Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for Windows [Download] [OLD VERSION]

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Simply unlimited! The newest version of the 1 selling consumer photo-editing software, Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 delivers powerful yet easy-to-use editing options that help you tell your life stories in amazing ways. Make every photo look its best. Quickly share your memories on Facebook; in Online Albums; and in printed photo books, cards, calendars, and more that look just the way you want. And automatically organize and help protect all your photos and video clips.




Do It All With One Powerful Yet Easy-to-Use Product
Use Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 software for all your photo needs. Manage, edit, and enhance photos; make photo creations that look just the way you want; share in print, on the web, and on popular devices; help protect photos with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage; and view photos virtually anywhere you are.
Experience the Ultimate Media-Management Hub
Quickly organize all your media in one convenient place. Find your best photos and clips--or photos that feature specific people--fast, thanks to automated options. Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.
Go From Flawed to Phenomenal in Seconds
Get just the photo fixes you're looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth and make skies a vibrant blue. When you perform one-step photo adjustments--including color, contrast, and lighting--you can quickly choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews. And instantly unclutter a photo and beautifully blend in the background.
Dramatically Transform Your Photos With Easy-to-Use Options
Convert your color originals to elegant, nuanced black-and-whites, or use color curves adjustments to get the perfect exposure.
Count on Step-by-Step Assistance
Want to easily fix a scratch, create a reflection effect, or design a scrapbook page? Get help with key steps to get the results you want fast.
Easily Create the Perfect Photo
Take advantage of amazing Photomerge technology to easily match the style of one photo to another; create fuller panoramas, perfectly lit shots, and great group shots; and combine elements of different faces for entertaining results.
Get Creative Inspiration
Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. New how-tos help you explore creative possibilities.
Show off Your Creativity With Flexible Layouts
Make amazing printed photo creations like scrapbook pages, photo books, calendars, and cards. Choose your level of control: Create in minutes using professionally designed templates, or let your creativity run wild and access every photo-editing option from directly within your layout. Get fun, fresh looks with new artwork and templates.
Share Experiences in Fresh, Exciting Ways on the Web
Show off your photos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of animated templates, including all-new options for sharing photos and videos together with music. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your photos for an entertaining experience. And share via public or private galleries--friends and family won't have to register to look.
Top New Benefits
Instantly Unclutter or Repair Photos
Is your photo cluttered with telephone wires, tourists, or passing cars? Make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints.
Easily Match a Favorite Photo Style
Want to imitate a favorite photography style, like a dramatic high contrast or a beautiful color tone? Photomerge Style Match analyzes the stylistic qualities of any photo you choose and then automatically applies those qualities to another photo.
Create Fuller Panoramas
Easily create your best-looking panoramas yet. With its enhanced blending capabilities, Photomerge Panorama fills in jagged edges as it automatically stitches together multiple horizontal or vertical photos.
Create Stunning Photo Effects
Easily create stunning effects that enhance your photos with professional style. New Guided Edits help you create pop art masterpieces, reflection effects, perfect portraits, and more.
Create Richly Layered Photos
Bring new sophistication to your photos. Reveal one portion of a photo through another photo by using layer masks to control the transparency of specific areas.
Create the Way You Want
Make photo creations the way that works best for you thanks to Basic and Advanced design modes that let you choose your level of control.

