| Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 | 
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Category: Software
Publisher: Adobe
Studio: Adobe
Brand: Adobe
Label: Adobe
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1.4
MPN: 29230727
Model: 29230727
UPC: 883919135830
EAN: 0883919135830
ASIN: B000UKBIEC
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Make your photos look their best with easy-to-use editing tools | | • | Do more with your photos in unique creations for print and web | | • | Easily find and view all your photos and video clips | | • | Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more | | • | Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more |
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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips. Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more. Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. Now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible. Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos. Start creating quickly, no experience necessary Express your ideas in customizable layouts Create photo books with greater ease and flexibility Entertain friends with custom slide shows and interactive web galleries Share with family and friends using a variety of fun options Instantly download photos from your camera Categorize photos and video clips with easy-to-use visual tags Group photos into convenient Albums Develop creations more quickly by gathering the photos you need for a specific project in one place View and organize your photos quickly, even when your library grows to include thousands of photos Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before Easily organize stills and video clips with visual tagging options System requirements - Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Intel Centrino 1.3GHz or compatible processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista, 256MB RAM, 1.5GB free space, Color monitor with 16-bit color video card, 1024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less, Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible display driver, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 7.0, or Mozilla Firefox 1.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can easily tell great stories with your photos. Make your photos look their best whatever your level of editing experience--a friendly new design and step-by-step editing assistance help get you started. Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more. Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more. And always find and view all your photos and video clips with ease.  Create the perfect group shot
Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. New photo-blending technology lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite. |  Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before. |  Easily organize stills and video clips with visual tagging options. | Bring out the best in your photos
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips. 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 brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. And now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible.
- 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 adjustment blend perfectly with the background.
- Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.
Do more with your photos
- Get step-by-step assistance for making photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/ DVD labels. Simply choose the type of creation you'd like to make, and the appropriate tools and instructions appear at your fingertips.
- Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to make great photo creations in minutes. Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.
- Quickly create professional-looking photo books with flexible new options that allow you to view spreads, flip through your book, and rearrange pages--all with fewer clicks than ever before. When your book is finished, just click the Order button to have it professionally printed, hardbound, and delivered to your door.
- Create an eye-catching slide show complete with captions, documentary-style pan and zoom effects, amazing transitions, voice narration, and music. Or take things a step further and share photos in your choice of interactive web galleries.
Easily find and view all your photos and video clips
- With a single click, transfer photos from your memory card to your computer according to your preset preferences, so you can get back to taking photos sooner.
- Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your dog, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
- Place your family, work, or vacation photos into Albums to keep them together for special projects. And see just the photos you want to see with new Smart Albums, which automatically bring together photos based on criteria you choose.
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 I was ripped off! I got a copy of it when it was described as "new in the box". No help getting my $$ back!! July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
OCEANBABE is a RIP OFF ARTIST!! She has not returned any emails I have sent. I was sold a product that was NOT what I ordered. I need a refund and there is nobody helping my to get one. EVERYONE Stay AWAY from this seller. And Amazon.........HELP you customers to recoup their losses PLEASE!!!
the worst sale of my life July 21, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cannot tell you how well this product works since the dealer "OCEAN BABE" who gladly took my money, will not send the licence code to make it operational.
I hope that Amazon will remove this seller from its list as there is no reason to trust this person.
If you check the other reviews of this person you will find more of the same.
 Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 July 20, 2008
I'm making a genealogy family scrapbook for our son, and using Adobe Elements 6. It will be quite an endeavor to finish it all, but with the features provided in Adobe's program it will certainly make it much simpler. Elements 6 provides ways to enhance photos to look their best and you may add captions under each picture before printing. This is just part of what is available. There is still much for me to learn, but Adobe provides simple instructions throughout. I am pleased with this program.
New Version Lives Up To Reputation July 19, 2008
Installation
For this review of Photoshop Elements 6 I headed to www.adobe.com, which offers download links. The site requires an account to download software. After signing-in, I downloaded the executable and the install occurred. I let it use the C drive after making sure there was enough space. A quick reboot and I was on my way!
First Impression
The first thing that you will see is the welcome screen which you can change so that you open in either the Editor or the Organizer. There are links to "create" and "share" as well.
Once you are inside PSE6, you will notice that the interface is different from previous versions. With its gray-on-black color scheme, PSE6 has a sleek, no-nonsense look, and is easy to get around once you are familiar with it. The features are designed to help anyone to step through any project, while offering enhancements to existing components. Upgraders will enjoy these enhancements, while newcomers will benefit from the straightforward, friendly interface.
