Sharing:  

Once you have tagged and edited your images, Photoshop Elements 8 offers a variety of tools to help you share them with friends and family. Templates are available to walk you through creating professional looking photo projects. Simply select the photos you want to use and the software will place them for you. As a final touch you can arrange the photos and apply clipart or even audio files to your digital creation.

Digital content can be shared on popular social networking sites like YouTube and Facebook, or you can send photos and videos via MMS using your compatible mobile device.

Photoshop.com provides every licensed Photoshop Elements 8 user with 2GB of online storage space. This space can be used to share your projects or to use the new multi-machine synchronization tool. This lets you access and edit photos and video located on other computers.

Output Capabilities:  

Images in Photoshop Elements 8 can be saved in sixteen different formats including GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, Photoshop EPS, Photoshop PDF, PNG and TIFF. You can also use this program to create scrapbook pages, greeting cards, CD/DVD Labels and jackets, and photo collages.

Organizing:  

The enhanced media organizer featured in Photoshop Elements 8 allows you to easily import and manage any number of photos in one convenient place. Also, the new Auto-Analyzer can tag photos as they are imported to identify the most interesting and important aspects of an image.

Stock photos are still not available in Photoshop Elements. If you are looking for royalty free images to use in a project we suggest Getty Images or Jupiter Images.

Help/Support:  

Photoshop Elements 8 is supported in Windows XP and Vista environments, and is Windows 7 compatible.

Adobe offers several support options for Photoshop Elements 8. Technical support via telephone is available Monday – Friday from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Pacific Time) by calling 1-800-642-3623. Your questions and concerns may also be addressed by accessing the FAQ section on the Adobe website. Further support can be found in the user’s manual, online tutorials and in online user moderated forums.

Photoshop Elements 8 Plus is an optional upgrade that allows licensed users up to 20GB of storage for online backup and sharing. Plus also provides access to tutorials, tips and tricks, seasonal artwork and interactive online templates. Photoshop Elements 8 combined with Plus costs $139.99.

Photoshop Elements 8 consistently produces professional quality results across a variety of photo projects. This is absolutely the best easy-to-use editing tool for photo achieving, creative edits and photographic art.

For the ultimate photo editing suite, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the best and most widely used tool for professionals.