Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac] | ![Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EXMQhXhqL._SL500_.jpg) | From: Adobe
List Price: $99.99
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Seller: American Media Soft
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 9
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac
Media: CD-ROM
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Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6 x 8 x 4
MPN: 65045164
Model: 65045164
UPC: 883919176444
EAN: 0883919176673
ASIN: B002ID8R34
Release Date: October 14, 2009
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| • | Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 combines power and simplicity so you can easily go beyond the basics to tell great stories with your photos | | • | Make your photos look extraordinary with easy-to-use editing options--whiten teeth, recompose photos, remove unwanted elements and more | | • | Share your stories in beautiful, personalized print creations and on web galleries | | • | Easily manage all your photos and video clips from one convenient place | | • | Compatible with iPhoto |
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Product Description
Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing, hands down. With Photoshop Elements 8 from Adobe, you can get a full-featured version of the best-selling consumer photo-editing software without the sky-high price. This version includes plenty of classic features and a handful of powerful new additions. While you may think Elements would be an under-featured version, don't worry - it has more than enough power for most people's editing needs. It just doesn't have the features used by professional designers and photographers.
Amazon.com Product Description
The newest version of the #1 selling consumer photo-editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 combines power and simplicity so you can easily go beyond the basics to tell great stories with your photos. Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place where you can easily find, view, and manage them. Make your photos look extraordinary with editing options that let you whiten teeth and make skies bluer in one step; recompose photos to any size without distortion; quickly remove unwanted photo elements; combine multiple exposures into a single, perfectly lit shot; and more. And share your stories in unique photo books, scrapbook pages, web galleries, and more. Photoshop Elements works great with iPhoto!  A complete solution for photos. | Extraordinary photos. Amazing stories. Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software for Mac offers a complete solution for photos: - Make your photos look extraordinary with easy-to-use editing options.
- Share your stories in beautiful, personalized print creations and on web galleries.
- Easily manage all your photos and video clips from one convenient place.
| Top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac  The toolbar says it all. |  Quickly recompose your photos to any size. Click to enlarge. |  Clean up and create composites with Photomerge. Click to enlarge. |  People Recognition automatically identifies the people in your photos. |  Showcase your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums, photo books, and more. Click to enlarge. | Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
Use Photoshop Elements 8 for all your photo needs. Edit and enhance photos, make unique photo creations, share in print and on the web, and easily manage your photos. Easily manage everything from one convenient place
Bring all your photos and video clips together in one place where you can easily find, view, and manage them. 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. | Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds. |  Adjust color, contrast, and lighting. |  Whiten teeth. |  Make skies a vibrant blue. | 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. Easily create the perfect photo
Take advantage of amazing Adobe Photomerge technology to easily create perfect group shots and seamless panoramas as well as combine elements of different faces for entertaining results. Show off your creativity with flexible layouts
Make amazing printed photo creations--like scrapbook pages, photo books, and cards--that you can customize to get exactly the look you envision. Easily use with iPhoto
Photoshop Elements offers a complete solution for organizing, editing, creating, and sharing your photos. It is compatible with iPhoto, so when you want to go beyond the basics and do more fun stuff with your photos, count on Photoshop Elements for the power and simplicity to easily tell great stories with your photos. Top new benefits of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Recompose photos to any size without distortion
Ever want to change the size or orientation of a photo to fit a certain frame? Now you can resize--even going from landscape to portrait or vice versa--without distorting key subjects like people or buildings. Get the best exposure
Want to capture all the details in a scene that includes light and dark areas? Snap one photo with flash on and one with flash off, and Photomerge Exposure will combine the shots into a single, perfectly lit photo. 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, use Photomerge Scene Cleaner to simply brush away any elements that changed positions between photos, and create a composite with just the look you want. Select and apply with a single stroke
Simultaneously select a specific photo area and apply incredible effects with a single stroke of Adobe Smart Brush. Improve lighting, add rich textures, and more with 8 libraries of over 50 sophisticated effects. Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds
Get just the photo fixes you're looking for with new one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. Quickly retouch skin and soften other surfaces
Soften surfaces while keeping edges and details crisp with a Surface Blur filter that works great on portrait shots. Choose the best result
Perform a full range of common photo adjustments--including color, contrast, and lighting--with just one click. Then choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews. Share in fresh ways on the web
Share your photos in new, eye-catching web gallery templates that let you preview before you create. Give your creations fresh looks
Experiment with new artwork and templates to give your printed creations fun and stylish new looks. 
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 Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac] November 20, 2009
David F. Daniels (Green Bay, WI)
This is an update with new features which works as advertised. More of a Macintosh look/feel would be appreciated in future updates.
