Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 5
Today Adobe Systems Incorporated announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 consumer photo editing software for Windows. Also announced today is Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 consumer video editing software for Windows. I wasn't able to preview this version of Photoshop Elements, but read on for some of the details from Adobe's press release.
Showcase and Share Photos in Entertaining WaysPhotoshop Elements software makes it easy to share photos with themed and customizable layouts, multi-page document options for albums and scrapbooks and over 100 framing choices. With drag-and-drop simplicity, photos can be moved and resized within these flexible layouts. The new Map View allows consumers to drag photos to any location tied to an online satellite map to relive memories based on locations where photos were taken.
Adobe Photoshop Services are easily accessible from within the application and offer new and fun ways to share photos. An interactive Adobe Flash-based photo gallery service, called Adobe Photoshop Showcase, allows photos to be shared for free, or upgraded to an extended sharing service via a Web site. These online galleries can take the form of a virtual scrapbook with flipping pages, a winter scene with falling snow or a spinning photo carousel. Photos can easily be sent directly to CEIVA digital photo frames, shared via SmugMug online albums or turned into real postage at PhotoStamps.com (U.S. only).
One-click printing also makes it simple to order Kodak prints and using Photoshop Elements new photo layout functionality makes creating and ordering photobooks a more personalized experience.
Experience Superior Editing
Innovative editing functions give consumers new ways to tackle common photo edits. The new black-and-white conversion tool adds a dramatic and elegant look to photos, instantly converting color originals to a variety of rich black-and-white photo styles with deep contrast. The new Adjust Color Curves controls allow consumers to achieve the perfect exposure for every image. Photoshop Elements also allows consumers to easily correct camera lens distortion.
Frankly, if this is all that's new, I don't see anything very compelling for existing users of Photoshop Elements, but I hope to have more information when I've had a chance to personally review the software. That said, Photoshop Elements is still my personal favorite photo organizer and my recommended top pick photo software for new digital camera users.
Both Photoshop Elements 5 and Premiere Elements 3 will be in stores in October 2006. The products can be purchased separately for US$99.99 each, or together in a bundle for US$149.99. New users can pre-order Photoshop Elements 5 now for a discounted price of US$89.99, and existing users can upgrade for US$69.99.
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Sue, I must agree with your thoughts as to compelling need to upgrade to PSE% as little I can see as a persaon Elements has been targeted to, is of worth. I wonder if Adobe ever tests this on a number of previous PSE#or $ users to have an opinion from the geeks mouth? Will it be like razors, next we will have 200 frames and some sort of other “4th Blade”? On the happy side, I do think PSE to be an excellent program for the somewhat advanced computer users.