This product consists of two Adobe applications. Photoshop Elements is a tool for editing, retouching, optimizing, and distributing digital images. Premiere Elements is a tool for editing and publishing digital video. Together, they count as one individual product toward an organization's annual Adobe donation limit.

These applications are simpler alternatives to Photoshop and Premiere that share most of the features of the larger products. The two applications can work together in adding video effects and transitions to photo slide shows or using video frames to create freeze-frame effects or to make disc covers and labels.

Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Elements can detect and remove red-eye and other imperfections in a photograph. Users can adjust colors, lighting, contrast, shadowing, and highlights to achieve desired effects or they can make one-step photo adjustments by choosing the best result from a group of several different adjustment previews. The software can also create composites using elements from multiple photographs or other digital graphics.

Photoshop Elements optimizes photos for sharing via email, Facebook, YouTube, or online photo albums to ensure high-quality images with small file sizes. The software also offers templates for creating scrapbook pages, cards, and CD or DVD labels from images.

Photoshop Elements does not include certain advanced Photoshop features such as the Channel Mixer, Color Balance, scripting, or CMYK coloring.

Premiere Elements

In Premiere Elements, video can be imported from a variety of devices, including HDV camcorders, compact camcorders, web cameras, MPEG-4 video recorders, DSLR still cameras, and select mobile phones. Premiere Elements can record video from webcams, analog capture cards, and other live video sources.

Editing and assembly take place in the Sceneline, a visual map of the scenes, sounds, and transitions that make up a video. Clips can be dragged, dropped, copied, and pasted within the Sceneline, and all changes can be previewed immediately. Music, narration, text, and special effects are also added in the Sceneline. Premiere Elements Movie Themes incorporate sound effects, transitions, layouts, and graphics, allowing the user to quickly put together stylistically cohesive movies.

When a video project is complete, Premiere Elements can deploy the video over a variety of media, including DVD, Blu-ray, Facebook, YouTube and other web-based delivery, video-capable iPod, PlayStation Portable, and mobile phones. Video is optimized for each medium to ensure high-quality video with minimal file sizes.

Premiere Elements offers fewer templates, transitions, and effects than Premiere.

Other capabilities of these products include:

• Both products include tag-based, searchable organizers.
• The Photoshop Elements Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush remove wrinkles and other unwanted objects from photographs, while the Smart Brush adds lighting, texture, and other effects to specific photo areas.
• The Photoshop Elements Style Match analyzes the stylistic qualities of a photo and then applies those qualities to another photo.
• The Premiere Elements sound editor allows adding a musical soundtrack that automatically adjusts to match the length of the movie, plus mixing and layering of up to 99 audio tracks, reducing background noise, and fixing problems with volume and clarity. Subtitles and credits are implemented via a WYSIWYG text editor.
• Supported Premiere Elements media formats include AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV-AVI (import/export on Windows, import only on Mac), DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo, H.264, HDV, MPEG-1 (import only), MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3, QuickTime, Windows Media (Windows only), and more.

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Windows

• Hardware:
• 2-GHz (or higher) processor with SSE2 support; dual-core processor required for HDV or AVCHD editing and Blu-ray or AVCHD export
• 2 GB or more RAM
• 7 GB available hard-disk space; additional 5 GB to install content
• 1024x768-pixel (or higher) display with 16-bit video card
• Display driver compatible with Microsoft DirectX 9 or later
• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 DV or HDV camcorder, or a USB 2.0 interface to connect a DV-via-USB-compatible DV camcorder
• DVD burner required to burn DVDs; Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs
• Software:
• Windows XP with SP3; Windows Media Center; Windows Vista; Windows 7
• For importing QuickTime formats — QuickTime 7
• Other:
• The capacity to download 2.9 GB of program data and 3.0 GB of additional data

Macintosh

• Hardware:
• Multicore Intel processor
• 2 GB or more RAM
• 7 GB available hard-disk space; additional 5 GB required to install content
• Display with 16-bit video card
• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 DV or HDV camcorder, or a USB 2.0 interface to connect a DV-via-USB-compatible DV camcorder
• DVD burner required to burn DVDs; Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs
• Software:
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 or greater
• For importing QuickTime formats — QuickTime 7
• Other:
• The capacity to download 3.8 GB of program data and 3.2 GB of additional data

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