So if you don't know much about image editing and you do want to create eye-popping special effects with both your photos and your movies, Elements 9 is the magic kit you want. You get what Windows magicians have been getting all along: the Organizer, Premiere, the whole ball of wax. So we're calling it Elements 9, period.Īnd if you're a Mac aficionado and therefore wary of that line, let us reassure you Elements 9 is a different ball game than Elements 8. You can buy Photoshop Elements alone or Premiere Elements by itself, but the bundle is almost the same price. The first thing to clear up is that this release is, like your digicam, about both photos and movies. We know because that's what all us press people were saying during the Adobe briefing last week for Photoshop/Premiere Elements 9. Just pony up for the affordable Elements magic kit and amaze your friends. If you can't afford the big-tent abracadabra of something like Photoshop CS5, don't despair. Elements makes that about as clear as it can be made,' we wrote in our review of Photoshop Elements 1.0. It isn't obvious what you can do or how to go about it. 'Nothing quite prepares you for image editing.

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