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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0

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Features

Get all the facts about Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 software with this full list of product features.



Make your photos look their best

Instantly fix common flaws

Make quick fixes

Perform a full range of common photo adjustments — including color, contrast, and lighting — in the convenient Quick Fix mode.

Get realistic skin tones

Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.

Say goodbye to red eye

Photoshop Elements eliminates red eye automatically as you download photos from your camera. Or you can remove red eye from individual shots without even clicking on the photo.

Correct lens distortion

Easily correct camera lens distortion at photo edges and keystone effects that exaggerate perspective.

Sharpen blurred edges

Get crisper-looking photos — even remove blurring caused by low lighting conditions.

Preserve image quality

Shrink photos and then scale them back to original size while still maintaining complete image quality.

Compare changes in before and after views

Instantly see the effects of adjustments you make with before and after views in Quick Fix mode.

Correct color effortlessly

Compare a range of color variations side by side with your original photo, and select the best choice with a single click.

Rotate and crop

Turn photos right side up and crop out unwanted areas quickly and accurately.

Perform advanced editing

Fine-tune exposure

Get the perfect exposure with the new color curves adjustment that makes it even easier to fine-tune color, brightness, and contrast.

Quickly retouch specific areas

Easily select by brushing over any element of your photo to make a range of adjustments to a specific area or object.

Brush away flaws

Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control.

Control color temperature and tint

Get the best overall color possible with easy slider controls for color temperature and tint.

Easily adjust shadows and highlights

Rescue poorly lit photos by lightening shadows and reducing the glare of highlights.

Adjust specific areas

Adjust the exposure of specific areas in your photos using professional darkroom tools like dodge, burn, and sponge.

Benefit from 16-bit support

Get truer, higher quality results with support for 16-bit color.

Enjoy enhanced support for working with raw files

Get the highest quality results by editing the raw image files from your digital camera. Photoshop Elements now supports an even greater selection of digital camera models.

Convert raw files to Digital Negative

Enjoy a lifetime of access to your raw files by converting them to universal DNG format, which means you’ll be able to open and use your highest quality photo files without worrying about proprietary camera formats.

Learn advanced techniques

Spark your imagination and master advanced techniques by following the steps in How-To guides.

Be creative in less time

Start editing sooner with a quick-launching Editor mode.

See the full color range

Adjust the color range of any photo and see real-time changes in the Histogram palette.

Artistically enhance photos

Create dramatic black-and-whites

Convert your color originals to rich, elegant black-and-whites by choosing from a variety of options.

Give photos extra dimension

Add depth with drop shadows, bevels, glows, and other effects, which are automatically applied to any element placed on a layer.

Convert to sepia

Give your photos a classic look by instantly converting them to sepia tone.

Instantly apply multiple effects

Stylize your photos with hundreds of cool special effects. Easily mix multiple effects, change their order, and preview them in the Filter Gallery.

Apply colored filters

Create real-world photographic effects by applying tint filters that simulate colored filters on a camera.

Simulate painting

Transform your photos with realistic paintbrush effects to simulate oils, watercolors, charcoals, pastels, and different canvas textures.

Add surreal effects

Have fun liquifying your photos by easily twisting, warping, stretching, and pulling different areas.

Create composites

Combine photos with control

Place a friend on a mountaintop, add ancestors to a family portrait, and create other fun combinations using flexible layers.

Easily isolate objects from backgrounds

Quickly separate an object from its background — even in complex, textured areas — and instantly remove rough edges.

Erase backgrounds

Magically remove backgrounds, leaving foregrounds untouched.

Easily assemble panoramas

Create seamless horizontal or vertical panoramas by automatically stitching together multiple photos with Adobe Photomerge®: technology.

Try anything

Experiment without worry, knowing you can instantly undo or redo multiple steps in one click.

Add text and graphics

Tell your story in stylized text

Type titles and labels right onto your photos and edit them at any time. Easily choose typefaces from the enhanced font menu.

Instantly add shapes

Decorate your photos with geometric shapes, symbols, stamps, and thought bubbles from the built-in library, or draw your own.

Add decorative edges

Crop your photos into fun shapes with a single click of the Cookie Cutter, or frame them with hundreds of decorative edge designs.

From the creators of Adobe Photoshop

Use industry-leading technology

Create top-quality images with software based on industry-leading Adobe Photoshop software. Professionals have relied on it for more than a decade.

Process batches of photos at once

Save hours of effort by automatically processing batches of photos. Remove red eye, rename, resize, convert formats, adjust levels, add text, and more.

Make the most of Windows® XP

Take advantage of the full power and speed of your Windows XP system.

Show photos in creative, entertaining ways

Get started quickly with flexible layout options

Express your ideas with themed layouts

Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to create a finished piece in minutes.

Create with drag-and-drop simplicity

Drop photos into flexible layouts, drag to resize images, and move photos anywhere on the page with complete ease.

Create exactly the look you envision

Customize any element of your layout, adjusting colors, adding graphical elements, and adding text or effects such as drop shadows and glows.

Find the perfect frame

Set off your photos with more than 100 included frames, from traditional to elegant to avant-garde.

Enjoy more creation options

Make an even wider variety of photo creations with new CD and DVD covers, more scrapbook page layouts, and photo book layouts for professionally bound books you can order online.

Create and save multipage documents

Find, open, and edit your albums and scrapbooks more easily than ever. The contents of each book are now saved all together in one complete document.

Share your photos in exciting new ways

Animate your photos

Go beyond traditional slide shows by sharing photos in your choice of animated galleries created using Flash® technology, including a spinning carousel and a book with pages that turn.

Display your best photos in a dynamic gallery

Take advantage of Flash technology to share your photos in a dynamic web gallery.

