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INFURIATING, 03 Oct 2008
This is perhaps the most infuriating software I've ever used. Having had problems with earlier editions, I checked out the available books and bought the top choice with the software. I wish I hadn't bothered. Photoshop crashes most times I use it, throws up all sorts of error messages, despite installing it no less than three times. When it does work, the editor takes about five minutes to load, and the whole package is to me totally counter-intuitive. I'm going straight back to Picasa.

Good, 06 Sep 2008
My photo editor "history" goes like this:

Elements (original - awful, slugged my PC into the ground)
PSP (very good)
PhotoImpact 12 (quite excellent)

I set out to update PhotoImpact to the latest version only to find there isn't one as Corel bought Ulead and have clearly ditched it (nutters!), leaving PSP and Elements as the two mainstream editors. So I decided to become a drone and buy Elements.

What a pleasant surprise, much better than its original version, nice interface, and not much to relearn over the previous one. The Organiser stuff is pretty much bloatware - I think you're much better just having a neat folder system of your own...

Simply fantastic, 27 Aug 2008
If you want to acheive fantastic results with your pictures, Photoshop Elements 6 is for you. At a fairly low price it has fantastic features for making banners, buttons, posters, collages and many more projects. It installed in no time and was easy to register. The only problem that I have is when going from my picture catalogue to the editor, it can take a little longer than expected, but it is still quite quick.

In two words - simply fantastic!

Perfection!, 15 Aug 2008
This software is excellent. I have Windows Vista and this exciting software works just fine. I couldn't be happier with this product. Easy and intuitive and you can pick it up without a manual within minutes.

Wonderful!

adobe 6!, 23 Jul 2008
Bought this a few months ago very difficult to master.
Wanted to transfer raw camera data dynax 5d to tiff or jpeg
wouldn`t transfer to tiff so tried jpeg but there was a problem,the jpeg files were exclusively for web use only so the pics were tiny..
Why cant i buy a simple programme to transfer raw to tiff or jpeg without all these complications?
if u r like me this could prove a dissapoitment!

INFURIATING, 03 Oct 2008
This is perhaps the most infuriating software I've ever used. Having had problems with earlier editions, I checked out the available books and bought the top choice with the software. I wish I hadn't bothered. Photoshop crashes most times I use it, throws up all sorts of error messages, despite installing it no less than three times. When it does work, the editor takes about five minutes to load, and the whole package is to me totally counter-intuitive. I'm going straight back to Picasa.

Good, 06 Sep 2008
My photo editor "history" goes like this:

Elements (original - awful, slugged my PC into the ground)
PSP (very good)
PhotoImpact 12 (quite excellent)

I set out to update PhotoImpact to the latest version only to find there isn't one as Corel bought Ulead and have clearly ditched it (nutters!), leaving PSP and Elements as the two mainstream editors. So I decided to become a drone and buy Elements.

What a pleasant surprise, much better than its original version, nice interface, and not much to relearn over the previous one. The Organiser stuff is pretty much bloatware - I think you're much better just having a neat folder system of your own...

Simply fantastic, 27 Aug 2008
If you want to acheive fantastic results with your pictures, Photoshop Elements 6 is for you. At a fairly low price it has fantastic features for making banners, buttons, posters, collages and many more projects. It installed in no time and was easy to register. The only problem that I have is when going from my picture catalogue to the editor, it can take a little longer than expected, but it is still quite quick.

In two words - simply fantastic!

Perfection!, 15 Aug 2008
This software is excellent. I have Windows Vista and this exciting software works just fine. I couldn't be happier with this product. Easy and intuitive and you can pick it up without a manual within minutes.

Wonderful!

adobe 6!, 23 Jul 2008
Bought this a few months ago very difficult to master.
Wanted to transfer raw camera data dynax 5d to tiff or jpeg
wouldn`t transfer to tiff so tried jpeg but there was a problem,the jpeg files were exclusively for web use only so the pics were tiny..
Why cant i buy a simple programme to transfer raw to tiff or jpeg without all these complications?
if u r like me this could prove a dissapoitment!

Good stuff, 26 Sep 2008
I recently bought myself a Macbook, and decided that I needed some quality editing software to go with it. Being a photographer, I opted for Photoshop Elements, as I've heard good reviews about it in the past, and can't afford the full blown Photoshop [ plus, I refuse to download it illegally! ].
So what's this product like? Well, it's a doddle to get onto your Mac. I did it very quickly, and it works absolutely fine. I opened it all up and shoved one of my photographs into the program so I could have a play, and instantly got very confused. To be honest, Photoshop Elements is just a more advanced version of the program I'd used in the past for my work, so I could follow some bits, but I quickly lost it. So many buttons that aren't particularly self explanatory. They took a bit of getting used to, but I'm starting to get the hang of it now.
I think it just needs a bit of practise. You need to sit down and have a good blast; which I unfortunately don't have the time [ or patience ] for.
Good program though!

