Complete photo and video editing made easy!

Product Information

Take advantage of two powerful yet easy-to-use products for the most complete photo and video editing solution.  Easily access and use photos and video clips in either product to create cinematic slide shows, dramatic freeze-frame effects, and more.  Then show off your finished projects on personalized discs or on the Web.

• Bring out the best in your photos
• Create fun movies in as little as 15 minutes
• Easily combine photos and video in entertaining ways

Product Title Included

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
• Adobe Premiere Elements 4

Product Overview

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can easily tell great stories with your photos. Make your photos look their best whatever your level of editing experience--a friendly new design and step-by-step editing assistance help get you started. Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more. Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more. And always find and view all your photos and video clips with ease.

Features:

Bring out the best in your photos
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips.

Make your photos look their best

• Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more.
• Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. And now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible.
• Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the adjustment blend perfectly with the background.
• Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.

Do more with your photos

• Get step-by-step assistance for making photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/ DVD labels. Simply choose the type of creation you'd like to make, and the appropriate tools and instructions appear at your fingertips.
• Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to make great photo creations in minutes. Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.
• Quickly create professional-looking photo books with flexible new options that allow you to view spreads, flip through your book, and rearrange pages--all with fewer clicks than ever before. When your book is finished, just click the Order button to have it professionally printed, hardbound, and delivered to your door.
• Create an eye-catching slide show complete with captions, documentary-style pan and zoom effects, amazing transitions, voice narration, and music. Or take things a step further and share photos in your choice of interactive web galleries.

Easily find and view all your photos and video clips

• With a single click, transfer photos from your memory card to your computer according to your preset preferences, so you can get back to taking photos sooner.
• Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your dog, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
• Place your family, work, or vacation photos into Albums to keep them together for special projects. And see just the photos you want to see with new Smart Albums, which automatically bring together photos based on criteria you choose.

Adobe Premiere Elements 4
 
Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software. Get started quickly with easy moviemaking options; show your style with amazing audio and video effects; and share your movies virtually anywhere.  With Adobe Premiere Elements, you can transfer your raw footage directly to disc or create a polished movie in minutes!  Start with all of your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy moviemaking options.

• Get started quickly with easy moviemaking options
• Show your style with amazing effects
• Share on the Web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and more

Tell your story with ease and control.  Create your movie in one convenient window with all the tools you need at your fingertips  Use the Sceneline for drag-and-drop ease or the Timeline for more advanced control.  Give your movies professional polish with a professional touch.  Impress your audience with animated titles; custom, interactive disc menus; rich audio; and dazzling visual affects and transitions.

Adobe Premiere Elements offers a variety of options for easily sharing your movies.  Upload directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site, burn to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, or share on mobile phones and other devices.

Features:

• Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps.
• Choose from professionally designed Movie Themes that include coordinated music, titles, transitions, and more.
• See all of your media in the Organizer.  Find files using visual tags and a variety of viewing options that make it easy to grab what you need to get started.
• Use tags to find and view photos and video clips b people, places, and events.
• Browse thumbnails of your video clips, audio clips, and photos.
• Bring in video from just about any device, including the latest camcorders, digital cameras, webcams, and mobile phones.
• Drag on scene onto another to create picture-in-picture effects that show multiple clips at once.
• Type text right on the screen; easily change the font, style, and color; and add animation.
• Easily trim or split clips to remove unwanted footage, and see realtime edits in the Monitor window.
• Tell the story in your own voice by adding narration to your video.
• Make sure your movie is just as you envisioned it by previewing it in full screen as you go.
• Just drag and drop to arrange clips, insert transitions, and add effects in the Sceneline.
• Switch to the Timeline view for greater control over synchronizing and sequencing multiple clips, sound effects, and other events.  You can access up to 99 audio and video tracks for more sophisticated results.

Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips - Find what you need faster using the same Organizer that's included with Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Visually tag video clips and photos to categorize by people, places, or events. Then you can view, search, and sort your assets in a variety of ways — including by filename, tag, date, and time -  and quickly start making your movie.

Jump-start your editing with Movie Themes - Turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks! Choose from event-based themes like Wedding and Birthday or style-based themes such as Silent Film and Music Video. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically applies coordinated transitions, music, and professionally designed layouts for titles, credits, and disc menus.

Mix and refine your audio for greater impact - Use background music and sound effects to underscore emotions, add emphasis, or create a mood. The new Audio Mixer works just like a mixing board in a recording studio, letting you adjust relative volumes with sliders so, for example, dialogue can be heard clearly over music.

Share movies in HD for the highest quality - Take advantage of the latest technology and enjoy your movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.

Animate titles to fit your movie's personality - Choose from a set of world-class Adobe fonts designed to look great on video, and customize them with shadows, glows, and other effects. Then animate your titles to make them bounce, spin, or zoom across your scenes.

Share your stories on the Web - Easily upload your movies to YouTube or your personal sharing page. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 takes care of optimizing and formatting for the specific destination so your movies always look great.

Windows Requirements

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 System Requirements:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
• Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Intel Centrino
• 1.3GHz (or compatible) processor
• 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
• 1.5GB of available hard-disk space
• Color monitor with 16-bit color video card
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less
• Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible display driver
• CD-ROM drive
• Web features require Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 7.0, or Mozilla Firefox 1.5

Adobe Premiere Elements 4 System Requirements:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
• Intel Pentium 4 or Celeron 1.7GHz (or compatible) processor; Pentium 4 3GHz processor required for HD or Blu-ray
• For Windows XP: 512MB of RAM (1GB required for HD or Blu-ray)
• For Windows Vista: 1GB of RAM (2GB required for HD or Blu-ray)
• 4.5GB of available Hard Disk space
• Color monitor with 16-bit color Video Card
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less
• Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver
• DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatible Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray Discs)
• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 or DV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB-compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)

Supported import/export formats include:

MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DV, AVI, Windows Media, QuickTime, JVC Everio MOD (import only), 3GP, ASF (import only), WAV, WMA (import only), Dolby Digital Stereo, PSD (import only), JPEG, PNG (import only), DVD, Blu-ray Disc (export only)

Import/export of some formats including DVD, Blu-ray, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, and Dolby Digital Stereo may require activation via an Internet connection. Activation is fast, easy, and free. Import/export of 3GP, 3GP2, and MPEG-4 requires QuickTime software.