Make ordinary photos extraordinary with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. It combines power and simplicity so you can tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and the web; and easily find and view all your photos. And now, extend the capabilities of your software with new Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply).
Create a personal web travelogue for friends and family, or view and share your photos on an interactive map based on the locations where they were taken (Works with U.S. addresses only) Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates With Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply), you can - Show off your creativity with inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and templates delivered regularly to your software Backup your memories automatically and no scheduling required? get 20GB of storage ? enough for up to 15,000 photos View your photos virtually anywhere you are Share photos in fun, interactive ways via invitation-only Online Albums ? and you'll get new templates delivered to your software on a regular basis
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 software combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and web; and easily find and view all your photos. New Photoshop.com membership* works with Photoshop Elements so you can protect your photos with automatic online backup and 2 GB of storage; view your photos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums.
Effortlessly select an area and simultaneously apply incredible effects with a single stroke of Adobe Smart Brush. Click to enlarge.
See all your photos in one convenient place where you can scroll through them, apply visual keyword tags, and view and retrieve them fast--even if your library includes thousands of photos. Click to enlarge.
Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates. Click to enlarge.
Easily upload photos to your website, iPhone, or CEIVA Digital Photo Frames, or view them on your TV.
Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product Use Photoshop Elements with Photoshop.com* for all your photo needs--organize, edit, and enhance photos; make unique photo creations; share in print and on the web; protect your photos; and view them anywhere you are.
*Available only in the U.S.
Introducing new Photoshop.com membership* Works with Photoshop Elements to help you protect your photos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and enough storage (2 GB) for up to 1,500 photos; view your photos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums. And upgrade to Plus membership at any time and get 18 GB more storage, and a variety of inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and templates delivered regularly to your software.
*Available only in the U.S.
Select and apply with a single stroke Simultaneously select a specific photo area and apply incredible effects with a single stroke of new Adobe Smart Brush. Improve lighting, add rich textures, and more with eight libraries of over 50 sophisticated effects.
Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds Whiten teeth, make skies bluer, get rid of red eye, and take advantage of many more shortcuts that reduce common, multistep editing tasks to a single click or brush stroke.
Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use tools Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.
Count on step-by-step assistance Want to touch up a scratch? Create a scrapbook page? Add artistic effects that make a photo look like a pencil sketch? Photoshop Elements walks you through key steps to make it easy to get the results you want fast.
Quickly clean your scene of unwanted elements You took five shots of your subject, but pedestrians and cars distract from the scene in every one. Now, see only what you want to see in your photos--use Adobe Photomerge Scene Cleaner to simply brush away any elements that changed positions between photos to create a single, perfect composite.
Composite with amazing results Create flawless group shots in just a few clicks with amazing Adobe Photomerge technology. Photomerge also lets you create seamless panoramas and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.
Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates--including new, visually stunning options. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience.
Show off your creativity in unique ways Make amazing printed photo creations--like scrapbook pages, photo books, and cards--that you can customize to get exactly the look you envision.
Organize your library with ease See all your photos in one convenient place, and find photos fast using powerful, flexible visual tags and a variety of viewing and searching options, including a new text search box.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 & Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products at a great value, so you can tell amazing stories with photos and videos. Extend the capabilities of your software with new Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply).
Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates Premiere Elements 7 - Create a polished movie with using creative techniques from Hollywood directors Quickly find your best clips - analyze and tag your footage so you can find a specific clip Videomerge - cleanly extract your moving subject from a solid color background and drop it into a new setting Energize your movies with music - SmartSound adds a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie. Synchronize scenes to the beat of your soundtrack Animate titles with a set of Adobe fonts designed to look great on video Upload your movies to YouTube or your personal sharing page - optimizing and formatting for the specific destination is automatic With Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply), includes - Ongoing delivery of tutorials, artwork, templates, movie themes, and special effects 20GB of online storage Access to your photos and videos virtually anywhere you are Fun, interactive photo-sharing experiences for friends and family
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 & Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products at a great value, so you can tell amazing stories with photos and videos. Easily create extraordinary photos and incredible movies, and use them together in cinematic slide shows and more. New Photoshop.com membership* works with Adobe Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere Elements so you can protect your photos and videos with automatic online backup and 2 GB of storage; access your photos and videos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums.
Create extraordinary photos and tell amazing stories with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.
Easily make movies and get incredible results with Adobe Premiere Elements 7. Click to enlarge.
Get the most complete solution so you can do more with your photos and videos Enjoy all the functionality of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements software, and take advantage of integration that delivers even more ways for you to creatively use photos and videos together--all for a great value.
Introducing new Photoshop.com membership* Works with Adobe Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere Elements to help you protect your photos and videos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and enough storage (2 GB) for up to 1,500 photos or a 25 minutes of DVD-quality video, or combination of both; access your photos and videos anywhere you are; and share your photos in fun, interactive ways with invitation-only Online Albums. Upgrade to Plus membership at any time and get 15 GB more storage, and a variety of inspiring ideas, tutorials, seasonal artwork, and movie themes, delivered regularly to your software.
*Available only in the U.S.
Save time with centralized access to your photos and video clips Access all your photos and video clips from one convenient place, no matter which application you're using.
Instantly add cinematic flair to your photo slide shows Create a traditional photo slide show, and then let new InstantMovie automatically add video-style effects, transitions, motion graphics, and more. Preview the slide show in full screen and then burn it to disc or upload it to the web to share with family and friends.
Do more with individual video frames Capture a single video frame; add text, graphics, and other enhancements; and then put the frame back in your movie for a fun or dramatic freeze-frame effect. Or use it to create a personalized disc cover for your movie.
Include treasured memories in your movies Add visual depth and variety to your movies by including digital stills and scanned film photos.
Create extraordinary photos and tell amazing stories
See all your photos in one convenient place where you can scroll through them, apply visual keyword tags, and view and retrieve them fast--even if your library includes thousands of photos. Click to enlarge.
Make all your photos extraordinary Easily get the results you want with your photos. Simultaneously select an area and apply incredible effects with a single brush stroke; get whiter teeth and bluer skies in seconds; count on step-by-step editing assistance; and quickly create the perfect photo by cleaning your scene of unwanted elements or making great group shots, seamless panoramas, and more.
Make unique photo creations Use flexible themed layouts to create everything from photo books and postcards to scrapbook pages and disc covers. Entertain family and friends by sharing photos in visually stunning interactive web galleries with one-of-a-kind templates. Take advantage of online offerings to upload photos directly to the web to order prints and more, and easily share on your TV and iPhone.
Easily find and view all your photos Keep your photos and video clips at your fingertips with custom tagging, new text searching and other powerful search capabilities, and viewing choices that allow you to sort and find your photos the way that works best for you. Scroll through your photos, apply tags, and view and retrieve photos quickly--even when your library grows to include thousands of photos.
Add visual appeal with hundreds of effects and transitions, interactive disc menus, animated titles, and professional credits. Click to enlarge.