Organizer
Since the Organizer is the first link, let's start there. This is a powerful, useful and feature-packed media organizer, which can stand on its own as an application.
Photos can be divided into one or several catalogs. Either way, the Organizer is quite efficient and keeps everything tidy. A Backup Reminder will help you to back up your media, if you wish to use PSE6 for that purpose. Advice - do backups regularly using something!
A new feature is Smart-albums, which make it easy to automatically search for certain criteria such as date and folders. Another way to manage your photos is to use albums or keywords, which let you keep related photos together for special projects. Since these work on filenames and other criteria, the photos must be identified as you add them to your computer.
Use the Organizer, to see versions of a photo, change thumbnail size, view photos full-screen, and compare photos side by side.
The Organizer allows you to also Fix, Create and Share your photos. However, you must move, copy, delete from this screen, or you will "lose" the photo. If that happens, PSE6 and previous versions allow you to reconnect photos, thereby "cleaning up" the catalog.
The Organizer is a powerful, easy way to manage and edit your photos library.
Editor
A new feature is the Guided Edit, designed to walk the user through an editing function. For instance, if I wanted to crop a picture, I would answer the offered question, i.e., choose crop from the list, and the program will begin to interact.
This feature takes the mystery out of trying to figure out the various tools and menus, and is a great incentive for the novice in PSE6. I like the way it lets you see the before and after results of your editing; don't worry - your original is not lost; a Stack is created, saving the original photo. Or, you can simply do a Save As and rename the photo after you are done. In my workflow, I use the Guided Edit, then go into the Full Edit to fine-tune my results, utilizing the best of both worlds.
Lastly, there is the PhotoMerge, which will allow you to pick and choose faces and parts of one picture, and paste them into another, creating an effortless picture of groups.
Create
This is my favorite part - with a few clicks, you can create a Photo Book, Photo Calendar, Photo Collage, Online Gallery or Slide Show, and many other items by clicking on More Options. Here is where I began to understand the monumental amount of available features. Everything is centralized; you can use PSE6 exclusively to create any type of available media for sharing or uploading to the Internet. I found this to be easy and fun.
Share
Ultimately, one would probably want to use this program to easily share photos once they are edited and completed. Again, for starters, there are the Online Gallery, E-mail Attachments, Photo Mail, Print Ordering, or CD/DVD options, or...I did a Photo Mail, which connected directly to my Outlook client, and looked good with the addition of the provided template.
My Project
I wanted to enhance a shot I'd taken in Las Vegas. First, I opened the picture in pSE6. Then I duplicated the Background Layer.
I chose "guide for editing a photo" and just went with it.
First, I was able to straighten my picture using Basic Photo Edits. Then I cropped my picture. Any edits made in the Guided Edit are done by sliders, and they can be reset. Also, you can view the Before & After results. I really like that; rather than a Preview, the results are easier to see.
At any point, you can switch to Full Edit, and I did when I was ready to apply some excitement to my scene. Next, I went to Full Edit, where I could adjust some color and apply interesting filters.
First, I created my Background copy as a new layer, and selected the sky with the Magic Wand. I then used more layers to create a background blend.
With the addition of filters and additional cropping, a final product was achieved. Now, this would probably not get an award at a photo competition, but PSE6 lets you be creative and experiment with different effects on your photos. As a long-time user, I prefer to use the full edit, which allows me to choose my tools and work in layers. I also enhance my photos, and to experiment with different filter effects. PSE6 creates layers by just dragging or clicking inside the layers palette.
IMHO
As a beginner, you can use the Guided Edit. If you are more adventurous or want to use all the features of pse6, you can use the Full Edit. There is also a Quick Edit as well, for automatic corrections on pictures.
I also like the flexibility of pse6, where you're not limited to a full knowledge of the program to begin using it. Sharing is easy and fun, and flexible.
My overall impression is that, as a seasoned user of this program, it is fun and productive. If you haven't upgraded in a while, this is worth taking a look. If you are looking for a photo editing program to work with your new digital camera, this is a perfect choice.
No matter what your needs, be sure to try this out first, as I did. I strongly believe that current users should know what the new features are. There will be plenty of time in 30 days to decide if it is what you want. My guess is it will be.
 Hate the gray July 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have used Elements 2.0, 4.0 and PS CS2. My favorite is 4.0, although I am trying to get used to the changes in 6.0. I HATE the gray background and have not figured out if it can be changed...mainly because there is no manual. It definitely needs a printed manual as it is a royal pain to have to try to find and print the help screens.
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