Great value, 21 Aug 2008
This is great value. I hesitated about purchasing partly because of the reviews, including the ones that say it steals the full screen. If you work in Full Edit mode it does NOT do this (or not on my MacBook at any rate) - the desktop is visible and accessible at the bottom of the screen behind the dock.

I also wondered whether I might end up paying nearly £100 for something that was not a lot better than iPhoto but much less functional than full Photoshop. In actual fact it is a significant advance on iPhoto for image manipulation and does everything I want just as well as the full version would.

The only downside I have encountered is that it is not intuitive to use and the included documentation is poor. To be fair, Adobe do recommend that you use their website Help, but I'd recommend anyone who does not have Photoshop experience to also purchase Barbara Brundage's "Photoshop elements 6 for Mac The Missing Manual".

A Photographer's Dream!, 04 Aug 2008
This is by far the best purchase I've made this year. Apart from the lengthy but not too complicated installation, this is a perfect piece of photo editing software for Digital Photographers and people of a creative nature. I use this program on my Macbook with not to much difficulty at all. It did use a lot of the resources on my laptop when I had a 1G memory but after I upgraded my memory (which was in my plans anyway) to 2G it worked even better. It does say in the box that for optimum use, it needs 1G of memory so don't try running anything else at the same time. I've used CS3 and there are probably 90% of the features on this program. Unless you are a serious professional (e.g. High end sports or nature photographer) then I really would advise you save your money and get this. I'm a semi pro photographer who has sold a quite a few pics and this works perfect! One other slight downside is Adobe's lack of putting a manual in the box. I have bought this manual Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual and it is the best manual on the market at a great price! Easy to use, in depth explanations. So if you buy this program then I seriously advise this book too!

complicated, 06 Jul 2008
loads of special effects etc, but it slows your computer down big time, also their semms to be no facility to delete photos & no explanation on how to do it, very complicated.

Sending this back to Amazon, 27 May 2008
I'm running this on Mac OS X (leopard) - sure it installs itself and then does nothing. If you are accustomed to the intuitive nature of Mac applications...you won't find it here. This is your worst nightmare...a Windows app running on your Mac.

It is unable to pull files from iPhoto which means (as far as I can see) you have to convert to jpg and export them to your desk top to use them. More data loss! An attempt to do access you iPhoto file generates an error message (the first I've seen on my Mac!). This also means that the vaunted organisation features of this software are useless. The online help? That's for Windows users....not a word about Mac. Search for "iPhoto" via online help and no results are found. There is nothing in the provided "Getting Started Guide" (this is more a brochure of features than any useful how to guide) about the Mac integration or iPhoto. If you are thinking...."this Adobe Photoshop software is going to be really complicate to use..." then you are spot on! It's useless.

Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Lightroom(R) 2 offers powerful new and enhanced features across the entire program to help you streamline your digital photography workflow. Sort and find the photos you want faster, target specific photo areas for more precise adjustments, showcase your talent using more flexible printing templates, and more. A host of other new features and enhancements make Lightroom 2 an essential upgrade for professional photographers.

Create and reliably share PDF documents. Combine files from multiple applications in a single PDF file. Easily create fillable PDF forms to collect data electronically. And apply basic document security features.

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Reliably share documents
Create and distribute PDF files that preserve the formatting of the originals. Combine documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages in a single PDF file. Quickly organize content and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Quickly create forms
Use the new Form Wizard to create forms from paper or electronic documents. Scan or convert existing documents to PDF forms that can be filled in electronically, ensuring the data you receive is accurate and useful. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export form data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

With fill-able PDF forms, you can collect information electronically to eliminate manual data re-entry and reduce costly errors. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to fill in and save PDF forms locally.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

Easily exchange feedback
Efficiently review documents and provide input with familiar commenting tools. Quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work. With easy-to-manage electronic reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to PDF files with document passwords and permissions. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Standard

Create and reliably share PDF documents
Easily convert any document that prints to PDF to preserve formatting and help ensure document integrity.

Combine content in a single PDF file
Assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, and web pages in a single compressed PDF file to easily share with others.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering.

Easily create and track PDF forms
Convert Microsoft Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms. Form fields are automatically recognized and converted to fill-able fields. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Easily review documents
Use familiar commenting tools--such as sticky notes, a highlighter, and stamps--to provide feedback. Comments can be sorted by author, date, or page.

