Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• Share photos online via your personal Kodak sharing page; via email; and in professional-quality Kodak prints, greeting cards, and photo stamps
• Easy-to-use software walks you through key steps so it's easier than ever to improve your photos and make unique creations
• Experiment with easy compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos and seamless panoramas, combine elements of different faces for entertaining results, and more
• Easily make adjustments to color, lighting, and exposure
• Brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 8 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0012LMQFI
• Item model number: 19230236
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 16, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (123 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #170 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can go beyond the basics. Make your photos look their best, share them in creative ways, and easily find and view them. Photoshop Elements also works great with iPhoto.

Bring out the best in your photos

Make your photos look their best

• Create amazing composites with easy-to-use tools
• Get greater control over color and lighting
• Brush away wrinkles, unwanted objects, and other flaws
• Make selections in a snap so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo
• Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look

Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before.

Get exactly the look you envision with flexible layout options.

Do more with your photos

• Start creating quickly, no experience necessary
• Express your ideas in customizable layouts
• Share printed photos in creative scrapbook pages, cards, CD/DVD labels, and more
• Share photos with family and friends via a personal online album
• Make the most of your photo paper by printing multiple photos in flexible Picture Packages

Easily organize your photos with visual tagging options.

Create the perfect group shot Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. Enhanced Photomerge technology lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite.

Easily find and view your photos

• Download photos from your camera to your computer in a snap
• Categorize photos with easy-to-use keyword tags
• Group related photos in convenient stacks
• View photos just the way you like, every time, by creating a custom workspace
• Easily view and rate your photos in full-screen mode

Make your photos look their best

• Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more.
• Easily make adjustments to color, lighting, and exposure. Convert color originals to rich black-and-whites; fine-tune color, brightness, and contrast; and get the highest quality results by editing the raw image files from your digital camera.
• Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. Now when you use the Healing Brush, you can take advantage of visual guidance from an overlay that makes it easy to get the results you want.
• Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the selection blend perfectly with the background.

Do more with your photos

• Easily make photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/DVD labels. Simply choose the type of item you'd like to make and the appropriate tools and instructions will appear at your fingertips.
• Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to put together great photo creations in minutes.

Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.

• Easily upload photos and order professional quality prints, photo books, and more. (Services vary worldwide.)
• Quickly and easily share your photos on the web, via e-mail, and on CD or DVD.
• Easily upload your photos to a personal online album. Friends and family can view your photos and instantly order prints.

Easily find and view your photos

• Quickly transfer photos from your digital camera's memory card to your computer so you can get back to taking photos sooner. Automatically copy photos to your preferred storage area, rename photos as they download, and even automatically tag photos with your name and copyright.
• Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your family pet, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
• Group related photos into stacks to find what you need faster and reduce clutter.
• View your photos just the way you want to by creating and saving your own custom viewing workspace.

Product Description

Item #: Q40673. Adobe Photoshop Elements software combines power and simplicity to help you do it all. Edit and enhance your photos by fixing common flaws instantly or using advanced options for more control. Keep every photo at your fingertips. And show off your creativity in entertaining slide shows, photo mail, web galleries, and countless other ways. Product Description: Adobe Photoshop Elements - ( v. 6 ) - complete package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - graphics & image editing
Version: 6
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Licensing Program: Adobe Open Options CLP
Language(s): Universal English
Platform: MacOS
Distribution Media: DVD-ROM ( mini-box )
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Apple MacOS X 10.4.8
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Customer Reviews

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324 of 326 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Upgrade, April 6, 2008

By	Michael McKee "mystic cowboy" (Port Townsend, WA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Adobe labels Photoshop Elements as a program for casual photographers. It's a lot more than that and always has been. iPhoto is fine for casual photography. Elements gives great photo editing capabilities that can carry the load for some heavy duty editing. It doesn't have all the features of the full CS3 Photoshop but Photoshop has always offered multiple ways of getting results. Elements offers enough capabilitiy there's little that I haven't found a way to achieve.

Of course, if you have multiple SLR bodies and a bag full of lenses you may not like the idea of having the non-pro program. I use Photoshop in my everyday web design work but have Elements on my home computer and am happy with the photo editing I can do with it.

