Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements

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Product Features

• Perfect, transform, organize, and share digital photos
• Create impressive home videos with Hollywood-style transitions and effects
• Burn dynamic slide shows to DVD for easy sharing
• Use video clips in photo creations; include photos to video
• Spark the imagination and learn advanced techniques with easy How Tos

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002UDQ8G
• Item model number: 29180000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,517 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adobe Photoshop Elements plus Adobe Premiere Elements software combines two powerful products in one affordable package so you can do more with your digital photos and video.

Perform advanced editing Perfect your photos with advanced editing options that give you more control, and learn in-depth techniques with How-To guides. Brush away flaws Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control.

The Healing Brush tool allows for finer control when removing unwanted elements from your images.

Automatic Correction fixes common flaws in photography such as red-eye and sharpens colors.

Instantly fix common flaws Fix flaws quickly using automatic correction, and enjoy easy control with sliders, zooming, and before and after views. Get high quality with camera raw and 16-bit support Work with your digital camera raw data files and use 16-bit image support for smoother, more accurate color and overall great results. Use industry-leading technology Create top-quality images with software based on industry-leading Adobe Photoshop. Professionals have relied on it for more than a decade.

Use industry-leading technology Create top-quality images with software based on industry-leading Adobe Photoshop. Professionals have relied on it for more than a decade. Artistically enhance photos Add flair and personality to your photos with artistic special effects, and create fun composites from multiple originals. Convert to black-and-white or sepia Give your photos a classic look by instantly converting them to black-and-white or sepia tone.

Added features to Photoshop Elements 3.0 allow you to work with your digital camera's raw data files for better results.

Integrated DVD burning makes it simple to create DVDs that are fun to share and convenient to watch. No additional software is required.

Create dynamic slide shows Make compelling slide shows that wow your friends with transitions, captions, music, and narration. Quickly find any photo Find your photos instantly using powerful and flexible keyword tags and searches. Stay organized the way that works best for you. Instantly fix common flaws Fix flaws quickly using automatic correction, and enjoy easy control with sliders, zooming, and before and after views. Send themed photo e-mail Send your photos displayed within your e-mail instead of as attachments, and include decorative backgrounds and frames in a variety of themes.

Get high quality with camera raw and 16-bit support Work with your digital camera raw data files and use 16-bit image support for smoother, more accurate color and overall great results. Depend on reliable video transfer Automatically transfer all footage from your DV camcorder to the timeline, in one easy step. Eliminate the hassle of multiple stops and starts and of having to drag individual scenes to the timeline. Use eye-catching transitions Creatively transition from one scene to the next with dozens of dissolves, fades, and wipes.

Make eye-catching titles and rolling credits with more than 100 professionally designed templates for new baby announcements, weddings, sporting events, and more.

Burn dynamic slide shows to DVD
Quickly create dynamic slide shows with transitions, captions, music, and narration. Use Adobe Premiere Elements to burn one or many directly to DVD for convenient sharing.

Use video clips in photo creations
Grab a video frame and then enhance and use it in themed photo e-mail, calendars, and more. Or take it back into your video to use as a personalized title screen.

Include treasured memories in your video
Scan old photos or add images caught only in digital stills to bring variety and depth to your videos.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

252 of 258 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, Easy, Intuitive -- What Else Could You Want?, November 3, 2004

By	John L. Maillard "Digital Enthusiast" (Toms River, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a pretty decent digital photographer/videographer. I take a lot of photos, film a lot of video of my one-year-old, and pretty much know my way around a computer. I've been using Adobe products for quite some time, and when I heard they were coming out with a all-in-one video/photo suite, I was intrigued since my Pinnacle Studio product really had some problems and I was getting frustrated. So, when I saw Amazon had this product available and I could transfer all of my Adobe Photoshop Album pics right into the new Elements program, I was sold. And I am sure glad I made the purchase.