Easily make movies and get incredible results
Create your first movie in minutes Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy options for making incredible movies. Count on new automated options to find your best clips or instantly edit them into a polished movie using Hollywood directors' creative techniques. Or simply drag and drop thumbnails of clips, transitions, and effects to the Sceneline to create your story.
Add knockout visuals and sound Give your movies professional style with dazzling visual and audio effects. Easily combine elements of different videos for entertaining results, or impress your audience by adding animated titles, rich audio, amazing special effects, TV-style transitions, and custom, professionally designed interactive disc menus.
Share your movies everywhere Easily share your movies on DVD or Blu-ray Disc, broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site, or play movies on mobile phones and other devices.
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
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.
The easy way to edit, share and get creative with photos and videos Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is packed with easy-to-use photo-editing features, hundreds of creative templates for photo projects, automatic photo backup, tools for creating slide shows and more! Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is your complete digital photo editing suite! Enhance your photos in an instant with easy photo-fixes and effects. Use powerful editing tools to remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan, so everyone looks their best! Make scrapbooks, greeting cards, calendars, collages and more using hundreds of professionally designed templates. Email, print or save your photos on DVDs. Download, view, trim and show off video clips. You can even combine photos, video clips and music to make an amazing slide show you can burn to DVD to play on your TV. Photo Album gives you all the tools you need to make the most of your photos and videos.
Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is your complete digital photo editing suite! Enhance your photos in an instant with easy photo-fixes and effects. Use powerful editing tools to remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan, so everyone looks their best! Make scrapbooks, greeting cards, calendars, collages and more using hundreds of professionally designed templates. Email, print or save your photos on DVDs. Download, view, trim and show off video clips. You can even combine photos, video clips and music to make an amazing slide show you can burn to DVD to play on your TV. Photo Album gives you all the tools you need to make the most of your photos and videos.
Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is your complete digital photo editing suite.
What's New
Project Launcher This exciting new tool puts the features of Photo Album 7 Deluxe at your fingertips and makes it easy to get started right away. Just click on the photo task you want to perform (Import, Browse, Enhance or Create), and the intuitive, visual interface walks you through each step, making it easy to get going.
Makeover Tools Help everyone in your photos look their best with innovative makeover tools. Remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan!
Picture Tubes Add flair to any photo with these fun and colorful artistic embellishments.
The Project Launcher puts the features of Photo Album 7 Deluxe at your fingertips and makes it easy to get started right away.Click to enlarge.
Remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan. Click to enlarge.
Share your photos with family and friends in email, print or on DVD. Click to enlarge.
Project templates Choose from hundreds of creative project templates to create scrapbooks, calendars, photo collages and more. Simply select a theme, then drag and drop your photos into the template.
Greeting cards
Collages
Calendars
Scrapbook pages
Magazine covers
Special scrapbook designs by Sandra Magsaman and Smilebox
Sharing Tools Email photos and slide shows as attachments to share with friends instantly.
Video Tools Trim unwanted portions of video clips to focus on the action, save video frames as thumbnails and images, and incorporate video clips into your slide shows.
Features
Edit Photos Enhance your photos with powerful, easy-to-use tools
Download photos from your camera automatically
Improve photos in one click with Quick Fix
Brighten dark photos
Fix red eye
Rotate, crop and resize
Remove blemishes
Paint on a suntan
Whiten teeth
Convert to black & white or sepia
Combine photos, video clips and music to make an amazing slide show that can be played on your TV. Click to enlarge.
Easily fix Red Eye. Click to enlarge.
Edit Videos Download, view and share video clips
Download video clips from your camera to your computer automatically
Watch video clips as thumbnails or in full screen view
Cut the unwanted portions of your video clip
Save individual video frames as still pictures
Turn basic video clips into music videos or sentimental tributes
Get Started Quickly with the Project Launcher Work quickly and easily with this intuitive visual interface
Click on an icon to select your task
Import
Browse
Enhance
Create
The Project Launcher walks you through the steps to get you started
Organize Photos Sort and find your photos quickly
Search photos by text in captions, tags or filenames
Sort your photos by date, file, name or rating
Rate your photos to find the best ones later
Tag your photos to make them easier to find next time
Add comments to your photos to capture the spirit of the event
Make scrapbooks, calendars and more with Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe. Chose from hundreds of professionally designed templates. Click to enlarge.
Place your photos into scrap book pages and add fun artistic embellishments. Click to enlarge.
Create Photo Projects Turn your favorite photos into special keepsakes
Select from hundreds of professionally designed templates for
Greeting cards
Collages
Calendars
Scrapbook pages
Magazine covers
Choose photos and simply drop them into unique, creative designs
Select scrapbook designs by Sandra Magsamen or Smilebox for that special look
Decorate your photos and scrapbook pages with fun, artistic embellishments
Add fun graphics to your favorite pictures using Picture Tubes
Perk up your favorite photos by adding a frame or photo edge
Place yourself on a magazine cover
Produce Amazing Slide Shows Show off your photos and video clips the fun way
Combine your favorite photos, video clips and video stills into a slide show
Add music and transitions to slides to make an impressive show
Share photo slide shows over email in just a few clicks
Watch slide shows with music on your TV or computer
Share Photos and Video Let friends and family enjoy your favorite shots
Print photos of any size, including 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, wallets and more
Save photos and videos to CD or DVD for easy storage and playback on your TV
Order prints and share them online quickly with family and friends
Back Up Photos Online--Automatically Protect your photo collection from hard drive crashes
Store your entire photo collection online with Sharpcast, an online service offering automatic photo protection and backup
New photos transferred from your camera to your computer are automatically detected and backed up online
Recover all your photos easily in case of a hard drive failure
Store as many photos as you want, for as long as you want!*
* Subject to Sharpcast user agreement. Photos will be backed up for 30 days at their full resolution. After 30 days, they will be resized to a maximum of 1600 x 1200 pixels (suitable for a 4 x 6 print). Customers who wish to maintain photos at their full resolution for longer periods of time will need to subscribe to a Sharpcast premium plan. See Sharpcast application for more details.
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate features new additions and enhancements including: New PHOTORECOVERY for Digital Media - When users think their digital content might have been lost forever, PHOTORECOVERY can recover images, movies and sound files from accidentally reformatted memory cards. It is compatible with virtually all media card formats, including SD, miniSD, microSD, CompactFlash I and II, Memory Stick, MMC, xD, SmartMedia and Microdrive New Flash Drive - A 2 GB USB Flash Drive makes it easier for users to backup and transfer photos, videos and other files from a PC. Includes plug-and-play compatibility
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate combines ease of use with full professional power. Fix brightness, color and photo imperfections like red eye in a few clicks, or use precision photo-editing controls to create photos you'll be proud to share. The Ultimate edition features valuable extras like media recovery software, a creative content pack, Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and a 2 GB USB flash drive--over $180 in value!
The easiest way to get professional looking photos--fast!
