Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Plus Premiere Elements 2.0 [DVD]

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Product Features

• Get two powerful digital media products in one affordable package
• Photoshop Elements lets you edit, enhance, organize and share photos creatively
• Premiere Elements lets you create your own home movies and create professional-quality DVDs
• Design DVD menu templates in Photoshop Elements and use them in Premiere Elements
• Share photo slide shows on DVD

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AP89W6
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 2, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,389 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

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Get two outstanding digital media products in one affordable package with the combination of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0. Not only is each product a powerful tool alone, but together you can use their combined strength to meet all of your digital photo and video needs.

Design DVD menu templates in Photoshop Elements and save them to use in Premiere Elements.

Burn photo slide shows to DVD to show on your TV and share with friends.

Instantly fix common flaws with tools that automatically correct skin tone, lighting, color, and more.

Easily find and view photos using keyword tags.

Grab from virtually any media device with the new Media Downloader.

Choose from hundreds of special effects to dazzle your audience.

Create photo slide shows in Photoshop Elements and then use Premiere Elements to burn them to DVD to show on your television to friends on family. When creating special photo emails, calendars, and photo albums in Photoshop Elements, you can add a video frame captured from Premiere Elements. And include still photos from Photoshop Elements in your home videos created with Premiere Elements to add interest and variety. Adobe Premiere Elements also automatically converts text and graphics created in Photoshop Elements to be optimized to look perfect in video.

About Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0
Based on powerful and professional photo editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 helps you edit and share your photos easily and conveniently. Ideal for home users and hobbyists, Photoshop Elements 4.0 provides all the tools you need to edit and enhance photos while expressing your creativity.

Editing tools let you correct common photo flaws, such as lighting, skin tone, color and contrast. Even red eye can be corrected automatically as new photos are downloaded. When making changes to color, you can compare a range of color variations side by side with the original to select the option that looks the best. You can also instantly see the changes you make with before and after views in Quick Fix mode. Photoshop Elements 4.0 can divide scanned photos, so you can scan several photos at the same time and they will be automatically divided, straightened and saved. Rotating and cropping photos is simple with the touch of a button.

If you want more control over the look and feel of your photos, you can select specific areas of the photo to retouch manually. Use the Spot Healing Brush or Healing Brush to brush away flaws, unwanted objects, or wrinkles. Additionally, you can control color temperature, tint, shadows, highlights, and exposure. Enhance photos with tools to add depth, shadows, and glow, or convert photos to black-and-white or sepia tones. Apply colored filters that mimic real-world photography effects, simulate the look of a painting, or add surreal effects like warping, twisting, and pulling. You can even make composite photos and add special effects, text, graphics and shapes for fun and exciting collages or panoramas. And if you demand precise control over the final product, how-to guides are included to teach you more in-depth techniques and advanced editing options.

Sharing photos is easy with a variety of options. It's simple to make customizable slideshows that feature special effects like zoom, pan, transitions, captions, narration, and music from your own digital audio library. Adobe Photoshop Services include a personal online photo album that lets you share photos with friends and family around the globe, and even allows others to order prints or hard-bound photo books. Make animated GIFs for the Web and preview them in Photoshop Elements. If you want to email photos, you can now embed photos directly in the email and include colorful backgrounds and frames. Photos can be sent to mobile phones or viewed on a Palm OS handheld. Slideshows can also be viewed on your home television via your home network on video CD and you can control the show with a TV remote.

Organize photos the way you want by using keyword tags. After you've tagged a photo with your own keywords, you can then click on any of these tags to view photos by place, people, or topic without having to spend time browsing through all your photos. Photoshop Elements 4.0 will also instantly find all photos that contain faces, so that you tag photos of friends and family quickly and easily. Or you can browse photos by date including viewing photos taken from any specified time period, which makes seeing all the photos from, say, your family vacation quick and easy.

About Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0
It's easy to create your own cinematic masterpiece with the new Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. Import files easily, choose from hundreds of special effects, convert audio to Dolby Digital stereo, and add music, titles, credits and more. With a bounty of new features along with flexibility and ease of use, Premiere Elements 2.0 is a top choice for home users who want to make professional looking videos without a lot of fuss.

It all starts with easy data transfer of DVD footage via fast USB or FireWire connections directly into the timeline. You can now grab video, audio, or still images from virtually any device, including cell phones, DVDs, camcorders, digital cameras, and more, using the Media Downloader. Once all your files are ready, you can work in a custom editing studio that gives you a flexible workspace that resizes and adjusts the area to your needs. Once you delete unwanted footage, the timeline will automatically resize everything for you. If you want to save your project, you can easily transfer the work to another PC or archive it for future editing.

Hundreds of special effects are at your fingertips to let you customize and add sparkle and personality to your movie. And if you're unsure what an effect will look like, the sneak preview function will let you view the effect before you apply it. Special transitions like fades, dissolves and wipes--or even your own customized transitions--can make moving from scene to scene seamless. Add text and moving graphics, or even use TV-style effects to add more unique elements to your movie. Choose from professional Adobe fonts designed just for video and add shadows, glows, and other effects. It also features over 100 professionally-designed templates for credits. Make your own soundtrack in Dolby Digital stereo with up to 99 audio tracks that you can edit with precise waveform controls. If you're unsure where to start, the program features how-to guides, and the Adobe website offers free tutorials and hints to help you get your project going.

