Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 8 [Archive]

MacRumors

Sep 23, 2009, 11:14 AM

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Adobe today announced (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200909/AdobeReleasesPhotoshopElements8forWindowsandMac.html) the release of Photoshop Elements 8 for both Mac and Windows, bringing significant updates to the company's top-selling consumer photo editing software.Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac now includes all of the intelligent photo-editing options as the Windows version. In addition to Photomerge Exposure, Recompose and Quick Fix previews, Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac features Scene Cleaner for brushing away unwanted elements, such as tourists or cars, from a series of photos to create the perfect scene. The Smart Brush helps users apply incredible effects to a specific area of a photo with a single stroke and Touch-Up brushes make common editing tasks quick, such as whitening teeth or making bright blue skies. When creations are ready to be shared with family and friends, users can display their photos on the Web with gallery templates or personal Web pages, by e-mail and on CD or DVD.While the Windows version is available today, the Mac version of Photoshop Elements 8 will begin shipping next month. Pricing is set at $99.99, although Adobe is offering a $20 mail-in rebate for certain purchases made through October 31st. Full rebate details are available in the terms and conditions (http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/photoshopelmac8/rebateterms.html).

Article Link: Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 8 (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/23/adobe-announces-photoshop-elements-8/)

jav6454

Sep 23, 2009, 11:15 AM

I like... especially $99

temtexdent

Sep 23, 2009, 11:18 AM

Anyone see anything on how well it will integrate with the iPhoto database? If at all?

polaris20

Sep 23, 2009, 11:20 AM

Anyone see anything on how well it will integrate with the iPhoto database? If at all?

The blurb makes it sound like it does, but we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully they provide a demo like they usually do.

mrklaw

Sep 23, 2009, 11:24 AM

did we just skip version 7 completely?

any upgrades for version 6 owners?

DipDog3

Sep 23, 2009, 11:29 AM

How is this any better than iPhoto or Picasa?

Besides costing more?

ChrisA

Sep 23, 2009, 11:30 AM

Anyone see anything on how well it will integrate with the iPhoto database? If at all?

Photoshop has always had near perfect integration with iPhoto database.

iPhoto makes it easy to integrate any image editor so this is nothing special about Photoshop, Gimp can work the same way. The is a preferences field where you specify the "default image editor" and then iPhoto will launch and hand off an image to whatever program you specify.

basesloaded190

Sep 23, 2009, 11:32 AM

did we just skip version 7 completely?

any upgrades for version 6 owners?

My question as well. Already paid $100 for 6, but would be interested if an upgrade price is somewhat reasonable

Michael73

Sep 23, 2009, 11:34 AM

Razeus

Sep 23, 2009, 11:37 AM

There is NO upgrade pricing for Photoshop Elements. Never has been. It just comes in one flavor whether you have a previous version or not. It's all or nothing with this level of software.

mkjj

Sep 23, 2009, 11:40 AM

I searched all over the Adobe site for upgrade pricing but can't find it. It looks like there's a $20 mail-in rebate to make the product $79.99 but that it's for new purchases only.

I would hope that for owners of versions 6 & 4 upgrades are priced at either $49.99 or $59.99.

In the UK, the upgrade is only £11 cheaper than the full product!

Doesn't seem to be an upgrade in the US? but then with the rebate, the cost for a full product is almost the same in GBP as Dollars, no suprise eh?

HLdan

Sep 23, 2009, 11:40 AM

It's about time Adobe releases their software on Mac the same time as Windows. Adobe treats the Mac community like their doing us a favor. :mad:

MrMoore

Sep 23, 2009, 11:44 AM

Great. :D At least they are now trying to make the upgrades at the same time for both Windows and Mac users. Maybe Adobe saw how nice a image editor program like Pixelmator can be.

did we just skip version 7 completely?

any upgrades for version 6 owners?

