Rami April 22, 2012, 23:06:57

[OLD VERSION] (Software) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program () I’m not an audio-visual panefssioorl, so my review is aimed at the lay person like myself who has accumulated hundreds (thousands?) of digital photos and videos from the ubiquitous digital cameras that we all carry. For old-timers like me digital cameras are little miracles. For decades we took photographs with cameras onto film stock, and it was difficult and expensive to make any edits on the handful of photos we could afford. Now we can take hundreds of pics or videos on a single charge with cameras that fit in our pocket and have prices similar to the old cumbersome cameras. Now photos are so easy and inexpensive the modern question for a lay person is what do I DO with all these pictures? We wind up with literally a thousand pictures for each of our vacations, and the smallest event is captured in dozens of photos. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements provide the answer to that question. Photoshop is the industry standard for digital photo editing and Elements allows the same for videos. I was able to compare this product to similar ones from Serif and Roxio, and if I were only going to get one this wins easily. How to tutorials are provided with the software and many times more are easily-searched online, allowing you to do anything from restoring fading family photographic treasures to jazzing up pictures you just took. Once you’ve cropped and edited and removed the red-eye and turned your snapshots into mini-Monet’s, the software lets you exhibit your work in pretty much every format imaginable. My favorite is becoming the slideshow. The program allows me to import basically every visual medium possible, stitch them together, add music (or narration or other audio components), review my work, then export the finished product into easily shared formats. Although this software allows me the most complex manipulation of pictures and videos, I found it no more difficult to use than the other software. Although slightly more expensive than any other single program I’m acquainted with, I find the package a bargain as it allows editing of both still photos and videos. You can buy either program alone, and they are competitively priced, but if you have both photos and videos the best bargain is this package. Cheers!