Elements is the brand name used by Adobe to indicate the consumer version of its more advanced professional products, with a much cheaper price tag targeted at mass market. Adobe has two software applications which is of Elements series, namely Adobe Photoshop Elements (pse) and Adoble Premiere Elements (pre). The latest version of the two products are both version 8, and were released on September 2009.

Features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements include:

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

  • Easily manage your photos and videos together from one convenient, shared Organizer
  • Find photos of specific people fast with automatic People Recognition
  • See full-screen photo and video previews in the Organizer, and edit photos full screen
  • See the same photos and videos on all your computers with automatic syncing
  • Get automatic online backup and 2GB of storage
  • View your photos and movies from any web-enabled computer
  • Quickly find your best photos and video clips with the Auto-Analyzer
  • Organize photos and video clips with visual tags
  • Recompose your photos to any size without distorting key subjects
  • Create perfectly lit shots with Photomerge technology
  • Preview a range of adjustments before choosing the best one
  • Get ongoing photo-editing tutorials with helpful tips and tricks
  • Whiten teeth and make skies bluer in one step
  • Simultaneously select an area and apply incredible effects with a single brushstroke
  • Easily clear your scene of unwanted moving elements with Photomerge technology
  • Fix red eye and improve skin tones with one click
  • Create great group shots and panoramas with Photomerge technology
  • Have shaky footage and color and lighting problems fixed automatically
  • Have unwanted footage trimmed automatically
  • Use automated options to intelligently balance audio elements
  • Get ongoing video-editing tutorials with helpful tips and tricks
  • Effortlessly create a polished movie by choosing a theme and letting InstantMovie do the editing
  • Create your movie with drag-and-drop ease in the Sceneline
  • Easily edit slide shows and movies to the beat of a favorite song
  • Use motion tracking to add graphics that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes
  • Add graphics, frames, and animations from a new clip art library
  • Easily combine elements from different videos for entertaining results
  • Add musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to match the length of your movie
  • Jazz up the action with effects, transitions, and movie themes
  • Showcase photos and videos together in one-of-kind Online Album templates
  • Share photos and movies on Apple iPhones
  • Use flexible photo layouts to create scrapbook pages, CD/DVD labels, and more
  • Easily share photos via e-mail and on websites and TVs
  • Share movies on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, mobile devices, and YouTube

Adobe Premiere Elements 8

Adobe is offering free download of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 trial demo version, which can run for 30 days of free usage without limitation. However, to download Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 trial setup installer from Adobe, users are required to create or sign into Adobe account. To workaround the Adobe account requirement, end-user can try to use the following direct download link to the genuine, authentic, and original setup installers of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8. The download is the same which user will download from official Adobe website, and is hosted on Adobe servers. The download links also allow user to download Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 without using the Akamai Download Manager.

Note 1: The trial version can be converted to full production and fully licensed version by simply entering a genuine activation product serial key number from retail or volume licensing channel and activate the product and unlock all restrictions.

Note 2: As the download size is big, it’s recommended to use a download manager so that the download can resume if terminated prematurely.

Important: For the direct download links of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 to work, downloader has to visit and click on “Try” link of at least one Adobe product in order to set the proper download cookies which permit direct download. For example, just click here or here, which is the link to download Windows version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 trial respectively. If the step above still does not allow direct download, register and/or login to Adobe account. Otherwise, an “Access Denied” error message will be displayed indicating you don’t have permission to access the file.

Tip: The Windows version of setup installer contains 2 parts, which ends with .exe and .7z file extension. Both files must be completely downloaded and placed inside the same folder for the self-extracting setup to work.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Direct Download Links

Supported Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified)

Windows 1: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/PhotoshopElements_8_MUL.exe
Windows 2: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/PhotoshopElements_8_MUL.7z

Mac OS X: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/PhotoshopElements_8_WWEFDJ.dmg

Adobe Photoshop Premiere 8 Direct Download Links

Supported Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified)

Supported Platform: Only 64-bit (x64) operating system

Windows 1: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/PremiereElements_8_LS8.exe
Windows 2: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/PremiereElements_8_LS8.7z

Additional Content for Adobe Photoshop Premiere 8

File 1: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PRE/PremiereElements_8_Content_LS8.exe
File 2: http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PRE/PremiereElements_8_Content_LS8.7z

Update: Download Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 or download Adobe Premiere Elements 9