Product Description

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software combines two powerful yet easyto- use products to deliver the most complete photo and video editing solution. Jazz up photo slide shows with cinematic effects and transitions; use freeze frames to add a dramatic pause to your video or to make professional-looking DVD covers and labels; create personalized DVDs; and easily share on the web. Now telling your stories with photos and videos is easier than ever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1338 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 29180248
• Released on: 2006-09-29
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Use flexible layout options for your photo creations: blank slate, basic frameworks, or professionally designed themes
• Easily upload your creations and Flash-based photo galleries to the web from directly within Photoshop Elements
• Make good photos great with superior photo-editing tools
• Easily assemble your video clips in the Sceneline
• Import video from virtually any device, including HDV and DVD camcorders, web cameras (WDM analog), MPEG-4 video recorders, and mobile phones

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products to deliver the most complete photo- and video-editing solution. Jazz up photo slide shows with video effects and transitions, and use freeze frames to add a dramatic pause to your video or to make professional-looking, printed DVD covers and labels. Now, telling your stories with photos and videos is easier than ever before.

Convert any color photo into a rich black-and-white photos by selecting from an array of variation samples. View larger.

Choose from many styles of templates and frames to form a photo collage. View larger.

Easily organize your photos and video clips with visual tagging options that let you categorize by people, places, or events. View larger.

Wow your audience with hundreds of eye-catching video effects and transitions that are easy to apply with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Move video footage from camera to DVD in two simple steps, or drop it into the Sceneline, where you can easily rearrange clips and add effects with drag-and-drop simplicity. For more control, use the Timeline view, which offers more editing options. View larger.

Edit and preview your movie in one convenient place—the Monitor window—where you can split and trim clips, add effects, and more. View larger.

Combine photos and videos in entertaining new ways
Using Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements together gives you more creative control. You can create a photo slide show, then add video-style effects, transitions, and titles. Then burn the slide show to DVD to share with family and friends. Add a dramatic effect to your video by capturing a single video frame, then use Photoshop Elements to add text, graphics, and other enhancements. Then, insert it back into your video for a dramatic freeze-frame effect.

Make high-quality DVD covers: Grab a video frame and edit it like a photo to create a personalized printed DVD cover or label. Mix up your videos and create visual depth by including scanned vintage photos and digital stills in your movies.

Perfect your photos, and express your creativity
Photoshop Elements is designed to be easy to use; you can fix photos in a snap with intelligent features that automatically correct skin tone, lighting, color, and contrast. Even see red eye removed automatically as you download photos.

More experienced users can take advantage of Photoshop Elements' advanced tools. These tools let you make adjustments to color, lighting, exposure, brightness, and contrast. The new Adjust Color Curves controls make it even easier to fine-tune color, brightness, and contrast. Other advanced innovations include the Healing Brush for removing wrinkles and unwanted objects, the Spot Healing Brush for getting rid of dust and scratches in old photos, and Shadow/Highlight for lightening shadows and reducing the glare of highlights.

Give your color originals a dramatic, elegant look by turning them into rich black-and-white photos by selecting from an array of variation samples. Easily correct camera lens distortion at photo edges and keystone effects that exaggerate perspective. Get crisper-looking photos by sharpening blurred edges, even remove blurring caused by low-light conditions.

Photoshop Elements' creativity tools let you present your photos in creative, entertaining ways. Use flexible layout options as a starting point for your creations: choose a blank slate, basic frameworks, or professionally designed themes. Create memorable keepsakes in so many ways: Create custom slide shows, cards, album pages, CD and DVD covers, scrapbook layouts, photo books, prints, Flipbooks, and much more. Take advantage of Flash technology to share your photos in interactive web galleries and animate your photos with a choice of themes, such as a spinning carousel, to provide an interactive viewing experience.

Set off your photos with more than 100 included frames, from traditional to elegant to avant-garde. Enjoy integrated access to online services, such as sharing photos and photo creations on the Web, and ordering prints and hardbound photo books--all from within Photoshop Elements. Easily upload your photos to CEIVA digital receivers that automatically receive and display new photos daily. Turn your photos into real U.S. postage at PhotoStamps.com (U.S. only).

Photoshop Elements 5.0 also adds the Map view, so you can find photos by the locations where they were taken. Simply drag photos to any location in the new Map view, which is tied to online satellite views. Even upload your Map view to the web, for easy sharing with friends and family.

In addition to the powerful image-editing tools, Elements 5.0 includes great tools for downloading, organization, and archiving your photos.

Easily create impressive home videos and DVDs
Premiere Elements makes it easy to import video, audio, and still images from virtually any media device, including DV and DVD camcorders, HDV devices, web, digital still and mobile phone cameras, unprotected DVDs, MPEG-4 video recorders, Windows Media Center, and video clips from selected mobile phones. There is also native HDV support, so you can achieve richer results by capturing and editing HDV footage in its native format.

Premiere Elements gives you control of your video footage, whether you want to burn it right to a DVD or spend time editing and adding creative elements. If you want to simply create DVDs, you can go from camcorder to disc in just a few clicks. Or, take advantage of the powerful video-editing tools that allow you to transform and personalize your video creation. For quick editing, the Sceneline View lets you assemble your video by drag and drop, rearranging thumbnails of your clips, and adding transitions and effects. For more precise control, the Timeline view offers Premier Elements' most advanced features.

Do all your editing in one convenient place: Easily trim and split clips, drag and drop effects and transitions, add text and narration, and more, right in the Monitor window. You can even create your own time-lapse movies, claymations, and other still-frame animations with the stop-motion video capture features.