First, the Elements feature. If you have tons of digital pictures on your hard drive and spend minutes looking for individual ones to print out, e-mail, etc., then this program will suit you perfectly. All of your digital pictures can be tagged (events, family, etc.), and then be "sub-tagged" for even more personalization. It's quick, easy, and efficient. Also, photos can be e-mailed easily with automatic compression and cool e-mail "themes." In addition, the program lets you simply take a photo and color-correct it with one mouse click, add neat effects, eliminate red-eye (the best on the market), use the "healing brush" (ingenious) to omit perfections, and even splice and create all sorts of interesting photo montages, calendars, slideshows -- you name it. Elements is a digital photo enthusiast's dream. It has never been easier to get your pictures organized, fix them all up, send them to your family, and archive them on a CD/DVD or create an interesting slideshow, complete with music and animated fonts.

This brings us to Premiere, the video portion of the suite. As long as you have a digital video camera with IEEE 1394 connection ("firewire"), it's simple to get going. I transfered about 30 minutes of raw video, added music, did extensive edits and burned a DVD (4 minute video) in about two days, part-time, which came out exactly how I wanted it. Simply plug the camera into your PC, hit a button, and your entire video is put into a timeline view without any hiccups. Then, edit away. Add transitions, still videos, title screens, digital photos, music, slideshows -- the choices are practically endless. Different tracks allow two videos to be shown at once, providing neat picture-in-picture effects, floating text, animations, nifty titles, fades, etc. Integrated DVD burning with the ability to create your own professionally-designed DVD menu screen is also a major plus. Archive and store all of your videos and images in one place, whether they're from your vacation, the kids' activities -- whatever! Premiere makes it simple, and to date, I have not had one crash, hiccup, lost frame, or rendering problem. I have a dedicated hard drive (60 GB) for all of my video/audio work, and I recommend anybody interested in doing these types of processor-intensive tasks do the same. Premiere/Elements is installed right on this drive, so I have plenty of room/memory to keep the thing perfectly oiled and moving.

Adobe makes great products, and the Photoshop Elements/Premiere suite is no exception. Highly recommended.

174 of 185 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PREMIERE ELEMENTS -- I've been ** using** it..., September 22, 2004

By	handyman (Silicon Valley) - See all my reviews

I have been using Premiere Elements (PE) for several months through several beta releases and have used the final version for a few weeks now. (DISCLAIMER - I am NOT an Adobe employee or shareholder.)

Previously I had bought and used two similar "high end" products and was not very happy with them as a new user and new to digital movie making.

I've found PE for my use to be much easier to use and more suitable than the other companies' products. It never once crashed or locked up my system (WIN XP) as did one of the competitor's products multiple times until I stripped every single program out of my computer, loaded every single update and finally got disgusted.

With Premiere Elements I even used other programs during the process of preparing the movie to be burned and then during actual burning and ended up with an hour of very nice looking video that plays great on both the computer and the DVD player.

I found as I got used to using it that I could produce a usable movie with little effort and as I became more familiar and "explored" other features and option I got to really like the flexibility of processing the sound to remove the noise from my low end Mini DV Camcorder and started to tweak the video in each scene where the shooting conditions weren't optimum.

My personal opinion is that you can't go wrong with PREMIERE ELEMENTS and the package is a great bargain.

I've been a casual user of Photoshop Elements 1.0 then 2.0 and 3.0 with the combined Album is likewise a wonderful program with some nice new features to make it even easier to use for the beginner while providing some more powerful new features.

***I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PACKAGE !***

72 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, elegant and intuitive enough to get the job done, November 9, 2004

By	Faheem Ahmed "digital enthusiast" (Cupertino, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've had a few days to play with this package and although I haven't tested every single feature yet, I can certainly share my first impressions.

