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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (Mac)
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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (Mac)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11 in Software
- Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
- Released on: 2009-10-08
- Platform: Mac OS X Intel
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Features
- Get the best exposure: Want to capture all the d
- Recompose photos to any size - without distortio
- Quickly find your best photos: No need to click
- See the same photos and video clips on every com
- Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds: Get jus
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8--Make ordinary photos extraordinary
Make magic with your photos, easily manage all your images and share your favourite shots online or in print with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software. The latest version of this best-selling consumer photo-editing software combines powerful performance with simplicity of use, making it easy to tell amazing stories with your photos. Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place where you can easily find, view and manage them, and then dive right into a full range of creative activities. Amazing new features include:
 Enhance your photos with bluer skies or whiter teeth in seconds. |
- Recompose photos to any size without distortion
- People Recognition--instantly find photos featuring specific people
- Photomerge Exposure--combine several shots into the perfect picture
- Auto-Analyzer-- Quickly find your best photos
Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds--Get just the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. And now in Photoshop Elements 8, when you perform one-step photo adjustments--including colour, contrast, and lighting--you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.
Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use options--Convert your colour originals to elegant black-and-whites, or use colour curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.
Step-by-step assistance--Want to touch up a scratch? Create a scrapbook page? Add artistic effects that make a photo look like a pencil sketch? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast.
 Create a well exposed photo from several differently exposed shots of the same scene with Photomerge Exposure. |
Easily create the perfect photo--Take advantage of amazing Adobe Photomerge technology to easily remove distracting elements from photos in just a few clicks, create perfect group shots and seamless panoramas, and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.
Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web--Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos.
Show off your creativity with flexible layouts--Make amazing printed photo creations, including scrapbook pages, photo books and cards, that you can customise to get exactly the look you envision. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.
Top new benefits of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
Recompose photos to any size without distortion--Ever wanted to change the size or orientation of a photo to fit a certain frame? Now you can quickly resize--even going from landscape to portrait or vice versa--without distorting key subjects like people or buildings.
Get the best exposure--Want to capture all the details in a scene that includes light and dark areas? Snap one photo with flash on and one with flash off, and Photomerge Exposure will combine the shots into a single, perfectly lit photo.
Quickly find your best photos--No need to click through dozens or hundreds of shots to find the good ones. The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your media so you can easily find your most interesting, highest quality photos and video footage.
Get the big picture--See the full effect of your photos and video clips from within the Organiser with new full-screen previews, which let you make quick edits to photos while viewing them.
Give your creations fresh looks--Experiment with new artwork and templates to give your printed creations fun and stylish new looks.
Enjoy support for Windows 7--Take advantage of support for the new Windows 7 platform and the hands-on capabilities of Windows Touch technology.
Customer Reviews
Photoshop Elements 8 on Mac
Having purchased PSE 6 for the Mac a year or so ago I was expecting a little more from PSE 8. hence the 3 stars, had it been more than a service pack upgrade with just a handful of new features, some of which can be replicated with a little extra work without using the menu option it would have scored it as 4 or 5.
The interface and been modified slightly with the undo arrows being more to the top right of the screen from the top left (Note not in the right place for most right-handed users). A few new features have been added, which in my mind do not justify the 6 to 8 revision. On my 2.4Ghz Unibody MacBook although its slightly faster in loading, its very slower in operation. Not at all happy with the levels window now being in the right-hand pane and not free floating as in 6. And integration with iPhoto is not 100%, click to edit can be set to load PSE, but saving back does not always appear to work in modifying the iPhoto thumbnail, (but that was the same in 6).
Not a bad price, and if your moving up from a version lower than 6 I would say work the purchase, but if you have PSE 6 I don't think its worth the upgrade. Like but most software houses Adobe seems to issue annual revisions (needed or not, the Mac skipped PSE 7 and the changes are very slight, for Windows users I would say if you have PSE 7 don't purchase.
The one and only
I downloaded the Mac update version (up from Elements 4, as I had refused to buy the new versions automatically like I used to do) and it really couldn't be much simpler. 1.3 GB is pretty hefty though for those with slower broadband. Everything was just fine, and is just fine. Via the Help menu I downloaded a few Adobe updates more.
I don't use Elements regularly and constantly, that way it is a comfortable thought that the new version will be very exactly like the old ones, only with more options. The user interface is more or less the same .....it only looks differently, yikes! Did I have a fright!
I am considering buying a book or two on the finer points of Elements 8. You'll never believe the things you can do, procedures and styles almost approaching pro level. Or you can keep it as simple as you want and only using Elements for resizing or a few fixes (contrast, lighting). You go a surprisingly long way with autofix, a few clicks and a faded photo gets new life.
I use Elements for both digital photographs and negatives, 20-30-50 years old. Oldest was a glass negative of some family members from several generations back. There's nothing like a simple dropshadow to infuse some depth.
Postcards, a small poster, signs ...Elements does it too. Jack-of-all-trades.
Only problem I've ever encountered is that Elements is not a pro app: it cannot handle the max bit depth of my Epson scanner. Actually it IS rather a problem, but the price tag of pro apps is beyond me. The last decent User Guide of 250 pages was in the Elements 2 package, it has since been on the CD or online. I would say that a beginner's guide is a necessity for the newcomer.
In sync with Windows at last
As someone who has to use both Mac OS X and Windows I find that Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 being available for both platforms makes things a whole lot easier when switching from one to the other. Working on files from a central server makes it the best. I highly recommend it.
