Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences, and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips.

Organize

• Import with ease - With a single click, move photos from your memory card to your computer according to your preset preferences, so you can get right back to taking photos. Or scan several photos at once, and Adobe Photoshop Elements software automatically divides, straightens, and saves each photo separately.
• See everything in one place - View your photos and video clips in one convenient location — whether they're stored on your hard drive or on CD. Photos are instantly organized by date, and related photos can be automatically grouped based on the time or the event where they were taken.
• Organize visually - Tired of hunting through folders and clicking unrecognizable filenames to find the shots you need? Now, categorize and find your photos the easy way with visual tags that represent people, places, or events. Instantly see every photo you've ever taken of your dog, for example, by simply clicking its visual tag.
• Quickly find your best photos - No need to click through dozens or hundreds of shots to find the good ones. Take advantage of the Auto-Analyzer, which automatically tags your media so you can easily find your most interesting, highest quality photos and video footage.
• Find specific people in a flash - Quickly find photos that feature specific friends or family members thanks to People Recognition, which automatically identifies the people in your photos.
• Find the photos that meet your needs - Need certain types of photos and video clips? Just set your criteria and they're brought together automatically in a Smart Album.
• Search by any keyword - Zero in on just the media you're looking for by typing tag names, dates, and other file information into a convenient search box.
• Create quickly - Speed up the process of making creations by having all your open photos, photo book pages, and saved albums right at your fingertips in a dedicated Project Bin.
• 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.
• Find 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 - Make quick work of complex searches with the power of visual tags. Instantly find photos that show only Jack, but not Jack and Jill, for instance.
• Easily find similar photos - Let Photoshop Elements automatically find photos that share common characteristics, such as color, shape, pattern, or composition.View your photos virtually anywhere - Didn't bring your laptop to the party? You can still show off your favorite photos — from any web-enabled computer. Use the online Organizer, which looks and works just like your desktop Organizer, to find the photos you want and let the show begin. You can also view photos from your mobile devices using Photoshop.com Mobile.
• Get the big picture enhanced - Get the full effect of your photos and video clips from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews that now let you make quick edits to photos while viewing them.
• See the evolution of your edits - Quickly find and view all of your previously saved versions of a photo. Photoshop Elements stacks all versions with the most recent one on top, so you can click once to see your original photo and all the changes you've made along the way.
• Pick your best shot - Zero in on the best of many similar photos while viewing them side by side using Photo Compare.
• 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 - Access every photo stored on your computer from directly within the Organizer, where you can use convenient Folder View to add, delete, or move hard-drive folders.
• See the same photos on every computer - Forget trying to manually maintain your photos and video clips across multiple computers. With automatic syncing, media added or edited on one computer will automatically be synced to another.
• Easily manage photos on the go - Upload, share, and access the photos you take on your Windows Mobile smartphone with ease. Your mobile uploads are added to your desktop Organizer automatically, and your photos are protected with online backup.
• Back up your memories automatically — no scheduling required Don't worry about losing your photos if you lose your computer. Keep your memories safe with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage — enough for about 1,500 photos.3 Easily add more storage as you need it.

Edit

• Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds - Get just the photo fixes you're looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth or make skies a vibrant blue.
• Choose the best result - Perform a full range of common photo adjustments — including color, contrast, and lighting — with just one click. Then choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews.
• Get realistic skin tones - Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.
• Say goodbye to red eye - Let Photoshop Elements eliminate red eye automatically as you download photos from your camera. Or you can remove red eye from individual shots without touching the photo.
• Correct lens distortion - Easily correct camera lens distortion at photo edges and keystone effects that exaggerate perspective.
• See changes in before and after views - Check out side-by-side before and after views in Quick Fix mode to make sure you like the changes.
• Recompose photos to any size — without distortion - Ever want to change the size or orientation of a photo to fit a certain frame? Now you can quickly resize — even go from landscape to portrait or vice versa — without distorting key subjects like people or buildings.
• Quickly retouch skin and soften other surfaces - Soften surfaces while keeping edges and details crisp with a Surface Blur filter that works great on portrait shots.
• Count on step-by-step assistance - Need to touch up a scratch or blemish but not sure how to begin? Let Photoshop Elements walk you through each editing step to easily get the results you want. Guided Edit options help you achieve both basic and artistic effects.
• Fine-tune exposure - Easily adjust color, brightness, and contrast in a photo, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.
• Quickly select an area for adjustment - Make image selections in just seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the adjustment blend perfectly with the background.
• Easily remove unwanted details and flaws - Cover up unwanted elements by using the Clone tool to copy one portion of an image and apply it over another portion. And easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control.
• Get the best overall color possible - Control color temperature and tint with easy-to-use slider controls.
• Rescue poorly lit photos - Easily lighten shadows and reduce the glare of highlights in photos taken in poor lighting conditions.
• Adjust specific areas - Adjust the exposure of specific areas in your photos using professional darkroom tools like dodge, burn, and sponge.
• Get better quality with 16-bit support - Get truer, more vibrant results with support for 16-bit color.
• Enjoy enhanced support for working with raw files - Get the highest quality results by performing nondestructive editing on the raw image files from a wider selection of digital cameras. Enjoy fine control over lighting and color adjustments, and save time by applying the same set of adjustments across multiple raw images simultaneously. You can even see batch-applied changes as they're made.
• See the full color range - Adjust the color range of any photo and see real-time changes in the Histogram palette.
• Select and apply with a single stroke - Simultaneously select a specific photo area and apply incredible effects with a single stroke of the Smart Brush tool. Improve lighting, add rich textures, and more with eight libraries of over 50 sophisticated effects.
• Create dramatic black-and-whites with ease - Dramatically transform your color originals by converting them to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites. Large preview images make it quick and easy to get desired results.
• Give photos extra dimension - Add depth with drop shadows, bevels, glows, and other effects, which can be automatically applied to any element placed on a layer.
• Go for classic 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 filters that help you create real-world photographic effects, simulate painting, liquify your subjects, and much more. Easily mix multiple effects, change their order, and preview them in the Filter Gallery.
• 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 clean your scene of unwanted elements - You took five shots of your subject, but pedestrians and cars distract from the scene in every one. Now, use Photomerge Scene Cleaner to simply brush away any elements that changed positions between photos and create a composite with just the look you want.
• Create the perfect group shot - Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. With Photomerge Group Shot, easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single perfect composite.
• Have fun with blended faces - Take advantage of smooth image-blending technology to combine the eyes, noses, and other features from different faces for entertaining results. Try on the facial features of a favorite celebrity, combine yourself with your current squeeze to see what your offspring might look like, and more.
• Create seamless panoramas - Easily create horizontal or vertical panoramas using Photomerge technology. Advanced blending capabilities let you automatically stitch together multiple photos for unprecedented results.
• Easily combine elements from different photos - Take elements from different photos and combine them into new scenes. Quickly separate an object from its background or magically erase a background, and then combine elements to add relatives to a family portrait, put a friend onstage with her favorite singer, and more.
• Try anything - Experiment without worry, knowing you can instantly undo or redo multiple steps in one click.
• 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 Font menu, which displays characters for each typeface.
• Instantly add shapes - Decorate your photos with geometric shapes, symbols, stamps, and thought bubbles from the built-in library.
• 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.
• Get help at the right time - Get lots of help bringing your ideas to life — or just trying new editing tricks — with relevant tutorials that give you even more ways to explore creative possibilities.
• Use industry-leading technology - Create top-quality images with software based on industry-leading Adobe Photoshop technology. 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.

