Adobe Photoshop Elements 5

To share images, you can output multiple prints based on templates, but there are also wizards for creating album pages, greeting cards, CD jackets and more. There's a dedicated slideshow editor with full control over transitions, music, narration, and pan and zoom effects, which can output to PDF or WMV.

Photoshop Elements also offers the ability to output web galleries. In the past, gallery creation was awkward and underpowered, but the new interface is much smoother with new templates, including interactive and animated Flash-based options. Crucially, Adobe also now provides free web hosting at www.photoshopshowcase.com, to which Elements 5 users can post their images and customised galleries ready to share with invited friends and family, or the general public. It's early days, and Flickr has nothing to fear as things stand, but the future potential for integration between desktop application and website is enormous. And, with its unmatched record of understanding what users want to do with their photographs and enabling them to do it, Photoshop Elements is sure to deliver.

Author: Tom Arah