Sign documents digitally
Use digital signatures to approve documents, which helps eliminate the costly and time consuming practice of printing, signing, and faxing.

Convert paper documents to PDF
Easily scan a paper document and convert it to a searchable PDF file. Convert from PDF to Microsoft Word Save PDF files as Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, so you can easily reuse content.

Archive documents and e-mail
Save documents and e-mail in PDF/A, the standard for archiving, to simplify search and retrieval in the future.

Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy options for turning them into polished movies. Show your style with amazing audio and video effects. And easily share on YouTube, Blu-ray Disc, and virtually anywhere else.Main Features:Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips: Find what you need faster using the same Organizer that's included with Adobe Photoshop Elements softwa...

INFURIATING, 03 Oct 2008
This is perhaps the most infuriating software I've ever used. Having had problems with earlier editions, I checked out the available books and bought the top choice with the software. I wish I hadn't bothered. Photoshop crashes most times I use it, throws up all sorts of error messages, despite installing it no less than three times. When it does work, the editor takes about five minutes to load, and the whole package is to me totally counter-intuitive. I'm going straight back to Picasa.

Good, 06 Sep 2008
My photo editor "history" goes like this:

Elements (original - awful, slugged my PC into the ground)
PSP (very good)
PhotoImpact 12 (quite excellent)

I set out to update PhotoImpact to the latest version only to find there isn't one as Corel bought Ulead and have clearly ditched it (nutters!), leaving PSP and Elements as the two mainstream editors. So I decided to become a drone and buy Elements.

What a pleasant surprise, much better than its original version, nice interface, and not much to relearn over the previous one. The Organiser stuff is pretty much bloatware - I think you're much better just having a neat folder system of your own...

Simply fantastic, 27 Aug 2008
If you want to acheive fantastic results with your pictures, Photoshop Elements 6 is for you. At a fairly low price it has fantastic features for making banners, buttons, posters, collages and many more projects. It installed in no time and was easy to register. The only problem that I have is when going from my picture catalogue to the editor, it can take a little longer than expected, but it is still quite quick.

In two words - simply fantastic!

Perfection!, 15 Aug 2008
This software is excellent. I have Windows Vista and this exciting software works just fine. I couldn't be happier with this product. Easy and intuitive and you can pick it up without a manual within minutes.

Wonderful!

adobe 6!, 23 Jul 2008
Bought this a few months ago very difficult to master.
Wanted to transfer raw camera data dynax 5d to tiff or jpeg
wouldn`t transfer to tiff so tried jpeg but there was a problem,the jpeg files were exclusively for web use only so the pics were tiny..
Why cant i buy a simple programme to transfer raw to tiff or jpeg without all these complications?
if u r like me this could prove a dissapoitment!

Good stuff, 26 Sep 2008
I recently bought myself a Macbook, and decided that I needed some quality editing software to go with it. Being a photographer, I opted for Photoshop Elements, as I've heard good reviews about it in the past, and can't afford the full blown Photoshop [ plus, I refuse to download it illegally! ].
So what's this product like? Well, it's a doddle to get onto your Mac. I did it very quickly, and it works absolutely fine. I opened it all up and shoved one of my photographs into the program so I could have a play, and instantly got very confused. To be honest, Photoshop Elements is just a more advanced version of the program I'd used in the past for my work, so I could follow some bits, but I quickly lost it. So many buttons that aren't particularly self explanatory. They took a bit of getting used to, but I'm starting to get the hang of it now.
I think it just needs a bit of practise. You need to sit down and have a good blast; which I unfortunately don't have the time [ or patience ] for.
Good program though!

Great value, 21 Aug 2008
This is great value. I hesitated about purchasing partly because of the reviews, including the ones that say it steals the full screen. If you work in Full Edit mode it does NOT do this (or not on my MacBook at any rate) - the desktop is visible and accessible at the bottom of the screen behind the dock.

I also wondered whether I might end up paying nearly £100 for something that was not a lot better than iPhoto but much less functional than full Photoshop. In actual fact it is a significant advance on iPhoto for image manipulation and does everything I want just as well as the full version would.

The only downside I have encountered is that it is not intuitive to use and the included documentation is poor. To be fair, Adobe do recommend that you use their website Help, but I'd recommend anyone who does not have Photoshop experience to also purchase Barbara Brundage's "Photoshop elements 6 for Mac The Missing Manual".

