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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 [OLD VERSION] | ![Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vqDZb1A1L._SL160_.jpg) | From: Adobe
Category: Software
List Price: $99.99
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Rating:  239 reviews
Sales Rank: 84
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Elements
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.4
MPN: 65026821
Model: 65026616
UPC: 883919166889
EAN: 0883919168296
ASIN: B001DMBWXS
Release Date: October 13, 2008
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| 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 |
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Product Description
The #1 selling consumer photo-editing software*, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and the web; and easily find and view all your photos.
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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.
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 It's the industry standard in a package for folks who don't need the whole shebang. November 28, 2008
Phlogiston (West Hartford, CT USA)
117 out of 118 found this review helpful
What can you say about Photoshop?
It changed the world of digital photography. If you really want close control over your digital photographs and other digital images, there is simply nothing better available to the non-professional user and few things better available even to professionals!
If you really don't know what Photoshop is, well, here are a few examples of what can be done with this fine piece of software:
1) You can view images
2) You can edit images (get rid of red eye, scratches and graininess, change colors, light levels, etc. in either the entire image or in just one part and even do complex edits like making your dog look like he has zebra stripes in a particular photo)
3) You can combine images (e.g. if you can't get a decent family photograph because in each sample photograph somebody looks bad, then you can take everybody's best shot and combine them into one single image)
4) You can take pieces out of images (in addition to cutting and cropping, you can outright cut a person out of the picture)
5) You can add captions and lettering to images.
6) You can put all kinds of effects into your images such as lens flares, clouds, etc. You can also create psychedelic effects, make things sharper, duller, blur boundaries between items, etc.
7) Photoshop also has a full panoply of items that you'd expect to find in any art program (paint brush tools, pencils, erasers, etc.)
8) Photoshop allows you to create images in layers, so that you can move and edit one part without affecting others.
9) Photoshop also makes it easy to scan multiple images from your flatbed scanner at the same time and import them to separate image files. Forget about scanning one at a time or scanning a bunch of photos into one big file and then cutting and pasting. My wife wanted to digitize hundreds of old family photos and this software, literally, saved me dozens of hours of work time and blessed us with a resource that has become a wellspring of wonderful memories.
10) Photoshop allows you to enlarge and shrink images and will even help minimize pixelation in enlarged images.
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Now, for those of you who DO know what Photoshop is and what it can do, here are a few things you might want to know if you are considering upgrading to or buying this piece of software.
1) The first thing one notices is the new welcome screen. You can opt to enter the program or the organizer, as usual, or you can opt to interact with[...], an online resource for photoshop users, where one can either work with others or store one's images (among other services) online.
2) The interface is fairly similar to Photoshop Elements 6, but it offers some interesting new features. For instance, one can edit the features of the desktop (make it darker, to pop the photos or brighter if one likes brightness).
3) In the "New File" option, one can now use a pull down menu to create a scrapbook file (when one is working with a blank file), which is good for scrapbookers. My wife likes it, but I don't use it too often.
4) When you're working with guided edit, you can now use an "Automated Actions" feature that allows one to take advantage of what Adobe calls the "Action player". It is, essentially a wizard that gives one step by step instructions on various edits, such as "Lose weight", "Resize and crop" or "Special effects".
5) The bug that made it tough to move objects with the arrow keys has been fixed in this version of Elements.
6) If you weren't impressed with what the "Action player" could do in #4, well, take heart. You can create your own actions so that, once you have executed a complex series of edits in one photo, you can do the same for every subsequent one by simply executing an action. Not only that, you can share your actions with friends and download actions off the net. Tons are available.
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In truth, there are a lot more features and uses than the ones I have mentioned. Photoshop, like any piece of enormously robust software, is simply beyond an easy summary. However, Elements 7 is an exciting hint at where this mainstay of graphical software is heading. There are a lot of new good ideas and it really feels like a winner.
An Excellent Program December 12, 2008
Anthony Talbert (Odessa, TX)
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
I have been using Photoshop Elements as my "go to" editing program since about version 2. I have a number of other editing programs - both free and paid - but always seem to return to Elements.
My previous version was version 6 and I usually upgrade about every other release. I'm glad that I upgraded to version 7, though, since there are a number of minor improvements and several major ones.
One of the major improvements is v. 7's improved speed of importing pictures. While the program gave me the option to convert my v. 6 catalog, I decided to do a new catalog to see how long it would take. My computer has - according to Elements - almost 80,000 pictures (I've been doing digital photography since 1999 - initially with a Nikon 950, then a Canon Eos 10D and presently with a Canon Eos 30D). Version 6 literally required overnight to catalog the pictures (and there were probably 4 or 5 thousand less) while v. 7 required only 1 hour and 20 minutes! (Both programs are installed on an HP computer with 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad cpu, 4 GB ram, and running 64 bit Vista Home Premium).
Another major improvement is the "smart brush tool". While a number of programs have similar tools, this is the first one that I have used that actually works well. My main use for it has been to darken the background of a photo to accentuate the foreground (usually a person). This can be done within less than a minute which is a significant time savings over older methods. One simply "paints" over the areas to be selected for modification.
Version 7 continues to have v. 6's excellent enhancement tools - particularly those for lighting adjustment. These are definitely my most used tools.
While I don't use the organizer regularly, it does have some nice features such as sorting by date and the ability to use - and search on - keywords.
If you are just getting into digital photography this is the program to buy. If you have an older version of Elements, I think that this is a good upgrade and worth the price.
12/16/08: I uploaded two pictures showing the use of the smart brush tool before and after. I don't know who the "little elf" is, I took the picture at a party my grandson attended.
Review of Photoshop Elements 7 February 15, 2009
Hirameagle (Georgia)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this product primarily for my wife as I already use the full Photoshop (CS3) product. But using it with her to help her get started, I find it is all most photographers will need to do the processing of their digital images. It's got most of the Photographic features one uses in processing digital photo files as opposed to CS. The features not included can be done a different way in Elements 7 and actually the approach used with some features is better understood in Elements!
It may take some time to determine for sure, but initially I like the "Bridge" feature in CS3 better than the "Organizer" in Elements.
Photoshop has many features that are primarily for graphic artists, web page designers, etc that are not included in Elements, but most photographers don't need those features! So far I haven't seen a problem using Elements 7 with a Vista 64 bit OS.
So, $59 - $79 for Elements 7 versus about $600 - $700 for Photoshop CS4, you decide which you need!
Good Program October 26, 2008
Erin
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is a good program. I was originally using PSE4 that belonged to my Mother who had loaded it onto my computer. Something went wrong and ended up buying Photoshop for myself and decided to go with the most up-to-date program Adobe was offering. Sure there isn't a HUGE difference from PSE4 to PSE7 but I enjoy the program and I was able to buy it cheaper than what I could've bought PSE6 for. If you want to save some money, go with 5 or 6, definitely don't think you'll go wrong. I wanted CS3 but is beyond what I can afford right now. And as an aspiring photographer, Elements is great!
The manual that it should have come with... July 18, 2009
Zaragoza Munoz III (Houston, Texas United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since the product comes boxed with a meager intruction booklet, before buying an aftermarket book or guide (there are some great ones out there; I really like Scott Kelby)make sure to download the PDF guide from the Adobe website.
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This is an intuitive 471 page guide full of pictures, step by steps, handy links and solutions. It is everything I need to get through layering, RAW solutions and more.
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