Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is an improved version over version 4 in areas related to resizing photos, layering, additional flexability to Quick Fix colors and to 'cut and insert' and inverse using the maganetic lasso. However, the Organizer Workspace that you see when you open Photoshop is a dark grey. In itself, this is not bad; but, all the pull-down menus on the Options bar at the top are in an almost indistinquisable lighter grey so that it is extremely difficult to even locate the Options e.g. Aspect Ration, let alone change e.g. Restriction options. A great feature is the ability very easily create an impressive slide show file with text and music and even your own dialog.

I was using Photoshop Elements 5, so Version 6 is a natural upgrade. The Premier Elements lets me simply create a 'mixed' show of video and snapshots easily...does what I need!

Outstanding editors! Adobe Premiere makes video editing a snap! Capture, edit, put in the menu markers, create the DVD (or whatever else format you want) and done! I used to have to juggle 3 different programs and took easily hours. Now, in less than 1 hour I digitize the video, edit it and burn it!
Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful photo editing tool. Requires some learning curve (more than Premiere) Once you get it, you got it and you can do ANYTHING you want with the photos.

Simply awesome for the price.

WARNING: You must have the computer memory and power to handle it.

If your computer *exceeds* the minimum system requirements, this is a wonderful bundle. The programs come in the same case, but on separate DVDs; this way, you can choose to install either or both at your leisure. This is the best find in non-professional editing software, and you really cannot go wrong right now, with the available rebate until 10/2008.

I have been a large Photoshop fan for years, and this version adds even more power and control. (I do not tend to use "auto fix" features; I like fine-tuning things manually.) The previous release integrated the Elements (editing) and Organizer (library/catalog) programs, and this version seems to work even faster between the two. One of the greatest assets of Photoshop is to "tag" your pictures by names, dates, places, etc., and use a representative picture for the tag. That way, you can find and group pictures through sight rather than keywords.

I did not previously own video editing software, but the recent gift of a mini-DVD recorder made it necessary to shop around. Premiere can seem a bit slow, even on my AMD quad-processor, 4GB RAM monster; however, from all the research I have done, that seems par for the course when working with huge amounts of video data. I also tend to have a large span of patience, as I began working with computers when your programs took 20 minutes to load from cassette tapes. The best stuff you can do with PCs has *never* been instant, so with a little patience, Premiere is a fun program with a lot of powerful tools behind it.

One of the best reasons to get this package is the integration between the two programs. You can easily add photos to a video you are compositing, or catalog your videos in Photoshop. You can burn DVDs, or even create web-friendly files in several formats (including YouTube).

Again, it takes a lot of horsepower to run these programs, so if you have an older computer, or a relatively inexpensive graphics card, you may be disappointed. However, if you have the machine for them, these two programs are the best in their class.

I have read many reviews on how this combo might not work well on vista and other negative reviews. I have been using premiere now for a month. I am running it on a Quad Core Q6600, Windows Vista Business 64 bit, 4 Gigs of RAM, with a 8800GTS.

I have had very few problems. I have had premiere crash and close a couple times, but nothing major. I really enjoy the new interface the program has that allows you to have a windows movie maker type look. That layout is great for simple movies.

You will need a lot of RAM, but that is nothing new to the video editing industry. For utilization of the Quad core, while it is compiling the project, it is averaging around 70% on each core.

I think this is a major improvement over Premiere 2. I enjoy the Photoshop and have not had a problem with it at all. I highly recommend this product and if you're in doubt, get the demo from the Adobe website.