Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 7
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 7
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements Bundle v7.0 MINI BOX
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars The photoshop
I received this item but did not need the premiere elements part of it. Came wrapped well and in good conditon
5 Stars Using Premiere Elements 7 (pre)
Each program, Pre and Pse are far beyond the prepackaged programs that came with our Sony camera and Canon HD Camcorder (HF-100). The interface with each program is pretty intuitive and I was glad to see many options for photo and video editing. Pre won’t get me into Sundance but it is a great place to start. However, review the system requirements as Pre will make a hefty demand of your CPU (3.0 GHz or greater for HD) and available RAM. It’s no wonder though these HD files are huge.
2 Stars 7.0 Upgrade flawed
Let me say at the outset that I use Adobe Photoshop Elements as my main photo editor. It is the best low cost tool available for cleaning up photos, stitching together multiple scans of a large original, repairing damaged shots and so on. I am doing family history, with over 9,000 shots and scans so far. Some of the scans are of negatives from the 1800’s and need a lot of work, which is easy and fast in Photoshop. So don’t take this mostly negative review as a reason not to buy Photoshop at all - I know of no other product that does the job as well.
That said, my recent experience in upgrading to version 7.0 is all the more appalling. The tool I rely on is drifting more and more towards uselessness and commercialism. If I could afford Creative Studio 4 it would not be a concern. As an advanced amateur user it is hard to even justify the yearly pound of flesh for updates, let alone the $1000s for a pro tool. But the update would have been OK if it were truly an update, not an attempt to gouge even more $ out of me for online services.
Specifics -
Organizer. The Organizer is a bloated, slow, klunky way to organize your photos. It is well that Google makes a much better free one. However, I did try to use it in 6.0 and tagged 100s of photos. 7.0 cannot read the catalogs I made in 6.0 so all that work is lost. That is not the worst “feature” of the new Organizer however - it constantly blares ads at you to sign up for the useless online features. You can turn off the popup messages (Why should I PAY for software that gives me popups?????) but there is still a signup offer in the main page. The startup splash screen is also stuffed with ads.
Photoshop. No real new features. The new “features” are just old add-ins and shortcuts for things you could already do. Frankly I don’t need a lot of new features, I am still learning how to use the very extensive existing set. But for the high upgrade price you expect SOMETHING.
Premiere. The only reason I upgraded at all was because I could not produce a quality DVD in 6.0. There are no quality settings. You are supposed to be able to use a Quality slider but in fact it does not exist. The DVDs I burned with 6.0 had low bit rate problems in the extreme. I downloaded 7.0 trial and what do you know- there WAS a quality slider and it worked! So I know the problem is not my system. There was a bug. Was it fixed by a free update, as even Microsoft will do? No, I had to “Upgrade” for $90. I could have accepted that, especially if it had useful new features, but no. All I have is a broken Organizer and splashes full of ads and popups. And a demand for more $ for online services that I get free from Google.
My suggestion - if you have 4.0, 5.0 or 6.0 skip the upgrade. Next year they’ll do it again. Maybe this time they will listen to users and make it a real upgrade, or issue a bug fix instead.
3 Stars Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
I was rather disappointed in that there seems to be very little change from Version 5 and 7, other than the amount of advertising on the home page. All the tools were there with no change. For the first time user there would be little in the way of instruction. One would have to purchase a “How to Text” in order to use. I have versions 3 and 5 and feel as though I misspent nearly $100 to purchase something that I already have. This is not what I expected from Adobe!
5 Stars excellent product!
I used to use the full version of Photoshop at work, but couldn’t afford the full version for home, so I bought this one. This is an excellent product for those just getting started with photo & graphics editing and also great for those that just want the basic to mid-level features of the full version of Photoshop! Highly recommended product!
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