New Adobe Software

September 13, 2006: Adobe has announced updates to its popular Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements applications.
Available for Windows PCs, Photoshop Elements 5.0 offers new and more flexible ways for consumers to organise files, edit images and share photos plus some one-click fixes to photos with the option of exploring more sophisticated editing techniques. New editing tools include Adjust Color Curves controls, which allow users to lighten shadows, darken highlights, correct backlighting and manipulate contrast plus a black-and-white conversion tool for converting colour originals to a variety of rich black-and-white photo styles with deep contrast. Photoshop Elements 5.0 also allows cusers to easily correct camera lens distortion.

The new version also provides a range of themed and customisable layouts, multi-page document options for albums and scrapbooks and more than 100 frames to make it picture sharign easier and more enjoyable. Drag-and-drop facilities allow photos to be moved and resized within these flexible layouts. A new Map View lets users drag photos to any location tied to an online satellite map to relive memories based on locations where photos were taken. Adobe Photoshop Services, which are easily accessible from within the application, offer new ways to share photos. An interactive Adobe Flash-based photo gallery service, called Adobe Photoshop Showcase, allows photos to be shared for free, or upgraded to an extended sharing service via a Web site. These online galleries can take the form of a virtual scrapbook with flipping pages, a winter scene with falling snow or a spinning photo carousel. A new photo layout function makes it easy to create and order photobooks.

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software for Windows is a significant upgrade to this top-selling video editing software application. New features include a simplified interface and drag-and-drop functionality plus output to a wide variety of devices and formats ““including Adobe Flash Video, the standard video format for popular social networking Web sites. Video files can be imported from virtually any device, including DV and DVD camcorders, HDV devices, digital still and mobile phone cameras, unprotected DVDs and MPEG-4 video recorders.