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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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If you are serious or semi-serious about editing your photos I highly recommend that you purchase this. In addition, an important advantage of learning (and using) Elements is that if you decide to someday move up to the full version of Photoshop all the stuff you learned translates to the more expensive program. Also, there is a TON of instructional material available online (most of it free!) and in books that will help you learn this program.
I've included a short video showing a few of the features of Elements 10 and how they compare with the same features in Photoshop CS5.
If you just want an easy program to use to edit a few photos now and then you can find cheaper software programs, and many online programs that are free. One good free online application is Sumo Paint.
My recommendations to current Photoshop Elements users:
1. Element 9 Users: The new features in Elements 10 basically deal with organizing your photos and some quick and easy templates and photo effects. For the most part, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to Elements 10 if you have Elements 9.
2. Elements 3-8 Users: I recommend upgrading to Elements 10 because there was a huge improvement between versions 8 and 9 (content aware, puppet warp, and the ability to add masks to layers).
I hope this helps!
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.
Finally:
-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.
My copy shipped with a $20 gift card for online printing services from Shutterfly (available with any purchase of $20 or more), a trial version of Adobe Premiere Elements 10 (for video editing; $79 to activate), which installed concurrently (and optionally) with PSE 10. I have a functional earlier version of Premier Elements, so just uninstalled this trial version. Also included in this package was an installation CD for a 30-day trial of Lightroom 3, which I did not install.
The physical media for PSE 10 consists of thee 3 DVDs, One is for Windows users (Disc 1), one for Mac users (Disc 3). I was never prompted to do anything with the mysterious "Disc 2"; perhaps it is Mac-unique?
PSE 10 is a powerful image editing tool priced right for consumers. Purchase with confidence. 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 a recent earlier version.
Saving your work is confusing at first with all the options available to you. Let PS save the way it wants to, and never move a file from where PS thinks it is. The next time you try to open PS it will go fruit loops and spend the next five hours looking for it.
After a few days things start to make sense, and you start to figure out how things work. I am using PS on Windows 7, and a Mac also. Works just as well on both OS.
Once things start to congeal it is a very excellent program that will allow you to make beautiful pictures with which you can bore your friends!
Of all the upgrades, you don't really need to upgrade to version 10 from version 9 or even 8 depending on what you use PSE for,... Read more
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