Create

• Start creating quickly — no experience necessary - Get step-by-step assistance for making photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/DVD labels. Simply choose the type of creation you'd like to make, and the appropriate tools and instructions appear at your fingertips.
• Create photo books with ease and flexibility - Quickly create professional-looking photo books with flexible options that allow you to view spreads, flip through your book, and rearrange pages. When your book is finished, just click the Order button to have it professionally printed, hardbound, and delivered to your door. (Services vary worldwide.)
• 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. New options are included.
• Create with drag-and-drop simplicity - Drop photos into flexible layouts, drag to resize images, and move photos anywhere on the page with ease.
• Create exactly the look you envision - Customize all the elements of your chosen layout: Adjust layout colors to better complement your photos, add new graphical elements to enhance or personalize the theme, and add text or effects such as drop shadows and glows.
• Frame your photo - Set off your photos with your choice of frames, from traditional to elegant to avant-garde.
• Finish off your page with the perfect embellishment - Quickly browse hundreds of frames, themes, backgrounds, clip art, and effects in the Artwork palette, which includes all-new options. (Get ongoing artwork with Plus.)
• Easily use high-quality raw images in your photo creations - Take advantage of a smoother workflow when using raw images in your photo creations. Photoshop Elements automatically optimizes your raw files for use in photo book layouts, scrapbook pages, and more.
• Create and save multipage documents - Find, open, and edit your albums and scrapbooks with ease. The contents of each book are saved together in one complete document.
• Create a year's worth of memories - Admire your photos throughout the year or create the perfect year-end gift with a custom wall calendar that you can order online.
• Send a greeting card - Celebrate any event with a personalized 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.
• 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 - Instantly print a contact sheet of your photos for future reference.

Share

• Share experiences in fresh, exciting ways on the web - Share your memories in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of new animated templates that let you showcase photos and videos together. And share via public or private galleries — friends and family won't have to register to look.
• Let viewers grab their favorite shots - Allow viewers to download any shots they like from your shared albums. They can even have your photos professionally printed and delivered to their door.
• Share photos on the go - No laptop, no problem. Easily share your photos from your mobile phones and devices using Photoshop.com Mobile.
• Map your memories - Create a personal web travelogue for friends and family, or just relive memories of your journey by viewing and sharing your photos on an interactive map based on the locations where they were taken. (Available in English-language versions and works with U.S. addresses only.)
• Animate photos for the web - Liven up your website by turning photos into GIF animations that you can preview within Photoshop Elements.
• Share photos in your personal web album - Easily upload your photos to a personal online album that can be updated with new photos at any time. Family and friends can view your photos and instantly order prints.
• Send photos directly to CEIVA Digital Photo Frames - Easily update your family's and friends' CEIVA Digital Photo Frames with your latest shots, directly from within Photoshop Elements. (Services vary worldwide.)
• Share with family and friends using integrated online offerings - Easily order prints, personalized cards, and photo books; share photos and photo creations on the web; share on CEIVA Digital Photo Frames; and more from within Photoshop Elements. With all your photos at your fingertips, you can quickly select the ones you want and upload them to a variety of online offerings. (Services vary worldwide.)
• Create fun mini-movies - Easily turn a series of still photos into an eye-catching mini-movie. 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.
• Tell a better story with a custom slide show - Create an entertaining slide show complete with captions, documentary-style pan and zoom effects, amazing transitions, voice narration, and music.
• View photos on your TV - Take advantage of compatibility with Windows Media Center to show photos and slide shows on your TV.
• Send personalized photo e-mail - Send photos within a themed e-mail with captions and backgrounds that help you better tell your story. Photoshop Elements offers fun e-mail templates and automatically optimizes your photos so they download quickly, look great, and won't overload your friends' mailboxes.
• Order high-quality prints right from Photoshop Elements - Turn your digital pictures into professional-quality prints, or create a memorable hardbound photo book. Both are delivered directly to your door.
• Create personalized 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.