New Photoshop Elements 9 & Premiere Elements 9 Both Available for the First Time on Both Mac and Windows Platforms

Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9, the newest release of the No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software, is now available on the Mac and Windows platforms. For the first time ever, Premiere Elements is being introduced for the Mac and the popular Organizer is available to all users.

You may have been one of the over 3 million people “wow-ed” by Photoshop CS5’s sneak peek of the Content-Aware Fill feature on YouTube. Some say it was simply…magic.

The beauty of the Photoshop and Premiere Pro product family, is that all that great technology isn’t just reserved for the pros. Photoshop Elements 9 users can try out the new Spot Healing Brush – where content intelligence analyzes what’s in the image and quickly de-clutters or repairs photos (like removing tourists from a crowded scene) with just a swipe of a brush, magically filling in the background. Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9, available for the first time on both the Windows and Mac platforms, provide one-click features and guided edits to help you tell your story with photos and videos in a lot less time.

Content intelligence is the smart technology that analyzes the content within an image and synthesizes missing pixel information to create a stunning photo devoid of any distractions or a panorama from multiple photos, without leaving any gaps or blank spaces. It’s as if the software looked through the same lens you did and knows exactly how to reproduce what you saw.

Premiere Elements’ also boasts intelligent features that automatically fix audio problems, trim away bad footage, stabilize shaky shots and correct bad color and lighting problems. Also, the improved Organizer makes sharing photos and videos to Facebook, YouTube and Photoshop.com easier than ever.

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Adobe releases Photoshop Elements 9

Adobe on Monday announced the latest version of Photoshop Elements 9, the company's consumer-level photo editing application, for both Mac and Windows. There are a number of features in this version that are new to Mac users, most notably the bundled Elements Organizer, which acts as a hub for importing, managing, and viewing photo and video files.

In an exciting addition for all platforms, Photoshop Elements 9 takes the power of one of Photoshop CS5's most popular features, Content Aware Fill, and puts it into the Spot Healing Brush. This powerful new tool can be used to remove specific objects from an image by analyzing the surrounding information. Also new to this version are Layer Masks, which can be used to block out specific parts of images with varying transparency levels.

Users new to photo editing can use the program's guided edits to learn how to make basic or fun edits to their images, including imitating the toy camera look, with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Photographers can then share their creations by posting them directly to sites like Facebook and Flickr from the organizer, or by using any of the templates included in Elements 9 to create scrapbooks, photobooks, online albums, or slideshows.

The Elements Organizer lets users sort images in a number of ways, including with automatic face recognition and keyword tags. A new auto-analyzing tag feature analyzes the content of images, such as lighting and contrast, to smartly suggest appropriate keyword tags.

Photoshop Elements 9 runs on Intel Macs running 10.5.8 or later. The program will cost $100 and come packaged with the Elements Organizer. For an additional $50 users can upgrade to Photoshop Elements 9 Plus, which adds 20GB of online storage and access to various libraries of templates, guides, and artwork.

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PRESS RELEASE: Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 9

New Windows and Mac Release Harnesses Intelligence and Technology to Create Amazing Photos

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sept. 21 -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 software for Windows and Mac, offering a complete photo solution to anyone who wants to organize, edit, create and share extraordinary photos. With the newest version of the No. 1 selling consumer photo-editing software,* Adobe delivers powerful new technology to equip every consumer with the ability to achieve professional results easily and quickly.

"The Photoshop brand has been creating groundbreaking imaging magic for 20 years and Photoshop Elements has been making that magic accessible to mere mortals for nearly a decade," said Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging at Adobe. "The Content Aware Fill technology introduced with Photoshop CS5 is one of our most exciting innovations ever, so we're thrilled to be able to make it accessible to photo and video enthusiasts in this latest Elements release."

Image Intelligence for Easy Editing

Photoshop Elements 9 uses powerful technology to make even the most complex results achievable for anyone. Adapted from Photoshop CS5's celebrated Content Aware Fill feature, the content intelligence in the Spot Healing Brush analyzes what's in the image and quickly de-clutters or repairs photos (like removing tourists from a crowded scene or an obstruction, such as a telephone pole) with a swipe of a brush, magically filling in the background. The same content intelligence synthesizes missing pixel information to create a stunning panorama from multiple photos, without leaving any gaps or blank spaces.

In addition, the new Photomerge Style Match turns drab photos dramatic by analyzing characteristics of any photo, such as contrast or color tone and automatically applies those qualities to another photo, allowing users to easily replicate any photo style. Several new Guided Edit options walk users step-by-step through the process of achieving cool editing effects such as Out of Bounds, making an element of a photo appear to leap off the page in 3D, creating pop art masterpieces or retouching made easy via the perfect portraits feature. In addition, users now have access to Layer Masks for compositing richly layered photos.

Organization Made Easy

For the first time, the popular Photoshop Elements Organizer is available on both the Windows and Mac platform, to help users quickly organize, find and display photo and video clips from one convenient location. The Auto-Analyzer takes the work out of finding the best shots by automatically searching a user's collection of photos and assigning a tag based on quality, such as lighting, focus or contrast. People Recognition also automatically creates People tags, so you can find your favorite people fast and it becomes more intelligent over time as it learns to associate specific faces with names.

