Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premier Elements 15 (DVD)

Features Include

• Photo and Video Editing Software Bundle
• Edit & Organize with Touchscreen Devices
• Frown & Squint Adjustments, Batch Edits
• Camera Shake Reduction, Haze Removal
• Supports Editing and Viewing 4K Movies
• Hollywood Effects and Face detection
• Enhanced Search and Smart Tags
• Guided Edits for Both Photo and Video
• Built-in Social Media Sharing
• For Mac OS X 10.10-11 & Windows 7, 8, 10

Bundling two programs for the multimedia image-maker, Photoshop Elements 15 and Premiere Elements 15 from Adobe combines their versatile photo editing and video editing applications for creatively refining both your photos and movies, as well as sharing and organizing your files. The 15th edition of these applications introduces support for working with touchscreen devices for more intuitive editing and organizational control, and also features enhanced search capabilities to more quickly locate the exact image or video you need.

In regard to Photoshop Elements 15, when editing portraits, you can now eliminate frowns and squints in photos in order to ensure everyone looks his or her best; Camera Shake Reduction compensates for blurriness in handheld shots; and an intelligent Haze Removal tool improves the overall clarity of photos. Beginners benefit from 45 Guided Edits that provide step-by-step lessons on how to perform a wide range of creative editing processes, including how to make visual text or creative collages, and Batch Editing helps to expedite the post-production process when making repetitive corrections to groups of photos.

For videographers and multimedia artists, Premiere Elements 15 features Video Collages, which can now be created that blend photos and movies into a dynamic video that is perfect for sharing online. For refining the feel of your content, a Haze Removal tool helps to improve visual clarity and a Remix Music function lets you match the length of a music track to your running time for a polished feel. Perfect for family movies, too, automatic Face Detection is available in Favorite Moments, Smart Time, and Pan & Zoom modes to highlight your subjects in the frame. Additionally, newcomers to the editing world are benefitted by 14 different Guided Edits that teach you editing skills while you produce a unique effect, such as how to apply selective color effects to movies or use fast- or slow-motion techniques.

Photoshop Elements 15

Touch Control

Support for touch-enabled devices allows you to intuitively tap to organize or sort photos, or to perform photo edits with precision.

eLive

Using the eLive function with Photoshop Elements, you can quickly and easily source the right tutorials for the job, even if you don't know exactly how to describe the issue.

Quick and Easy Corrections

No More Frowns and Squints - Easily transform frowns into smiles and adjust squints so everyone in the photo looks their bright-eyed, grinning best.

Batch Editing - Groups of photos can be edited en masse to expedite the process of making repetitive edits to imagery.

Camera Shake Reduction - Benefitting your handheld photos, this one-click tool helps to clean up unwanted camera shake for a sharper, clearer appearance.

Haze Removal - Ideally suited for landscape photos, this tool removes haze from scenes for cleaner looking vistas with similar definition, contrast, and clarity in the foreground and background.

Resize - Step-by-step guides are available for resizing your photographs depending on specific applications, such as certain frame sizes or various web applications.

Quick Edits - Rotate, resize, and apply quick fixes to images using this intuitive, straightforward editing mode.

Crop Options - This automated tool provides four different cropping suggestions for a variety of composition options.

Correct Pet Eye - Similar to removing red-eye in photos, this dedicated tool cleans up green, yellow, or other discolorations in your pets' eyes.

Unclutter and Repair - Helping to clean up and improve the quality of imagery, this tool helps to maintain a consistently clean style throughout groups of photos.

Adjustments Preview - Prior to committing an edit to your photo, you can preview a range of different adjustments types in order to select the best one.

One-Click Color Correction - This one-step function automatically cleans up and enhances colors, such as for whitening teeth or making skies bluer.

Portrait Corrections - One-click corrections for enhancing portraits let you quickly remove red-eye or instantly smooth out skin tones.

Artistic Effects

A simplified Filter Gallery gives you room to try out new and creative looks on images using a variety of preset effects and filter options.

Custom Looks - For instant versatility, the software will analyze the subject, color, and lighting in your image and generate five distinct, finished effects to choose from.

Effects Variations - After choosing an effect, Elements will produce five different variations of the effect for easier refinement.

Creative Effects - A variety of creative effects can be used to enhance the look of imagery, including zoom burst, photo puzzle, tilt-shift, vignette, high-key, and low-key effects. Additionally, one-click photo restoration is possible.