Rock-solid performance and quality are included in all of Adobe's Premier software. For example, you can view edits in real time, as you make them, by previewing your movie full-screen with just the click of a button. You can also feel free to experiment: With Auto Save, multiple undos, and the History panel, you can always go back to a previous version. The soundtrack for your video can be rich and full with the quality of Dolby Digital stereo. And since video editing can take up a lot of processor speed and memory, Premier is optimized to support multiple processors and advanced multi-threading and hyper-threading technology on the latest Pentium and Centrino Duo-based Windows XP systems.

If you want to make your video more dynamic, you can add moving text and graphics. Adding TV-style effects is simple—just drag and drop one of the hundreds of amazing special effects you can customize and reuse. Also choose from hundreds of eye-catching transitions to creatively move from one scene to the next. To apply a transition, just drag and drop to apply effects such as dissolves, fades, and wipes. Or you can create your own transition style.

Since videos are made to be seen, Premier Elements includes powerful tools for outputting your movie. While creating a professional-quality DVD, you can design unique DVD menus using your own video, photos, audio, and text. Or, save time with automatic scene indexes or chapters that link to your video clips. Create and watch your video in traditional TV (4:3.0) or widescreen (16:9) format, in NTSC or PAL standard for a worldwide audience. Give your audience high-quality sound by automatically converting audio to industry-standard Dolby Digital stereo, allowing you to burn more video onto a single disc without sacrificing sound quality. Before you burn, make sure your movie is just as you envisioned it by watching a full-screen preview on your computer or TV. Then burn your finished movie to a single- or dual-layer DVD.

For sharing on portable devices, export a movie in the MPEG-4 format. MPEG-4 files can then be viewed on virtually any portable device—including the Video iPod and Sony PlayStation Portable.

Customer Reviews

Stable; right feature set; good product integration
This is quality software.

- It has the right feature set. No superfluous stuff like backup software and DVD duplication software, as is the case with Roxio MyDVD9.

- The user interface is simple and intuitive enough that I was able to start creating a DVD from multiple video clips of our baby that I had scattered around. I didn't use the help file, I just installed it and started. I only referred to the manual for advanced functions.

- And advanced functions it certainly has. I like the ability to create multiple audio and video tracks separately and blend them together. I like using Photoshop Elements to create slide shows in my DVDs by porting them to Premiere Elements with a click - it's simple, cleaner and quicker than any other product.

- The output stage where one encodes a DVD is simple and reliable. I have a relatively slow PC, and certainly didn't want any error messages coming up several hours into an encoding job for creating an hour-long DVD.

- The integration between Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements goes more than skin deep. They share the same user interface, and one can send pictures and videos from one package to the other.

- It has never crashed, even in Windows.

Overall a great product!
Our photo and video editing softwares were both very basic and "old", so we decided to upgrade a couple of months ago. After reading many reviews on different bundles, we decided to get the Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Premiere Elements 3.0 bundle. We've played around with the Premiere Elements a bit, and it's really awesome. Much better than the Pinnacle Studio 8 we had before. All the basic functions are easy to use and very intuitive, though we haven't gone and figured out the more advanced features yet. The Photoshop Elements is a wonderful tool, as well. We recently had to scan in a lot of old pictures (as in 20+ year old b/w photographs). They needed a lot of touching up, and Elements 5.0 worked wonderfully for that. I could adjust the lighting and sharpening, fix the colors and scratches, and the pictures turned out amazing. You'd never be able to tell they were scanned images from such old photographs. The program is also very intuitive. I could do all the things I wanted to do without having to read the manual. Of course, I'm still just touching on the surface of what all is possible, and I plan on reading the manual and studying the program in more detail once I have the time to do so, but for what I need right now, it's easy to use and does a good job. There are only two things I have to comment on that I don't like about the Adobe bundle, and they are the reason why I'm giving 4 stars instead of 5.
1. The stated minimum requirements for this bundle are 512MB RAM. That's what we had on our computer, and while the program worked, it was so painfully slow that it wasn't feasible to really use it. We ended up upgrading to 1GB, and it's been working great since. So if you have less than 1GB RAM, make sure you upgrade before getting this software!
2. The red-eye fix in Photoshop Elements, or lack thereof. There is an auto red-eye fix, but it doesn't work very well. It finds red eyes in all kinds of places, just not where they actually are. Sometimes it covers half the face, sometimes only half of the eye, etc. etc. etc. There is an option to manually show the program where the red eye is, but it still doesn't work right. Maybe there's another trick I haven't found out about yet, but as of right now, I usually give the fix tool a shot, and if it doesn't work I take the picture back into my old editing software and fix the red eye there. I'm really very disappointed with this, as fixing red eyes is something you have to do quite frequently when editing pictures.
Overall, the software has been very easy and fun to work with, even for an amateur like me. :o) If Adobe can adjust the minimum requirements recommendation and fix the red-eye fix tool, it's going to definitely deserve 5 points.

Please get it
I started with Adobe Elements Photoshop 3 and Premier 1. This is my 2nd upgrad. My computer is 2 years old and I'm glad I bought Pentium 4 with a lot of RAM and hard drive. This upgrade is great. Major improvement from Elements 4&2. If you used Premier 2 extensively you will find that this upgrade will make your work much easier. An iprovement to axccess all menues, love the new time line (now it has two time lines were you can switch between them, the old one + the new one were you can go to each scene in a click. You can narrate directly to your timeline. I tried my USB mic, it did not work. I read a little and tried my old serial mic, it worked beautifuly. During narration, premier will add a new audio segment in the timeline. The best way is to turn off the sound and used headphone to hear your video and narrate during playback, otherwise you'll get an echo (you'll be recording your voice and the playback at the same time).
Major improvement in photoshop too.
Just double check system requirement before purchasing. It is worth upgrading your copmuter to take advantage of these programs.