Creative Suite 6 was released earlier this month with much that’s new across the product line, and some other changes like upgrades now being available (only) from Adobe direct.

Last week we posted on nearly 18 hours of free video tutorials for CS6… But printed materials are also nice, to use side-by-side at your own pace. How about some free new e-books to go along with those, which you can instantly download and learn from whenever you want?

There are 169 chapters in total with over 1,000 pages for most CS6 products. Some tools receive more coverage than others, but the basics are reviewed for all. You can download in the ebooks in PDF format after signing in with your Adobe ID (which is easy to create if you don’t already have one).

If you don’t have the software yet, just download a free working trial for any CS6 product for Windows or Mac – then install, run, and start your training…

Here’s how the files break out. Click on the title to download the e-book, or the trial to get the free product tryout. The book file sizes range from 4-10 MB each, so shouldn’t take long to download. The contents of each volume are listed below the table:

Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe Photoshop CS6 workspace
2. How to create a new document
3. How to resize, rotate, and crop images
4. How to use layers in Photoshop
5. How to use selection tools
6. How to retouch photos
7. How to generate different file formats
8. How to correct color
9. How to combine images in Photoshop
10. How to use painting tools
11. How to use drawing tools
12. How to understand color management
13. How to add text to images
14. How to use filters
15. How to create layer comps
16. How to add a watermark to images
17. How to warp images
18. How to use gradient maps
19. How to use advanced color techniques
20. How to blend, feather, and smooth
21. How to use the Vanishing Point filter

Key terms: photoshop cs6, digital photography, image editing & retouching

Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe Illustrator CS6 workspace
2. How to create vector artwork
3. How to draw in Illustrator
4. How to draw in perspective with Illustrator
5. How to use symbols and patterns

Key terms: illustrator cs6, graphic design, vector editing

Learn how to use Adobe InDesign CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe InDesign CS6 workspace
2. How to set up a document
3. How to use the ruler, grid, guides, and the Align panel
4. How to use text
5. How to prepare files for print
6. How to combine graphics frames and text frames
7. How to work with graphics frames
8. How to place images on a page
9. How to work with text frames
10. How to apply effects to text
11. How to import files
12. How to create interactive documents
13. How to use placeholder text
14. How to use character and paragraph styles
15. How to work with layers
16. How to wrap text around objects
17. How to add page numbers
18. How to create captions
19. How to import text from Microsoft Word
20. How to manage text flow between frames
21. How to reuse objects
22. How to transform objects
23. How to use document templates
24. How to use adaptive layouts
25. How to export for multiple screens
26. How to fill text with an image
27. How to use master pages
28. How to use object styles
29. How to use books

Key terms: indesign cs6, print production, digital publishing, desktop publishing

Learn how to use Adobe Fireworks CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe Fireworks CS6 workspace
2. How to create a wireframe
3. How to create a design comp
4. How to prepare photographs
5. How to optimize images
6. How to create a prototype
7. How to create interactive navigation

Key terms: fireworks cs6, web design

Learn how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of the Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 workspace
2. How to set up a local root folder and site structure
3. How to set document properties
4. How to use the Assets panel
5. How to manage files and links by using the FIles panel
6. The Dreamweaver Insert panel
7. How to deploy for multiple screens
8. How to create and edit a CSS rule
9. How to use CSS starter layouts
10. How to lay out a web page with CSS
11. How to use templates
12. How to work with external Cascading Style Sheets
13. How to troubleshoot Cascading Style Sheets
14. How to make websites accessible
15. How to use the Adobe Dreamweaver Widget Browser
16. How to check files in and out
17. How to create interactive navigation
18. How to add images
19. How to add rich media to a web page
20. How to add text
21. How to use CSS text styles
22. How to create lists
23. How to create links
24. How to create data tables
25. How to create forms
26. How to create image maps
27. How to preview and test a web project
28. How to check links
29. How to publish web files

