Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 (Mac)

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8--Make ordinary photos extraordinary

Make magic with your photos, easily manage all your images and share your favourite shots online or in print with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software. The latest version of this best-selling consumer photo-editing software combines powerful performance with simplicity of use, making it easy to tell amazing 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, and then dive right into a full range of creative activities. Amazing new features include:

Enhance your photos with bluer skies or whiter teeth in seconds.

• Recompose photos to any size without distortion
• People Recognition--instantly find photos featuring specific people
• Photomerge Exposure--combine several shots into the perfect picture
• Auto-Analyzer-- Quickly find your best photos

Experience the ultimate media management hub--Bring all your photos and video clips together in one convenient place, and easily find your best stuff fast.

Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds--Get just the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. And now in Photoshop Elements 8, when you perform one-step photo adjustments--including colour, contrast, and lighting--you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.

Dramatically transform your photos with easy-to-use options--Convert your colour originals to elegant black-and-whites, or use colour curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.

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? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast.

Create a well exposed photo from several differently exposed shots of the same scene with Photomerge Exposure.

Easily create the perfect photo--Take advantage of amazing Adobe Photomerge technology to easily remove distracting elements from photos in just a few clicks, create perfect group shots and 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 animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos.

Show off your creativity with flexible layouts--Make amazing printed photo creations, including scrapbook pages, photo books and cards, that you can customise to get exactly the look you envision. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.

Top new benefits of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

Recompose photos to any size without distortion--Ever wanted to change the size or orientation of a photo to fit a certain frame? Now you can quickly 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 find your best photos--No need to click through dozens or hundreds of shots to find the good ones. The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your media so you can easily find your most interesting, highest quality photos and video footage.

Get the big picture--See the full effect of your photos and video clips from within the Organiser with new full-screen previews, which let you make quick edits to photos while viewing them.

Give your creations fresh looks--Experiment with new artwork and templates to give your printed creations fun and stylish new looks.

Enjoy support for Windows 7--Take advantage of support for the new Windows 7 platform and the hands-on capabilities of Windows Touch technology.