Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 & Premiere Elements 10 for Mac & Windows is a software bundle that combines all the tools you'll need to organize, edit, enhance, and share your videos and photos with your closest friends – or the wide world. Both Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements are based on Adobe's industry-leading professional software programs for photo and video editing. The Elements versions borrow many of the best features from those programs, while adding automated tools that make it supremely easy to add a professional sheen to any digital photo or movie.
These automated tools keep getting more powerful, and now in version 10, Photoshop Elements features Guided Edits, which walk you step by step through the process of adding advanced effects to your photos, such as depth of field simulation. On the video side, Premiere Elements 10 features new color-enhancement tools as well as new themes for its InstantMovie tool, which completes an automatic edit of your best footage, complete with titles & music, based on a chosen cinematic theme.
The two programs together form a package that's greater than the sum of its parts. Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements offers a shared Organizer that serves as the central hub of your two programs. This becomes increasingly important as storage cost-per-gigabyte goes down and the number of photo and video files that you accumulate continues to skyrocket. Photoshop Elements now features an intelligent Object Search feature that lets you search based on a specific object in a photo. You can also organize photos & videos based on visual tags, and tag photos for Facebook upload using your Friends list.
| System Requirements |
Windows • 2 GHz or faster processor with SSE2 support; dual-core processor required forHDV or AVCHD editing and Blu-ray or AVCHD export • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Media Center,Windows Vista (all applications run native on 32-bit operating systems andin 32-bit compatibility mode on 64-bit operating systems), or Windows 7(Adobe Premiere Elements Editor runs natively on 32-bit and 64-bit operatingsystems; all other applications run natively on 32-bit operating systems and in32-bit compatibility mode on 64-bit operating systems) • 2 GB of RAM • 7 GB of available hard-disk space to install applications; additional 5 GB toinstall content • Graphics card with latest updated drivers • Color monitor with 16-bit color video card • 1024 x 768 display resolution • Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver • DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatibleBlu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs) • DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8, DV, or HDV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB compatible DVcamcorder • QuickTime 7 software • Windows Media Player (required if importing/exporting Windows Mediaformats) • Internet connection required for Internet-based services* Mac• Multicore Intel processor • Mac OS X v10.5.8 through v10.7 (all applications run native on 32-bitoperating systems and in 32-bit compatibility mode on 64-bit operatingsystems) • 2 GB of RAM • 7 GB of available hard-disk space to install applications; additional 5 GB toinstall content • Graphics card with latest updated drivers • 1024 x 768 display resolution • DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatibleBlu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs) • DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8, DV, or HDV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB compatible DVcamcorder • QuickTime 7 software • Internet connection required for Internet-based services* * Adobe online services and other third-party online services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacypolicy (available at www.adobe.com/go/terms). Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change ordiscontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply. Internet or wireless Internet connection required for Internet-based services. |
| Supported Video Formats | AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV-AVI (import/export on Windows, import only on Mac OS), DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo, H.264, HDV, MPEG-1 (import only), MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3, QuickTime, Windows Media (Windows only), and many more. Import/export of some formats may require activation via an Internet connection. Activation is fast, easy, and free. |
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It really works... Great, "ITS JUST YOU"
I have play with the free 30-day trial. Its going to take some time to work the way I want it to. BUT, with that said, I had NO problem getting it ...Read complete review
I have play with the free 30-day trial. Its going to take some time to work the way I want it to. BUT, with that said, I had NO problem getting it on my laptop, 30mins at most. And as far as you not liking it or you are having trouble working the program. One word, "TIME" it will take time to make what you want. You are not going to get any work shop and get a photo's like Michael Fatali or Ansel Adams. Just start in the field. Then go home and play with it and make it work. Its not the program not working right...! Good Luck in shoting.
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Elements 10
The disks would not load the program. After 15 minutes, the disk was ejected and an error message flashed on the screen. I called Adobe support. The wait time was over an hour,...Read complete review
The disks would not load the program. After 15 minutes, the disk was ejected and an error message flashed on the screen. I called Adobe support. The wait time was over an hour, so they called me back when a tech was available. After 1 hour, 15 minutes, the first tech could not get the program loaded. I called the next day and another tech got the program to load which took 1 1/2 hours but in the end, the program wouldn't work. This tech said I should call again the next day and ask for a senior tech. I did and after 1 1/2 hours on day 3, the program is now operational.
This is not the fault of B & H which sent the software across the country in just a few days from the order date. As usual, B&H did their part.
