Photoshop Elements incorporates many of Photoshop’s powerful features without being too overwhelming to the novice user or “dumped-down” to the point that it frustrates experienced users. With a photo organizer plus fun and flexible photo-sharing projects, it’s a perfect all-in-one solution for the majority of digital camera users. For amateur photographers, digital imaging enthusiasts, and small business users, there is little reason to look beyond Elements for all your photo editing needs.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 combines power and simplicity so you can easily tell amazing stories with your photos. Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place where you can easily find, view, and manage them; protect them with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage; and then dive right into a full range of creative activities. Make your photos look extraordinary with editing options that let you recompose photos to any size while keeping key subjects intact; combine multiple exposures into a single, perfectly lit shot; and quickly preview a range of adjustments before choosing the perfect one. And share your stories in unique photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, and interactive online experiences.

Extraordinary photos. Amazing stories.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software offers a complete solution for photos:

  • Make your photos look extraordinary with easy-to-use editing options.
  • Share your stories in beautiful, personalized print creations and web experiences, and share on popular devices.
  • Easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips from one convenient place.
  • Enjoy automatic online backup with 2GB of free storage, and access your photos and videos anywhere you are.

System Requirements:

  • Operating System: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
  • Processor: 1.6GHz or faster
  • RAM: 1GB
  • Hard Drive Space: 2GB
  • Graphics: Color monitor with 16-bit color video card
    1024×576 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less
  • Other: Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible display driver, DVD-ROM drive, Web features require Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 or Mozilla Firefox 1.5 through 3.x

Features and Benefits:

  • Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
    Use Photoshop Elements 8 for all your photo needs. Manage, edit, and enhance photos; make unique photo creations; share in print, on the web, and on popular devices; protect photos with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage-enough for up to 1,500 photos or 24 minutes of DVD-quality video; and view photos anywhere you are.
  • Experience the ultimate media management hub
    Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place, and easily find your best stuff fast. Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.
  • Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds
    Get just the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. And now, when you perform one-step photo adjustments–including color, contrast, and lighting–you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.
  • Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use options
    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? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast.
  • Easily create the perfect photo
    Take advantage of amazing Adobe Photomerge technology to easily remove distracting elements from photos in just a few clicks, create perfect group shots and seamless panoramas, and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.
  • Get creative inspiration
    Bring your ideas to life with relevant tutorials that appear just when you need them. New tutorials help you explore creative possibilities.
  • Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web
    Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience. And share via public or private galleries–friends and family won’t have to register to look.*
  • Show off your creativity with flexible layouts
    Make amazing printed photo creations–like scrapbook pages, photo books, and cards–that you can customize to get exactly the look you envision. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.
  • Top new benefits of Adobe Photoshop Elements8
  • Recompose photos to any size–without distortion
    Ever want to change the size or orientation of a photo to fit a certain frame? Now you can quickly resize–even going from landscape to portrait or vice versa–without distorting key subjects like people or buildings.
  • Get the best exposure
    Want to capture all the details in a scene that includes light and dark areas? Snap one photo with flash on and one with flash off, and Photomerge Exposure will combine the shots into a single, perfectly lit photo.
  • Quickly find your best photos
    No need to click through dozens or hundreds of shots to find the good ones. The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your media so you can easily find your most interesting, highest quality photos and video footage.
  • Find specific people in a flash
    Quickly find photos that feature specific friends or family members thanks to People Recognition, which automatically identifies the people in your photos.
  • Get the big picture
    See the full effect of your photos and video clips from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews, which let you make quick edits to photos while viewing them.
  • See the same photos and video clips on every computer
    Forget trying to manually maintain your photos and video clips across multiple computers. With automatic syncing, media added or edited on one computer will automatically be synced to another.*
  • Give your creations fresh looks
    Experiment with new artwork and templates to give your printed creations fun and stylish new looks.

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