Product Description

Essentials 2 for Adobe Photoshop Elements - The Perfect Companion to Adobe Photoshop Elements. Make it Better, Cut it out, Frame it, Enlarge It! Essentials 2 for Photoshop Elements is the must-have companion for Adobe Photoshop Elements. You'll spend less time behind the computer and more time enjoying taking pictures. Optimizing your images is a snap with Essentials 2, your solution for color correction made easy. Cut people out of one picture, even tough stuff like hair, so you can easily put them in new pictures. Add the finishing touch to your images with the Frame It module, a collection of over 500 edge and border effects right out of the darkroom. Resize images up to 4x with no loss of quality or detail. Easy to use tools with in-depth video tutorials take the pain out of learning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #853 in Software
• Brand: Onone Software
• Model: EEXE-20208
• Released on: 2008-03-20
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

• Optimizing your images is a snap with Essentials 2, your solution for color
• Cut people out of one picture, even tough stuff like hair, so you can easily
• Add the finishing touch to your images with the Frame It module, a
• Resize images up to 4x with no loss of quality or detail
• Easy to use tools with in-depth video tutorials take the pain out of learning

Customer Reviews

Good program
I bought Essentials 2 for Adobe Photoshop mainly for the Cut-It-Out feature and, for the price, the program is worth it for this feature alone. There is a slight learning curve to use the Cut-It-Out feature but, once you learn how to use it, it's great. One of the hardest things to do in graphic software, like Photoshop, is decently cutting out figures (like people). The Cut-It-Out feature of Essentials 2 does a very good job, especially with hard-to-cut objects like hair. Essentials also has two other built-in programs: Make It Better, an easy way for a novice to improve images, and Frame It, for people who like to play around with making unique and custom photo frames.

Great Add On for PS Elements
I purchased this product mainly for the selection portion, which I find cumbersome and hard to use. But I love the "make it better" portion, it does a great job quickly and I love the Frames. I like a finishing touch on my photos and this has a lot to choose from. I liked this so much, that when I upgraded to CS3, I also upgraded to the Photo Frames Pro.

Add more creativity to Photoshop Elements
I have been very impressed with this product. It has 4 trimmed down versions of OnOne Professional Photoshop Plug-ins.

The frames plug in is by far my favorite. If you are familiar with layers the frame plug in adds endless creativity. The "make it better" plug in is nice for enhancing photos for users new to Photoshop Elements. Cut it out adds functionality to Photoshop Elements 6. For Photoshop Elements 7 users it adds another method for cutting subjects out from the background. Enlarge it is a great tool for getting great prints.

I am using this on a Vista 64-bit system and have used it with both Photoshop Elements 6 & 7.

While all of the plug-ins add to and enhance the Photoshop Elements experience to me, Frame It alone is worth the price of this suite of plug-ins. The rest is just icing on the cake so to speak.