Customer Reviews

Go ahead, smack me in the head. I was still using Photoshop Elements 6. But since I upgraded my PC I needed to upgrade to PE9. Why I didn't upgrade sooner I'll never know. The spot healing brush alone is worthy of the upgrade. Downloading was easy and fast with Amazon. And I will still able to send in the rebate.
Here's some highlights for you:
Image Intelligence
The updated Spot Healing Brush uses image intelligence borrowed from Photoshop CS5 to analyze what's in an image and quickly de-clutter or repair photos. For instance, quickly get rid of an ugly garbage can, car or other object with a wipe of a brush, and the background will amazingly be filled in like the object was never there. This is a very cool feature and a must-have.
New Photomerge Style Match
Make an average photo into a work of art with the new Photomerge Style Match feature. It analyzes characteristics of any image, such as color tone, and applies them to another photo, so in essence you can replicate any photo style.
There are also new Guided Edit features to walk users through the process of eye-popping effects. You can make your photo appear to jump off the page using Out of Bounds 3D. Also, Elements now offers Layer Masks similar to Photoshop.
Improved Organization
Finally, Photoshop Element's excellent Organizer is offered on the Mac platform as well as Windows. The Auto Analyzer automates searching and assigns tags based on characteristics and quality such as lighting and focus. Apply Smart tags to photos as you import them. Smart tags identify images by quality, focus, contrast, exposure, the number of faces etc. Use a Tag Cloud to quickly find images with the most popular tags.
The People Recognition feature assigns people tags. As you identify people within photos, the program learns to recognize them. The more you identify them the better the software gets at recognizing them, even with other hairstyles or with or without sunglasses.
Photoshop Elements is actually composed of two programs, an extremely powerful image editor and an organizer. Many tasks can be done in the Organizer mode, including most common edits; for more complex edits you can switch over to the editor. The organizer program is still one of the best available, and the aforementioned Auto Analyzer and People Recognition features make it even better. At the heart of the Organizer is the capability of putting your images into albums and tagging them. The more you adopt this system, the easier it will be to use the sharing service, which uploads images album by album rather than image by image. However, if you just want to upload a couple of images you can put them into their own album. The synchronization capability is quite handy. If you make a change to an album on your desktop, the change will automatically be made in your online version. You can set your sharing to be private or public and automatically send invitations from MS Outlook. The backup system works by backing up your albums, not every individual image on your hard drive.
Recompose Photo Tool
This is a nifty tool that lets you automatically resize or change the orientation of photos without distorting key parts. In other words, you can choose which elements of a photo you want to keep and which ones to get rid of. Say you have a horizontal picture of two people and you want to make it vertical. You can select the elements and bits of background you want to keep and which ones to eliminate without distorting the people or background.
AutoFix Tools
The AutoFix Tools -- Smart Fix, Contrast, Tone, Color, Red Eye and Detail -- in the Organizer that can take care of common fixes. Other one-step tools include Touch Up Brushes for teeth whitening and making the sky bluer, and simultaneously selecting an area and applying an effect with one brush stroke. If you need more complex editing, without leaving Organizer you can switch over to Elements' full edit interface, which is easier to use now with icons and moveable, resizable tool panels.
Improved Sharing
You can now share photos pretty much everywhere. Post directly to Facebook, create unique interactive online albums,
Synchronize your photo and video clips between multiple computers. Elements lets you share your images or creations via iPhone, email, web/TV. Adobe offers a free basic membership to their online service, Photoshop.com that gives you 2GB storage, interactive sharing and access to your photos from anywhere. The Photoshop Plus Membership includes ongoing delivery of tutorials, artwork and templates, interactive photo sharing, access to your photos and videos from any computer, and 20 GB of online storage and automatic backup for a yearly fee.
Creative Projects
Create scrapbook pages, photo books, calendars, DVD labels, photo cards and more. A helpful new feature is the hugely flexible workspace which allows users to automatically place photos in a photo book template and access any Photoshop Elements editing feature from within the photo book layout mode. Elements has professionally designed clip art, templates, and themes. You can get additional templates with the Plus membership that are automatically delivered to your desktop.

I like the program and had previous versions. I wanted the new version and the price for the download through Amazon looked good. Since Adobe was also offering a rebate that seemed to be an excellent value. I received the download and was satisfied. Through Amazon or Adobe I got the instructions for obtained the rebate. I have gone through this process before and know that every "T" has be be crossed and every "I" dotted, so the followed the directions to the letter. Then months later the card from Adobe comes: "Unfortunately, your submission was denied for the following reason(s):
"Electronic software download forms must be from adove.com and include both an email confirmation ID and an order "
Well I keep copies of what I sent for the rebate and the rebate forms seem to be from Adobe though I received them as a part of Amazon download information. They had the order number from the confirmation e-mail on them. What more can a person do. Just don't expect to get a refund from Adobe, they don't trust anyone and make the procedure as commplicated as possible so they can turn down your request.

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Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B004WMPIO0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 15, 2011