A Photographer's Dream!, 04 Aug 2008
This is by far the best purchase I've made this year. Apart from the lengthy but not too complicated installation, this is a perfect piece of photo editing software for Digital Photographers and people of a creative nature. I use this program on my Macbook with not to much difficulty at all. It did use a lot of the resources on my laptop when I had a 1G memory but after I upgraded my memory (which was in my plans anyway) to 2G it worked even better. It does say in the box that for optimum use, it needs 1G of memory so don't try running anything else at the same time. I've used CS3 and there are probably 90% of the features on this program. Unless you are a serious professional (e.g. High end sports or nature photographer) then I really would advise you save your money and get this. I'm a semi pro photographer who has sold a quite a few pics and this works perfect! One other slight downside is Adobe's lack of putting a manual in the box. I have bought this manual Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual and it is the best manual on the market at a great price! Easy to use, in depth explanations. So if you buy this program then I seriously advise this book too!

complicated, 06 Jul 2008
loads of special effects etc, but it slows your computer down big time, also their semms to be no facility to delete photos & no explanation on how to do it, very complicated.

Sending this back to Amazon, 27 May 2008
I'm running this on Mac OS X (leopard) - sure it installs itself and then does nothing. If you are accustomed to the intuitive nature of Mac applications...you won't find it here. This is your worst nightmare...a Windows app running on your Mac.

It is unable to pull files from iPhoto which means (as far as I can see) you have to convert to jpg and export them to your desk top to use them. More data loss! An attempt to do access you iPhoto file generates an error message (the first I've seen on my Mac!). This also means that the vaunted organisation features of this software are useless. The online help? That's for Windows users....not a word about Mac. Search for "iPhoto" via online help and no results are found. There is nothing in the provided "Getting Started Guide" (this is more a brochure of features than any useful how to guide) about the Mac integration or iPhoto. If you are thinking...."this Adobe Photoshop software is going to be really complicate to use..." then you are spot on! It's useless.

Happy Happy, 02 Sep 2008
I purchased this after the "try before you buy", simply because I found it to be an excellent piece of software.
However, in my experience, to be certain of incident free use, I have disconnected my broadband connection, before stopping the Norton Antivirus. (I only stop the broadband for obvious reasons).
It's a smart piece of software, which makes video editing a breeze, and gives great control over the imported clips.
My advice - use the trial first, and if no issues occur, pay for the licence.

System requirements are very important!!!, 08 Aug 2008
I purchased this product because a very good friend of mine uses it on his laptop, while he is away on business, he is a photographer and graphic designer who sometimes utilises film in his work. I mentioned the reviews mentioned here and he said that he had never experienced any problems i described, he also said that most of the problems sound like they are caused by hardrives that operate at 5400 rpm's that cannot keep up with video editing make sure you are on a 7200 rpm drive. Also you will require a video/graphic card with at least 64Mb of ram.
We run it on an ACER laptop from pc world and it works a treat, we dont have any problems creating, editing rendering or burning and i would recomend it to anyone as long as you have the correct hardware to let the programme run correctly, video editing on the level that premier runs on uses up a lot of memory, your computer will be worked hard keeping up with the things the software allows you to do!

Really awful software, 12 Jun 2008
As with most of the other reviewers here, once installed the software suffers from multiple crashes, very long start up and loading times and if you try to add text to any part of your production, once you click enter you watch the screen through squinted eyes hoping it won't crash. I cannot comment on SDV as I only use HDV from my Sony HDV camcorder (which I do not import directly, but to my hard drive via HDVSplit a free software and then into Elements) but when rendering, it's useful to have a book handy as you'll need to do something whilst the computer chugs away as I have found that for every second shown left remaining whilst rendering, in reality every second is woth five or more. I have tried to burn four DVD's, one after the other to save time, but the system crashed after the first burn stating 'memory allocation error' and I have 4GB of the stuff. I have the latest Intel Quad processor 9450, Gigabyte X48 chipset motherboard, 4GB RAM, a Radeon HD3650 graphics card with 512 onboard RAM and two 400GB hard drives. And it still crashes. If, as per one of the other reviewers here, you have to have the right motherboard/processor/graphics card combination, then your purchase and the successful use thereof will be completely hit or miss (even if you comply with the minimum requirements on the box. Maybe they should state their favourite combination instead of just giving a minimum requirement). When changing a single letter in a rolling title at the end of my compilation due to a mistake on my part (bad proof read), it took one and a half hours to render, whereupon I found another two mistakes after the rendering, again independently, and so to change them took another three hours, so I spent the whole evening just editing three single letter mistakes. It's a soul destroying process.

For a company like Adobe (for which I used Premiere Elements 2 with absolutely no problem and currently use CS3 Collection) it is really disgusting and for which the should be utterly ashamed. Do not (as mentioned by others) in any way, shape or form waste your money on this product until at least a patch or 5 comes out and only then after it has been fully tested and there are positive reviews. I would like to give zero stars, but you can't.

I am an extremely unhappy punter.

