Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 for Windows From Adobe Inc.

Product Description 

Bring your photo and video collection to life in vibrant home movies and photo creations you’ll enjoy for years to come. AdobePhotoshop Elements 10 & Adobe Premiere Elements 10-the newest version of the No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editingsoftware-makes it easy to edit and create using automated options, share photos and movies with your social network,and view photos and videos virtually anywhere you are. Award winning for 10 years.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67 in Digital Software
• Brand: Adobe Inc.
• Released on: 2011-10-06
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
• Format: Download
• Original language: English

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Features

• Complete photo- and video-editing solution, Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 & Adobe Premiere Elements 10 software helps you bring your photo and video collection to life in vibrant home movies and photo creations you?ll enjoy for years to come.
• Create sensational photos as well as unique cards, calendars, scrapbook pages, photo books, and more.
• Make memorable home movies with professional-quality effects and sound.
• Creatively combine photos and videos to tell entertaining stories.
• Quickly share your photos and movies virtually anywhere, including on Facebook, YouTube, discs, Online Albums, and more.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description

Turn everyday memories into sensational photos you'll cherish forever. Adobe Photoshop Elements 10--the newest version of the #1 consumer photo-editing software--makes it easy to edit and create using automated options. Make flawed photos phenomenal with a brush stroke, create perfect group shots, and easily add patterns and effects. Tell your stories in unique printed creations and Online Albums, share photos with your social network, and view photos virtually anywhere you are.

Turn everyday memories into sensational photos you'll cherish forever.

The #1 Selling Consumer Photo-Editing Software

Choose a Trusted Solution

Bring your photos to life with a powerful solution from the makers of Adobe Photoshop software, the professional standard for image editing.

Do It All With One Powerful Yet Simple Product

Use Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 software for all your photo needs. Edit, enhance, and find photos; make custom creations; share via print, the web, and mobile devices; help protect photos; and view photos virtually anywhere you are.

Enjoy Your Photos on the Go

Easily share your photos with your social network and view photos virtually anywhere you are. Photos are synced between your desktop and devices so you see the same ones at home and on the go.

Easily Find All Your Photos and Video Clips

Easily find all your media in the convenient Organizer. Use automated options to find your best photos and clips--or photos of specific things and people. Then dive into a range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.

Go From Flawed to Phenomenal in Seconds

Use one-step shortcuts to whiten teeth; make skies bluer; and fix color, contrast, and lighting--and then choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews. Instantly unclutter photos, and use crop guides to improve composition.

Visual Search, now available for Mac, is also enhanced for Windows, making it easier than ever to search for similar photos, such as sunsets.

Show off your favorite photos and videos from your iOS or Android device using the Photoshop Express companion app, which lets you browse the online Organizer, find the media you want, and share in real time.

Dramatically Transform Your Photos With Easy-to-Use Options

Enhance specific areas of your photos with brush-on effects, including 30 all-new options. 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 easily fix a scratch, simulate depth of field, or design a scrapbook page? Use Guided Edits to get help with key steps so you can get the results you want fast.

Easily Create the Perfect Photo

Take advantage of amazing Photomerge technology to easily match the style of one photo to another; create fuller panoramas, perfectly lit shots, and great group shots; and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.

Get Creative Inspiration

Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. New how-tos help you explore creative possibilities.

Share Experiences in Fresh, Exciting Ways on the Web

Show off your photos and videos in one-of-a-kind, interactive Online Albums with your choice of animated templates. Share them in public or private galleries--friends and family won't have to register to look.

Show off Your Creativity With Flexible Layouts

Make scrapbook pages, cards, and more in minutes using professionally designed templates, or customize every aspect of your creations. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.

People Recognition automatically identifies the people in your photos, taking the work out of tagging each photo (also works with dogs like Buddy, above).

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

Paint Effects Onto Specific Photo Areas

Simply paint on 1 of 100 effects and patterns, including 30 new options, to enhance areas of your photos. New effects include Snow, Pencil Sketch, and Oil Pastel.

