Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 7 features a new Scene Cleaner to create the ideal photo by letting you simply brush away unwanted subjects, such as tourists in your vacation shots. The new Smart Brush helps you to apply effects to a specific area of a photo with a single stroke, making it a snap to improve lighting and add rich textures with access to more than fifty sophisticated effects. Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 customers – in the US only – will have the option to sign-up for one year of membership on Photoshop.com…

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Liz Masoner, About.com Guide to Photography, has recently posted her review to Adobe Lightroom 2.0

Wow! Its not often I get really excited about new software but…WOW! If you want a program to organize your photos, develop them, output print packages, create slideshows, and start your web presence with a great web-based photo show this is the software for you! Unlike Photoshop, which is created for powerful editing, Lightroom 2 is for developing your images. Lightroom 2 allows you high-precision control over the color, light, tonal ranges, and even vignetting of your images. And then it integrates with Photoshop in those cases where you need pixel-based editing (such as removing a power line).

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