Fingers crossed - no problems yet., 26 Apr 2008
On a Vista Home Premium machine I've had no problems with this package so far. I've edited 1 hour 15 minutes of video (6 scenes) with transitions and burnt to DVD (2 copies) with a menu. After that, 20 minutes with titles, effects, transitions, soundtrack and narration and burnt to DVD as well as saving as AVI. I have used Pinnacle Studio V9 on an XP machine in the past - that used to fail regularly but I got by with it. Premiere Elements 4 is like a professional product compared with that. I am very pleased I wasn't swayed by the negative reviews. I thought it necessary to say that it does work for me. I'd give it five stars but I haven't been using it long enough for that.

POWERFUL PC, TECH` SUPPORT-(many hours/days),..--P` ELEMENTS 4 A DISASTER!!, 12 Apr 2008
My view, as the title intimates, Premiere Elements 4 DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS `ON THE BOX`, this product was obviously NOT tested on `real world` pc`s, I have 3 SATA discs, QUAD cpu, Gigabyte 8800GT, 4GB fast memory and have done everything suggested by the friendly Adobe support staff, SOUND OUT OF SYNC, NO CURE, my view is DON`T TOUCH PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 WITH A BARGEPOLE (unless you want grey hairs),it simply cannot handle High Definition material,... DON`T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT,CHECK OTHER SITES,..there are very few praises for this product.

Adobe Photoshop is a great product, ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 IS A DISASTER AND COMPLETELY UNUSEABLE FOR HIGH DEFINITION, believe me, I have tried it extensively!!

Communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely. Unify a wide range of content in a single organized PDF Portfolio. Collaborate through electronic document reviews. Create and manage dynamic forms. And help protect sensitive information.

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colours. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fill-able fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Combine multiple files in a searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Brand it with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Pro

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Bring multiple files together in a single organized and interactive PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.

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Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering. Save passwords and permissions as security policies that can be easily applied to new PDF files.

Easily create and manage electronic forms
Build dynamic forms, distribute and track forms and responses, and easily export data for analysis and reporting.

Manage and track electronic document reviews
Gain the input you need through interactive document reviews that enable participants to see and build on other reviewers' comments, which can be sorted by author, date, or page. Use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Include Adobe Reader users
Enable users of free Adobe Reader software to digitally sign documents, participate in shared document reviews, and save forms locally. By extending Acrobat functionality to Reader users, virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate.

Synchronize document views
Provide clarity and enhance discussion by e-mailing a PDF document and walking recipients through it in real time by controlling the exact page view they see.

Remove sensitive information
Use redaction tools to black out sensitive text, illustrations, or other information, permanently deleting the content from the PDF document. Inspect PDF documents for metadata, hidden layers, and other concealed information, and remove before distributing to others.

Compare PDF documents
Automatically highlight the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed.

Improve print processes
Help control costs and reduce errors with automated output controls to preview, pre-flight, correct, and prepare PDF files for high-end print production and digital publishing.

Create and validate accessible PDF documents
Ensure your PDF documents are optimized for people with disabilities. Quickly evaluate, correct, and automatically tag PDF documents for optimized accessibility and reflow.

Create and reliably share PDF documents. Combine files from multiple applications in a single PDF file. Easily create fillable PDF forms to collect data electronically. And apply basic document security features.

Communicate and collaborate more easily and securely with Adobe PDF. For a more in-depth comparison, download a feature comparison (PDF format).

Reliably share documents
Create and distribute PDF files that preserve the formatting of the originals. Combine documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages in a single PDF file. Quickly organize content and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Quickly create forms
Use the new Form Wizard to create forms from paper or electronic documents. Scan or convert existing documents to PDF forms that can be filled in electronically, ensuring the data you receive is accurate and useful. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export form data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

With fill-able PDF forms, you can collect information electronically to eliminate manual data re-entry and reduce costly errors. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to fill in and save PDF forms locally.

Acrobat lets you combine files from multiple applications into a single Adobe PDF document.

With a scanner and Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, you can turn stacks of paper documents into easily searchable electronic PDF archives.

Easily exchange feedback
Efficiently review documents and provide input with familiar commenting tools. Quickly gain the input you need to efficiently develop and complete work. With easy-to-manage electronic reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to PDF files with document passwords and permissions. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source.

Top reasons to buy Acrobat 9 Standard

Create and reliably share PDF documents
Easily convert any document that prints to PDF to preserve formatting and help ensure document integrity.

Combine content in a single PDF file
Assemble documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, and web pages in a single compressed PDF file to easily share with others.

Help protect your documents
Use passwords to control access to PDF documents. Use permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering.

