Introduction

Photos are everywhere these days. Once upon a time, you only hauled out the camera to record important events that you wanted to remember forever. But in our digital era, when almost every cellphone has a camera, people take photos of everything from what they had for lunch to the weird faucet fitting they're trying to install so they can email it to friends for advice.

Photo sharing has become one of the basics of daily life, and Adobe is right there with you. Not only does Photoshop Elements 8 give you terrific tools for editing and improving your photos, but you also get a free account at Photoshop.com, making it incredibly easy to share photos on your personal Photoshop.com web page, back them up automatically, and sync them between your computers.

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Note:

For now, you have to be in the United States to use Photoshop.com. If you're in another country, you can create and share online albums at Adobe's Photoshop Showcase (www.photoshopshowcase.com), a site first created for folks using Elements 6. A few features are available only with Photoshop.com, so for now, these features are U.S.-only.

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