Once your movie is ready, you can create personalized DVD menus from dozens of templates or ones you've designed yourself. Choose from moving backgrounds, buttons, text, and more. You can automatically create scene indexes or chapters to link to specific parts of you video--just like professional movies. Burning DVDs requires just a few simple clicks. Or, you can save to VHS or other formats for handhelds, cell phones, the Web, and more. You can also view your movie in a traditional TV format (4:3) or in widescreen (16:9). Convert to NTSC or PAL in a single click.

Product Description

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software combines two powerful, intuitive products in one affordable package. Edit and enhance your photos, keep them at your fingertips, and show off your creativity in entertaining ways. And create and edit home videos like a famous director, add special effects, and burn personalized DVDs. Plus, use both products to burn your photo slide shows to DVD and save your DVD menu designs as templates to use again and again.

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Customer Reviews

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95 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I think PSE4 is a nice upgrade from PSE3, or for a new user, October 20, 2005

By	Photo Hobbyist (Portola Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I've been using PSE3 heavily for the past year, and now have PSE4. It's a nice improvement over PSE3 in some cool new features, plus several basic areas, notably documentation, startup speed, and scrolling speed.

First, the documentation has been completely rewritten. You know get a good-sized User Manual with many how-to's this year. I wish Adobe had more color in the guide, but least there is a full-color section at the end.

Second, the performance has been dramatically sped up. The slowest launch time of the Editor is down from 28 seconds to about 8 on my laptop. This should really sing on a much faster desktop drive! Also, the scrolling speed in the organizer is really smooth now...you get this really smooth continuous scrolling even in a very large catalog. (My catalog is >13,000 photos and videos.)

Finally, some of the new features are pretty amazing. While the File Browser is gone, I don't miss it because the Organizer is so cool. "Face Tagging" automatically finds the faces in your photos, and lets you tag by dragging tags onto the faces themselves, instead of onto a batch of images.

The Magic Selection Brush is pretty darn cool, letting you just mark "keep this" and "don't keep that" without having to do laborious selections. This is great when you want to take one person out of a picture, but you can also use it to select an area and then do all your color adjustments only on that area. It doesn't always work, but it's really cool -- especially since they linked it up to the great Quick Fix panel, and you can select with the wand, then edit just those pixels in the Quick Fix panel, instead of the whole image like in v3.0.

Overall, this is a really nice set of improvements, and I'm glad I got the new version!

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And the Academy Award goes to..., April 24, 2006

By	Vinnie - See all my reviews

For the price, I don't think these products can be beat anywhere.

I purchased this bundle in order to create a first birthday DVD for my daughter. It was extremely easy to import all the photos I wanted into Photoshop Elements. Organizing and editing the photos was very intuitive (and the tools are very powerful). I could have stopped here, using Photoshop Elements to crate a simple slide show set to music, but what fun would that be?

When I first started Premiere Elements, I was overwhelmend and didn't think I would ever be able to use it. So I took the (gasp!) tutorial and in about 30 minutes I had the confidence to do anything I wanted. I could not believe all the things I could do so easily (DVD menus with scene selectors, slide shows, incorporated video). One to the things I really wanted to do was have 4 video feeds all playing simultaneosly, with images superimposed on the video and set to music. This sounds difficult but was extermely easy with the software and a little imagination.

One note, I had a hard time buring from Premiere Elements directly to my DVD burner. The program would freeze before the actual DVD burn. As a workaround, I burned the movie to my hard drive first then used the software that came with my burner to burn the DVD. Even though this was an extra step It worked great for me. I would actually recommend this process as it allows you to view various iterations of your movie easily on your computer without wasting a DVD.

My movie turned out fantastic! I was a little overwhelmed by the entusiastic response I got from family and friends when I showed the video at my daughter's party.

I am very comomfortable using computers, but I had no previous experience in video creation or photo editing. I could not be happier with the results and I cannot recommend these products highly enough.

We are already planning annual sequals to this movie, a sort of video yearbook for our family.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars NICE AND AFFORDABLE TOOL FOR HOBBYISTS, October 26, 2005

By	VAL ODUENYI (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

For the non-professional artist and/or film-maker, this is as good as image-making gets. The combination of Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 let you take your hobby to the very top without breaking the bank.
Despite running much slower than the 3.0 edition, Photoshop Elements 4.0 has a number of new improvements going for it: particularly when it comes to enhancing and arranging images. Flexible range of manipulative features were included in this regard. Still, I was disappointed that Adobe decided to remove the useful file-browser feature, (which was present in the Photoshop Elements 3.0 edition).
Also, Premiere Elements 2.0 is capable of handling any amateur video and audio assignment that you may want to assign to it, but be warned that it is memory-hungry. Running this video-editing application on any computer with less than 512MB of RAM may end-up testing your patience to the fullest. Unless your patience compares to that of the biblical Job, do consider it wise to upgrade your RAM (if it is less than 512MB). In terms of processor, any Pentium 4 (or its corresponding equivalent) will deliver a decent performance. The same applies to dual Pentium III equivalents. A single Pentium III processor (or its equivalent) is not the best option here!
Finally, another good thing about this software bundle is that they support a wide range of digital photo cameras and video cameras. The learning curve for both Applications is not that steep. For the average person, one week of dedicated studies (and practice) will get you mastering upto 90% of their capabilities.