Easily create and track PDF forms
Convert Microsoft Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms. Form fields are automatically recognized and converted to fill-able fields. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Easily review documents
Use familiar commenting tools--such as sticky notes, a highlighter, and stamps--to provide feedback. Comments can be sorted by author, date, or page.

Sign documents digitally
Use digital signatures to approve documents, which helps eliminate the costly and time consuming practice of printing, signing, and faxing.

Convert paper documents to PDF
Easily scan a paper document and convert it to a searchable PDF file. Convert from PDF to Microsoft Word Save PDF files as Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, so you can easily reuse content.

Archive documents and e-mail
Save documents and e-mail in PDF/A, the standard for archiving, to simplify search and retrieval in the future.

INFURIATING, 03 Oct 2008
This is perhaps the most infuriating software I've ever used. Having had problems with earlier editions, I checked out the available books and bought the top choice with the software. I wish I hadn't bothered. Photoshop crashes most times I use it, throws up all sorts of error messages, despite installing it no less than three times. When it does work, the editor takes about five minutes to load, and the whole package is to me totally counter-intuitive. I'm going straight back to Picasa.

Good, 06 Sep 2008
My photo editor "history" goes like this:

Elements (original - awful, slugged my PC into the ground)
PSP (very good)
PhotoImpact 12 (quite excellent)

I set out to update PhotoImpact to the latest version only to find there isn't one as Corel bought Ulead and have clearly ditched it (nutters!), leaving PSP and Elements as the two mainstream editors. So I decided to become a drone and buy Elements.

What a pleasant surprise, much better than its original version, nice interface, and not much to relearn over the previous one. The Organiser stuff is pretty much bloatware - I think you're much better just having a neat folder system of your own...

Simply fantastic, 27 Aug 2008
If you want to acheive fantastic results with your pictures, Photoshop Elements 6 is for you. At a fairly low price it has fantastic features for making banners, buttons, posters, collages and many more projects. It installed in no time and was easy to register. The only problem that I have is when going from my picture catalogue to the editor, it can take a little longer than expected, but it is still quite quick.

In two words - simply fantastic!

Perfection!, 15 Aug 2008
This software is excellent. I have Windows Vista and this exciting software works just fine. I couldn't be happier with this product. Easy and intuitive and you can pick it up without a manual within minutes.

Wonderful!

adobe 6!, 23 Jul 2008
Bought this a few months ago very difficult to master.
Wanted to transfer raw camera data dynax 5d to tiff or jpeg
wouldn`t transfer to tiff so tried jpeg but there was a problem,the jpeg files were exclusively for web use only so the pics were tiny..
Why cant i buy a simple programme to transfer raw to tiff or jpeg without all these complications?
if u r like me this could prove a dissapoitment!

Good stuff, 26 Sep 2008
I recently bought myself a Macbook, and decided that I needed some quality editing software to go with it. Being a photographer, I opted for Photoshop Elements, as I've heard good reviews about it in the past, and can't afford the full blown Photoshop [ plus, I refuse to download it illegally! ].
So what's this product like? Well, it's a doddle to get onto your Mac. I did it very quickly, and it works absolutely fine. I opened it all up and shoved one of my photographs into the program so I could have a play, and instantly got very confused. To be honest, Photoshop Elements is just a more advanced version of the program I'd used in the past for my work, so I could follow some bits, but I quickly lost it. So many buttons that aren't particularly self explanatory. They took a bit of getting used to, but I'm starting to get the hang of it now.
I think it just needs a bit of practise. You need to sit down and have a good blast; which I unfortunately don't have the time [ or patience ] for.
Good program though!

Great value, 21 Aug 2008
This is great value. I hesitated about purchasing partly because of the reviews, including the ones that say it steals the full screen. If you work in Full Edit mode it does NOT do this (or not on my MacBook at any rate) - the desktop is visible and accessible at the bottom of the screen behind the dock.

I also wondered whether I might end up paying nearly £100 for something that was not a lot better than iPhoto but much less functional than full Photoshop. In actual fact it is a significant advance on iPhoto for image manipulation and does everything I want just as well as the full version would.

The only downside I have encountered is that it is not intuitive to use and the included documentation is poor. To be fair, Adobe do recommend that you use their website Help, but I'd recommend anyone who does not have Photoshop experience to also purchase Barbara Brundage's "Photoshop elements 6 for Mac The Missing Manual".

