Product Description

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips. Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more. Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. Now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible. Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos. Start creating quickly, no experience necessary Express your ideas in customizable layouts Create photo books with greater ease and flexibility Entertain friends with custom slide shows and interactive web galleries Share with family and friends using a variety of fun options Instantly download photos from your camera Categorize photos and video clips with easy-to-use visual tags Group photos into convenient Albums Develop creations more quickly by gathering the photos you need for a specific project in one place View and organize your photos quickly, even when your library grows to include thousands of photos Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before Easily organize stills and video clips with visual tagging options System requirements - Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Intel Centrino 1.3GHz or compatible processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista, 256MB RAM, 1.5GB free space, Color monitor with 16-bit color video card, 1024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less, Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible display driver, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 7.0, or Mozilla Firefox 1.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 29230727
• Released on: 2007-10-05
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .60 pounds

Features

• Make your photos look their best with easy-to-use editing tools
• Do more with your photos in unique creations for print and web
• Easily find and view all your photos and video clips
• Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more
• Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more

Amazon.com
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can easily tell great stories with your photos. Make your photos look their best whatever your level of editing experience--a friendly new design and step-by-step editing assistance help get you started. Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more. Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more. And always find and view all your photos and video clips with ease.

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

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

Easily organize stills and video clips with visual tagging options.

Bring out the best in your photos
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips.

Make your photos look their best

• Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more.
• Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. And now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible.
• Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the adjustment blend perfectly with the background.
• Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.

Do more with your photos

• Get step-by-step assistance for making photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/ DVD labels. Simply choose the type of creation you'd like to make, and the appropriate tools and instructions appear at your fingertips.
• Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to make great photo creations in minutes. Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.
• Quickly create professional-looking photo books with flexible new options that allow you to view spreads, flip through your book, and rearrange pages--all with fewer clicks than ever before. When your book is finished, just click the Order button to have it professionally printed, hardbound, and delivered to your door.
• Create an eye-catching slide show complete with captions, documentary-style pan and zoom effects, amazing transitions, voice narration, and music. Or take things a step further and share photos in your choice of interactive web galleries.

Easily find and view all your photos and video clips

• With a single click, transfer photos from your memory card to your computer according to your preset preferences, so you can get back to taking photos sooner.
• Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your dog, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
• Place your family, work, or vacation photos into Albums to keep them together for special projects. And see just the photos you want to see with new Smart Albums, which automatically bring together photos based on criteria you choose.

Customer Reviews

photoshop elements 6

I had been using photoshop 5.0 on my vista computer and had problems with it
Photoshop 6 has fixed all the problams i had, emailing photos, crashing computor, slow opening I would recommend it for vista computors

Things to know before buying
-Trial software is same as product. Worth the effort to download and use.
-Rebate is VERY limited offer... Read all details.
-Needs fast PC. Read and exceed system requirements!

Pros
-Clean, Intuitive interface
-Can save keywords,caption,rating (metadata) directly in the photo's file.
-Edits IPTC, XMP metadata from main window (not just a dialog box)
-Two-way (photo to text/text to photo) drag and drop tag/keyword assignment.
-Multiple level Keyword(tag) categories
-Excellent Technical Support @ 800-642-3623

Cons:
-Selecting views by file folder is confusing (Show All toggle??)
-Importing fails on some older photos -where competition had no problems.(use trial period to test)
-Keyword categories don't auto-expand during mouse over (helpful in large, complex category lists)
-Keywords in Properties pane don't word wrap in pane, requires horzontal scroll bar (group shots have lots of people keywords)
-No Tag Cloud view for keywords (like Flickr or delicious.com)
-No Autofind/Autofill dropdown list text entry for keywords
-No option to automatically save/synch metadata to photo files (manual only)
-catalog deletions of keywords are not deleted from image file's metadata
-Software slows down significantly when more than 200-300 different keywords are used within the catalog.


I selected this for my mother-in-law, who is a PC Novice and needed an all-in-one (upload-organize-enhance-burn)solution without too many controls. We purchased this mostly for the organizer. There were some issues with initial importing of old files or files in different folders with the same filename. Once imported, it was a breeze to organize and 'tag' 7000+ photos with keywords and captions.

Warning don't use windows explorer to move catalogged photos-Do it within Elements or else:-(


For those with more PC skills, I would highly-suggest Idimager personal edition. It can do everything Adobe Elements can do, but the User interface is not as clean and there are a bazillion options within the User preferences dialog.

Great Viewing!!
Really great for editing pictures - great color!! Only problem I have is sending a picture to email. But I need to "read the manual", so thank you!!