Overview
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has everything you need to create stunning photos. The integrated Learning Center and a selection of one-click photo-fixing tools make it easy to correct common photo flaws such as red eye, color and sharpness. Unique makeover tools let you whiten teeth, remove blemishes and paint on a tan, so you can make everyone look their best before printing or posting photos online. As your skills and confidence grow, you can harness the power of professional-quality features such as HDR Photo Merge, Histogram, Curves and Levels Adjustment tools to make precision edits. You can even get creative with artistic effects and filters to turn your favorite photos into fun projects to share with family and friends.
Import pictures from your camera automatically
Instantly fix common problems such as red eye, color and sharpness
Add special effects to photos, text and projects with a few simple clicks
Use advanced editing tools to fine-tune images on your own
Print, email and share photos
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Includes:
New--Express Lab
Save hours with this rapid photo fixing mode
Corel MediaOne Plus (DVD Maker not included)
Edit with fast, fun and easy photo & video software
Turn pictures and video clips into slide shows, or create collages, calendars and album pages
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 video training
Learn editing tips and tricks with video tutorials by Lynda.com
Special effects filters by Nik Software
Add stunning effects and styles to transform pictures into unique photographs
The Express Lab lets you edit photos without opening each image file individually, so your workflow runs seamlessly. Click to enlarge.
Use layers to add effects to your images. Click to enlarge.
Ease of use with full professional power. Click to enlarge.
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate Includes everything in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, plus:
Enhanced--Camera raw support
Enjoy support for over 250 camera raw formats
New--Background remover plug-in
Easily remove the background of a photo and change it to a new scene for more creative impact
Enhanced--Creative content pack
Get creative with your photos by adding fun details. Choose from 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes
New--Certified for Windows Vista
Certified for Windows Vista software has undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security
Bonus--USB flash drive (2 GB)
Store and transfer your digital photos with this handy thumb drive
Bonus--Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4
Transform your photos into stunning paintings in 3 easy steps
Bonus--Media recovery software
Recover images, movies and sound files, even from reformatted memory cards
What's New
Enhanced--Camera Raw Support For those who shoot in raw format, support for over 250 cameras has been added.
New--Background Remover This new plug-in lets you easily change the background in your photos to create unique and exciting effects. Just cut out part of an image, remove it from the background and place it on a different setting. You can even preserve fine image details like strands of hair or smoke.
Enhanced--Creative Content Pack Ideal for scrapbooking and other creative photo projects, this bonus pack contains 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes that allow you to enhance any image with fun graphics.
New--Certified for Microsoft Windows Vista Certified for Windows Vista software has undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security.
Bonus--Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 This fun program lets you turn a photo into a unique work of art in just 3 easy steps:
1. Choose a photo and the painting style you want to apply. 2. Let the Smart Stroke painting technology create a stunning painting. 3. Touch up your masterpiece by hand if desired.
Bonus--Media Recovery Software New Media Recovery software included with Paint Shop Pro X2 Ultimate can recover images, movies and sound files from memory cards, even if they have been reformatted. It is compatible with virtually all media card formats, including SD, miniSD, microSD, CompactFlash I & II, Memory Stick, MMC, xD, SmartMedia and Micro Drive.
Bonus--USB Flash Drive Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate comes with a 2 GB USB flash drive for storing and transferring your digital photos and files.
New--Corel MediaOne Plus (DVD Maker not included) This fast, fun and easy photo & video software lets you turn pictures and video clips into slide shows, and create collages, calendars and album pages.
Get photos from your PC, camera or scanner automatically with Express Lab. Click to enlarge.
Easily apply artistic effects to individual layers, such as drop shadows, embossing and reflections. Click to enlarge.
Merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures or with different brightness/contract settings to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows. Click to enlarge.
Features
View, organize and edit photos quickly
Rotate, resize, crop, straighten and remove red eye fast in Express Lab mode
Import photos automatically, including raw images
View thumbnails of all images on your hard drive
Tag photos with keywords for easy reference
Search for photos by filename, folder name, keyword tag, caption text or image metadata
Express Lab This easy photo fixing mode helps you view and correct dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. The Express Lab lets you edit photos without opening each image file individually, so your workflow runs seamlessly!
Get photos from your PC, camera or scanner automatically
Adjust photo details, such as brightness, shadows, highlights and saturation
Rotate, resize, crop, straighten and remove red eye
Retouch and restore to remove flaws
Autopreserve Originals Automatically store a copy of your original photo when saving an edited version.
Crop to New Image Quickly separate multiple images that you scanned at the same time. This tool automatically creates a new file from the cropped area and keeps the original scan open so you can easily separate individual image files from the group scan.
Enhanced--Camera Raw Support Download photos from your camera to computer effortlessly, including raw image formats produced by many digital cameras. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility, without overwriting the original raw files.
Support for Over 50 Formats View photos and video clips in more than 50 file formats. Easily import files and ensure accurate color quality for your images.
Share Photos Instantly Email photos or slide shows to family and friends.
Retouch your photos like a pro
Retouch with unique makeover tools to look your best in photos you print or post online
Whiten teeth, smooth wrinkles and remove blemishes with a few clicks
Edit quickly with easy tools
Cover distractions or remove unwanted objects
Change the color of anything in your photo
Remove noise, grain or discolorations
Makeover Tools Make sure the people in your photos look their best with tools that are fun and easy to use. Help your subjects look thinner in seconds, whiten bloodshot eyes, smooth wrinkles, paint on a tan and remove blemishes.
Smart Photo Fix Instantly correct lighting and color problems with automated tools, or make manual corrections on your own.
Red Eye Removal Eliminate red eye in one click or use advanced red-eye removal that even works on pets.
Color Changer Easily change the color of objects in your digital photos, such as clothing, walls and furniture. Rather than simply replacing a color, the Color Changer detects and analyzes variations in brightness, then makes the necessary adjustments to produce a realistic effect.
Remove Digital Camera Noise "Noise" artifacts are small specks of color that interfere with the clarity of your digital image.
One-Step Noise Removal--smooth photos with a single click
Digital Camera Noise Removal--precisely control how these same corrections are applied
Straighten Tool Fix crooked photos taken at awkward angles.
Correct Perspective Get rid of unwanted distortions by changing perspective.
Repair Damaged Photos Restore old, damaged photos by removing scratches and fading.
Remove Distracting Objects Improve photos by covering up unwanted background objects, such as lamp posts, trees and buildings.
Enhance with professional tools
Combine exposures to get full details in highlights and shadows
Simulate black & white film or convert to sepia
Adjust levels, curves or histogram settings
Fix brightness, color, contrast, saturation and sharpness
Experiment with more advanced editing tools by fine-tuning details on your own
HDR Photo Merge Merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures or with different brightness/contract settings to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows.
Enhanced--Black & White Photos Create dynamic black & white images by simulating the look of taking photos using a colored lens filter.
Layers and Adjustment Layers Maintain image quality when applying changes to color or tone. Edit photos with precision by adding multiple adjustment layers to test various color corrections or to see how corrections look when they're combined.
Adjust Levels & Curves Change photo exposure using advanced features, including Levels, Curves or Histogram Adjustment tools.