Easily Create Stunning Photo Effects

Use new Guided Edits for step-by-step assistance when you want to highlight your subject by simulating depth of field, add a diffuse glow to create a dreamlike Orton Effect, or break a photo up into a fun collage of snapshots.

Now you can quickly import and share your video clips to YouTube, directly from the Organizer.

The Smart Brush makes it easy to paint on effects and patterns to certain areas of your photos with simple brush strokes.

Add Curving, Flowing Text

Give photos or creations added flair with text that curves or flows any way you wish.

Tag Faster Using Your Facebook Friends List

Use your Facebook Friends list to quickly tag faces in your photos and easily share them on Facebook.

Find Photos That Contain Specific Objects

Want to find shots that include your surfboard, your grandma's house, or the Eiffel Tower? Let Object Search automatically find your photos based on what's in them.

Get Better Composition With Crop Guides

Make any photo more interesting or energetic using new crop guides. Choose either the Rule of Thirds or Golden Ratio option to create the best composition for your photo.

Easily Manage Even the Biggest Photo Library

Let Photoshop Elements automatically detect duplicate or nearduplicate photos so you can quickly group them or delete the ones you don't need. And count on improved search to find photos that have common content and color characteristics.

Get Fresh Looks With New Templates

Impress friends and family by sharing photos in eye-catching new templates for printed photo creations and Online Albums.

Save Photo Creations With Greater Flexibility

Enjoy the flexibility to print, upload, and share your photo creations just about anywhere thanks to the ability to save to JPEG and PDF file formats.

Upload to YouTube

Upload your video clips to YouTube directly from the Organizer.

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Customer Reviews

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful and feature dense image editing (and Adobe *really, really* wants you online!)...
By 35-year Technology Consumer
Photoshop Elements (PSE) 10 --like its predecessor versions-- has enough features to rapidly surpass the skills --and time available to tinker-- of most amateur digital photographers...even highly skilled ones. The overall interface will be familiar to user of PSE versions as far back as PSE 6 or 7. It incorporates most of the multiple image merge functions that have been around since PSE 7. As with previous versions, PSE 10 offers this for a fraction of the cost of its professional (and professionally priced!). big brother, Photoshop CS5. Most amateur photographers --and even some frugal professionals-- can perform all but the most advanced digital editing with PSE 10 (and then use the money saved for some nice new hardware!).

Note: This review assumes some familiarity with digital photography and digital image concepts, and previous exposure to earlier PSE versions.

Installation:
-No issues with installation on a machine with a fresh (less than two weeks old) install of Windows 7, a dual-core 3 GHZ processor and 4 GB of RAM.

-Unlike PSE 8, PSE 10 does not require users to decide whether to continue using an earlier version or use the new version exclusively. You have the option to use --or remove-- both version 10 and an earlier version (but you can't do so at the same time: I tried!).

-The license for this product permits installation on one primary and one "mobile" computer, with the restriction not to use on both computers at the same time.

-Total installation time (including entering the registration code and skimming the EULA) took less than 10 minutes. This was followed by PSE 10's "Organizer" peforming its own indexing of the digital images on my computer. Cataloging nearly 50,000 digital images took slightly less than an hour. If you're a Windows user and store your images in a non-default "My Pictures" location under your user name: you'll have to tell PSE where to browse for this indexing.

Function and features:
-The interface, function and features of PSE 10 will be familiar to users of recent PSE versions. The .psd files are still manipulated using layers and selection tools. The complete range of image effects ("filters"), image enhancement and editing tools are essentially unchanged since version 6. Still present are options to open, edit and save in wide range of file formats.

-PSE 10 recognized the scanner on my system, and immediately allowed imports of scanned images using both the scanner's proprietary interface (Epson software) and the generic WIA Windows Image Acquisition, the successor to TWAIN) options.

-Output to the printers on my system was trouble-free. Accepting the default printing options yielded fine results, but advanced options for those who like to tweak are readily available. PSE 10 successfully offered options to print to the two physical (laserjet, inkjet) and two virtual (Acrobat and Microsoft Document Writer) printers attached to my desktop.