I've been working with Photoshop Elements 6 for the last 5 days. There's a lot to like. Adobe has added some excellent features from the full version of Photoshop like Quick Selection and Refine Edge. The new Color Curves feature is welcome too. Element's PhotoMerge options are incredible making it drop dead simple to take the best parts of several group shots and seamlessly combine them to build one great photo. The addition of Smart Sharpen along with more control of Unsharp Mask gives excellent control of sharpening now.

The three editing modes are well thought out. Guided mode is new and I initially thought I wouldn't bother with it. I have years of Photoshop experience after all. Wrong. It can be useful for common editing situations. And it's a great introduction to editing for the newcomer to Elements. Quick mode is still helpful and of course, there's the regular editing mode that come close to the regular Photoshop way of doing things.

Elements is also faster, finally Intel processor native. It opens a lot faster and runs faster. And Adobe has included Bridge with Elements 6, the same version that comes with the full Photoshop package. If you're moving up from iPhoto to Photoshop Elements it's great to be able to not have to deal with iPhoto's strange filing system and maintain control over where pictures are stored. Bridge itself is probably worth the $89 that Elements costs. It's a great program in itself.

There are some warts though. The Photoshop Elements interface does not look like most Mac programs and takes over the screen. The installer seemed to take forever to do its job and added a whole lot of clip art junk that I don't want or need, over 2 gigabytes for the installation. It's not even immediately obvious when opening the installation disk how to install the program. (open the language folder).

I do suppose that if you want to use Elements to create your own greeting cards or make cute scrapbook pages you might like the clip art. If, like me, you just want a photo editor, it would be nice to be able to choose what to install and not have to fill the the hard drive with images that will never get used.

That said, though, Elements is a solid upgrade and will handle editing for most photographers and a great price.

126 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Photo Software For The Amateur Digital Photo Buff!, April 5, 2008

By	A. Stagg (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

I am a brand new Mac user and was looking for a reasonably priced software package for handling my digital photos. When I tried to use iPhoto, I quickly decided that iPhoto's editing tools are crude and can provide only rudimentary editing capability, since iPhoto seems to be primarily designed to organize photos. I had used previous versions of Photoshop Elements for PC, so decided to try it for Mac. I have not been disappointed.

If you have a Mac and are an amateur digital photographer, this is an EXCELLENT software package. The software comes with a wide selection of editing tools, including filters and automated correction routines that will satisfy and exceed the needs of most users who do not seek a professional software suite.

The interface is easy to use and integrates with the Mac iPhoto software. If you want extensive control over the editing process, you may prefer the full version of Photoshop, but for most other users this software will provide a satisfying experience. The best thing about Photoshop Elements is that a complete novice can jump right in and work on their photos; but there are plenty of flexible features to keep the intermediate user busy too.

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent App, April 14, 2008

By	GorillaPaws (Virginia) - See all my reviews

I have only spent a few hours with this product, but from what I've already seen it is VASTLY improved over the old 4.0 version. Now that it is a universal binary, the app performs very well and is no longer something I dread to have to open.

Adobe even made some interesting Mac features such as allowing us to have our toolbars float instead of being fixed into a frame (as an option--you can still use the default settings however). While this isn't exactly how I would like to see the menu bars function, it is much closer to what I want and is a nice touch, showing that Adobe realizes that Mac users tend to want to see and use things a bit differently than PC users do, and that they care enough about us to accommodate our preferences. I really like how easy it is to get a description of any filter or effect from the included help since it does a good job of explaining just what it is doing to the image instead of you having to play with it for a while to understand it's behavior (a genuinely useful help tool, never thought I'd see the day). Another really cool feature is the ability to search for filters using a spotlight-like tool that will show where and in which menu the item you're looking for is. This feature is simply brilliant, and a welcomed addition.

There are many other improvements to this app, but I'm mostly impressed with how Adobe has taken the time, energy and resources to take advantage of some of the great features of OSX Leopard. Most software companies these days do lousy ports of their PC software without taking the time to understand the needs and preferences of the Mac community. I am grateful that Adobe "gets it" and hope to see them continue this trend in their Mac products into the future. Oh, and the value is unbeatable- I for one would have been willing to pay much more for this app. Thanks Adobe for a much needed and improved update!