Sharpen Out-of-Focus Pictures Turn fuzzy photos into crisp images, without compressing or degrading the quality of the image.
Fix Lens Distortions Easily remove fish-eye, barrel and other lens distortions.
Depth of Field Effect Draw attention to a specific area of an image. Depth of Field applies focus to a region of your photo while applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. This allows you to create an effect in seconds that usually requires precise manual lens aperture adjustments.
Professional-Level Options Work with a variety of advanced features, including 16-bits-per-channel editing, color management settings and raw file conversion.
Visible Watermarks Take credit for your photos by easily adding a visible watermark to label your work.
Create and share one-of-a-kind photo projects
Give photos a unique look with vintage and artistic effects
Simulate the look of film using vivid, glamour and vibrant foliage filters
Decorate your favorite photos with Picture Frames and Picture Tubes
Use layers to add drop shadows, glows, reflections and embossing to your images
Design scrapbook pages, cards and collages to share with friends and family
Layer Styles Easily apply artistic effects to individual layers, such as drop shadows, embossing and reflections.
Picture Tubes Decorate your photos with 30 new sets of professionally designed artistic elements. A longtime user favorite, this tool lets you paint on photos with readymade art that features a variety of themes. For example, add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting or fill an aquarium with fish.
Picture Frames and Photo Edges Easily add eye-catching final touches to your images with 20 new Picture Frames. A variety of styles and the ability to edit give you more creative possibilities.
Time Machine Go back in time and give photos a retro look using effects that replicate the unique appearance of photos taken in the 1800s, 1950s and other points in history.
Black & White Photos Easily covert your color photos to black & white, mimic infrared film or add a touch of class by making them sepia-toned.
Special Film Effects Produce interesting, eye-catching photos with a range of effects inspired by classic film and filter types. Simulate the unique look of slide or portrait film, mimic the effect of using color filters on your camera lens, or apply a Film Look to model the effect of using different types of film in a traditional camera.
Captions Add shapes or words to your photos to add creativity, raise impact, or note important dates and events.
Enhanced--Creative Content Pack This bonus pack contains 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes that allow you to brighten up any image with fun graphics.
Local adjustment brush : Enhanced organizational tools : Volume management : Extensible architecture : Revolutionary DSLR profiling : Multiple monitor support : Flexible print package functionality : Streamlined Photoshop CS3 and CS4 integration : Enhanced output sharpening : 64-bit support for Windows and Mac OS
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software is essential for today's digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images--from one shot to an entire shoot. Quickly batch process, convert, and apply metadata to your photos on import. Easily make selections with multiple viewing and comparison options. Adjust and enhance color, exposure, and tonal curves nondestructively on more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files. Every change you make to an image is automatically tracked, so you can return to any state with a single click. With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2, designed for photographers, features an elegant, uncluttered interface that puts just the tools you need at your fingertips.
Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area for dodging and burning.
Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want.
Enjoy robust support for more than 190 camera raw file formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more.
Work with a tool focused on photographers' needs Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is designed expressly for both amateur and professional photographers. From its elegant, uncluttered interface to its carefully tailored tools and features, Lightroom helps you process photographs faster, giving you more time to shoot. With the new and enhanced features in Lightroom 2, you canfind the photos you want faster, make more accurate adjustments, and easily present your work in more ways than ever before.
Accelerate your workflow Lightroom is a nimble tool that moves you efficiently through every step of your workflow, from image capture to client presentation. Use flexible tools and features to manage the processing of large volumes of photographs. Customize a wide range of importing, renaming, and metadata stamping functions to suit your needs. Keep track of the changes you've made to images, including alternate versions, easily and automatically with the History panel. And when you're ready to present your work to clients, easily assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets, online web galleries, and slide shows, or upload your photos to popular online photo-sharing sites.
Use it your way Lightroom is adaptable and compatible with the way you work, most of the hardware you use, and open standards, so you're less likely to be limited by proprietary systems and formats. Lightroom runs on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Work with more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files. Convert your images to the universal DNG format without loss of image quality. Store your photographs in the Lightroom Library--even if they're located on offline media. Using Lightroom for developing images, together with Adobe Photoshop for retouching, digital photographers now have the essential photography software toolkit. Take advantage of robust metadata support and advanced keywording capabilities help you tag and find the photographs you need quickly and easily. From developing images to presenting them, Lightroom together with Photoshop provides digital photographers with the essential photography software toolkit.
Who's It For?
Professional photographers Photographers who shoot large volumes of images in every specialty, from fashion and fine art to portraiture and photojournalism.
Advanced amateur photographers Photographers who don't earn a living from their images but have a deep passion for photography; take large numbers of photos, typically with a digital SLR camera; and value professional tools and results.
Educators University and community college instructors who are shooters themselves and who teach the best tools and practices to the next generation of photographers.
The top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Enhance specific areas of a photo Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area for dodging and burning.
Quickly find any photo Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want.
Automatically import and process your way Import and process large volumes of photos according to your customized settings. Rename files, organize them into folders, add metadata, and convert file formats for an entire shoot simultaneously.
Native 64-bit architecture Utilize the advanced memory-handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows systems.
Work smoothly with Adobe Photoshop software (sold separately) Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more. See your edits automatically updated in Lightroom.
Multiple monitor support Add a second monitor and enjoy more room to work. Support for multiple monitors allows you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently.
Be productive quickly Ease your learning curve with task-oriented modules that speed you through typical workflow tasks by placing just the tools you need at your fingertips.
Edit nondestructively Enjoy robust support for more than 190 camera raw file formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
Easily show off your photos online Create dynamic web galleries based on Adobe Flash technology without programming. In a few clicks, you can assemble and upload an interactive gallery to your website. Or easily upload your images to popular photo-sharing sites directly from Lightroom.
Discover a wealth of project possibilities waiting for you in PrintMaster Platinum Version 18. This incredible software provides you with more than 21,000 project templates and more than 305,000 premium images. You can also apply more than 2,500 fonts and 4,500 sentiments to convey just the appropriate meaning or feeling. Create a beautiful digital scrapbook all on your PC with no mess and no hassle. It is easy to get started making everything from greeting cards to digital slideshows. Once you've finished your masterpiece, you can conveniently share with friends and family via printing or by e-mail. The enhanced printing resolution allows you to produce crafts and projects that look more "Store-bought" than ever before. Use the Hot Shots Viewer to access all of your favorite images and photos from one convenient location. Apply the Photo FunHouse, Photo Manager and more than 1.5 million extra images to add an element of humor. Enhanced print resolution produces high-quality printed projects that look like they came from a card shop System Requirements - Intel Pentium III Processor, 500MHz Processor Speed, Windows XP, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista, 128MB RAM, 2GB free space, 32MB video card, DVD-ROM, 56.6 Kbps Modem, Adobe Shockwave Player 10.1 or higher, Adobe Flash Player 7.0 or higher, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, and Internet service required to access online features
Publisher:
Encore Software
Author:
Encore Software
Release Date: 2007-10-09
ISBN/EAN: 0705381142300
Create powerful images with the professional standard. Adobe Photoshop CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.
