Product Description

Make ordinary photos extraordinary with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. It combines power and simplicity so you can tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and the web; and easily find and view all your photos. And now, extend the capabilities of your software with new Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply).

Create a personal web travelogue for friends and family, or view and share your photos on an interactive map based on the locations where they were taken (Works with U.S. addresses only) Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates With Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply), you can - Show off your creativity with inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and templates delivered regularly to your software Backup your memories automatically and no scheduling required? get 20GB of storage ? enough for up to 15,000 photos View your photos virtually anywhere you are Share photos in fun, interactive ways via invitation-only Online Albums ? and you'll get new templates delivered to your software on a regular basis

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 65026616
• Released on: 2008-10-13
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 26.40" h x 94.80" w x 115.20" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• Stay connected with your favorite people and memories with new Photoshop.com membership
• Make ordinary photos extraordinary with easy-to-use editing tools
• Share your stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and web
• Easily find and view all your photos
• Share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums

Amazon.com
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 software combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and web; and easily find and view all your photos. New Photoshop.com membership* works with Photoshop Elements so you can protect your photos with automatic online backup and 2 GB of storage; view your photos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums.

Effortlessly select an area and simultaneously apply incredible effects with a single stroke of Adobe Smart Brush. Click to enlarge.

See all your photos in one convenient place where you can scroll through them, apply visual keyword tags, and view and retrieve them fast--even if your library includes thousands of photos. Click to enlarge.

Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates. Click to enlarge.

Easily upload photos to your website, iPhone, or CEIVA Digital Photo Frames, or view them on your TV.

Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
Use Photoshop Elements with Photoshop.com* for all your photo needs--organize, edit, and enhance photos; make unique photo creations; share in print and on the web; protect your photos; and view them anywhere you are.

*Available only in the U.S.

Introducing new Photoshop.com membership*
Works with Photoshop Elements to help you protect your photos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and enough storage (2 GB) for up to 1,500 photos; view your photos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums. And upgrade to Plus membership at any time and get 18 GB more storage, and a variety of inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and templates delivered regularly to your software.

*Available only in the U.S.

Select and apply with a single stroke
Simultaneously select a specific photo area and apply incredible effects with a single stroke of new Adobe Smart Brush. Improve lighting, add rich textures, and more with eight libraries of over 50 sophisticated effects.

Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds
Whiten teeth, make skies bluer, get rid of red eye, and take advantage of many more shortcuts that reduce common, multistep editing tasks to a single click or brush stroke.

Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use tools
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 touch up a scratch? Create a scrapbook page? Add artistic effects that make a photo look like a pencil sketch? Photoshop Elements walks you through key steps to make it easy to get the results you want fast.

Quickly clean your scene of unwanted elements
You took five shots of your subject, but pedestrians and cars distract from the scene in every one. Now, see only what you want to see in your photos--use Adobe Photomerge Scene Cleaner to simply brush away any elements that changed positions between photos to create a single, perfect composite.

Composite with amazing results
Create flawless group shots in just a few clicks with amazing Adobe Photomerge technology. Photomerge also lets you create seamless panoramas and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.

Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web
Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates--including new, visually stunning options. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience.

Show off your creativity in unique ways
Make amazing printed photo creations--like scrapbook pages, photo books, and cards--that you can customize to get exactly the look you envision.

Organize your library with ease
See all your photos in one convenient place, and find photos fast using powerful, flexible visual tags and a variety of viewing and searching options, including a new text search box.

Customer Reviews

A good photo editing program for beginners
I ordered this product as an upgrade for my Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 program. This is an improvement over the older program and one I would recommend to anyone who is starting out with digital photography.

I like the more eye-friendly editing page. Icons are easier to read. More room is used for the actual work space for editing.

There are some pitfalls, if they can be seen as pitfalls.

Elements 7 requires more memory. Elements 7 takes up 383MB whereas my Elements 2 takes up only 88MB. People with older computers should take this into consideration; for owners of newer systems this should not be a problem. (Microsoft Vista, for instance, takes over 4000MB).

I enjoy the added features listed in the quick-fix pulldowns: sky editing, erase features and other useful enhancements. I am more of a photojournalist rather than an artist and don't need some of the features. However, I do enjoy the quicker availabilty of these options. The skin tones come out looking more natural than on my older Photoshop version and I don't have to do as many steps to achieve that natural look.

One thing about Photoshop, though, that may irritate some people is that the owners manual that comes with the product requires thorough familiarity. The icons alone may not explain well enough how the step-by-step options work. For new owners of this system I highly recommend you read this manual from cover to cover and then practice some of the features. Those with older programs this is easier done as the layouts haven't changed much from older versions. Users of Elements 7 may find an additional purchase of an "Idiot's Guide" book to be more helpful than the enclosed manual.

I would recommend this program for beginners and those looking for a good, basic, affordable photo editing program.

Photoshop 7
The Photoshop 7 was recommended to me. I like the Photoshop, especially when it doesn't open each time I open pictures. It willo take some time for me to learn most of the options but for organizing and correcting it has worked very well.

Useful...Good Value...But Not The One To Count On
When you start up PSE7, you're at the photo sharing login screen that takes plenty of time to load. Then choose what you want to do, and it takes another forever to load another window. I find the photo sharing part exceedingly distracting. The rest of PSE7 is fairly decent.

I've got to give Adobe some credit for the "organize" part of the software, which I find quite versatile and very simple to use. It's easy on the eyes too. You can organize by category, by rating, by date or you can search text that may appear either in image titles or information natively embedded within or attached to the file. It's well done.

The editor is fairly impressive, yet lacking at the same time. The responsiveness and optimization of the underlying routines of the tools are great but there seems to be just enough left out of the program to leave you wanting more (Photoshop). There are text type masks, but I've found no mask layers, for example.

PSE7 is ideal for the person who makes wreaths and sews and stuff in the craft room. One who takes crafting seriously would love PSE7 and its many project templates, its impressive, perhaps even unmatched number of included effects and plug-in filters, and its feature set.

If you're the serious pixel mover and you don't care about all the frilly craft things, and consistent workflow is important to you, you might not be as impressed as you might expect. I find loading multiple programs to act as windows [organize and edit], and being reminded to sign up for photo sharing services very counterproductive.

My aging [Fujitsu N3010] laptop runs much hotter after having installed this program.

I do recommend PSE7 as an additional tool in your digital arsenal if you don't mind plunking down the cash, but don't get your hopes up too high if you're considering it as your primary tool unless you make use of all of the specific creative conveniences that this program provides.