Adobe Video Software At Great Prices

This week, Adobe is releasing overhauled Windows versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, the photo and video editing programs aimed at home users. While they cost $99 each or $149 for the pair, they are surprisingly similar to Photoshop CS3, the $649 image editor, and Premiere Pro CS3, a serious $799 video editing program.

With Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows, images can be spruced up using a guided step by step process. Tools from the high-priced version have been converted into simple improvement modes. A new tool lets you swap faces or whole bodies between group pictures, even those shot from different angles.

The finished work can be pictures, slide shows, online galleries or a photo book printed by Kodak.

You can build complex productions in [tag-tec]Premiere Elements 4[/tag-tec] for Windows that combine video clips, pictures, music and themed templates (a rock concert is one). Up to 99 audio or video layers can be combined and synchronized to music. When it’s all wrapped up, you can upload the final cut straight to YouTube, Google Video or any of your favorite video sharing and video syndication sites.

This really is a great opportunity to grab professional photo and video editing and manipulation software at a fraction of its real value. Most amateurs do not want a fully functional program that professionals use and there is no real need to have all that power to produce great videos for your website.