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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 (PC) | 
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| From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £75.75
Buy New: £52.00
You Save: £23.75 (31%)
New (7) Used (5) from £24.52
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, No Operating System
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.1
MPN: 65026802
EAN: 5051254304920
ASIN: B001ELK946
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Sealed retail Box. Dispatch from UK frist class.
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Product Description
Make ordinary photos extraordinary, tell amazing stories with them, and share them virtually everywhere. Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Elements 7 software combines power and simplicity so its easier than ever to quickly fix photo flaws, add incredible effects, and create perfect photo composites. Tell your stories in scrapbook pages, photo books, and interactive web galleries. And find and view all your photos with ease.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bloody good January 2, 2009
total novice (UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Placed order, and it arrived 2 days later wow as this was on standard delivery! as for software so far very good, organiser very good and helpfull. Be warned when playing with your pics, in effects read before you delete, i miss read and lost the effect toally and had to re install, my fault but very easy to do, as for the rest its just time learning what can and cant be done cos there is so much!
 Painful Installation December 8, 2008
Stewart Riley (Nottingham)
50 out of 59 found this review helpful
I thought now would be a good time to upgrade from Photoshop Album 2 to a combined storage/editing package, and have been impressd with other Adobe packages.
Considering this is version 7 of the application, youd've have thought it would be easy to install, well 8 hours later, I finally manage to get it working.
The trouble comes when trying to convert an old adobe catalogue into the new format. Of course there are instructions and helpful buttons, but neither are any good when it doesn't work.
The adobe help screens are a waste of time, and I had to search the forums to work out how to get it working (I was tempted to send it back!)
It turns out that 1 picture out of my 20500 was causing it to stop, well how do you identify that one file and delete it? it took 8hrs worth of saving catalogues, each time smaller and smaller than the last to pinpoint the errant image. each time trying to convert it to the new format. When it was deleted, it all went through ok, except it seemed to hang generating thumbnails. I eventually stopped it had a break and came back ready to play. I now discover that some images 2.2.mb and above when viewed in full screen mode are pixelated, but when viewed in my old Album 2 they are fine!!!! I've left a message on the adobe board in the hope that someone can work it out.
It has taken the shine off something I was looking forward to using, as i dread finding something else that won't work or cause me grief.
So summary to date, painful installation and less usable than a 4 year old bit of kit, tempted to try Corel!
P.s. 1Gb of RAM is now where near enough, my 64bit machine is struggling with only this open
 A great photo editing package for home users September 6, 2008
Keith Joseph (West Berkshire, England)
456 out of 474 found this review helpful
Presently on PcPro's `A-List', Adobe Elements is a cut down version of Adobe's 500+ Photoshop/Photoshop Extended CS4, and costs considerably less while still having a lot of useful photo editing capabilities. Photoshop CS4 has a steep learning curve, but Photoshop elements is far more home-user friendly. A lot of the program is geared towards image storage and management of the photos on your hard drive, helping with emailing, web output and scrapbooks of your images. The program can auto-downloads your images from the camera to folders, set up using the date, and can even process the images, say automatically removing red-eye, while it does it. Using stacks you can set up image databases [smart albums] using keywords like names, places, events, etc.., and you can even search using visual tags within the image. That said, I shun the image database options offered by Photoshop Elements and Extended, preferring the simplicity of logical folder names instead. Also, like PhotoShop, the image database side isn't seamlessly integrated into the image editing side [to the point where it's actually annoying]. The trendy charcoal 'white text on grey' interface is also style over function, you find it harder to read than black text on white, and more importantly to tell which photo window is active - professional PhotoShop CS3 users are far better served with standard Windows colours.
New to Elements 7 is a new Quick Fix tool to soften surfaces while keeping the edge and detail sharp - i.e. a blur tool, which can help to remove unwanted image noise. Plus there's a new Scene Cleaner tool that can brush away undesirable objects from a photo [so you can ditch that car or tourists from the view] and there's now a Smart Brush which lets you instantly apply effects to a selected area of the image. Plus Element's 7 sports a new single step `whiten teeth', 'make grass greener' and `make the sky blue' tool - but this is little more than streamlining tools within Quick Select and Adjustment Layer Presets that were available on Elements 6. Besides Adobe's suggestion of using the tool to whiten teeth and add a suntan to say Aunt Doris's face may make her look a little ridiculous. Also new in Element's 7 will be a free subscription to Photoshop.com, a special service Adobe has devised to bring friends together by providing quick access to on-line backup, storage, and sharing capabilities. You get 2GB of on-line storage, `enough for up to 1,500 photos', so you can view your photos from virtually anywhere. Thus Photoshop Elements goes `Facebook', allowing you to share your photos `in fun, interactive ways via invitation-only'. For these `Online Albums' you will get new [quite fun] animated templates delivered to Elements on a regular basis. There will also be a Photoshop.com ` Plus' membership offering 20 Gb [15,000 photos] of on-line photo storage, but that will require you paying an annual fee. The first year's 20 Gb subscription is included in Adobe's `Elements 7 Plus' [but not this standard version].
And all the old Element 6's tools are there as well. For editing you have a set of 'quickfix' options or you can load the full image editor for greater manual control: such as adjust sharpness, correct camera distortion, levels, hue and skin colour. Naturally you have standard tools like crop and adjust image size (pixels) as well. Plus there are step-through guides [guided edit] to help you get there. The software will also integrate with scanners twain interfaces if you are into scanning film, and the Fill Light [shadow/highlight] tool is pretty essential for bringing out detail in shadows from any slide/negative scan. Plus Elements can handle RAW camera images, although I use TIFF/jpg (Elements can save in any common image format).
System requirements are quite high: CD drive, 1Gb system RAM, XP or Vista, 2GHz processor, and a Direct-X 9 graphics card [and Adobe installers can reject systems that don't meet the minimum spec]. Elements 7 perhaps isn't a crucial upgrade from Elements 6 or even 5, but for new home users, or those with older versions, it's very powerful photo editing and image database software from the market leaders. The new 'Scene Cleaner' tool should have been the 'killer app' for those considering upgrading, but it is little more than Elements 6's old PhotoMerge Group application and it requires a series of photos where one has the background free to copy across [and it sometimes gets the exposure wrong making the added bit look rather obvious].
Adobe Elements 7 has only two real competitors at the price: Paint Shop Pro X2 and Serif PhotoPlus X2. Both these programs are also excellent and worthy of consideration, with PhotoPlus's strength being it's about as powerful but rather cheaper to buy and upgrade. Likewise Corel Paint Shop pro X2 occasionally offers a bit more than Elements [layer masks, and curves], is also cheaper and a tad easier to use, although it can be buggy [not Adobe's strong point on first version release either - so install those patches]. Professional users and some SLR enthusiasts will still head towards Adobe's semi-automated PhotoShop Darkroom 2.0 and the fantastically expensive Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, although even at work we have Adobe Elements on a few imaging workstations for casual users, where the high cost of PhotoShop CS4 Extended simply isn't justified. That said experienced Photoshop CS4 users will rapidly find Elements 7 lacking in a few key features they are used to.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 is also available to buy as a cheaper double pack with the new Adobe Premiere Elements 7 video editing software, which should be even better value than this upgrade. Plus this double pack qualifies for a large educational discount for non-commercial use if you, or a child in the house, are in full time education [from primary school to college]. Similar large educational discounts apply to much of Adobes software. Those buying for College/School department use will save even more.
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