Sharing Photos Virtually Anywhere

After users make their photos look better than ever, they have various sharing options, including posting photos directly to Facebook or creating one-of-a-kind interactive Online Albums with animated templates. In addition, users can share their memories with personalized photo creations like scrapbook pages, photo books, calendars and cards that can easily be printed from home or via online print service providers. The flexible photo creation workspace allows users complete control over how they design their photo books, by automatically placing photos within a template or providing access to any Photoshop Elements editing feature from directly within the layout mode.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Plus

For added convenience, now Photoshop Elements 9 Windows and Mac users have the option to purchase Plus, which offers 20-GB of storage for automatic online backup and sharing (up to 15,000 photos or four hours of DVD-quality video), as well as ongoing deliveries of new tutorials, artwork and interactive online templates sent directly to the desktop software. A benefit to all Photoshop Elements users is virtually anywhere access to photos and videos online or via select mobile devices at Photoshop.com.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for Windows and Mac is available now at http://www.adobe.com and also will be available soon at retail outlets such as Amazon.com, Apple (Mac only), Best Buy, Costco, Fry's, New Egg, Office Depot, Office Max and Walmart. Photoshop Elements 9 Windows and Mac is available for a suggested retail price of U.S.$99.99 and users can purchase Plus from within the product for U.S.$49.99/year. Plus is available in the U.S. only.

Information about other language versions, as well as pricing, upgrade and support policies for other countries is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/photoshopelements. For free training videos on Photoshop Elements, visit Adobe TV at http://tv.adobe.com.

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Win New Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, Free!

With the official release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 looking to be just around the corner, it’s time to launch our September contest… This month we’re giving away three free boxes of PSE 9 (estimated value $100 each), and all you have to do for a chance to win is enter your email address in the “Adobe Special Offers” box in the sidebar to the right for our free occasional e-newsletter. That’s it.

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If you like, you can also leave a comment below sharing what you hope will be in Photoshop Elements 9, and how you plan to use it… What new features are you looking for or wishing to see? Content-aware fill, puppet warp, 16-bit picture workflow, native 64-bit support, more effects, more artwork/templates, more sharing options, or others? Of course, we’ll have the full scoop on PSE 9 right here the moment it’s out…

Our Elements 9 Giveaway is open to residents of the USA, Canada, U.K. and Ireland, with one entry per person – and submissions end at 11:59pm EDT on September 30th, 2010. Then on October 1st we’ll choose three new subscribers at random, and if you’re one of them we’ll ship you a shiny new shrinkwrapped box of Photoshop Elements 9 for free! (Or if you’ve already purchased your copy by that time, just send us the receipt and we’ll reimburse 100% of your cost via PayPal.) We’ll contact you via email just to get your address for shipping, and then follow up back here announcing your first name and hometown. It’s that simple, no kidding!

You can find out more about our newsletter – it typically covers select Adobe-related news plus the latest specials and coupon codes. And of course you can easily unsubscribe from the bottom of any issue. Naturally we’ll never spam you or share your email address with anyone else, ever. So enter your email today and spread the word – several visitors are going to win and there’s nothing to lose…

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When Will Photoshop & Premiere Elements 9 Be Released?

With our post last week for five hours of free tutorials for Elements 7 and 8, it begged the question – when will Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 be available?

Adobe historically ships a new version of Elements every year, in the fall – but when exactly? Let’s do some digging and find the release schedules for recent versions:
Version Announce Date Ship Date Based On Platforms
* Our estimate
Elements 6 Sept. 24, 2007 Sept. 24, 2007 CS3 Windows, Mac
Elements 7 Aug. 26, 2008 Oct. 6, 2008 CS3/CS4 Windows
Elements 8 Sept. 23, 2009 Sept. 23, 2009 CS4 Windows, Mac
Elements 9 Sept. 22, 2010* Sept. 22, 2010* CS5 Windows, Mac*

Funny things happened in 2008 with the launch of CS4 happening around the same time (September 23) – but if you exclude that occasion then the trend is definitely for the Elements release date happening in late September, just after back-to-school. Also, Adobe has shipped both Mac and Windows versions for six out of the eight Photoshop Elements releases, and lately Adobe has demonstrated increasing Mac support in other products, so we believe we’ll see both platforms supported again for Photoshop Elements 9.0.

So put it all together and we forecast that Photoshop and Premiere Elements 9 will ship on or about September 22, 2010, with PSE9 available on both Windows and Mac OS.

We’re giving away free copies of Photoshop Elements 9 – win yours!

One question remains: what is likely to be in the new products? The current Elements 8 was largely inherited from CS4, so with CS5 out now we should see some nice innovations. Some have wondered if we might be so lucky to see “wow” additions like Content-Aware Fill or Puppet Warp coming in Photoshop Elements 9 – but our sense is these new features are a bit too fresh and flagship to move down to Elements at this time, and Adobe will likely keep them as “must-have” functions in Photoshop CS5 at least until CS6 and Photoshop Elements 10, which could arrive together in the fall of 2011.

To see the feature addition history for the last three releases of Elements, you can compare the different versions of: Photoshop Elements for Windows, Photoshop Elements for Mac, or Premiere Elements. What would you like to see in PSE 9 and PRE 9?

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