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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. Get tips and tricks, download video tutorials, and a free issue of the Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter. Register online for free eSeminars that help you get the most out of Photoshop Elements 6. Easily order prints, share photos on the web or on CEIVA Digital Photo Frames, and more. See a full list of books, DVDs, and other materials that will help you get the most out of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Express your ideas in customizable layouts Create photo books with greater ease and flexibility Entertain friends with custom slide shows and interactive web galleries Share with family and friends using a variety of fun options Instantly download photos from your camera Categorize photos and video clips with easy-to-use visual tags Group photos into convenient Albums Develop creations more quickly by gathering the photos you need for a specific project in one place View and organize your photos quickly, even when your library grows to include thousands of photos System requirements - PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor, Mac OS X v10.4.8 through 10.5, 512MB RAM minimum, 64MB RAM, 1GB free space, 1,024x768 display resolution, DVD-ROM drive, QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features, and Internet connection required for Internet-based services

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can go beyond the basics. Make your photos look their best, share them in creative ways, and easily find and view them. Photoshop Elements also works great with iPhoto.



Bring out the best in your photos


Make your photos look their best

• Create amazing composites with easy-to-use tools
• Get greater control over color and lighting
• Brush away wrinkles, unwanted objects, and other flaws
• Make selections in a snap so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo
• Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look

Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before.

Get exactly the look you envision with flexible layout options.

Do more with your photos

• Start creating quickly, no experience necessary
• Express your ideas in customizable layouts
• Share printed photos in creative scrapbook pages, cards, CD/DVD labels, and more
• Share photos with family and friends via a personal online album
• Make the most of your photo paper by printing multiple photos in flexible Picture Packages

Easily organize your photos with visual tagging options.

Create the perfect group shot Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. Enhanced Photomerge technology lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite.

Easily find and view your photos

• Download photos from your camera to your computer in a snap
• Categorize photos with easy-to-use keyword tags
• Group related photos in convenient stacks
• View photos just the way you like, every time, by creating a custom workspace
• Easily view and rate your photos in full-screen mode

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 make adjustments to color, lighting, and exposure. Convert color originals to rich black-and-whites; fine-tune color, brightness, and contrast; and get the highest quality results by editing the raw image files from your digital camera.
• Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. Now when you use the Healing Brush, you can take advantage of visual guidance from an overlay that makes it easy to get the results you want.
• 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 selection blend perfectly with the background.

Do more with your photos

• Easily make photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/DVD labels. Simply choose the type of item you'd like to make and the appropriate tools and instructions will appear at your fingertips.
• Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to put together great photo creations in minutes.

Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.

• Easily upload photos and order professional quality prints, photo books, and more. (Services vary worldwide.)
• Quickly and easily share your photos on the web, via e-mail, and on CD or DVD.
• Easily upload your photos to a personal online album. Friends and family can view your photos and instantly order prints.

Easily find and view your photos

• Quickly transfer photos from your digital camera's memory card to your computer so you can get back to taking photos sooner. Automatically copy photos to your preferred storage area, rename photos as they download, and even automatically tag photos with your name and copyright.
• Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your family pet, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
• Group related photos into stacks to find what you need faster and reduce clutter.
• View your photos just the way you want to by creating and saving your own custom viewing workspace.

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Customer Rating: - Great upgrade
Just purchased a copy of Photoshop Elements V 6. I have used Elements since version 3. This is a great improvement. I work in raw format on Nikon, Canon and Olympus and have found no problem. I do not care for the black back ground. It will do many of the things found in Photoshop CS. You are limited to only "Photoshop Elements 6 the Missing Manual for Mac" as a manual. Others may follow. You can also download the manual from Adobe. A great value compared to other programs, (Bibble, Aperture, iPhoto and LightZone.

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Customer Rating: - best out there but could be better
maybe i'm just slow but you have to put in the time to learn how to use the program. it's not as intuitive as i expected. i have used photoshop in the past and i could not select, move, and replace things as easily as i expected. for example if i wanted to cut out a section of one photo and replace it with something from another photo it took several steps. once you put in the time, the program works well, but to get things perfect you have to tinker. i would give it 3 stars except there is no program that works this well for the money so i give it 4 stars. it's a good deal. some of the "extra" programs that come with it, like the "bridge", i found unnecessary and just take up space on my hard drive. overall i recommend this program.

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Customer Rating: - Thumbs Up
Photoshop Elements retains Adobe's penchant for doing things a little differently. For example, every other Mac program I own uses Command-H for the Hide command. On the other hand, none of my Adobe products comply with this standard. Other than the need to adjust to Adobe's quirks, Elements 6 is a heck of program for less than $100. In particular, the merge assistant makes it extremely easy to merge two or more photos together to make a composite that looks as good as the best elements of the originals. Elements 6 is way beyond iPhoto '08, but just a little under Photoshop, which retails for a jaw-dropping $649. For the advanced amateur, Elements is hard to beat.

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Customer Rating: - Not Recommended
I've been using a Mac for over four years and have always marveled at how easy it it to install software. That was until I had the misfortune of ordering PSE 6. The installation failed and then took hours to remove. I finally was able to manually copy the installation files and complete the install. Ironically, Adobe only provides support to registered users, and you have to install the product before you can register. I found the answer to the problem on a Mac support forum. This is without a doubt the worst Mac installation I have ever seen. It also installed a bunch of unwanted and/or obsolete Adobe products without asking.