Issues:
-PSE 10 and Adobe continue to assume plenty about user connectivity. All of the help files for PSE 10 are online. Select "Help" in the menu bar (or press the "F1" key), and you are not taken to local help files...you are taken to adobe.com. This is fine if you are connected to the Internet, but less fine if you are not (and some people are NOT connected at all times). You can optionally download a 27 MB .pdf user guide. This is an option you'll want to exercise if you anticipate needing help while not online or if you have bandwidth constraints where you work.

-Adobe also continues to also push its online services hard. At install, and *every* time you launch PSE 10, you will be invited to enter your "Adobe Online ID". If you register (and you'll probably want to just for update notifications), you'll get some free services (2 GB of storage and some sharing functions). This seems to be aimed at two things:
(1) tracking use habits of users (my opinion only; but read the EULA carefully!)
(2) enticing you into the $49.99 per year "PSE 10 Plus" services (20 GB of online storage and some sharing and effects services). While I suppose the integration with PSE is nice, you can register your own domain --with unlimited storage-- from hundreds of providers for much less than this. Resist!

As long as you download the .pdf file so you have access to help files when offline, and remain aware of what *any* software company may be doing when they solicit you to use the online extensions of their products: these are not serious shortcomings. But my suspicions about how Adobe might track user behavior and over-reliance on online help files are what move this from a 5-star to a 4-star review.

Summary:
-PSE 10, like all of its predecessors is feature dense. Even powerful users will benefit from additional help. In addition to widely available online forums (hosted by Adobe and elsewhere on the web; search popular video sites for step-by-steps on even the most advanced functions), a reference book will improve your user experience. Remember: technology is complicated, and you're not a dummy! Rather than something in yellow and black that calls you names, consider the Photoshop Elements 10 "Missing Manual" instead.

PSE 10 is a powerful image editing tool priced modestly for consumers, with many of the version 8 issues resolved, but without a dramatic change to the user interface. Is it worth upgrading from version 8 or 9? Probably not. But if you're ready to do take on some powerful editing of your digital images, PSE 10 is a good choice if you don't already run one of these recent earlier version.

Finally, a note for the frugal:
if you can do without the instant gratification of installing from a download: the
DVD version of the same application is (as of this writing) selling for a considerably lower price (twenty dollars lower). This can is always, but is worth checking before you buy.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great set of digital darkroom tools for the best in Photo Software
By Bob
I was really angry when my version of Photoshop 6.2 quit working on windows ME or Vista not sure it was years back, I really loved that software and though I did try a few versions of inexpensive Adobe products in the past, none has come close to what I had in that software that MS took away by not allowing older software to migrate to their new OS I think I was running XP at the time but wasn't too happy that a pretty expensive bit of software was gone because of MS decided to make their not make their OS backward compatible.

Anyway It took a few years and a few sub-par products to finally find something that works as well or nearly as well as that old software did, but there are allot of are inexpensive replacements these days. In fact shareware and freeware products have gone comercial and are charging as much or more than this version of Adobe imaging software, and honest I find that hard to beliieve.

I bought the download becuase I needed something fast to import and fix some old photo's ( for safety reasones I saved it to my external hard drive just incase something happens to this machine or I buy a new PC ), but after a few hours playing with this software and I'm pretty happy, it made the correction in faded yellow photo's I wanted it to do, and for the money... forget it. Compared to the other two imaging software packages I've purchased recently this is like going from a decent shareware product to a solid photo imaging platform again.

I know we have our own favorites, and there's allot of opinion concerning these products, but in this case I've been expecting to spend allot of money and found this package to do just about everything my old ful version of Photoshop did, plus it has some features that the old Photoshop didn't have ( primarily concerning digital imagery ) so I'm very happy, and would recommend this product to anyone I know with no hesitation or concerns that they might find it lacking perticularly for the money.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Best Deal
By Jeffery P. Lorig
Don't waste your money on the pro version that Adobe offers unless you are actually getting paid for doing graphic design.
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