They also skipped version 5 for Mac Users. Also AFAIK, Adobe has never had upgrade price for Photoshop Elements.

weckart

Sep 23, 2009, 11:48 AM

It's about time Adobe releases their software on Mac the same time as Windows. Adobe treats the Mac community like their doing us a favor. :mad:

Apple has changed from PPC to Intel and from Carbon to Cocoa in the last few years. You might have noticed this. Some Mac developers have had to change development tools as well as APIs.

Chimpy

Sep 23, 2009, 11:48 AM

It was getting long in the tooth - it was time for an update.

dukemeiser

Sep 23, 2009, 11:49 AM

Bah. Try Seashore instead. Native Mac, Intel support, FREE.

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php

gt1948

Sep 23, 2009, 11:51 AM

Does it work with Snow Leopard? 64Bit?
CS4 Photoshop sure is doing a lot of crashing.

hhaeschen

Sep 23, 2009, 11:54 AM

My question as well. Already paid $100 for 6, but would be interested if an upgrade price is somewhat reasonable

There seems to be an upgrade version in the European online stores of Adobe, although price-wise there's no advantage over the mail-in-rebate in the US.
Just the process is less painful.

iZac

Sep 23, 2009, 12:09 PM

"Photoshop elements" makes me shudder ever since my boss bought it thinking "its just like photoshop" I had to endure it for months.

andiwm2003

Sep 23, 2009, 12:28 PM

$99 is a bit steep. $79 is ok. but considering how often I use the software and what I mostly do Pixelmator for $49 is a much better deal for me.

Zygon Gambit

Sep 23, 2009, 12:33 PM

I've been happily using Photoshop Elements 3 for quite some time now; I wonder if there is anything in this new version that would actually improve it for me? All the announced features in that article don't sound that vital.

Mark Booth

Sep 23, 2009, 12:51 PM

Yeah ha! Another Adobe product that I'll never buy! :D

Mark

anubis

Sep 23, 2009, 12:55 PM

I'd be more interested in an upgrade to Lightroom

ks-man

Sep 23, 2009, 01:01 PM

The rebate is good until 10/31/10. The story makes it sound like you must buy it in the next 1.5 months, but you actually have 13.5 months.

You might want to update the story...

ericinboston

Sep 23, 2009, 01:08 PM

Why is this on Macrumors?!?!?! :mad:

Is this website now Adobe Rumors?!!?!

What a waste...this site far different than a year ago for reporting decent rumors/news...the "news" is rarely related to "mac rumors"...it's barely related to APPLE rumors.

Sheeeeeez.

cube

Sep 23, 2009, 01:09 PM

Where is the ALL-IMPORTANT color depth info?

mr.steevo

Sep 23, 2009, 01:30 PM

Scene Cleaner would be great for family photographs.

s.

shady825

Sep 23, 2009, 02:07 PM

jettredmont

Sep 23, 2009, 02:39 PM

On Photoshop Elements upgrades: odd, I got upgrade pricing (direct from Adobe's online store, US) on PSE 6 (verified this looking at my receipt ... it doesn't say 'upgrade', but the price is $20 less than the retail price for the full version). So, I think the "they never have offered upgrades for PSE" line is wrong.

On PSE in general: I was rather let down with PSE 6. It was buggy, recourse-intensive, and more severely crippled than previous Elements versions had been. I'm not sure I'll be moving on up to 8. I think the cheaper alternatives might get my dollars instead this go-around.

skellener

Sep 23, 2009, 02:43 PM

Yawwwwwwwnnnnnn.....

Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com) $59 ;)

buffsldr

Sep 23, 2009, 03:08 PM

Just chatted online with an adobe rep. No upgrade pricing available.

Island Dog

Sep 23, 2009, 03:24 PM

There is NO upgrade pricing for Photoshop Elements. Never has been. It just comes in one flavor whether you have a previous version or not. It's all or nothing with this level of software.

There has been upgrade pricing previously. I grabbed version 6 for $79 upgrade price.

The people who don't offer upgrade pricing is usually Apple.

joecanhlp

Sep 23, 2009, 03:28 PM

More abandonment of huge install base.
Oh, and where is the full text justification support.

