Adobe today updated its Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements for Mac and PC. Adobe is touting ‘magic’ in this upgrade saying: Content Aware Fill is a pretty awesome technology. Abobe is offering a $20 rebate on each bring the price down to $80 each or buy both together for $150-$30 rebate = $120. For an additional $50 Adobe offers a plus package which gives users 20GB of online space to share their media.
Here’s a demo of the content aware fill on Photoshop CS5 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI&w=670&h=527]
Photoshop Elements Product Description
Now enjoy a complete solution for photos whether you use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
Use Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 software for all your photo needs. Manage, edit, and enhance photos; make photo creations that look just the way you want; share in print, on the web, and on popular devices; help protect photos with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage; and view photos virtually anywhere you are. Quickly organize all your media in one convenient place. Find your best photos and clips–or photos that feature specific people–fast, thanks to automated options. Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories. Get just the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. When you perform one-step photo adjustments–including color, contrast, and lighting–you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews. And instantly unclutter a photo and beautifully blend in the background. Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure. Want to easily fix a scratch, create a reflection effect, or design a scrapbook page? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast. Take advantage of amazing Photomerge technology to easily match the style of one photo to another; create fuller panoramas, perfectly lit shots, and great group shots; and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results. Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. New how-tos help you explore creative possibilities. Make amazing printed photo creations like scrapbook pages, photo books, calendars, and cards. Choose your level of control: Create in minutes using professionally designed templates, or let your creativity run wild and access every photo-editing option from directly within your layout. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates. Show off your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together with music. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience. And share via public or private galleries–friends and family won’t have to register to look.
Top New Benefits
Is your photo cluttered with telephone wires, tourists, or passing cars? Make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints. Want to imitate a favorite photography style, like a dramatic high contrast or a beautiful color tone? Photomerge Style Match analyzes the stylistic qualities of any photo you choose and then automatically applies those qualities to another photo. Easily create your best-looking panoramas yet. With its enhanced blending capabilities, Photomerge Panorama fills in jagged edges as it automatically stitches together multiple horizontal or vertical photos. Easily create stunning effects that enhance your photos with professional style. New Guided Edits help you create pop art masterpieces, reflection effects, perfect portraits, and more. Bring new sophistication to your photos. Reveal one portion of a photo through another photo by using layer masks to control the transparency of specific areas. Make photo creations the way that works best for you thanks to Basic and Advanced design modes that let you choose your level of control.
Now enjoy a complete solution for videos whether you use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
Use Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software for all your video needs. Import and organize your video clips, and edit them together yourself or use automated options. Make your movies look like professional productions with amazing special effects, sound, titles, and Hollywood-style motion menus. Quickly share via the web, disc, and virtually anywhere else. Help protect your media with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage–and view videos and photos virtually anywhere you are. Take advantage of creative techniques from Hollywood directors with InstantMovie, which automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from your choice of movie theme. Customize anything to get just the results you envision. All-new themes are included. Make movies with less effort. Adobe Premiere Elements can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie. Want to find your best video clips or clips that meet a particular set of criteria? The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your footage and photos for quality and interest, and a variety of smart search options makes it easy to zero in on just what you need. Create your story fast in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline. Make your movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects. Edit and view your movie in one convenient place–the large Monitor window–where you can easily trim and split clips, drop filters and effects right on a frame, create fun picture-in-picture effects, type titles and text right on the screen, and more. Add entertaining graphics that automatically follow the action in your movie. Easily combine elements from different scenes for entertaining results. And add visual appeal with hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions, including several all-new options. Use SmartSound to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie. Even synchronize scenes to the beat of your soundtrack. Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. New how-tos help you explore creative possibilities. Follow easy steps to create your movie once and then share it on disc, the web, or mobile devices–even treat friends and family to an interactive web DVD viewing experience. Share on high-quality HD or Blu-ray Disc so you can enjoy your movie on virtually any screen, from your iPod to your HD flat screen TV.
Top New Benefits
Debut your movie with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience. Easily share your movie—complete with a scene index and chapter menus—on Photoshop.com or your own website. Conveniently share videos and photos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best. Easily bring in video from compact camcorders like Flip cameras and DSLR still cameras. Easily fix audio problems—Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity so your movie has high-quality sound from start to finish. Give your movie an eye-catching cartoon look. Choose from a variety of animation styles, and customize as you wish. Experience fluid responsiveness and high performance when editing video, even HD. If you use a Mac for your videos, you can now enjoy the power and simplicity of Adobe Premiere Elements software. Choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies or enhance your movies with professional-quality effects and Hollywood-style motion menus. Then share your movies on the web, disc, and virtually everywhere else, help protect them with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage, and view them virtually anywhere you are.