A Photographer's Dream!, 04 Aug 2008
This is by far the best purchase I've made this year. Apart from the lengthy but not too complicated installation, this is a perfect piece of photo editing software for Digital Photographers and people of a creative nature. I use this program on my Macbook with not to much difficulty at all. It did use a lot of the resources on my laptop when I had a 1G memory but after I upgraded my memory (which was in my plans anyway) to 2G it worked even better. It does say in the box that for optimum use, it needs 1G of memory so don't try running anything else at the same time. I've used CS3 and there are probably 90% of the features on this program. Unless you are a serious professional (e.g. High end sports or nature photographer) then I really would advise you save your money and get this. I'm a semi pro photographer who has sold a quite a few pics and this works perfect! One other slight downside is Adobe's lack of putting a manual in the box. I have bought this manual Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual and it is the best manual on the market at a great price! Easy to use, in depth explanations. So if you buy this program then I seriously advise this book too!

complicated, 06 Jul 2008
loads of special effects etc, but it slows your computer down big time, also their semms to be no facility to delete photos & no explanation on how to do it, very complicated.

Sending this back to Amazon, 27 May 2008
I'm running this on Mac OS X (leopard) - sure it installs itself and then does nothing. If you are accustomed to the intuitive nature of Mac applications...you won't find it here. This is your worst nightmare...a Windows app running on your Mac.

It is unable to pull files from iPhoto which means (as far as I can see) you have to convert to jpg and export them to your desk top to use them. More data loss! An attempt to do access you iPhoto file generates an error message (the first I've seen on my Mac!). This also means that the vaunted organisation features of this software are useless. The online help? That's for Windows users....not a word about Mac. Search for "iPhoto" via online help and no results are found. There is nothing in the provided "Getting Started Guide" (this is more a brochure of features than any useful how to guide) about the Mac integration or iPhoto. If you are thinking...."this Adobe Photoshop software is going to be really complicate to use..." then you are spot on! It's useless.

Happy Happy, 02 Sep 2008
I purchased this after the "try before you buy", simply because I found it to be an excellent piece of software.
However, in my experience, to be certain of incident free use, I have disconnected my broadband connection, before stopping the Norton Antivirus. (I only stop the broadband for obvious reasons).
It's a smart piece of software, which makes video editing a breeze, and gives great control over the imported clips.
My advice - use the trial first, and if no issues occur, pay for the licence.

System requirements are very important!!!, 08 Aug 2008
I purchased this product because a very good friend of mine uses it on his laptop, while he is away on business, he is a photographer and graphic designer who sometimes utilises film in his work. I mentioned the reviews mentioned here and he said that he had never experienced any problems i described, he also said that most of the problems sound like they are caused by hardrives that operate at 5400 rpm's that cannot keep up with video editing make sure you are on a 7200 rpm drive. Also you will require a video/graphic card with at least 64Mb of ram.
We run it on an ACER laptop from pc world and it works a treat, we dont have any problems creating, editing rendering or burning and i would recomend it to anyone as long as you have the correct hardware to let the programme run correctly, video editing on the level that premier runs on uses up a lot of memory, your computer will be worked hard keeping up with the things the software allows you to do!

Really awful software, 12 Jun 2008
As with most of the other reviewers here, once installed the software suffers from multiple crashes, very long start up and loading times and if you try to add text to any part of your production, once you click enter you watch the screen through squinted eyes hoping it won't crash. I cannot comment on SDV as I only use HDV from my Sony HDV camcorder (which I do not import directly, but to my hard drive via HDVSplit a free software and then into Elements) but when rendering, it's useful to have a book handy as you'll need to do something whilst the computer chugs away as I have found that for every second shown left remaining whilst rendering, in reality every second is woth five or more. I have tried to burn four DVD's, one after the other to save time, but the system crashed after the first burn stating 'memory allocation error' and I have 4GB of the stuff. I have the latest Intel Quad processor 9450, Gigabyte X48 chipset motherboard, 4GB RAM, a Radeon HD3650 graphics card with 512 onboard RAM and two 400GB hard drives. And it still crashes. If, as per one of the other reviewers here, you have to have the right motherboard/processor/graphics card combination, then your purchase and the successful use thereof will be completely hit or miss (even if you comply with the minimum requirements on the box. Maybe they should state their favourite combination instead of just giving a minimum requirement). When changing a single letter in a rolling title at the end of my compilation due to a mistake on my part (bad proof read), it took one and a half hours to render, whereupon I found another two mistakes after the rendering, again independently, and so to change them took another three hours, so I spent the whole evening just editing three single letter mistakes. It's a soul destroying process.

For a company like Adobe (for which I used Premiere Elements 2 with absolutely no problem and currently use CS3 Collection) it is really disgusting and for which the should be utterly ashamed. Do not (as mentioned by others) in any way, shape or form waste your money on this product until at least a patch or 5 comes out and only then after it has been fully tested and there are positive reviews. I would like to give zero stars, but you can't.

I am an extremely unhappy punter.

