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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Review

There are two major hurdles when it comes to the full Adobe Photoshop program for regular consumers. First, the program can be too complex or complicated for the average computer user to understand. Second, it can be too expensive to fit into tighter budgets. At the same time, iPhoto may not offer enough features for many people. That’s where Adobe PhotoShop Elements 8 comes into play.

The newest addition to the popular PhotoShop Elements series comes with a number of upgrades and new features that are perfect for touching up those treasured family photos. There is a reason why PhotoShop Elements is the number one selling consumer photo-editing software.

Adobe PhotoShop Elements 8 introduces a number of new features, including the ability to whiten teeth and make skies bluer with a single step, preview adjustments before choosing the right one, soften and retouch skin surfaces, and share photos via your Apple iPhone.

This latest version also offer enhanced functionality for creating professional albums, scrapbook pages, greeting cards, DVD labels and more. A wide selection of customizable themed layouts are included as part of the bundle.

Since it integrates with iPhoto, PhotoShop Elements can be there to offer more powerful image editing when you need it without interfering with how you choose to organize your pictures. Access to the different brushes, effects, and tools is reasonably easy to understand as well.

One of the more interesting new functions is the ability to recompose your photos to any size without distortion. Normally, this kind of photo manipulation would require much manual input and some serious PhotoShop skills, but Elements makes it easy.

This way, you can take a landscape-oriented picture and make it a portrait style one. The feature will automatically remove the undesired elements and move the desired elements closer together. There is no distortion to the key subjects.

Another great feature is called Photomerge Scene Cleaner. If you take multiple pictures of the same scene, but no single image came out quite the well you had hoped, you can effectively combine them into one ideal picture.

Photomerge will create a composite of the different input pictures, removing the undesirable elements that showed up in errant photos. For example, if you took a picture of a friend but a car drove into frame, you can use the information from a second picture to remove that car.

For consumers who want more features than what iPhoto can offer but don’t want to spend the big bucks on the full PhotoShop package, Adobe PhotoShop Elements 8 for Mac can be a very suitable option. The Photomerge and photo recomposition features are particularly appealing.

Buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac] from Amazon.com.

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Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan is a freelance writer, professional blogger, gadget geek, and video game enthusiast based out of Vancouver, Canada. You can read more about Michael at his website, MichaelKwan.com.

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