Auto-alignment of layers - Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4 - use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, etc Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them Superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing Reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that intelligently preserve color and tone Get great prints with superior color management and the ability to preview out-of-gamut areas Work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views
Adobe Photoshop CS4 software offers improved access to its unrivaled power with the new more intuitive Adjustments and Masks panels, which put image-editing tools at your fingertips. Accelerated graphics handling delivers incredibly smooth painting, panning, zooming, and canvas rotation. More powerful compositing, enhanced color correction, and many more improvements help you work more efficiently than ever before.
Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before. Click to enlarge.
Upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS4
Licensed owners of Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS can upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS4 for special pricing. Licensed owners of Photoshop CS3 Extended, Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS2, or Photoshop CS are also eligible for special upgrade pricing to certain editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4.
Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adjustments panel Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
Masks panel Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
Enhanced auto-alignment of layers Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
Enhanced auto-blending of images Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
Extended depth of field Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point--with options to preserve tones and colors--into a single color-corrected image.
Smoother panning and zooming Gracefully navigate to any area of an image with new ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels, and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid.
The new Adjustments panel helps eliminate almost 90% of the mouse movements required to make nondestructive image adjustments. Click to enlarge.
Spot color and exposure adjustments are more natural with the improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.
Enhanced Auto-Blend technology automatically masks and blends frame edges for better results on panoramas. Click to enlarge.
Fluid canvas rotation Now just click to smoothly turn your canvas for nondestructive viewing at any desired angle--no more tilting your head in the middle of painting and drawing.
Content-Aware Scaling Use the new and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.
Industry-leading color correction Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.
Better raw image processing Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.
Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4 Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
New file display options Easily work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views.
Extensibility Get and share Adobe Flash technology-based panels that developers create to accomplish customized tasks. Plus, get tips and tricks from the thriving worldwide community of Photoshop users through the new Adobe Community Help online service.
More powerful printing options Get outstanding prints with superior color management, tighter integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased color depth and clarity.
Enhanced retouching Retouch images more easily and precisely by previewing source pixels within the cursor of the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush. Set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the Clone Source panel.
Higher performance on very large images (Windows only) Work faster with very large images by taking advantage of even more RAM (requires a 64-bit-capable computer with a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Vista).
Multi-Touch support on Mac laptops Pinch, swipe, rotate, zoom, and scroll with just the touch of your fingers by taking full advantage of the Multi-Touch trackpad on newer MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops (requires Mac OS X v10.5).
Profiles to support the color-blind Design with sensitivity for color-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Color Universal Design Organization profiles.
Top new features in Photoshop CS4
The new versions of Photoshop are about much more than just adding new features. They're about providing you with best practices in the tasks you do daily--about making your work in Photoshop not just faster and easier, but more intelligent, and more natively nondestructive. Here are the top new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended.
Live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel Photoshop CS4 speeds workflow performance with the Adjustments panel, cutting the time it takes to make nondestructive adjustments like Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, and much more. There's no dialog box maze to navigate--just go straight to the task at hand. The Adjustments panel brings the right tool for the right job to your fingertips, dynamically, saving precious time. The panel features the new Vibrance adjustment, giving you greater control over color saturation while preserving delicate tones, such as skin colors. On-image adjustments are now available for Hue/Saturation and Curves. Plus, for even greater convenience and time savings, the panel features a wide variety of modifiable presets for each type of change, including more than 20 new preconfigured, customizable starting points. Photoshop CS4 speeds you through countless tasks with the Adjustments panel.
A range of shots, each with different exposure, color, and focal points (left) automatically becomes a single, color-corrected, expanded depth-of-field image with Auto-Blend Layers. Click to enlarge.
Simply drag the new Rotate View tool outside the image area to spin your canvas to the orientation that works best for you. Click to enlarge.
The new Pixel Grid appears at magnifications of 600% or higher, facilitating the finest detail editing. Click to enlarge.
Bridge CS4 makes it easier to work with all of your image assets, with intuitive, easily discoverable controls for camera import, viewing and sorting, contact-sheet and web-gallery creation. You'll also find more versatile throughput to Photoshop CS4, including opening multiple files as a single, multi-layered image, and much more. Click to enlarge.
Re-editable, feathered, density-controlled masks The new Masks panel smooths and speeds the creation and adjustment of pixel and vector masks, making it easier than ever to apply effects to precisely defined areas of an image. Now, with simple sliders, you can adjust the density and feathering of a mask, to control both the sharpness of the mask edge and how much of the adjustment effect you'd like to reveal. The Refine Mask feature allows simple yet fine-grained control over the mask size and edges. And Color Range has been upgraded for better accuracy and power. It's a fast way to automatically create powerful and detailed masks based on single or multiple colors, with simple controls for the spatial tolerance and "fuzziness" of the color sampling.
More refined, natural results with Dodge, Burn, and Sponge In the days of film, paper, safelights, and chemicals, photographers dodged and burned their prints during exposure, to darken and brighten areas of an image as they created it. It was an art that required steady hands and practice to master. The newly refined Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools in Photoshop CS4 take the pain and practice out of preserving tonal quality while you spot-correct exposure and color saturation. Simply paint the area you want to adjust and get advanced results in a fraction of the time.
Enhanced Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and new 360-degree panoramas The automatic alignment and blending technology in Photoshop CS4 enhances a wide variety of features, but nowhere are the improvements more obvious than in Photomerge¨. Now, when you stitch a sequence of images into a panorama, enhanced blending combines with new vignetting and geometric distortion corrections to bring you even better results--a panorama with more natural colors blended from one end of the scene to the other. Additional improvements include the ability to create 360-degree panoramas, automatic detection of fish eye lenses to compensate for their inherent distortion, and the new Collage option which rotates and scales individual images as they are combined using Auto-Align and Photomerge.
Extended depth of field Whether it's the extreme close-up, the microbial world, or simply low-light conditions, there are times when the depth of field you can capture with your camera is extremely shallow. Now, you can shoot the scene with a series of focal points, and use the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers feature to automatically create a new, single image with a depth of field encompassing the entire series. You can even color-correct the images at the same time, automatically. This feature provides breathtaking enhancement of any scene where lighting and depth of field are in short supply.
Fluid canvas rotation Photoshop CS4 introduces a revolutionary new feature that lets you paint and draw as easily and naturally as sitting down at an easel. With the new Rotate View tool, you can nondestructively spin your canvas to any orientation you desire--a boon to every illustrator, whether you paint by mouse or tablet. No pixel distortion, no craning your head to get the perspective you want, and no matter how you spin your canvas, Photoshop CS4 adjusts your selections, grids, rulers, and other tools and features to match your chosen orientation.
