Adobe
Introduces Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements
2.0
Major Upgrade to Popular Tools Provides Innovative and
Intuitive Ways to Edit and Share Digital Photos and Home Videos
Just in Time for the Holidays
Adobe Press Release Summary:
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 27, 2005 — Adobe
Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced two new
products for digital photo and digital video enthusiasts. Adobe®
Photoshop® Elements 4.0 for Windows®, a new version of Adobe’s
No. 1 selling consumer photo editing software*, adds powerful
and intuitive ways to organize, edit and share photos. For video
hobbyists, the award-winning Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0
software for Windows brings unparalleled control, ease of use
and more options for creative digital video editing with a
self-adjusting workspace, support for all video types and DVD
customization.
Available together in a single retail package, Adobe
Photoshop Elements 4.0 Plus Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 delivers
the powerful and affordable software integration consumers need
to be creative and impress friends and family with their digital
photos and home videos. Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Adobe
Premiere Elements 2.0 also are available as separate products
(see separate press releases).
“This holiday season, photos and video will be captured from
digital devices which extend far beyond traditional point and
shoot cameras,” said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of
Digital Imaging and Digital Video Products at Adobe. “With so
much freedom to capture any moment at any time, our customers
need software that allows them to edit and share this unique
content from any device, quickly, easily and in ways that are
truly all their own.”
Photoshop Elements 4.0 delivers more editing power with the
new Magic Selection Brush that allows consumers to select
specific parts of photos for easy color, lighting and contrast
adjustments. The Magic Extractor easily extracts subjects from
photos, with advanced edge defringing, for great composites.
Smart technology behind new features means effortless photo
enhancement with automatic red eye removal across a batch of
photos, one-click skin tone correction and Face Tagging, which
allows consumers to keep photos at their fingertips with new
ways to find and view them. They can show off their creativity
in countless ways, from exciting dynamic slide shows to
one-click online printing, and enhanced Photo Mail (see separate
press release for details).
Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 offers the perfect combination of
superior control, new self-adjusting workspace ease and
reliability to help automate tedious video editing tasks so that
consumers can be creative more quickly. Adobe Premiere Elements
2.0 makes it easy to import video clips from all digital video
devices, experiment with hundreds of professional transitions
and effects, and burn videos to DVD. Consumers can create
professional-looking DVDs with customizable menus, or transfer
their home movies to portable video players to delight friends
and family anytime, anywhere (see separate press release for
details).
Photoshop Elements 4.0 is part of a complete family of
Photoshop products that meet the needs of a diverse spectrum of
digital photographers: the free Photoshop Album Starter Edition
for the novice digital camera user; Photoshop Elements for the
digital photography enthusiast; and Photoshop CS2 for the
professional or the most demanding amateur photographer.
Similarly, Adobe offers Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 for superior
quality home-video editing and Adobe Premiere Pro for the more
advanced professional or the most demanding amateur videographer.
Each product offers more growth and creative control for
customers, giving them access to award-winning technology and
options for more sophisticated editing, organization and sharing
options for their digital photos and video.
Pricing and Availability
Adobe’s digital imaging and digital video products are
available at
www.adobe.com . Adobe
Photoshop Elements 4.0 Plus Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 for
Windows is available as a bundle in the United States and Canada
at an estimated street price of US $149.99. Adobe Premiere
Elements 2.0 for Windows XP (Home, Professional, and Media
Center with Service Pack 2) is available for an estimated street
price of US $99.99. Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Windows XP
(Home, Professional with Service Pack 2 or Windows XP Media
Center Edition 2005) is available for an estimated street price
of US $99.99. Adobe’s complete hobbyist product line is being
made available in early October 2005 on online sites and select
retail stores. Information about the other language versions, as
well as pricing, upgrade, and support policies for other
countries is available on
www.adobe.com . For
more information, customers can call 1-800-492-3623.
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe is the world’s leading provider of software solutions
to create, manage and deliver high-impact, reliable digital
content. For more information, visit
www.adobe.com .
Source: The NPD Group/NPD Techworld, September 2003 - May 2004 |