Creative Finishing - Complement your images with creative frames, effects, and textures.

Photo Illustrations - Photos can be converted to look like illustrations using Comic, Graphic Novel, and Pen & Ink filters.

Import Effects - Effects, styles, and actions can be used and sourced from third party photo sites, blogs, and other resources.

Paint on Effects - More than 100 effects can be applied to images using the paint brush tool.

Image Transformations

Guided Edits - 45 different Guided Edits are provided to help you simultaneously produce and learn how to achieve distinct looks through editing, including how to turn a photo into visual text, with an embossed look and drop shadows; how to collage multiple images into a creative composition; how to add a sense of motion to a photo; how to add a painterly quality to an image, with different textures and color themes; or how to create your own custom frames to complement various photo styles.

Hair and Fur Selections - A refined selection tool lets you broadly paint over an area with hair or fur in order to automatically achieve detailed, natural selections.

Photomerge Compose - Enabling you to create photo remixes and mashups, this tool lets you quickly and easily select objects from one image, insert them into another, and then adjust the color and lighting to create a realistic appearance.

Refine Selections - Using the nudge function, you can refine the boundaries of your selection to include or exclude just the right portion of the scene.

Content-Aware Move - When making a selection and removing a subject, content-aware technology can automatically and intelligently fill-in the background.

Auto Smart Tone - This tool helps to optimize color and tone adjustments based on learned personal preferences.

Raw Editing - A broad range of raw file types are supported and can be processed and edited in Elements 15.

Recompose - Photos can be recomposed to any dimension without distorting key subjects.

Lighting - Simulated lighting controls help you to enhance the look of artificially lit photos.

Panoramas - Wide-field imagery can be created in order to produce creative panoramic photos or simply to contain a large group photo.

Unique Image Compositions

Facebook Cover Photos - Helping to achieve a unique effect with your Facebook profile, this tool blends both your profile and cover photos to give the appearance of a single image.

Slideshows - Creative photo slideshows can be produced and contain multiple images per slide.

Text - Curved or flowing text can be added to photos for a creative look.

Finishing - Photos can be turned into calendars, photo books, and more, and support is available for printing with your home printer.

Sharing

Social Media and Email - Finished photos and videos can be easily shared via email or uploaded to social media sites, including Twitter, Vimeo, and Facebook, from within the application.

Saving - Photos can be saved in either JPEG or PDF formats.

Find Your Photos

You can easily find the photo you're looking for by searching for the people in it, by using a map and searching for where you took the photo, based on what you were doing in the photos, based on specific objects within the photo, or using a combination of search terms. Enhanced search capabilities help to expedite the process in finding the exact image, and Smart Tags can also be suggested for your photos based on recognized subjects, such as sunsets, birthdays, cats, dogs, and more.

View and Organize

Helping with the organization of your imagery, you can quickly tag faces in your photos using your Facebook Friends list; organize photos and video clips with visual tags; and edit and preview photos in full-screen directly from the Organizer.

Premiere Elements 15

Intuitive Interface and Interaction

Support for touch-enabled devices allows you to intuitively tap to organize or sort clips, or to perform video edits with precision.

Using the eLive function with Premiere Elements, you can quickly and easily source the right tutorials for the job, even if you don't know exactly how to describe the issue.

Quick and Easy Moviemaking

Video Collages - Produce dynamic video and photo collages that can highlight numerous memories at once, which are perfect for sharing on Facebook, YouTube, or other social media sites.

Haze Removal - Quickly clear up hazy skies in landscape scenes for a sharper, crisper appearance.

Remix Music - Using any music file, you can easily remix the audio to match the length of your movie while retaining the quality of the tune.

Face Detection - Favorite Moments, Smart Trim, and Pan & Zoom modes now feature automatic Face Detection, bringing the subjects front and center in your clips.

Video Story - Helping to automate the production of your wedding, birthday, or other big event movie, this mode lets you pick the story type and select clips for each chapter, and then automatically finishes the production by trimming, adding transitions, and including music based on the selected mood.

Favorite Moments - This function lets you quickly select your favorite moments from a video clip and have them automatically compiled into a finished movie.

InstantMovie - For quickly creating a finished product, this mode allows you to choose a theme and specific clips, and then creates a movie with coordinated music, titles, and effects.

Quick Mode - This mode lets you simply use drag-and-drop style editing for greater efficiency and simplicity.