Ultra-smooth, extra-precise pan, zoom, preview, and painting tools Most modern computers contain a powerful graphics processor (GPU) that is almost like having a second computer inside the box. Photoshop CS4 leverages the power of your GPU with OpenGL technology to blast past the image-viewing restrictions of yesterday. Zoom all the way down to the level of individual pixels, with perfect clarity even at the oddest magnification percentages. Smoothly navigate around the largest images with no stutter or preview lag. Use the new Pixel Grid to easily edit images at the highest magnification. And revel in a faster, easier painting workflow, with brushes you can resize by dragging your mouse; new brush cursors that more clearly preview brush strokes before you make them; and improved, higher precision tablet tracking. Navigating very large images is easier than ever--instantly zoom high overhead to move to a new area of the image, and just as instantly zoom back in to the highest magnification. You can also ÒtossÓ the image across the screen with the Hand tool--the physics engine in Photoshop CS4 will give you a natural pan in any direction.
Next generation Adobe Bridge CS4 Finding, previewing, and managing all of your image assets jumps to a new level of power and convenience with Adobe Bridge CS4, beginning with faster performance from startup through to handing off images to Photoshop CS4. New path-bar navigation and workspace selection buttons across the top of the Bridge window let you instantly jump to just the right display for every task, including new Camera Import controls, visual folder navigation, and a new Carousel View for larger image-group selections. In the Output workspace, Bridge now features PDF-based contact-sheet creation and web-gallery creation and uploading. You can preview 3D images and panoramas created in Photoshop CS4. The new Search field helps you quickly find images in Bridge, and is also integrated with the Spotlight feature in Mac OS X and the Desktop Search feature in Windows¨ Vista. You can even switch to the new, intuitive List View, with its familiar data display and sorting controls.
Tighter integration with Photoshop Lightroom 2 Professionals and other advanced photographers rely on the one-two punch of Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom software as the complete digital photography toolkit. Photoshop CS4 makes this workflow easier than ever, with improved cross-application support for automated functions, such as opening multiple photographs from Lightroom 2 directly into a layered Photoshop document, high dynamic range (HDR) image, panorama, or Smart Object. Lightroom 2 and Adobe Camera Raw also share the same underlying technology, which means the changes you make with Camera Raw 5 in Photoshop CS4 are recognized in Lightroom 2, and vice versa.
Camera Raw 5 with localized, nondestructive adjustments Providing the first step in the processing of raw data from your digital camera, Camera Raw now enables you to make localized adjustments by simply painting the area to be affected, and then using sliders to control the change. Additional enhancements include Post Crop Vignetting, and gradient-based localized correction. You can apply the same Camera Raw adjustments to TIFF and JPEG photographs, and, as always, the corrections you make are completely nondestructive, with the original files being maintained in their pristine state.
Unified tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. You'll notice immediately how the Photoshop interface appears cleaner--instead of having to arrange multiple image windows, Photoshop does it for you with a tab for each open image. Docked panel groups keep to the side of your images, so you have fewer things to move around while you work. Individual panels expand and contract automatically to show you the controls you need, and you can even collapse entire panel groups to their header rows with a single click. Of course, you can still manually arrange floating windows and panels to suit your working style, even moving all of your panels to a second monitor if you prefer.
New Post Crop Vignetting lets you recreate artistic vignette effects in a photograph even after the original edge of the photo has been cropped away. Click to enlarge.
Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. Click to enlarge.
Printing improvements in Photoshop CS4 include 16-bit printing (Mac OS X only) and preview of out-of-gamut colors. Click to enlarge.
The Adobe Kuler panel makes it simple to browse, create, and share color themes online. Click to enlarge.
Smarter Smart Objects Smart Object layers allow for nondestructive scaling and transformation of Photoshoplayers. With Photoshop CS4, you can now apply perspective transformations to SmartObjects, work with linked layer masks, and use the new Eyedropper tool option to sampleeither the current layer or all of the layers in the Smart Object at once.
More powerful printing options Photoshop CS4 brings even higher quality to large, detailed images when taken to print. You can now preview out-of-gamut colors and take advantage of a streamlined printing interface. In addition, only on Mac OS X for this release, 16-bit printing is available for the first time, vastly increasing the color depth and clarity possible in printing.
Higher performance on very large images (Windows 64 only) Photoshop CS4 has now been optimized to take advantage of even more RAM on 64-bit-capable Windows PCs that are running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
Additional refinements The evolution of Photoshop software always includes a vast array of small but important improvements and additions. Extra refinements in Photoshop CS4 include:
Support for multi-touch gestures available on newer Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers running Mac OS X Leopard
Clone Stamp and Healing Brush live preview cursor for easier, more precise cloning and healing results
Layer-based metadata enabling reading and writing strings to layer properties, such as recording time-stamp information for video
Developers of specialized applications can create custom SWF-format panels that smoothly integrate with Photoshop CS4
Extensible SWF-based File Info panel, enabling developers to add network-stored keywords, perform spell-checking, and other functions
Unique IDs per document for easier downstream tracking of assets
CUDO technology, providing the ability to design with sensitivity for color blind individuals via soft-proofing
Spring-loaded keys to temporarily shift between tools by holding down a tool shortcut key
FXG export
Device Link color profile support
Notes panel, to keep annotations from cluttering the canvas
Creative Pro Online Services
Photoshop CS4 gives you built-in access to a world of online resources with Creative Pro Online Services. Search for help; share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few clicks; create and share color harmonies; and more.
Adobe Community Help Get the power of an online search engine with targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth Photoshop Help, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast, simply by choosing Help > Photoshop Help (Internet connection required).
Acrobat.com Acrobat.com is a set of online services--file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and web conferencing--that you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the connection between one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, and Photoshop CS4, you can meet live over the web to share your screen, present creative concepts and ideas, and brainstorm with up to two online guests for no additional service charge. To share your screen with colleagues and clients, choose File > Share My Screen. Guests can then see your desktop on their screens as you work. You can exchange ideas using the chat pod, add a live video or audio feed, or use the Whiteboard feature to enable guests to comment on content. You can even temporarily hand over control of the screen to a guest to collaborate on a file. Additional Acrobat.com services, such as Share, Create PDF, My Files, and Adobe Buzzword, are accessible via your web browser. (Internet connection required.)
Adobe Kuler Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with one click. Or use an interactive color wheel that supports standard harmony rules to develop new color themes that you can save, move to your Swatches panel, and upload to share with others (Internet connection required for community functionality).
Adobe Bridge Home Click Bridge Home in the Favorites panel of Adobe Bridge CS4 and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe, and from the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 components, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you make the most of Photoshop CS4 (Internet connection required).
Part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family
Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended are important components of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of software. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is everything a modern designer needs to create eye-catching images, breathtaking graphics, expert typography, precision layout, and high-quality production for print, web, interactive, and mobile content. Creative Suite 4 Web Premium is a complete solution for creating interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, mobile device content, Adobe AIR applications, and other digital experiences. Creative Suite 4 Production Premium is must-have software for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media--on-air, online, on-device, and invariably on deadline. Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is the complete solution for customers requiring the ultimate power and versatility of the complete line of Adobe Creative Suite 4 components.
Create powerful images with the professional standard. Adobe Photoshop CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.
