Adobe® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition 3.0 software is a great way to get started with digital photography. Once you've mastered the basics, you can step up to Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 software for advanced editing, organizing, and sharing capabilities — all in one simple yet powerful product.
| Edit and enhance your photos | Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 | Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Fix common photo flaws, such as lighting, color, and red eye. | yes | yes |
| View before and after changes. | yes | yes |
| Rotate and crop images. | yes | yes |
| Removes red eye automatically as you download photos. | no | yes |
| Easily select specific objects to make a range of controlled adjustments. | no | yes |
| Perfect your photos with advanced editing options that give you more control, down to every pixel. | no | yes |
| Stylize your photos with special effects and create multilayered, artistic composites. | no | yes |
| Give your photos extra personality by adding text and graphics. | no | yes |
| Show your photos | Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 | Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 |
| Create PDF slide shows to share with others. | yes | yes |
| Print at home or easily order professional-quality Kodak prints online.* | yes | yes |
| Optimize file sizes for e-mailing. | yes | yes |
| Create shareable dynamic slide shows with transitions, pan and zoom effects, captions, music, and narration. | no | yes |
| Liven up your website by turning photos into GIF animations. | no | yes |
| Entertain a roomful of friends by showing photos and slide shows on your TV over a home network.† | no | yes |
| Send personalized photo mail, including a decorative background or frame and your own captions. | no | yes |
| *Note: Online printing is currently available only in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Japan. †Requires a PC running Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005. |
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| Keep photos at your fingertips | Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 | Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 |
| Create collections of photos around common themes, events, people, and places. | yes | yes |
| See your photos automatically organized by date when downloaded. | yes | yes |
| Create keyword tags to categorize and find photos easily by time, place, or event. | yes | yes |
| Use face tagging to instantly tag all of your photos that contain people so you can quickly find and view them later. | no | yes |
| Cut down on clutter by stacking similar photos together. | no | yes |
| Quickly find and preview any photo, no matter where it's stored, with expanded metadata search parameters. | no | yes |
| Automatically find photos that share common characteristics, such as color, shape, pattern, or composition. | no | yes |