Product Description

Make ordinary photos extraordinary with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. It combines power and simplicity so you can tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and the web; and easily find and view all your photos. And now, extend the capabilities of your software with new Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply).

Create a personal web travelogue for friends and family, or view and share your photos on an interactive map based on the locations where they were taken (Works with U.S. addresses only) Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates With Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply), you can - Show off your creativity with inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and templates delivered regularly to your software Backup your memories automatically and no scheduling required? get 20GB of storage ? enough for up to 15,000 photos View your photos virtually anywhere you are Share photos in fun, interactive ways via invitation-only Online Albums ? and you'll get new templates delivered to your software on a regular basis

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 65026616
• Released on: 2008-10-13
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Stay connected with your favorite people and memories with new Photoshop.com membership
• Make ordinary photos extraordinary with easy-to-use editing tools
• Share your stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and web
• Easily find and view all your photos
• Share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums

Amazon.com
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 software combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and web; and easily find and view all your photos. New Photoshop.com membership* works with Photoshop Elements so you can protect your photos with automatic online backup and 2 GB of storage; view your photos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums.

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.

Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates. Click to enlarge.

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

Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
Use Photoshop Elements with Photoshop.com* for all your photo needs--organize, edit, and enhance photos; make unique photo creations; share in print and on the web; protect your photos; and view them anywhere you are.

*Available only in the U.S.

Introducing new Photoshop.com membership*
Works with Photoshop Elements to help you protect your photos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and enough storage (2 GB) for up to 1,500 photos; view your photos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums. And upgrade to Plus membership at any time and get 18 GB more storage, and a variety of inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and templates delivered regularly to your software.

*Available only in the U.S.

Select and apply with a single stroke
Simultaneously select a specific photo area and apply incredible effects with a single stroke of new Adobe Smart Brush. Improve lighting, add rich textures, and more with eight libraries of over 50 sophisticated effects.

Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds
Whiten teeth, make skies bluer, get rid of red eye, and take advantage of many more shortcuts that reduce common, multistep editing tasks to a single click or brush stroke.

Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use tools
Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.

Count on 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? Photoshop Elements walks you through key steps to make it easy to get the results you want fast.

Quickly clean your scene of unwanted elements
You took five shots of your subject, but pedestrians and cars distract from the scene in every one. Now, see only what you want to see in your photos--use Adobe Photomerge Scene Cleaner to simply brush away any elements that changed positions between photos to create a single, perfect composite.

Composite with amazing results
Create flawless group shots in just a few clicks with amazing Adobe Photomerge technology. Photomerge also lets you create 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 dynamic, animated templates--including new, visually stunning options. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience.

Show off your creativity in unique ways
Make amazing printed photo creations--like scrapbook pages, photo books, and cards--that you can customize to get exactly the look you envision.

Organize your library with ease
See all your photos in one convenient place, and find photos fast using powerful, flexible visual tags and a variety of viewing and searching options, including a new text search box.

Customer Reviews

Photoshop Elements
I love this product! They have made some major improvements with it and I don't have to get the full version of photoshop to do the things I need to do for my photography business!

Very pleased
I am probably the furthest thing from a computer genius. I have had no experience with any of the PSE versions so I am starting fresh with PSE7. I have to say that I really do love it and have already created quite a few things using it. So far I am very pleased. If you have the previous version then you are probably ok. If you are new to PSE then I highly recommend it. I gave it only 4 stars because I find the "help" function to not be as good as it should be. But, I have taught myself just by playing around for a while. Oh, and I have Vista and do not find the program slow at all.

I'm thrilled
Count me as a thrilled ex-Corel (Paintshop Pro X2) user. After Corel decided to charge their loyal customers $50 for RAW file support updates I moved on.

I can't compare PE7 against PE6 and probably don't need to. Lots of users seem to be doing that already. I can compare against Paintshop Pro X2 though. You'll often hear Corel PSPX2 users take pride in their ability to get things done quickly without having to worry about Adobe's complicated workflow. "Let them have their Photoshop, we're getting real work done" is common. The other believe that has been held is that the Elements brand is for novices only, because Adobe won't ever add the truly powerful features from PS. I think PE7 destroys both these arguments, to be honest.

Organizer: I have about 5,000 photos and managing them hasn't been easy. Corel PSPX2's organizer is really just a file browser...functional but not outstanding. The big problem for me is that you click a directory and wait and wait and wait while the program creates snapshots for all of the photos within the directory. Because of this it is hard to dynamically navigate around in order to tag, move and sort photos. PE7 on the other hand, makes file organization a breeze. It takes a while the first time, to cataloge and create thumbnails. But after that you can search, tag, move, rename photos to your heart's content. I love the feature that lets you associate geographical coordinates with a tag. Once the tag is assigned to a photo, the photo now can be found on a version of Yahoo maps. Brilliant. Oh! And raw files from my Olympus E-510 are supported out of the box! No need to pay $50 extra to get this support (Corel, I'm looking at you).

Plugins: The other important feature to me is the ability to use photoshop plugins. Lack of plugin support in Lightroom is the primary reason I couldn't settle on that app. I have a bunch of great plugins that I've purchased over the years. They were always a bit wonky in Paintshop Pro, but they worked. However, now I'm seeing the true power of these plugins in PE7.

I haven't dug in to too much else yet, but I'd encourage folks to consider this program if you haven't yet. A trial is available from Adobe's website so you can see for yourself.

I'm running on an HP dv9000 series laptop, 4GB of RAM running Windows Vista 32-bit. PE7 runs smooth as butter.