Auto-alignment of layers - Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4 - use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, etc Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them Superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing Reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that intelligently preserve color and tone Get great prints with superior color management and the ability to preview out-of-gamut areas Work with multiple open files by using tabbed document display or n-up views
Access the unrivaled power of Adobe Photoshop CS4 software through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements. Photoshop CS4 features new ways to make image adjustments and create masks, more powerful compositing, improved color correction, accelerated graphics handling, and enhanced raw image processing.
Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before. Click to enlarge.
Create powerful images with the professional standard
Adjustments panel Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.
Masks panel Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.
Nondestructive image editing Experiment without harming your original photo. Visualize different effects and manipulate objects using nondestructive Smart Filters and Smart Objects.
Industry-leading color correction Enjoy dramatically enhanced control with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, channel lines, and a clipping preview.
Better raw image processing Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.
Richer painting and drawing toolset Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes.
The new Adjustments panel helps eliminate almost 90% of the mouse movements required to make nondestructive image adjustments. Click to enlarge.
Spot color and exposure adjustments are more natural with the improved Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools.
Enhanced Auto-Blend technology automatically masks and blends frame edges for better results on panoramas. Click to enlarge.
Quick Selection tool Loosely draw on an image area and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then use simple sliders to preview and refine your selection.
Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow Select multiple photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.
Enhanced auto-alignment of layers Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.
Enhanced auto-blending of images Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.
Extended depth of field Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point--with options to preserve tones and colors--into a single color-corrected image.
Powerful printing options Get outstanding prints with superior color management, tight integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased color depth and clarity.
Efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4 Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
Broad file format support Import and export hundreds of file formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, NEF, CRW, TIFF, BMP, Cineon, JPEG, JPEG2000, FXG, OpenEXR, PNG, and Targa.
Profiles to support the color-blind Design with sensitivity for color-blind individuals by creating soft proofs of your images using built-in Color Universal Design Organization profiles.
Extensibility Get and share Adobe Flash technology-based panels that developers create to accomplish customized tasks. Plus, get tips and tricks from the thriving worldwide community of Photoshop users through the new Adobe Community Help online service.*
Top new features in Photoshop CS4
The new versions of Photoshop are about much more than just adding new features. They're about providing you with best practices in the tasks you do daily--about making your work in Photoshop not just faster and easier, but more intelligent, and more natively nondestructive. Here are the top new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended.
Live, nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel Photoshop CS4 speeds workflow performance with the Adjustments panel, cutting the time it takes to make nondestructive adjustments like Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, and much more. There's no dialog box maze to navigate--just go straight to the task at hand. The Adjustments panel brings the right tool for the right job to your fingertips, dynamically, saving precious time. The panel features the new Vibrance adjustment, giving you greater control over color saturation while preserving delicate tones, such as skin colors. On-image adjustments are now available for Hue/Saturation and Curves. Plus, for even greater convenience and time savings, the panel features a wide variety of modifiable presets for each type of change, including more than 20 new preconfigured, customizable starting points. Photoshop CS4 speeds you through countless tasks with the Adjustments panel.
A range of shots, each with different exposure, color, and focal points (left) automatically becomes a single, color-corrected, expanded depth-of-field image with Auto-Blend Layers. Click to enlarge.
Simply drag the new Rotate View tool outside the image area to spin your canvas to the orientation that works best for you. Click to enlarge.
The new Pixel Grid appears at magnifications of 600% or higher, facilitating the finest detail editing. Click to enlarge.
Bridge CS4 makes it easier to work with all of your image assets, with intuitive, easily discoverable controls for camera import, viewing and sorting, contact-sheet and web-gallery creation. You'll also find more versatile throughput to Photoshop CS4, including opening multiple files as a single, multi-layered image, and much more. Click to enlarge.
Re-editable, feathered, density-controlled masks The new Masks panel smooths and speeds the creation and adjustment of pixel and vector masks, making it easier than ever to apply effects to precisely defined areas of an image. Now, with simple sliders, you can adjust the density and feathering of a mask, to control both the sharpness of the mask edge and how much of the adjustment effect you'd like to reveal. The Refine Mask feature allows simple yet fine-grained control over the mask size and edges. And Color Range has been upgraded for better accuracy and power. It's a fast way to automatically create powerful and detailed masks based on single or multiple colors, with simple controls for the spatial tolerance and "fuzziness" of the color sampling.
More refined, natural results with Dodge, Burn, and Sponge In the days of film, paper, safelights, and chemicals, photographers dodged and burned their prints during exposure, to darken and brighten areas of an image as they created it. It was an art that required steady hands and practice to master. The newly refined Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools in Photoshop CS4 take the pain and practice out of preserving tonal quality while you spot-correct exposure and color saturation. Simply paint the area you want to adjust and get advanced results in a fraction of the time.
Enhanced Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and new 360-degree panoramas The automatic alignment and blending technology in Photoshop CS4 enhances a wide variety of features, but nowhere are the improvements more obvious than in Photomerge¨. Now, when you stitch a sequence of images into a panorama, enhanced blending combines with new vignetting and geometric distortion corrections to bring you even better results--a panorama with more natural colors blended from one end of the scene to the other. Additional improvements include the ability to create 360-degree panoramas, automatic detection of fish eye lenses to compensate for their inherent distortion, and the new Collage option which rotates and scales individual images as they are combined using Auto-Align and Photomerge.
Extended depth of field Whether it's the extreme close-up, the microbial world, or simply low-light conditions, there are times when the depth of field you can capture with your camera is extremely shallow. Now, you can shoot the scene with a series of focal points, and use the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers feature to automatically create a new, single image with a depth of field encompassing the entire series. You can even color-correct the images at the same time, automatically. This feature provides breathtaking enhancement of any scene where lighting and depth of field are in short supply.
Fluid canvas rotation Photoshop CS4 introduces a revolutionary new feature that lets you paint and draw as easily and naturally as sitting down at an easel. With the new Rotate View tool, you can nondestructively spin your canvas to any orientation you desire--a boon to every illustrator, whether you paint by mouse or tablet. No pixel distortion, no craning your head to get the perspective you want, and no matter how you spin your canvas, Photoshop CS4 adjusts your selections, grids, rulers, and other tools and features to match your chosen orientation.
Ultra-smooth, extra-precise pan, zoom, preview, and painting tools Most modern computers contain a powerful graphics processor (GPU) that is almost like having a second computer inside the box. Photoshop CS4 leverages the power of your GPU with OpenGL technology to blast past the image-viewing restrictions of yesterday. Zoom all the way down to the level of individual pixels, with perfect clarity even at the oddest magnification percentages. Smoothly navigate around the largest images with no stutter or preview lag. Use the new Pixel Grid to easily edit images at the highest magnification. And revel in a faster, easier painting workflow, with brushes you can resize by dragging your mouse; new brush cursors that more clearly preview brush strokes before you make them; and improved, higher precision tablet tracking. Navigating very large images is easier than ever--instantly zoom high overhead to move to a new area of the image, and just as instantly zoom back in to the highest magnification. You can also ÒtossÓ the image across the screen with the Hand tool--the physics engine in Photoshop CS4 will give you a natural pan in any direction.
