Features:

• Keep your photos at your fingertips with powerful and flexible tags, search options, and comparison tools
• Fix photos in a snap with intelligent features that automatically correct skin tone, red eye lighting, color, and contrast
• Make good photos great with superior editing tools: fix problems with color, brightness, exposure, lens distortions and blurred edges
• Share your photos in interactive web galleries and animate your photos with a choice of themes
• Edit, enhance, organize, and share your photos with one powerful yet easy-to-use product

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Product Description:
- Marketing Information: 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. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Image Editing - Software Name: Photoshop Elements v.5.0 - Complete Product - Features and Benefits: Make your photos look their best: - Instantly fix common flaws - Perform advanced editing - Artistically enhance photos - Create composites - Add text and graphics - From the creators of Adobe Photoshop Show photos in creative, entertaining ways: - Get started quickly with flexible layout options - Share your photos in exciting new ways - Entertain friends with a custom slide show - Conveniently share photos and photo creations and order prints online - Show virtually everywhere - Create your own calendars, cards, and albums - Enjoy flexible print options Easily find and view your photos and video clips: - Easily download and organize your photos - View photos the way you want - Quickly find any photo - Archive photos for safekeeping - Language Support: International English - Platform Support: PC License Information - License Type: Complete Product - License Pricing: Standard - License Quantity: 1

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software combines power and simplicity so you can do more with your photos. This is a comprehensive software package that addresses an incredible array of tasks related to digital photography: downloading, organization, automatic editing, advanced editing, creativity templates, sharing photos, and even archiving. Photoshop Elements 5.0 is a soup-to-nuts digital photography solution based on the technology of Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for professional-quality photo editing.

Convert any color photo into a rich black-and-white photos by selecting from an array of variation samples. View larger.

Flipbooks are a fun and creative way to display your photos. View larger.

Choose from many styles of templates and frames to form a photo collage. View larger.

Easily organize your photos and video clips with visual tagging options that let you categorize by people, places, or events. View larger.

More experienced users can take advantage of Photoshop Elements' advanced tools. These tools let you make adjustments to color, lighting, exposure, brightness, and contrast. The new Adjust Color Curves controls make it even easier to fine-tune color, brightness, and contrast. Other advanced innovations include the Healing Brush for removing wrinkles and unwanted objects, the Spot Healing Brush for getting rid of dust and scratches in old photos, and Shadow/Highlight for lightening shadows and reducing the glare of highlights.

Give your color originals a dramatic, elegant look by turning them into rich black-and-white photos by selecting from an array of variation samples. Easily correct camera lens distortion at photo edges and keystone effects that exaggerate perspective. Get crisper-looking photos by sharpening blurred edges, even remove blurring caused by low-light conditions.

Photoshop Elements' precise selection tools and layering abilities allow you to combine elements from different photos to create fun composites. Quickly separate an object from its background—even in complex, textured areas—and instantly remove rough edges, and then combine it with another photo to create a new scene.

With support for RAW image files and many new camera models, Photoshop Elements 5.0 you the highest-quality image-editing results.

Creativity and sharing
Photoshop Elements' creativity tools let you present your photos in creative, entertaining ways. Use flexible layout options as a starting point for your creations: choose a blank slate, basic frameworks, or professionally designed themes. Create memorable keepsakes in so many ways: Create custom slide shows, cards, album pages, CD and DVD covers, scrapbook layouts, photo books, prints, Flipbooks, and much more. Take advantage of Flash technology to share your photos in interactive web galleries and animate your photos with a choice of themes, such as a spinning carousel, to provide an interactive viewing experience.

With drag-and-drop simplicity, you can drop photos into flexible layouts, drag to resize images, and move photos anywhere on the page with ease. Customize all of the elements of your chosen layout. Adjust layout colors to better complement your photos; add new graphical elements to enhance or personalize the theme; and even use your own photos and art as backgrounds or textures on which to base new layouts.

Set off your photos with more than 100 included frames, from traditional to elegant to avant-garde.

Enjoy integrated access to online services, such as sharing photos and photo creations on the Web, and ordering prints and hardbound photo books--all from within Photoshop Elements. Easily upload your photos to CEIVA digital receivers that automatically receive and display new photos daily. Turn your photos into real U.S. postage at PhotoStamps.com (U.S. only).

Photoshop Elements 5.0 also adds the Map view, so you can find photos by the locations where they were taken. Simply drag photos to any location in the new Map view, which is tied to online satellite views. Even upload your Map view to the web, for easy sharing with friends and family.

Great Tools for Downloading, Organization, and Archiving
In addition to the powerful image-editing and creativity tools, Elements 5.0 includes great tools for downloading, organization, and archiving your photos.

The enhanced Photo Downloader grabs photos from your digital camera and mobile phone in a snap, and it also can clear the camera card for you. Organize photos more easily by automatically grouping and tagging photos as you download—based on the time they were taken or on an event. Folder names are automatically created with a matching tag so you can easily find these groups of photos later. Photoshop Elements can find multiple photos of similar shots and automatically group them together, and you can choose the best shot as the thumbnail for easy viewing.

Easily organize your photos and video clips with visual tagging options that let you categorize by people, places, or events. Then view in a variety of ways, including by tag, on a timeline, and in a calendar view. You can also quickly find and view all the previously saved versions of a photo by simply clicking to expand its Version Set in the Organizer.

Archiving tools let you back up your precious photo collection

Rating : - Glad I have this
I'm an avid scrapper, I'll admit, especially after my daughter was born. I'm new to editing pictures but I'm pretty computer savy. To me this software is easy to understand. I will admit there were times I would get stuck, mainly because the version I bought did not come with a manuel. I don't know the proper photography terms so looking up in the help menu didn't always work for me. So I bought Photoshop Elements for Dummies and that helped A LOT! Now I love this software. It's so much fun. It does everything that a scrapper (great for family photos) would want it to. From erasing the background to creating brushes. It's endless in what you can do with this software. For people that don't do photography, editing, etc, you will not be disappointed in this software.