Customer Rating: 
Summary: Utterly non-intuitive interface
Comment: I changed to Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 from ACD See, and I really regret it. ACD See (and most other photo programs) had an intuitive interface that was not very complicated. On the other hand, even the most basic functions are complicated and non-intuitive in Adobe Photoshop Elements. For instance, right now I can't even figure out how to simply get it to display all of the photos I have in a given folder! It took me 15 minutes or more just to figure out how to resize a photo! These tasks took me no time at all to figure out in ACD See. This program seems powerful, but you need to invest many hours in learning how to use it before you stop getting incredibly frustrated all of the time because simple tasks are made so difficult. The automatic red-eye reduction is cool, but it is hard to figure out how to get it to work as well, so I have had to do it manually on most pictures, anyway.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Consumer Reports rates this HIGH
Comment: I've had this bundle for about 4 months now.
I'm slowly but surely getting more savvy with these two items.
You really need to sit down and practice/play with photos to learn. But ultimately, its a great bundle for those that want to do the basic things to their digital photos/video.
Consumer Reports (July 2007 edition, pg39) rated the Elements 5.0 very high compared to Roxio Suite 9, and Corel snapfire 1.00 plus.
Do your homework on this, don't dive into CS2 or CS3 too soon. They are expensive and normally have way too much stuff for the avg. photo person.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing; no guide book
Comment: The software itself seems fine, about what I expected. But the disks came without the full-size instruction book that you get when you buy the software off the shelf and from some other Websites. To make matters worse, the links from the software to the online help don't work, so that is not a good alternative to having the book. You can download a pdf version of the book and print it out, but that's lame. So all in all, I'm feeling rather ripped off. The product summary should have made clear that there was no book. If I'd known that I would have bought elsewhere, even if it had cost me a bit more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product if you are willing to learn it
Comment: I bought this product for a campus ministry I work for. We utilize my camcorder a lot and I wanted software that would take the video directly from my mini DVDs. The Premiere Elements does it fantastically. The only thing I haven't figured out is that when I render the video I create to run on Quick Time on my Mac it shows up really small and when I blow it up it is really blurry. It's probably just something I haven't figured out yet.
The Photoshop Elements is great to it just takes a while to learn and it doesn't come with any instruction book.
I read a review before I bought this that was more in reference to Premiere Elements that said it was a better product than Pinnacle but that it is more difficult to learn. I have used both Pinnacle and Premiere Elements and totally agree with that. Premiere Elements is better if you are willing to take the time to learn it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WARNING- Before You Buy This Product
Comment: I purchased this product relying on Adobes Good reputation but was VERY disappointed. First of all I couldn't even use the Premiere Elements 3.0 because my PC doesn't have an Intel Processor, (Read the very fine print) Second; The Photoshop Elements, although easy to use has the WORST output quality for a slide show I have ever seen (Adobe you should be ashamed to have your name on this product). Another annoying factor; Every time you want to share a photo via e-mail Adobe has to throw their advertisement in the body of the e-mail. It does a good job of organizing your photos and has some basic editing capability, but save your money, you can download just as good of a program for managing photos from Google, and it's FREE!
Summary: Utterly non-intuitive interface
Comment: I changed to Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 from ACD See, and I really regret it. ACD See (and most other photo programs) had an intuitive interface that was not very complicated. On the other hand, even the most basic functions are complicated and non-intuitive in Adobe Photoshop Elements. For instance, right now I can't even figure out how to simply get it to display all of the photos I have in a given folder! It took me 15 minutes or more just to figure out how to resize a photo! These tasks took me no time at all to figure out in ACD See. This program seems powerful, but you need to invest many hours in learning how to use it before you stop getting incredibly frustrated all of the time because simple tasks are made so difficult. The automatic red-eye reduction is cool, but it is hard to figure out how to get it to work as well, so I have had to do it manually on most pictures, anyway.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Consumer Reports rates this HIGH
Comment: I've had this bundle for about 4 months now.
I'm slowly but surely getting more savvy with these two items.
You really need to sit down and practice/play with photos to learn. But ultimately, its a great bundle for those that want to do the basic things to their digital photos/video.
Consumer Reports (July 2007 edition, pg39) rated the Elements 5.0 very high compared to Roxio Suite 9, and Corel snapfire 1.00 plus.
Do your homework on this, don't dive into CS2 or CS3 too soon. They are expensive and normally have way too much stuff for the avg. photo person.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing; no guide book
Comment: The software itself seems fine, about what I expected. But the disks came without the full-size instruction book that you get when you buy the software off the shelf and from some other Websites. To make matters worse, the links from the software to the online help don't work, so that is not a good alternative to having the book. You can download a pdf version of the book and print it out, but that's lame. So all in all, I'm feeling rather ripped off. The product summary should have made clear that there was no book. If I'd known that I would have bought elsewhere, even if it had cost me a bit more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product if you are willing to learn it
Comment: I bought this product for a campus ministry I work for. We utilize my camcorder a lot and I wanted software that would take the video directly from my mini DVDs. The Premiere Elements does it fantastically. The only thing I haven't figured out is that when I render the video I create to run on Quick Time on my Mac it shows up really small and when I blow it up it is really blurry. It's probably just something I haven't figured out yet.
The Photoshop Elements is great to it just takes a while to learn and it doesn't come with any instruction book.
I read a review before I bought this that was more in reference to Premiere Elements that said it was a better product than Pinnacle but that it is more difficult to learn. I have used both Pinnacle and Premiere Elements and totally agree with that. Premiere Elements is better if you are willing to take the time to learn it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WARNING- Before You Buy This Product
Comment: I purchased this product relying on Adobes Good reputation but was VERY disappointed. First of all I couldn't even use the Premiere Elements 3.0 because my PC doesn't have an Intel Processor, (Read the very fine print) Second; The Photoshop Elements, although easy to use has the WORST output quality for a slide show I have ever seen (Adobe you should be ashamed to have your name on this product). Another annoying factor; Every time you want to share a photo via e-mail Adobe has to throw their advertisement in the body of the e-mail. It does a good job of organizing your photos and has some basic editing capability, but save your money, you can download just as good of a program for managing photos from Google, and it's FREE!
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