Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Fast shipping!
Summary: 5 Stars
Arrived as advertised in good condition! Have trouble with getting software to load, but don't think it's a disk defect. Thanks!Customer Review: OK
Summary: 3 Stars
For the price, I think that it is the best deal on the market. Free super savers shipping is a great incentive.Customer Review: Great product for the beginner
Summary: 5 Stars
everything I expected. Its great to tweak up my pics with brilliance and adding a watermakers, etc. Made a picture memory dics for my daughter's 8th grade class. Everyone was impressed.Customer Review: A Truly Seamless Bundle
Summary: 5 Stars
My interest is in creating beautiful studio portraits, and then adding my client's favorite music, to create a "music video" on either a standard definition or Blu-ray DVD.
I work exclusively on a high-def Timeline, even when the goal is only a SD DVD.
The PRE7 and PSE7 bundle work seamlessly together on my system (Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Q6600 CPU, 4GB RAM) and my results are breathtaking.
I downloaded the trial version of the 8 bundle, and I'm sticking with 7.
Customer Review: Too Many "Elements" of Disappointment
Summary: 3 Stars
I have been a big fan of Adobe Photoshop Elements for many years. I can still remember how brilliant I thought Photoshop Elements 2 was. Since those days, Adobe has continued to add features, tweak the user interface, and in some cases make the program more buggy. When I upgraded to version 6, I found that I really liked some of the improvements but the entire application seemed to run slower and was sometimes prone to locking up. Now that I have installed version 7, I am experiencing even more sluggishness in performance and it tends to lock up about every other time I use it. In fact, I have found very little change, from version 6 to version 7, other than worse performance and more lock-ups.
Premiere Elements is completely new to me. Video editing is my primary hobby so using video editing software is certainly not an issue for me. I have to say, I expected much more from a company like Adobe, when it comes to quality video editing software. The interface is nice looking but the layout and more complex editing options are just plain cumbersome. Many of the special effects are amateur quality and look rather silly. But the biggest downfall of this software is the frequency of crashes. While editing a simple 20 minute AVI video project, Premiere Elements 7.0 completely crashed no less than 7 times! Maybe version number of this software is supposed to indicate how many times it will crash on you when working on a project. When it crashed it would just completely go away and I would be looking at my Windows desktop. I would re-launch the program and have to redo all of the changes I had made since the last time I saved. DVD authoring is almost non-existent as well, offering corny templates to choose from with very little editing capability. This program is just far more frustrating than what it is worth! Don't get me wrong; at this price point I wasn't expecting professional editing capabilities. If it had been a basic editing package, that was stable and easy to use, I would be giving it praises for beginners looking to get their feet wet in video editing. However, this program is just plain junk in my opinion. It could have potential but until they improve stability, exponentially, I would not recommend this product to anyone.
Overall I have decided to give this duplex software package 3 stars. Photoshop Elements is a good product, which just seems to be getting slower, more complicated and less reliable with each new revision. But it is still a good utility for basic photo editing, for those of us that don't always need the power of the original Photoshop product. Premiere Elements is only a 1 or 2 star product, in my humble opinion. It is just too clunky, too confusing and very prone to locking up and/or crashing without warning. There is nothing more frustrating than having to do the same work twice, and with Premiere Elements 7 you are almost guaranteed to be doing the same work over and over again. If you have Photoshop Elements 6 then there is no real reason to upgrade at this time. However, it is definitely a step above versions 4 and lower. As far as video editing software, I would recommend steering clear of Premiere Elements 7. I can't speak for the earlier versions but version 7 is definitely not worth the money or the frustration. =o(