Razeus

Sep 23, 2009, 03:46 PM

There has been upgrade pricing previously. I grabbed version 6 for $79 upgrade price.

The people who don't offer upgrade pricing is usually Apple.

umm no. You may have gotten a discounted price, as Adobe typically does, because you owned a previous version (either on sale or mail in rebate). There was NEVER an UPGRADE disc and a seperate a FULL disc available for sale. It was only one disc no matter if you owned a previous version before or not.

ob81

Sep 23, 2009, 03:46 PM

I am planning on grabbing Photoshop CS4 or whatever it is called in about a month or so. I am not a pro or anything. Would I be ok with this new elements?
I have always heard about how Adobe doesn't do much in the consumer world with the Photoshop Elements.

Island Dog

Sep 23, 2009, 04:17 PM

umm no. You may have gotten a discounted price, as Adobe typically does, because you owned a previous version (either on sale or mail in rebate). There was NEVER an UPGRADE disc and a seperate a FULL disc available for sale. It was only one disc no matter if you owned a previous version before or not.

You mentioned upgrade pricing in your post. Getting it for a discount because you have a previous version is upgrade pricing. Upgrade disk or not.

;)

arlecchino

Sep 23, 2009, 06:36 PM

I literally just went out and bought PSE6 last night, and no upgrade pricing!?! No thanks, Adobe... I'll move back to GIMP even though I am frequently confounded by the interface.

Freis968

Sep 24, 2009, 12:55 AM

Why doesn't Apple just include all this stuff in iPhoto? I mean, raise the price of the iLife suite to $99 and include all the stuff Pixelmator and Elements can do!

I get tired of having to buy 3rd party software when Apple should offer things like this.

You either get iPhoto, which is so basic, powerful YES, but basic OR Aperture which you need a telephone book sized manual to learn the thing.

I just have to shake my head.

HHarm

Sep 24, 2009, 02:41 AM

I had some Photoshop (not Elements) training years back. After that I've used it to edit photos (after Lightroom), create basic web graphics and presentations.

I don't currently have Photoshop at home. I was wondering if I would be happy with just Elements. What are the biggest differences? I don't think I need most of the advanced functions, but I want to do things myself and not be forced to use automated functions that don't do exactly what I want. Also one of the most important things is that the working logic is the same as in the main Photoshop.

I don't know if there is too little info on my needs to give an specific answer but anything is appreciated! (it's currently a bit hard for me to test these myself)

hayesk

Sep 24, 2009, 10:22 AM

Yawwwwwwwnnnnnn.....

Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com) $59 ;)

Yawwwn.... sorry, please show me again where the RAW support is in Pixelmator?

Seriously, if Pixelmator got RAW support, I'd be there. Until then, no sale.

hayesk

Sep 24, 2009, 10:24 AM

Bah. Try Seashore instead. Native Mac, Intel support, FREE.

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php

Uhm... PSE is native Mac, and has Intel support. Seashore looks promising but appears to be a work in progress.

AndyR

Sep 25, 2009, 05:28 AM

MUTHA F!!!!!! I just brought version 6 last week!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

gwerhart0800

Sep 25, 2009, 09:04 AM

MUTHA F!!!!!! I just brought version 6 last week!!!

I just got it as part of the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch that I got. I haven't even installed it yet. The Wacom tablet is a brand new product that is priced at only $99, so before the Adobe announcement, it seemed like a steal to get Elements 6 also. Now I know why!

twoodcc

Sep 25, 2009, 09:46 PM

$99 is nice. but why is the mac version not released with the windows version?

Nancy08

Sep 29, 2009, 12:21 AM

Any updates/announcements for adobe photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, had helped me lot anyway. Gives me the productivity of work.

shamino

Oct 1, 2009, 11:20 AM

Multi-core Intel only (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelmac/systemreqs/). If you've still got a PPC system, or an early generation Intel Mac with a single-core processor, you're SOL. Thanks Adobe for being more annoying than all other Mac software developers put together.
I've been happily using Photoshop Elements 3 for quite some time now; I wonder if there is anything in this new version that would actually improve it for me? All the announced features in that article don't sound that vital.
I've been using 3 for quite some time. Never saw a need to upgrade to 4. And thanks to their system requirements, can't upgrade to 8 even if I wanted to.
I don't currently have Photoshop at home. I was wondering if I would be happy with just Elements. What are the biggest differences?
The biggest difference is that Elements has no support for extensions (e.g. additional filters) and no scripting support. It does, however, support image-import plugins (I use SilverFast Ai from within Elements 3 with no problem.)

