Adobe Introduces New Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced two majorupgrades to its digital photo and video software for consumers: Adobe®Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 forWindows. Tight integration and a shared Organizer, with a commondatabase accessible from either application, allow users to do morewith their photos and videos. Available separately or together in asingle retail package, Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere Elementssoftware give photo and video enthusiasts more creative ways toorganize, edit, create and share digital photos and home movies.

Photoshop Elements software helps enthusiasts achieve desired resultsquickly and easily. New Photomerge technology helps solve thechallenge of taking the perfect group photo by combining the bestfacial expressions and body language from a series of shots to create asingle new cohesive group shot. The new Quick Selection Tool reduces aonce time-consuming select-and-adjust task to a single click.Addressing all levels - beginner to expert - there is an opportunity toselect one of three edit modes, each geared toward a differentexperience level. A new Guided Edit mode helps walk users through thesteps of improving a photo.

Adobe Premiere Elements 4 makes it possible to create entertainingmovies in just minutes. The new Organizer, the same found in PhotoshopElements, helps sort video clips and still photos with visual taggingoptions for people, places, or events. Video enthusiasts can applycomprehensive movie themes to a sequence of scenes in just a fewclicks, creating a movie complete with transitions, effects and DVDmenu. Background music and sound effects help underscore emotions, addemphasis, or create a mood. The new Audio Mixer works like a mixingboard in a recording studio, adjusting the relative volumes ofdifferent audio with sliders. The new Sharing Center centralizesavailable ways to show off videos. Users can upload and share videos inmultiple ways, including Blu-ray disc, the Web, and mobile devices suchas the Apple iPhone. Videos also can be exported in a video formatbased on Adobe Flash® to Web sites like YouTube, without requiring anyspecial encoding.