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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0

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  • Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $99.99 to buy
  • Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
  • Date added: June 21, 2007
  • Total Downloads: 2,132,370
  • Downloads last week: 13,468
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

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.

Publisher's description

From Adobe Systems :

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software combines power and simplicity so you can do more with your photos. Instantly fix flaws or adjust color and lighting with new advanced controls. Quickly drop your photos into customizable layouts and show off your creativity with dynamic web photo galleries created using Flash technology. And view all your photos and video clips in one convenient place.

When you are ready, its easy to purchase Photoshop Elements 5.0 just click the Buy button within the trial software to purchase without having to download or reinstall the product. Or take your photos further and get into video editing with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software a complete photo and video editing and DVD creation package at a great value. Version 5.0 is now Windows Vista compatible.

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Version 5.0 is now Windows Vista compatible.

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