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I use these softwares in my everyday work. I am a nature photographer and I don't need more features, than PS and Pr Elements have.
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Great for the novice photographer and easy to use, also many books to help with the use of this product.
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Switching over from another product. The on line tutorials are great. Just using PS elements now but am anxious to tinker with Premiere. I have done some video and can't wait to use it.
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Elements 10 is a wonderful product that has been quite easy to learn to this point, but much more to come in the near future. The B&H price was extremely reasonable making this purchase great in two ways; price and usability. I applaud Adobe for a great product and B&H for pricing it in a way you cannot afford not to purchase it. Keep up the great work!
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First time user, but amazed with the capabilities and ease of use.
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Greatr product used constanlty . One small thing I love about it most is that it gives you the opportunity to save files by size. For me that is very handy.
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I'm a portrait photographer on the side. Just upgraded from 6 and 10 is incredible! It does everything I need it to. No need to upgrade to CS for this part time photographer. This is perfect!
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This combo of both the photo and video editing programs is great for both my personal projects like blending the "bests" in motion and photo of my daughter's growth each year, and more professional pieces like weddings, funerals, portraits and scenery shots. I like the abilities this program specifically has to modify and accentuate in pictures that I have taken with a certain focus or lighting in mind. It allows me to further the effect if my camera/ lighting/ filters fall short. Also being able to "clean up" photos is a plus for me.
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Comments about Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 & Premiere Elements 10 for Mac & Windows:
super affordable
great combo
both windows AND mac versions included! wow...
great titler for video stuff too.
use this baby photoshop quite often, very quick
and effective to fix blemishes, dodge/burn, etc.
great for youtube short videos too.
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Great program to create cards and invitations and as its primary function to turn good photos and video into great.
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I bought this for a friend of mine who loves to take photos and shoot small videos. She is good at both of those things but is a little technically challenged. This is the best program for the money and features I could find. I use PS and love the versatility of it. She likes the fact that she won't have to read a book before she can use these programs.
Very easy to learn, but not so easy that it becomes boring or limited.
Great for the occasional user.
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I've been using Paint Shop Pro on my PC for years, but recently purchased Adobe CS5 for my Mac. The Photoshop is a powerful program, but a little difficult to get used to. I purchased the Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elemetents to let me work with Photoshop and video on my PC. Mainly I hoped I would get a little more comfortable using Photoshop.
To my surprise, Elements is very user friendly. I like how it breaks things down to help your learning curve. I suspect it will help me make the transfer to Adobe.
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I purchased the bundle due to the 50% off sale. I now have great software for my videos as well as my photographs. Now I just I need to upgrade my equipment!
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I wanted a easy program to help my pictures.
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The upgrade for the photo editing is weak and doesnt justify the price
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Photoshop elements is an affordable solution to photo imaging software by Adobe.
I love the Adobe line of graphic programs,but the costs of photoshopCS5 or 6 is astronomical! So I decided to give the company's offspring Elements a try. Although my favorite tools are stored in different locations and some shortcuts have been changed such as finding where they hid the scan image shortcut.... with this choice of software I know that I will eventually learn all of Elements little secrets. So far I am very happy . Overall Photoshop Elements 10 will do well for me ,for the creative imagery needs I have at least until such a time as I can afford to purchase the next great Adobe Creative Suites. Best photographic design program for the price!
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Photoshop is touted as the standard of the industry, but I found as a new user of Elements 10 it was very hard to use. The help menu has little or no information. There is vertualy no user manual. There are online videos which are somewhat helpfull. But as is the case of many software products the authors of the user manuals do not realize that a first time user does not even know how to turn the product on. I found it very difficult to understand even the basics of Elements 10
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Nice new features in PS10... havent had time to play much. it works with CS5 too :)
PE10.. so so.. and much less text style options than in PE3.0 which was their greatest edition and truly semi-pro. seems the focus is on consumer, and i find it not as ez to get efx and transitions.
there is a lot of content that many will find fun, tho. they did make setting menu markers an ez 1 click :). maybe i will warm up to it after i learn CS5. most will find this a GREAT VALUE package.
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Just started playing around with the program as soon as it was installed. Fairly easy to use and navigate.
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These programs take too long to start, and my PC is smokin' hot. The video editor does not redraw timeline thumbnails fast enough. I also can not zoom in and out on the timeline with the mouse wheel as I would like to do.
Premiere Elements does have nice output options, however. I like the ability to control the bit rate and other settings for mpegs.
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