Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 7

List Price: $149.99 Discount Price: $103.99

Features:

• Combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products at a great value, so you can tell amazing stories with photos and videos
• Stay connected with your favorite people and memories with new Photoshop.com membership
• Protect your photos and videos with automatic online backup and 2GB of storage, enough for up to 1,500 photos or 25 minutes of DVD-quality video
• Access your photos and videos anywhere you are
• Share your photos in fun, interactive ways via invitation-only Online Albums

Customer Reviews:

Amazingly full featured  [Posted on 2008-12-23]
I have to confess that I haven't had access to the full version of either Premiere or Photoshop in 6 or 7 years, but this home version of Adobe's video and photo editing software is nothing short of stunning. I had needed for a while a better than the bare bones programs that came with my camcorder and digital camera and this considerably more than exceeds my needs. Frankly, both of these programs do vastly more than I need them to do. I've learned only a portion of what each program is capable of doing. Users with more advanced needs may discover a point where they are limited, but I can't imagine many users short of professionals sensing any sort of lack in the products.

My lone complaint is that when starting the software up, it takes you to an Internet interface. This is both undesirable and unhelpful feature. I wouldn't mind if you had the option of going online to use the product, but I don't want to start off there. I haven't bothered to think through the logic of it, but it may be a way of banning unauthorized installations. Whatever the reason, it seriously mars what would otherwise be a near perfect pair of programs. I dock the software a star for this feature.

Still, if the initial interface doesn't bother you, this is a surprising full featured pair of programs that should meet the need of all but the most advanced videographers and photographers.

Premiere Elements 7 Needs Improvement [Posted on 2008-12-23]
I obtained this software package for two purposes. First, to clean up digital pictures and second, to transfer ACVHD files from our Sony HDR-SR12 10.2MP 120GB High Definition Hard Drive Handycam Camcorder with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom to MPEG 4 format. Adobe's Photoshop Elements is an excellent image editing package. The "auto" correction capabilities are superb. It effortlessly fixes red-eye and sharpens images like I've never seen before (and without creating pixilation or artifacts). The Photoshop Elements user interface is easy to navigate and features are intuitive to use. But on the other hand, the Premiere Elements 7 is hard to use and extremely slow to convert video files. Worse, the software was unable to connect to our Sony HDR-SR12. As a comparison, I used Sony's Picture Motion Browser (version 3.3.00.09300) software to transfer and edit HD video content. This software was bundled free with the Sony HDR-SR12 and in many ways, exceeds Premiere Elements 7's ability to edit, compose, and compile video. For example, Sony's Picture Motion Browser takes about 20 minutes on a dual core Intel processor (Vista SP2 32 bit) to compile 30 minutes of ACVHD 1080i content to a single DVD-RW disc. It takes another 10 minutes to compile the same ACVHD content to MPEG2 files. Premiere Elements 7 takes 3x longer to accomplish the same tasks. In addition, Sony's Picture Motion Browser is much more intuitive to use than Premiere Elements 7.

I'm not a video editing enthusiast but I do appreciate software package that cam easily execute basic tasks like file conversion, device connections, and disc creation. I recommend that you look at other video editing packages. With regard to Photoshop Elements, you can purchase that separately and I have found it functional and easy to use.

Same software as version 6. Do not buy. [Posted on 2008-12-24]
Ok, so maybe the title of this review is a little exaggerated, but overall it's fairly truthful. When I first got version 6 I was amazed at how many new features had been added to the software. As of yet, I haven't even been able to find a single new feature in version 7 that I care about. The chances mostly come in the form of social networking additions, although I'd guess that if you know how to use photoshop then you also know how to do these functions on your own, so I'm not sure what the point is exactly.

Anyways, if you have version 6, DO NOT UPGRADE to this. If you are first time photoshop user I'd suggest that you search and see if you can get a better price on version 6 because you aren't missing anything here. If you can't get a better price, well there's technically nothing wrong with version 7 so go for it.

cameras and action [Posted on 2008-12-24]
Bought this as a gift for my daughter after using it myself for about 3 years. It's pretty easy to use and I have enjoyed creating photographs and videos much more so than with previous software I have had.

Rushed to market [Posted on 2008-12-25]
Pros: Nice amount of features, pretty interface, simple once you get used to it

Cons: Crashes constantly on Vista, Some features require you to "upgrade" to a Photoshop.com account (like menu themes!), some features work sometimes and sometimes don't (like effects on text, it will allow you to add them to some but not others with no explanation!), resource hog (on a 3ghz Core2Duo w/ 4 gigs RAM)

Bottom Line: Avoid, version 6 was more stable and more complete in my opinion. I was expecting more from Adobe.

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