Create fun Flipbooks

Easily turn a series of still photos into an eye-catching Flipbook. For example, take a sequence of action shots using the burst mode on your digital camera, and then let Photoshop Elements string them together to create a sense of motion.

Entertain friends with a custom slide show

Easily tell a story

In just a few clicks, create an entertaining slide show, complete with captions.

Dazzle your audience with special effects

Captivate family and friends with documentary-style pan and zoom effects, amazing transitions, and clip art decorations.

Set the mood with sound

Personalize your slide show by adding narration and multiple tracks of your favorite music — now with easier controls.

Conveniently share photos and photo creations and order prints online

Share with family and friends using built-in photo services

Take advantage of built-in photo services that let you upload photos and photo creations to the web, order prints, and more from within Photoshop Elements.

Share your animated photo creations on the web

Easily upload your creations and Flash based photo galleries to the web from directly within Photoshop Elements.

Map your memories

Relive memories by viewing and sharing your photos displayed on an interactive map in the exact locations where they were taken (works with United States addresses only). Even upload your map to the web for easy sharing.

Order photo postage stamps

Make your special mail unforgettable by turning your favorite photos into real, customized U.S. postage stamps! They’re perfect for baby announcements, wedding invitations, and more.

Order prints online with one click

Turn your digital pictures into professional-quality Kodak prints with one-click printing, or create a memorable hardbound photo book. Both are delivered directly to your door.

Show virtually everywhere

View photos on your TV

Take advantage of compatibility with Intel® Viiv™ technology to show photos and slide shows on your TV (requires a Media Center PC).

Share photos on mobile phones and handheld devices

Easily download and edit photos from your mobile phone, and then send them to friends.

Send personalized photo e-mails

Send photos within a themed e-mail with captions and backgrounds that help you better tell your story. Photoshop Elements automatically optimizes your photos so they download quickly, look great, and won’t overload your friends’ mailboxes.

Animate photos for the web

Liven up your website by turning photos into GIF animations that you can preview within Photoshop Elements.

Create your own calendars, cards, and albums

Create a year’s worth of memories

Admire your photos throughout the year or create the perfect year-end gift by printing a custom wall calendar.

Send a greeting card

Celebrate any event with a personalized printed greeting card that features your own photo and message. Use themed templates or create your own.

Assemble an album

Create great-looking albums, ready to print. Just choose from a variety of themes and add your own captions.

Enjoy flexible print options

Make the most of your photo paper

Quickly drop your photos into Picture Packages that let you print photos from your desktop printer in a variety of flexible layouts.

Instantly add captions

Add captions, dates, or other text to your print layouts with just a few clicks.

Print contact sheets and labels

Instantly print a contact sheet of your photos for future reference, or print sheets of labels using standard layouts.

Easily find and view your photos and video clips

Easily download and organize your photos

Download instantly

With a single click, transfer photos from your memory card to your computer according to preset preferences so you can get back to shooting sooner.

Instantly organize by date

Download photos from your camera and Photoshop Elements automatically puts them in the order you took them.

Organize by time

Organize photos more easily by automatically tagging groups of related photos according to the time they were taken.

Automatically divide scanned photos

Save time by scanning several photos at once. Photoshop Elements automatically divides, straightens, and saves each photo separately.

Forget about renaming

You’ll never have to rename another file or folder, and you can organize your library the way you want so your photos are always at your fingertips.

Categorize by tagging

Easily tag photos with keywords that represent favorite people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you’ve ever taken of Amy, for example, by simply clicking on her tag.

Find every face

Instantly find all of your photos that contain faces so you can tag photos of friends and family for easy sorting.

Group photos into collections

Place your family, work, or vacation photos into collections to keep them together for special projects.

See every version

Quickly find and view all the previously saved versions of a photo by simply clicking to expand its Version Set in the Organizer.

View photos the way you want

See all your photos and video clips in one place

View your photos and video clips in one convenient location — whether they’re stored on your hard drive or on CD — automatically organized by date.

View photos faster

Scroll through your collection and view your photos faster, even when your library grows to 50,000 photos or more.

Pick your best shot

Zero in on the best of many similar photos while viewing them side by side using Photo Compare.

View photos full screen

Flip through photos in full-screen mode so it’s easy to rate your favorites, rotate them, and mark them for printing.

Put your favorites on top

Cut down on clutter by having Photoshop Elements automatically stack similar photos on top of one another.

Know where your photos are

Already created folders on your hard drive? Easily access your photos and add, delete, or move folders using the Folder View.

Quickly find any photo

Find photos from a special day

Flip through photos taken on a special day using the convenient Date View. Browse by day, week, month, or year.

View photos by time period

View photos taken over a specific time period by clicking the intuitive Timeline.

Search by metadata

Quickly find and preview any photo, no matter where it’s stored, with expanded metadata search parameters, including f-stop, digital camera model, and exposure values.

Pinpoint your search

Complex searches are quick and easy with the power of keyword tags. Instantly find photos that show only Jack, but not Jack and Jill, for instance.

Search by usage

Find photos you’ve used in a slide show, sent as photo e-mail, put on a greeting card or calendar, or used any other way.

Search for similar photos

Automatically find photos that share common characteristics, such as color, shape, pattern, or composition.

Archive photos for safekeeping

Back up photos online

Back up your photo collection online, on CD, or both with the integrated online backup service provided by one of the nation’s leading document security specialists.

Back up and restore with ease

Easily back up your entire photo library with no additional software required. Save time and disc space with multiple-session CD burning, which burns only the most recently added photos each time you back up. Built-in reminders notify you so you won’t forget. And you can view the contents of your photo archive on any computer, whether or not it has Photoshop Elements software installed.

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