Next generation Adobe Bridge CS4 Finding, previewing, and managing all of your image assets jumps to a new level of power and convenience with Adobe Bridge CS4, beginning with faster performance from startup through to handing off images to Photoshop CS4. New path-bar navigation and workspace selection buttons across the top of the Bridge window let you instantly jump to just the right display for every task, including new Camera Import controls, visual folder navigation, and a new Carousel View for larger image-group selections. In the Output workspace, Bridge now features PDF-based contact-sheet creation and web-gallery creation and uploading. You can preview 3D images and panoramas created in Photoshop CS4. The new Search field helps you quickly find images in Bridge, and is also integrated with the Spotlight feature in Mac OS X and the Desktop Search feature in Windows¨ Vista. You can even switch to the new, intuitive List View, with its familiar data display and sorting controls.
Tighter integration with Photoshop Lightroom 2 Professionals and other advanced photographers rely on the one-two punch of Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom software as the complete digital photography toolkit. Photoshop CS4 makes this workflow easier than ever, with improved cross-application support for automated functions, such as opening multiple photographs from Lightroom 2 directly into a layered Photoshop document, high dynamic range (HDR) image, panorama, or Smart Object. Lightroom 2 and Adobe Camera Raw also share the same underlying technology, which means the changes you make with Camera Raw 5 in Photoshop CS4 are recognized in Lightroom 2, and vice versa.
Camera Raw 5 with localized, nondestructive adjustments Providing the first step in the processing of raw data from your digital camera, Camera Raw now enables you to make localized adjustments by simply painting the area to be affected, and then using sliders to control the change. Additional enhancements include Post Crop Vignetting, and gradient-based localized correction. You can apply the same Camera Raw adjustments to TIFF and JPEG photographs, and, as always, the corrections you make are completely nondestructive, with the original files being maintained in their pristine state.
Unified tabbed interface with self-adjusting panels Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. You'll notice immediately how the Photoshop interface appears cleaner--instead of having to arrange multiple image windows, Photoshop does it for you with a tab for each open image. Docked panel groups keep to the side of your images, so you have fewer things to move around while you work. Individual panels expand and contract automatically to show you the controls you need, and you can even collapse entire panel groups to their header rows with a single click. Of course, you can still manually arrange floating windows and panels to suit your working style, even moving all of your panels to a second monitor if you prefer.
New Post Crop Vignetting lets you recreate artistic vignette effects in a photograph even after the original edge of the photo has been cropped away. Click to enlarge.
Photoshop CS4 helps you keep your work area efficient and clutter-free, with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels. Click to enlarge.
Printing improvements in Photoshop CS4 include 16-bit printing (Mac OS X only) and preview of out-of-gamut colors. Click to enlarge.
The Adobe Kuler panel makes it simple to browse, create, and share color themes online. Click to enlarge.
Smarter Smart Objects Smart Object layers allow for nondestructive scaling and transformation of Photoshoplayers. With Photoshop CS4, you can now apply perspective transformations to SmartObjects, work with linked layer masks, and use the new Eyedropper tool option to sampleeither the current layer or all of the layers in the Smart Object at once.
More powerful printing options Photoshop CS4 brings even higher quality to large, detailed images when taken to print. You can now preview out-of-gamut colors and take advantage of a streamlined printing interface. In addition, only on Mac OS X for this release, 16-bit printing is available for the first time, vastly increasing the color depth and clarity possible in printing.
Higher performance on very large images (Windows 64 only) Photoshop CS4 has now been optimized to take advantage of even more RAM on 64-bit-capable Windows PCs that are running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
Additional refinements The evolution of Photoshop software always includes a vast array of small but important improvements and additions. Extra refinements in Photoshop CS4 include:
Support for multi-touch gestures available on newer Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers running Mac OS X Leopard
Clone Stamp and Healing Brush live preview cursor for easier, more precise cloning and healing results
Layer-based metadata enabling reading and writing strings to layer properties, such as recording time-stamp information for video
Developers of specialized applications can create custom SWF-format panels that smoothly integrate with Photoshop CS4
Extensible SWF-based File Info panel, enabling developers to add network-stored keywords, perform spell-checking, and other functions
Unique IDs per document for easier downstream tracking of assets
CUDO technology, providing the ability to design with sensitivity for color blind individuals via soft-proofing
Spring-loaded keys to temporarily shift between tools by holding down a tool shortcut key
FXG export
Device Link color profile support
Notes panel, to keep annotations from cluttering the canvas
Creative Pro Online Services
Photoshop CS4 gives you built-in access to a world of online resources with Creative Pro Online Services. Search for help; share your screen with colleagues or clients in a few clicks; create and share color harmonies; and more.
Adobe Community Help Get the power of an online search engine with targeted results. Searchable content includes the in-depth Photoshop Help, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need, fast, simply by choosing Help > Photoshop Help (Internet connection required).
Acrobat.com Acrobat.com is a set of online services--file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and web conferencing--that you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Thanks to the connection between one of the Acrobat.com services, Adobe ConnectNow, and Photoshop CS4, you can meet live over the web to share your screen, present creative concepts and ideas, and brainstorm with up to two online guests for no additional service charge. To share your screen with colleagues and clients, choose File > Share My Screen. Guests can then see your desktop on their screens as you work. You can exchange ideas using the chat pod, add a live video or audio feed, or use the Whiteboard feature to enable guests to comment on content. You can even temporarily hand over control of the screen to a guest to collaborate on a file. Additional Acrobat.com services, such as Share, Create PDF, My Files, and Adobe Buzzword, are accessible via your web browser. (Internet connection required.)
Adobe Kuler Explore, create, and share color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kick start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with one click. Or use an interactive color wheel that supports standard harmony rules to develop new color themes that you can save, move to your Swatches panel, and upload to share with others (Internet connection required for community functionality).
Adobe Bridge Home Click Bridge Home in the Favorites panel of Adobe Bridge CS4 and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe, and from the design, web development, and video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 components, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you make the most of Photoshop CS4 (Internet connection required).
Part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family
Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended are important components of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of software. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium is everything a modern designer needs to create eye-catching images, breathtaking graphics, expert typography, precision layout, and high-quality production for print, web, interactive, and mobile content. Creative Suite 4 Web Premium is a complete solution for creating interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, mobile device content, Adobe AIR applications, and other digital experiences. Creative Suite 4 Production Premium is must-have software for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media--on-air, online, on-device, and invariably on deadline. Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is the complete solution for customers requiring the ultimate power and versatility of the complete line of Adobe Creative Suite 4 components.
New Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom. It's filled with everything from easy automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. You'll save hours of time with the new Express Lab, because now you can edit dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. All sorts of new tools are available, including a set of professional easy-to-use retouching tools and special features for professional photographers, HDR Photo Merge and a feature to create and add presonal watermarks. It even includes a built-in Learning Center to help new users get started right away! New and improved Makeover Tools with new features including Thinify! Improved Black & White Film Conversion Requires Windows XP or Vista
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Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom.
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