of Photoshop. Messy installation and non-standard interface
When you compare the price of Elements to that of the full Photoshop, you have to conclude that Elements is excellent value for money. Elements must have around 80% of the functionality of Photoshop for about a tenth of the price.

What you don't get are layer masks, channels, paths, colour range selection, and CMYK colour mode. However, Elements has a great set of tools for correcting colour and tone (including adjustment layers), and all the filters, brushes and selection tools that you expect. It comes with Adobe Camera Raw, which is excellent, as are the options for converting to black and white, correcting camera distortion, and previewing changes to selections. Elements supports a large range of file formats and is compatible with files made in Photoshop.

I do have some complaints - not about the features, but rather the installation and interface. Elements uses an installer which installs applications and creates folders without giving you any choice. For example, Adobe Stock Photos installs even though Adobe has discontinued this service; you have to download an uninstaller to get rid of it. My other complaint is, instead of running in a window that you can move and resize like other Mac applications, Elements fills your screen and is fixed in place. Neither am I keen on docking palettes into bins - it seems to leave less room for your images.

Elements falls short of the elegance of my other Mac applications, but has an excellent set of features.