Let's start with Adobe Photoshop Elements. The new version now includes all the nifty photo organization and tagging capabilities of Photoshop Album, and I cannot praise them enough. I've tried MANY photo organization tools but most were too much effort for too little benefit. So I stuck with nested folders and waited for programs like Picasa and Brilliant Photo to mature. Both programs are coming along nicely, but Photoshop Album wins hands-down in terms of elegance, power and simplicity. Not only is the interface outstanding, and not only does it pack a LOT of power under the hood, it also makes childs play of doing sophisticated things like hierarchical tagging.

In fact, organizing and tagging photos with Photoshop Album is so easy that that you can literally tag hundreds of photos in a single session. I showed my wife how to do it and her reaction was, "So? Of course I can do that, why do you need to show me how to do it?" And that, folks, is the ultimate compliment. A few hours after unwrapping the software, my 5000+ photo collection was already sufficiently tagged to instantly locate all photos of me, my wife, our parents, several cousins, many friends, and eight different locations. I can specify any combination of tags to locate specific photos, e.g., all photos of my wife AND both of my parents, in San Francisco, anytime in 2003... and hey presto, there they are! WOW! Photoshop elements encourages you to compile photos into "collections" that you can use to create web pages, greeting cards, even hardcover coffee table books (highly recommended). I could go on but I think you get the idea -- every digital shutterbug should organize and tag their photos before their snaps get out of hand and Photoshop Elements is one of the best way to do it.

But Photoshop Elements is more than just photo organization, it is also a full-fledged photo editing and creativity suite. On the editing side, it has a "quick fix" mode just like every other tool on the market. The quick fix works, but results may vary. I personally felt that the quick fix in Brilliant Photo yielded better results more consistently, and also offered easier options to simulate fill-in flashes and so on. Photoshop Elements can do all that, and it can get just as good results, but it just doesn't seem to do that with the default settings. Perhaps I need to play around with the settings a bit more. But it goes without saying that the standard editing tools in Photoshop Elements are MUCH better than anything you can get with Picasa or Brilliant Photo, and frankly, they are even a cut above Microsoft Picture It. Once you learn to use them, you won't be happy with anything less. Me, I'm still learning and enjoying every lesson (there is a fantastic website called elementsuser.com which offers video tutorials).

Adobe Premier Elements is the new kid on the block. You'd think that more established consumer-grade video editing programs from Ulead, Pinnacle, Microsoft, etc. would have the edge over a version 1.0 product but it looks like Adobe is in this to win. Now, I haven't kicked the tires nearly as much as I should before giving a verdict but so far it has done everything it promises, and handled everything I've thrown at it, without ever crashing, hanging, or acting unpredictably. That's already WAY better than my initial experiences with most of the other video editing programs out there.

Premier Elements is not lacking in the features department either. It can capture video, import photos, add soundtracks, insert transitions, apply effects... all the things you'd expect. But it seems to do them all effortlessly, without breaking a sweat, so to speak. It even creates and burns DVD's, which is a feature only recently available in some (not all) competing products. I don't know how else to say this but it is almost as if the heritage of big-brother Adobe Premier makes it more capable and confident in how it handles video.

Net net, the race is really between Microsoft Movie Maker and Adobe Premier Elements: The former is simple, free, and fairly limited whereas the latter is elegant, inexpensive, and reasonably powerful. The others are somewhere in between and not quite as polished. Movie Maker was great for a few months but I outgrew it pretty quickly. Had Premier Elements been around when I began dabbling in ditigal video, my investment in learning the product might have been longer-lasting.

Having said all this, I should caution that I have a pretty high-spec machine (P4 at 2.8GHz with 1Gb RAM). I don't know how well these programs will run on lower-spec machines. Tagging hundreds of photos is a simple matter on my PC, but might be a tedious affair on slower machines. Applying transitions and effects to video clips is fun when it just takes a couple of seconds to preview each change, but might be more frustrating if you have to wait minutes between edits. Even the user interface, so beautiful and elegant on my machine, might be slow and cumbersome on a lesser CPU. In summary: The software is great and the functionality can't be beat, but your PC needs to be up to the task.