Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Video Editing Not Useable For Me
Summary: 2 Stars
Photoshop Elements 6 is a great program. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 was (for my circumstances) a big disappointment. Premiere will simply not handle my video files (*.mod aka mpeg2) without crashing. Every time. Spent some time on the Adobe forum both looking for similar problems and posting my own problem and the general consensus is that Premiere is most reliable with DV-AVI file types and that other file types (certainly mpeg2 and it's derivatives such as my JVC camera's *.mod types) are very problematic. I am looking into a format converter but, meanwhile, using another movie editor. My computer is an HP with a AMD Athlon 64x2, 3 GB Ram, 400 GB of harddrive and Windows XP Media Center so it should have plenty of horsepower.Customer Review: Check your system before purchase.
Summary: 3 Stars
The Premiere 4 will not install unless you have a "CPU that supports SSE2 Instruction Set". It says nothing about that on the box... you find out when you try to install it onto your PC.
Photoshop Elements 6 works okay, there is a lot to learn, even having owned PhotoDeluxe and LOVING it. I bought a book "Classroom in a Book" for Photoshop Elements 6 but have not used it yet. I'm still too angry about not being able to use the Photoshop Premiere 4 - which you need to make a slideshow DVD. You can, however, make one on a CD but it says the DVD has better quality. I wouldn't know that since I CANNOT use it.
I wish there were just an updated version of PhotoDeluxe.
Customer Review: Love this program!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a REALTOR. So, the quality of the photos I take of the homes I put on the market is VERY important. I already have the camera equipment needed to take quality photos. This program allows me to add that extra bit of editing needed to make my photos that much better. I used the version 5 of this software and Microsoft's Digital Imaging Suite. I read the reviews for Corel's package and decided against trying it. After reading the reviews for the version 6 Photoshop Elements and the improvements they've made, I decided to upgrade. I'm really happy I did. I love this program! It does take a little time to figure out which button you need to push and to learn the terms Photoshop uses. This seems to be the case with all the programs. I can tell you that it is worth making the effort. Short of spending the $600 for the full version of Photoshop, this Photoshop Elements 6.0 is the best I've found.Customer Review: Needs a manual!
Summary: 3 Stars
Elements 6.0 was challenging at first but after trial and error you learn where things are. I'm sure that I'm still missing some things though! Premier though has been a laborious work of love. I went out to buy this and hoped that I'd have a slide show put together in a few hours time and that was just not the case. After I created it, I couldn't find the darn thing transferred into Premier! It was a nightmare!!!! There were no instructions, directions, nothing! Adobe was absolutely no help to me either. I finally figured it out by mistake and this was just in the nick of time for a Christmas present. After two months of "playing" with the program I'm still no expert with it. I haven't read the "Dummies" book so I don't know if it would help or not. Also, the program runs extremely slow. My advice, look around, if you can try out the version then definitely do so before buying.Customer Review: Review of Adobe's newest PSE and PE software
Summary: 3 Stars
Adobe has changed the face of both Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Premiere Elements 4.0. I don't like the change. Black is a difficult color to work with, finding the List Arrows and other adjustment levers is almost impossible.
A request to Adobe on how to change this color wasn't productive since PSE cannot be changed...but PE can. As for using the software, each version of these two editing programs offers more options for the user.
It would be so good if Adobe would take a page from Microsoft's book and offer free interactive tutorials for their products.