Pan & Zoom - Turn your photos into dynamic movies by adding customizable pan and zoom movements.

Auto Corrections - Camera shake, color casts, and poor lighting can all be mended through the use of auto corrections to clean up your footage.

Set to Music - Both slideshows and movies can be edited to the beat of a song for continuity between the visuals and audio.

Guided Edits

Guided Edits - 14 different Guided Edits are provided to help you simultaneously produce and learn how to achieve specific editing techniques using step-by-step tutorials.

Selective Color - For creatively highlighting portions of color, this guided edit adds pop to certain colors in the scene while turning everything else black and white.

Fast and Slow Motion - Step-by-step tutorials are available to help achieve fast and slow motion effects with your footage.

Hollywood Effects

Text Motion - Add dynamic text to your videos by incorporating motion inside the titles of your movie; add graphics, text, or effects that move with your subject; apply bounce, spin, or zoom effects to your text; or add animated titles, motion menus, and polished credits.

Dramatic Effects - A variety of effects can be added to your movies to lend a dramatic quality or direct the viewer's eye to a specific part of the frame.

Hollywood Looks - Designed to emulate the look of your favorite films, a range of effects match specific looks or themes used in Hollywood, such as Comic or Yesteryear.

Motion Effects - Footage can be sped up or slowed down for either a comical appearance or dramatic feeling.

Cartoon - A dedicated cartoon look can be added for a fun touch.

Graphics and Animations - To complement your video content, a clip art library is included that contains graphics, frames, and animations for adding to your movie.

Transitions - Various transitions and themes are available for a more polished final appearance.

Advanced Editing Options

4K Editing - In addition to HD and lower resolutions, Elements 15 supports editing and viewing high-resolution 4K footage.

High-Resolution Display - Benefitting working with 4K video, high-resolution monitors are also supported for clear, accurate viewing.

Music and Sound - Accentuate your footage with more than 50 musical scores and 250 sound effects available.

Video Tone - Ensure consistent and accurate colors using this feature that optimizes tones based on learned preferences.

64-Bit Support - Speed and stability is maintained during editing thanks to support for 64-bit operating systems from Mac and Windows.

Audio Balance - Automatic audio balancing is available as well as the ability to correct any problems with videos' sound.

Color Sliders - Intuitive sliders can be used to adjust the color of footage.

Color Consistency - Using the colors and textures from one clip, you can apply these adjustments to another clip for consistency.

Tone and Vibrance - Both tone and vibrance settings can be adjusted without affecting natural skin tones.

Brightness Adjustment - Highlights, shadows, and mid-tones can all be independently adjusted for greater control.

Share and Export

Multiple Format Export - Finished movies can be exported in a variety of formats, including up to 4K resolution, 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratios, or in smaller formats intended for smartphone or tablet playback.

Social Media Sharing - Videos can be exported directly to social media sites, including Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo.

Disc Burning - Projects can be burned to DVDs or Blu-ray discs for easy playback.

AVCHD Export - Movies can also be exported in the high-quality AVCHD format for sharing.

Find and Organize Media

Location Tagging - You can search for videos depending on the location they were made.

Import - Footage can easily be imported from a range of cameras, including compact camcorders and DSLRs.

Organize - Visual tags, such as for places, events, or people, can be used to aid in organizing and locating various clips.

Optimized searching lets you quickly find videos by using a combination of search criteria.

DVD

Mac System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.10 or 10.11

Intel multi-core processor (64-bit)

4 GB RAM

10 GB of available disk space (additional 12 GB to download content)

1024 x 768 display resolution (at 100% scale factor)

DVD-ROM drive

DVD burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for burning Blu-ray discs

Internet connection required for product activation and content download

Window System Requirements

Windows 7 SP1, 8, or 10 (64-bit)

2 GHz or faster processor with SSE2 support (dual-core processor required for HDV or AVCHD editing and Blu-ray or AVCHD export; Core i7 required for XAVC S)

4 GB RAM

12 GB of available disk space (additional 5 GB to download content)

1024 x 768 display resolution (at 100% scale factor)

Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible display driver

DVD-ROM drive

DVD burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for burning Blu-ray discs

Windows Media Player required if importing/exporting to Windows Media formats

Internet connection required for product activation and content download

Supported Video Formats

AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV-AVI (import/export on Windows, import only on Mac OS), DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo, H.264, HDV, MPEG-1 (import only), MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3, QuickTime, Windows Media (Windows only)