You Should be in Photos, Movies

Whenever I have a chance, I love to sit and play with the color, quality and dimensions of my favorite photos and share them online with friends and family. Picture taking is much more than just a great way to chronicle special moments, for a lot of people it has also become a satisfying hobby. Adobe has noticed this as a growing trend and in response to the high demand for sophisticated (yet easy to use) editing tools comes Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Available separately or together in a single package, Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere Elements software give photo and video enthusiasts more creative ways to organize, edit, create and share digital photos and home movies.

In Photoshop Elements 6, you can finally take a flawless group picture with new Photomerge technology that allows you to select the best facial expressions and poses of each person in your group and combine them into one picture perfect image. It also includes adjustable editing modes which allow you to choose the level of difficulty from beginner to expert. Other new features include a Quick Selection Tool which reduces a (once time-consuming) select-and-adjust task to a single click, a Guided Edit mode walks you through the steps of improving a photo, and the Organizer makes importing, tagging and retrieving photos easier than ever.

The high quality enhancements and easy to use software make the Photoshop Elements 6 a great buy at $99.99. Photoshop Elements 6 is also available for Mac for $89.99.

For the ambitious directorial spirit in you comes Adobe Premiere Elements 4. This software allows you to turn scenes into comprehensive movie themes with transitions, background music and sound effects. The new Sharing Center makes it unbelievably simple to transfer your movies from your computer and onto Blu-ray discs, the Internet or your iPhone. And the Organizer, the same found in Photoshop Elements, helps sort video clips and still photos with visual tagging options for people, places, or events. To help you get the sound just right is the new Audio Mixer. It works just like a mixing board in a recording studio, adjusting the volume of different audio with sliders. Videos also can be exported in a video format based on Adobe Flash to Web sites like YouTube, without any special encoding.

Also priced at $99.99, Adobe Premiere Elements 4 is a creative way to turn your home movies into full-length productions.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 for Windows can also be purchased as a bundle for $149.99. More information on either of these products can be found at www.adobe.com or by calling 1-800-492-3623.

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