Fingers crossed - no problems yet., 26 Apr 2008
On a Vista Home Premium machine I've had no problems with this package so far. I've edited 1 hour 15 minutes of video (6 scenes) with transitions and burnt to DVD (2 copies) with a menu. After that, 20 minutes with titles, effects, transitions, soundtrack and narration and burnt to DVD as well as saving as AVI. I have used Pinnacle Studio V9 on an XP machine in the past - that used to fail regularly but I got by with it. Premiere Elements 4 is like a professional product compared with that. I am very pleased I wasn't swayed by the negative reviews. I thought it necessary to say that it does work for me. I'd give it five stars but I haven't been using it long enough for that.

POWERFUL PC, TECH` SUPPORT-(many hours/days),..--P` ELEMENTS 4 A DISASTER!!, 12 Apr 2008
My view, as the title intimates, Premiere Elements 4 DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS `ON THE BOX`, this product was obviously NOT tested on `real world` pc`s, I have 3 SATA discs, QUAD cpu, Gigabyte 8800GT, 4GB fast memory and have done everything suggested by the friendly Adobe support staff, SOUND OUT OF SYNC, NO CURE, my view is DON`T TOUCH PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 WITH A BARGEPOLE (unless you want grey hairs),it simply cannot handle High Definition material,... DON`T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT,CHECK OTHER SITES,..there are very few praises for this product.

Adobe Photoshop is a great product, ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 IS A DISASTER AND COMPLETELY UNUSEABLE FOR HIGH DEFINITION, believe me, I have tried it extensively!!

Realy Good For A Cut Down Version, 30 Aug 2008
This is a realy good i have the older version of photoshop but the same version of Premeir they both work realy well but some times premier freezes but im sure there is proberly a update witch is included in this bundle. Realy Good

Good but not as a bundle, 12 Jun 2008
Elements 6 is great, it is friendly stable and productive. I have to say that it doesnt seem to offer that much more than 5 though.

However, as a bundle this is really poor. Premiere 4 is VERY unstable and slooooow even on high spec machines. Avoid the bundle and but Elements on its own or even gor for Elements 5 which might be cheaper but isnt Vista compatible.

WARNING, 29 Mar 2008
Why has this amazing software package increased by £15.00 on amazon? It was listed for £99.99 yesterday. Without it being on sale before it seems unreasonable for AMAZON to simply up the prices like this...

Good choice for advanced home user, 21 Feb 2008
While good to get you going, the photo and video packages often bundled with PCs etc really don't give you anything advanced and easy to use (I mean the budget editions that usually cost about £25 to buy separately).

So after deciding that I no way need the mega-functionality of professional packages (even if I could afford splashing out several hundred pounds on one!) I looked into reviews from a number of different sources on a couple of mid-range packages but the only way to really know is to try one out first before buying.

Adobe have a try-before-buy scheme for stuff like this on their website (the Pro versions and the Elements versions of PhotoShop and Premier are available) although the file downloads are naturally very big. It was after trying these that made me buy the Elements bundle.

I spent pretty much a whole weekend with the trial version (which is fully featured with a 30day timeout) editing holiday photos and video clips trying out various features - it's really quite intuitive to use and (so far) I haven't had any of the crashes that others have experienced so for me it gets a thumbs up.

Surprisingly, ordering from Amazon was a couple of pounds cheaper than buying the unlock codes direct from Adobe and also gets you the installation DVD and manuals. Note though that you have to uninstall the downloaded time-limited version and then reinstall from the disk as the licence codes with the disk won't unlock the downloaded time-limited version.


Superb product apart from the lack of AVCHD support , 28 Nov 2007
This product trumps the competitors in my view, in having the ability not only to organise both still pictures and video footage in one system, but also to use either type of media easily in whatever you are making. It is easy to make anything from a DVD to a website, or output to numerous devices such as mobile phones or PDAs.

Most importantly for irreplaceable stills and clips it has excellent backup (with verification) facilities, including backing up to anything from a hard drive to a blue ray disc and everything in between.

The photo editing tools and video editing tools are for the most part the same as the top of the range professional versions from Adobe, however much more simple to use. The Premiere Elements part (video editing) has a particularly simple interface compared with most products, despite having very wide-ranging capabilities. I would have given 5 stars except..

The one big howler is the inability to edit video from the latest Sony and Panasonic high definition camcorders which record to memory chips (AVCHD format) and which I believe will ultimately dominate the upper end of the "prosumer" market because of their wonderful picture quality, portability and lack of moving parts (lens excluded).

Therefore if Adobe introduce this capability, or if you are confident you'll never use the AVCHD format then this is, I believe, the best product for enthusiastic amateurs.

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