About Photoshop Elements
Photoshop Elements is a complete solution for managing, organizing, finding, editing, sharing, and preserving your photos.
Up through version 2 (and even now on the Mac), Photoshop Elements was just an editor. Starting with version 3, the Organizer was added. The Organizer portion of Elements, which provides a powerful, easy to use environment for enjoying your photos, has its roots in Photoshop Album 2.
The many things you can do with Photoshop Elements 3 and Photoshop Elements 4 include:
- Easily import photos from your digital camera or scanner.
- Catalog all your photos and video clips, whether they are stored on your hard disk or on CDs.
- Organize your photos using a variety of tools, including automatic organization by capture date; using tags, which are a visual form of keywords; and with stacks, which allow you to collapse multiple similar photos into a single thumbnail representation.
- Find photos in many ways, including searching for photos with one or more tags, with a certain filename, by caption, or even by visual similarity.
- View photos full-screen, as a slideshow, or in a side-by-side mode for comparing photos.
- Easily perform sophisticated enhancements to your photos to fix common problems, such as bad exposures or color casts.
- Edit your photos in nearly any way, limited only by your creativity (and your willingness to invest in learning how to use the advanced editing tools).
- Share your photos as HTML email messages, as slideshows, or online.
- Create albums, slideshows, greeting cards, and calendars.
- Make slideshows for playback on DVD players: as Video CDs, or, when used with Premiere Elements, as DVDs.
- Print your photos in a variety of formats, with multiple photos per page in layouts to fit standard photo frames, labels, or simply to fill the paper in your printer.
- Burn CDs or DVDs to preserve your photos.