For my purposes (mostly making minor edits to images from my camera and scanner), it's quite sufficient. Your requirements may be very different from mine, however.

mapsk

Oct 1, 2009, 06:18 PM

Where is the ALL-IMPORTANT color depth info?http://tvinch.com/plantar.phphttp://www.images-avsforum.com/avs/0/P.jpg

I'd like to know this too..not enough info for me :(

mlankton

Oct 7, 2009, 10:21 AM

Bah. Try Seashore instead. Native Mac, Intel support, FREE.

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php

Umm, Seashore hasn't been updated since April 2007. More power to you if old abandonware does the trick.

Freewayjim

Oct 23, 2009, 12:54 PM

FRY's has the Mac version on the shelf for $99.99, saw it last night.

Trek2100

Oct 23, 2009, 04:13 PM

FRY's has the Mac version on the shelf for $99.99, saw it last night.

Amazon has it in stock ready to ship for $89.99 (free shipping).

Adobe's website: $79.99 after mail in rebate.

StarJack

Oct 24, 2009, 12:12 AM

Hello everyone, I'm not a MAC owner yet, though the latest iMac offering is tempting me on a daily basis. Maybe for Christmas! :apple:

Here's a slightly better price for Elements 8 for the Mac. $65.99 after rebate. Not sure about shipping though.

http://www.macmall.com/p/Adobe-Graphics-&-Development-Software/product~dpno~7933821~pdp.fhihfij Well it looks like macmall doesn't like someone to post direct links!?

I still use CS3 on a windows box, but it is sort of like using a tank to hunt deer in my case. (It was a gift) Anyway, appreciate the Mac knowledge and information you folks post up!

Freewayjim

Oct 24, 2009, 12:26 AM

Amazon has it in stock ready to ship for $89.99 (free shipping).

Adobe's website: $79.99 after mail in rebate.

Of course the $20 Mail in rebate was available on the boxes at FRY's, I thought that was a given.

Trek2100

Oct 24, 2009, 10:21 AM

I've never used photoshop elements. When printing can you print multiple prints on a page? For example, 4 - 4x5, wallets, 2 - 5x7 etc?

mtbdudex

Oct 24, 2009, 07:56 PM

Hello everyone, I'm not a MAC owner yet, though the latest iMac offering is tempting me on a daily basis. Maybe for Christmas! :apple:

Here's a slightly better price for Elements 8 for the Mac. $65.99 after rebate. Not sure about shipping though.

http://www.anrdoezrs.net/image-3160356-10581103http://www.macmall.com/p/Adobe-Graphics-&-Development-Software/product~dpno~7933821~pdp.fhihfij (http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-3160356-10581103?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macmall.com%2Fp%2FAdobe-Graphics-%26-Development-Software%2Fproduct%7Edpno%7E7933821%7Epdp.fhihfij) Well it looks like macmall doesn't like someone to post direct links!?

I still use CS3 on a windows box, but it is sort of like using a tank to hunt deer in my case. (It was a gift) Anyway, appreciate the Mac knowledge and information you folks post up!

Thx for the tip, I might order this and you saved me some $$ :D

PortraitProAlex

Oct 26, 2009, 08:11 AM

MrSEC

Nov 3, 2009, 11:00 PM

Coffee-Drinker

Dec 5, 2009, 06:05 AM

Anyone see anything on how well it will integrate with the iPhoto database? If at all?

I tried it and it does not integrate in the sense of you click "open file" and choose the iPhoto library. It just drops an error message. Maybe there is a way and I could not find it.
Me? I will stick with Pixelmator.