
As the march every fall, Adobe, the new incarnations of his amateur versions of Premiere and Photoshop on the shelves. Photoshop Elements 9 has it even more automatics for current photo editing tricks have missed. Thus, the repair-brush has been simplified, with the whole objects from photos you can just paint away and typical one-click Looks like Lomo, Pop Art or reflections stand as a new photo-effects. In addition, several photos can automatically adapt to a style. The creation of panoramic images is to be improved. The most interesting seems to us, however, the new photo montage function, with which images can mask layer on actuator to quickly. Premiere Elements 9 can now directly without any detours from Flip and popular DSLR cameras also import. For real-time video editing, the new Mercury engine was taken, but that works only in Elements without GPU support. This means multiple processor cores are supported, a special graphics card does not help, however. Compared to the competition there was in the last beta is still no export AVCHD
disc (BluRay on the other hand already). Adobe focuses more on-line distribution. This allows video and upload photos directly to Facebook. Unique is the possibility of a so-called Web-DVD has to be established. Here, a complete DVD menu structure can be directly exported as a Flash file. Thus, a DVD can be both a disc and create for the web of a piece. For HD content, however, this option remains out of the Creative Suite Encore reserved. An additional focus was placed on the audio department. Shall find, there are now simple tools for sound enhancement (Brumm and Rauschentferner). Ah yes, the biggest news: Now there are two versions for the Mac. The prices have not changed and are at $ 99 for each application. In the bundle there are Photoshop and Premiere Elements 9 for $ 149. 