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Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements 3

What's New
Presenting the complete, all-in-one answer to home digital photography - Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 3 software, now including flexible organization options and advanced sharing capabilities , along with new and improved editing tools and features. Enjoy Quick Fix and the Spot Healing Brush to instantly click away flaws, and the advanced control of Camera Raw and 16-bit color support . Quickly and easily organize your ever-expanding digital photo collection, and the photos you want now with revolutionary Keyword Tags and Collections, and share your creativity in dynamic slideshows, Photo Mail, and Adobe Photoshop Services online. From shutter click to perfect photos in eye-catching creations, the #1-selling consumer photo editing software* is now much more than editing - it's everything you need to perfect, transform, and organize your photos like a pro.

Organize the Way You Want
Enjoy the advanced organization features in Photoshop Elements 3, letting you and just the photos you want, no matter where they are, no matter how many photos you have .

  • Photo Browser- All your photos automatically arranged by date in one convenient location; no renaming, moving or file duplication necessary, no matter where the original photos are stored.
  • Photo Review- Thumb through a new "roll" of digital photos in a full-screen slide show with transitions and music, and with controls to quickly tag, rotate and more.
  • Photo Compare- Easily compare one photo to a series of others, side by side, to quickly and that one best shot you want to blow up and hang on the wall.
  • Stacks- After inding the "winner," save the "runners-up"-and your screen space- by stacking all of the series in one thumbnail location.
  • Date View- Find photos from a specific day, or a special day. The calendar format of Date View makes it simple to and the photos from your last anniversary, summer vacation, the days your children were born-any events you naturally remember by when they occurred.
  • Keyword Tags- Tag your trip photos "Europe," your family photos with their names. From then on, two clicks will and all the pictures of your daughters in France. Keyword Tags categorize your photos by people, places and events so you can quickly and easily and the one you want.
  • Collections- Instantly create virtual photo albums to share with friends and family, and use them as staging areas for more in-depth creations you can build at any time.
  • Resizable Thumbnails- Use the simple slider control to adjust the size of the photo thumbnails . View many thumbnails at once or zero in on one large photo.
  • Fast Find- Can't remember if you sent the latest baby pictures to your parents yet? Want to check to see if you ordered those reprints of the trip to the Caribbean? Photoshop Elements 3 keeps track of how you use your photos and shows you with one menu command.

Make Your Photos Look Their Best
Photoshop Elements 3 features new and enhanced fast fixes for the most common problems in photography, and advanced editing options for the ultimate creative control at your fingertips.

  • Quick Fix- Automatically correct many of the most common photo flaws in a series of photos, or take control with simple sliders for more precise adjustments, all in a single convenient location.
  • Smart Fix- Click once to automatically detect and fix lighting, color and contrast, or take command of the enhancement level with a simple slider control.
  • Spot Healing Brush & Healing Brush- Remove whole objects from a photo, erase flaws with a single click, or simply brush away larger imperfections from scratches to blemishes.
  • Camera Raw- Take control of the processing of the raw data in today's most popular digital cameras, while preserving the digital "negative."
  • 16-Bit Support- For the brightest, most lifelike color.
  • Shadows/Highlights- Rescue poorly-lit photos by instantly brightening dark sections or dimming the glare of overexposed highlights, with a new separate control for midtone contrast.
  • Photo Filters- Easily simulate the photographic effects that once required a full box of screw-on lens filters, as a direct adjustment or an adjustment layer.
  • Divide Scanned Photos- Relieve the "scanner shuffe" of capturing images from printed photos . Load as many photos as your scanner bed can accommodate and Divide Scanned Photos will crop , separate and straighten them into individual photos in Photoshop Elements 3.
  • Cookie Cutter- Instantly crop your photos into the shape of hearts, flowers, artistic frames and dozens more. Even feather the edges for more smoothly edged transitions or fades.
  • Photomerge®- Creating seamless panoramas from multiple photos, Photomerge now maintains the individual pictures on separate layers in the finished PSD photo file.
  • One Click Red Eye Fix- Easier than ever, just point and click to instantly cure "red eye" in any photo . Even clicking near the eye is generally all it takes to get the red out.
  • Before and After- With live before and after views in the new Quick Fix mode, you can easily compare the effects of your edits, before you save them.
  • Histogram Palette- Track color changes with the precision of always-available live histograms .
  • Filter Gallery- Let your creativity flow with easy control of a series of stackable filters for stunning , stylish photo enhancements.
  • Matched Zoom & Location- Lock the zoom on multiple photos to keep the same area in view when more than one window is open for a single photo, or to focus on the same area of multiple photos.
  • Noise Reduction- Quickly filter out the color and pixel distortions caused by taking photos in low light conditions or under high ISO camera settings.

Share the Fun
Have fun with your photos and share the enjoyment with friends and family. Photoshop Elements 3 software makes it easy to show off your creativity, with stylish Photo Mail, dynamic PDF slide shows, customizable Picture Package templates and much more.

  • Photo Mail- Choose from a variety of themed templates and let Photoshop Elements 3 turn plain old e-mail into beautifully styled Photo Mail, with your photos included right in the e-mail message body for your friends and family to enjoy, instead of as old-fashioned attachments.
  • Dynamic Slide Shows- In seconds, turn your photos into compelling slide shows, complete wit h stylish transitions, captions, music soundtrack, narration, and more.
  • Creations- Custom calendars, greeting cards, albums, photo books and more, easily printed on your own inkjet, uploaded to sharing services or your Web site, or burned to CD.
  • Printing with Style- Create custom picture packages or labels with artistic and fun frames in a host of included customizable templates.
  • Adobe Photoshop Services- Order high-quality Kodak prints or a unique hardbound photo book online, with Adobe Photoshop Services, provided by Ofoto, a Kodak company.
  • Destination Anywhere- Create a Web Gallery in a few clicks. Burn VideoCDs for display on you r TV or send photos directly to your TiVo® digital video recorder. Instantly share your photos wit h mobile phones and Palm OS handhelds.
  • Adobe Premiere® Elements Integration- Send your photos to the Timeline in Adobe Premiere Elements for instant inclusion in your movie projects, or to easily create advanced DVD slide shows.

Safeguard Your Photos
Easily preserve your photos, catalogs, tags and creation projects, by burning them directly to CD in a special archive format . You can easily restore individual parts or your entire collection, whether it's to a new hard drive or an entirely different computer.

 


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