Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

Publisher's description of Adobe Photoshop Elements

True to its name, Photoshop Elements gives you many elements of Adobe's premiere editing tool in a consumer- and hobbyist-oriented package. The included tools are designed to make practical tasks easy and effective for the enthusiast or home user. You can create buttons for Web sites, reduce red-eye effects, scan photographs, and batch-save images for uniformity. You can also perform many fun projects with Elements, create a 360-degree panorama from separate images, or simply spice up your pictures with an array of filters and effects. Other features include the ability to create PDF slide shows that even Palm OS and Pocket PC devices can view, print multiple photos in different sizes on the same page, and design unique greeting cards that combine images and text.

Version 4.0.1 added new tools that will help you adjust specific areas of a photo in less time and even remove red eye automatically and let you make more precise selections and smooth out rough edges. Version 6 includes unspecified updates.

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Editor's review of Adobe Photoshop Elements

With an impressive collection of flexible tools, Adobe Photoshop Elements is one of the most powerful consumer-level photo editors around. Batch processing, image layering, cloning, and Web optimization are just a few of the software's time-saving tools.

It's taken a while for Elements to crawl out from the shadow of its celebrity sibling, Photoshop, but these days you'd be hard-pressed to find similarities between the two. There's the occasional familiar dialog box and a handful of traditional Photoshop interface quirks that may elude newbies, but if Photoshop CS is the "pro" version, Elements is for the average consumer.

Overall, there seems to be more and better creative content in Elements 5, and it's generally easier to use than its predecessor. The organizer and photo downloader have buckets of new features, including useful tweaks to stacking, map integration, and more. However, the imaging tools aren't keeping pace. The new additions--black-and-white conversion, curve-based correction, distortion correction, and a different take on sharpening--offer little more than new interfaces for old problems.

The tutorials and help tools do a great job of demystifying the labyrinthine interface, but if you're looking for a basic tool for common graphic tasks, there are plenty of lower-priced options that are much easier to master. Photoshop Elements is definitely worth a look, though, if you're looking for a significant boost in creativity and productivity.

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