 Does not work on my 2007 MacBook Pro November 19, 2009
T. A. Simmerson Jr.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I run CS4 at home on my windows machine but wanted something that I could use on the road for my Mac. I purchased Elements 8.0 thinking it was going to be a great, easy to use program for editing pictures quickly from my hotel room...wrong! After I installed the program I was greeted by the familiar Adobe Bridge, no issues. The problems started when I attempted to edit a raw photo in Adobe Raw which is supposed to be included with Elements 8.0. Every time I right click and ask to open Adobe Raw, I get an error saying I need to first open a qualifying product. I did get it to open once however, now I just get the never ending spin of death icon when I attempt to open a raw image and I have to force quit. Second issue, whenever I attempt to open a raw image in Elements I get the same spinning death icon, I waited five minutes at one point for it to open a raw image...no dice and had to force quit. So, I deactivated and re-installed. When I went to re-install I saw that Adobe PSE had somehow eaten 600mb of my hard drive, I had 70GB the first time and 69.4GB during the second installation. I just finished up the re-install and I am having the same problems. I am going to try a fresh version of snow leopard and see if it works. Frustrating to say the least, I thought Macs were supposed to be pain free.
My comp specs.
MacBook Pro
2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB Ram
 Great features at a good price. November 18, 2009
James Peterson (Savannah, GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the casual user like me, it works great and does more than I'll probably ever need. Simple to use quickly, with easy to use features. I can get the results I need and I haven't had to read the first page of instruction. Bridge seems usable, and give a quick way to find the best shots and manage all of them too.
 Caveat Emptor!! November 14, 2009
Chip E (Florida, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
PSE8 for Mac is great for all the reasons covered by the previous reviewers. As a long time PS2 and PSE3 user, I have used these programs to generate stunning art work, which usually begins with my own photos and then utilization of a variety of brushes, plug-ins, styles. I have a hunch there are others 'out there' who have intuitively discovered the grand set of tools available in PS and PSE, who may appreciate the following discoveries (much to my dismay and disappointment) before making any kind of upgrade to this version. The bottom line (and this is after several correspondences with Adobe tech support) is that many of my precious plug-in's (Kai Power Tools and Xaos Terrazzo) DO NOT work with this version!! Also, although brush,shape and gradient files can be added (dropped into the appropriate folders), the styles files CANNOT be added!! Anyone who has worked extensively with styles will know how valuable they are! There is an assortment of 'canned styles' included, but if you go to the preset manager there is no longer even a drop down to select 'styles' as in other versions of PS and PSE!! If any of this is of significance to a reviewer, and helps to avoid making a hasty purchase, then I will feel a little better about my own hasty rush to upgrade. Will I use PSE8? Of course, but I will stay primarily though, with the earlier versions that allow free addition of styles and work with my precious plug-ins! I'm so disappointed, but am learning the hard lesson that newest and latest, isn't always the best choice!!
Elements 8.0 - A Huge Disappointment November 13, 2009
Spencer Woods (Warwick, Rhode Island USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am not new to Elements. I have been using Elements since version 2. I have spent thousands of hours editing hundreds and hundreds of images. With each new version, there are changes, some major, some minor. But, ultimately each version was an improvement over the previous one. So, I was excited to learn Elements 8.0 was available especially since there was no 7.0 for Mac. However, this new version to me is not an improvement but a huge disappointment. I will just summarize a few points.
The floating windows are frustrating but at least that can be turned off. But, the new tabbed documents feature, that can meld all open images into a single block, is very frustrating because it is too easy to stick the images together when you don't want to. Yes, they can easily be separated but it just adds a lot of extra work and makes everything more difficult.
When an image gets locked into place with the image title in the upper left corner, the document title appears, which is nice. But, when you mouse over it, you get a pop-up with additional data. The problem is that this title bar is directly below the items in the options bar or menu bar. You try to hit one of these and wind up getting the popup from the title bar, instead. If the document title was on right side, this would not be a problem.
Worse is the printing issue. Instead of a single window that allows all parameters to be set, now there are three or four additional windows that have to be opened with the options button. The ACTUAL SIZE indicated in the print window is NOT the actual size that I cropped the image to be. I had to go to the specific options window and manually enter the correct size, the real actual size. If I have four images open and hit PRINT, there are four images in the print window. I have to manually remove three of the images from the panel at left or they will get printed too. Again, this just makes lot of extra work for nothing.
I really don't understand the logic of these changes. It is as if all these were implemented by engineers rather than by people actually using the application. Everything is more confusing, difficult, and frustrating than it needs to be. There may be some very great new features in Elements 8.0, but I can't deal with this new interface to even find out. I will stay with Elements 6.0 and hopefully version 9 or 10 will be an improvement. I am just really disappointed.
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