Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 4.0...

Everything you need to edit, organize, and show your photos

Product overview
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 software combines power and simplicity to help you do it all: Edit and enhance your photos, keep them at your fingertips, and show off your creativity in new, entertaining ways.

Creatively edit your photos

Instantly fix common flaws

Make quick fixes
Perform a full range of common photo adjustments—including color, contrast, and lighting—in the convenient Quick Fix mode.

Get realistic skin tones
Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.

Say goodbye to red eye
Photoshop Elements now eliminates red eye automatically as you download photos from your camera. Or you can remove red eye from individual shots without even clicking on the photo.

Compare changes in before and after views
• IInstantly see the effects of adjustments you make with before and after views in Quick Fix mode.

Correct color effortlessly
• Compare a range of color variations side by side with your original photo, and select the best choice with a single click.
Automatically divide scanned photos.
• Save time by scanning several photos at once. Photoshop Elements automatically divides, straightens, and saves each photo separately.

Rotate and crop
• Turn photos right side up and crop out unwanted areas quickly and accurately.

Perform advanced editing

Quickly retouch specific areas
Easily select by brushing over any element of your photo to make a range of adjustments to a specific area or object.

Brush away flaws
• Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control.

Control color temperature and tint
• Get the best overall color possible with easy slider controls for color temperature
and tint.

Easily adjust shadows and highlights
• Rescue poorly lit photos by lightening shadows and reducing the glare of highlights.

Fine-tune exposure
• Adjust the exposure of specific areas in your photos using professional darkroom tools like dodge, burn, and sponge.

Benefit from 16-bit support
• Get truer, higher quality results with support for 16-bit color.

Fine-tune your camera’s raw files
• Make adjustments to exposure and lighting by working with the original raw data files from your digital camera. Photoshop Elements now offers Digital Negative (DNG) support.

Convert raw files to Digital Negative
• Enjoy a lifetime of access to your raw files by converting them to universal DNG format, which means you’ll be able to open and use your highest quality photo files without worrying about proprietary camera formats.

Learn advanced techniques
• Spark your imagination and master advanced techniques by following the steps in How-To guides.

Be creative in less time
Start editing sooner with a quick-launching Editor mode.

See the full color range
• Adjust the color range of any photo and see real-time changes in the Histogram palette.

Artistically enhance photos

Give photos extra dimension
• Add depth with drop shadows, bevels, glows, and other effects, which are automatically applied to any element placed on a layer.

Convert to black-and-white or sepia
• Give your photos a classic look by instantly converting them to black-and-white or sepia tone.

Instantly apply multiple effects
• Stylize your photos with hundreds of cool special effects. Easily mix multiple effects, change their order, and preview them in the Filter Gallery.

Apply colored filters
• Create real-world photographic effects by applying tint filters that simulate colored filters on a camera.

Simulate painting
• Transform your photos with realistic paintbrush effects to simulate oils, watercolors, charcoals, pastels, and different canvas textures.

Add surreal effects
• Have fun liquifying your photos by easily twisting, warping, stretching, and pulling different areas.

Create composites

Combine photos with control
• Place a friend on a mountaintop, add ancestors to a family portrait, and create other fun combinations using flexible layers.
Easily isolate objects from backgrounds

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