Key terms: dreamweaver cs6, web design & development

Learn how to use Adobe Flash Professional CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of the Adobe Flash Professional CS6 workspace
2. Understanding Flask graphic files types
3. How to organize content
4. Symbols, instances, and the library
5. How to use guides and rulers
6. How to maintain consistency
7. How to make Flash content accessible
8. How to draw and create shapes
9. How to apply colors and gradients
10. How to create masks
11. How to create a button symbol
12. How to use transparent or invisible buttons
13. How to work with text
14. Understanding frames and keyframes
15. How to create animation
16. How to use a motion guide with a motion tween animation
17. How to ease tweens
18. How to create character animations
19. How to use sprite sheets
20. How to use filmmaking techniques
21. How to create transitions with motion tweens
22. How to create visual effects
23. How to import images
24. How to produce Flash video for use on the web
25. How to import sound
26. How to optimize Flash content
27. How to get started with ActionScript
28. ActionScript for basic gaming
29. How to test a Flash project
30. How to publish a Flash document
31. How to set up a mobile application
32. How to resize content for multiple screens
33. How to create an RSS feed
34. How to create a Google map
35. How to publish a mobile application

Key terms: flash cs6, rich media design, animation, mobile application design & development

Learn how to use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 workspace
2. How to import files
3. How to manage media in the Project panel
4. How to create a storyboard in the Project panel
5. How to trim clips in the Timeline panel
6. How to work with clips in the Timeline panel
7. How to create standard image, movie, and audio files
8. How to capture video
9. How to use editing tools in the Source Monitor
10. How to apply and adjust video transitions
11. How to adjust audio and apply crossfades
12. How to record a narration in the Audio Mixer
13. How to create TV news-style J- and L- cuts
14. How to edit in the Program Monitor
15. How to use Adobe Media Encoder CS6
16. How to use the Trim Monitor
17. Understanding the Titler
18. How to build text and objects in the Titler
19. How to work with alpha channel transparencies
20. How to use the Motion effect
21. How to add text effects
22. How to apply and adjust video effects
23. How to work with audio
24. How to change clip speed and direction
25. How to apply and adjust video keying effects
26. How to work with temporal and spatial keyframe interpolation
27. How to make text roll and crawl
28. How to use nested sequences
29. How to work with other motion effects and features

Key terms: premiere pro cs6, video production, video editing

Learn how to use Adobe After Effects CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe After Effects CS6 workspace
2. How to animate text and create video effects
3. How to rotoscope in Adobe After Effects

Key terms: after effects cs6, video production, motion graphics, special effects

Learn how to use Adobe Audition CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe Audition CS6 workspace
2. How to record narration
3. How to edit audio tracks
4. How to compose multiple track recordings
5. How to work with audio
6. How to apply Adobe Audition sound effects
7. How to use loops, music beds, and sound effects

Key terms: audition cs6, audio production

Learn how to use Adobe Encore CS6
Technical guides include:

1. Overview of Adobe Encore CS6 workspace
2. How to author a single-menu DVD in Adobe Encore
3. How to use advanced authoring techniques in Encore
4. Creating a web DVD in Encore

Key terms: encore cs6, dvd production, DVD

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Creative Suite 6 is now available for instant download and direct shipping, and there are many important differences in this release compared to Creative Suite 5, including hundreds of new features added to the individual applications.

Here we’ve put together a complete set of direct download links for all the new CS6 products (Windows and Mac OS), for instant easy access and the ability to use your own download manager or download assistant if you have any difficulty with what Adobe normally employs and need to access the trials without it… Whether you’re considering buying a full version or upgrading from a prior release, you can always use these trials to install, run, and activate the software on your system.

Where available, we’ve also linked the free CS6 Extra Content downloads (aka Additional or Functional Content). Direct links for both the Adobe Muse 1.0 free trial and the Adobe Edge Preview are offered as well.

Below is a table for CS6 trials in major languages. These links go to the auth­entic and original CS6 files residing on Adobe’s servers, are guaranteed genuine and will not change. For Windows, each program consists of up to two files, an .exe and a 7-Zip file (.7z). The .exe file will only work once the .7z file is fully downloaded and resides in the same location. For the Mac, it’s just a single .dmg file for each program.

The supported languages vary by product. The Western Euro­pean languages can include French/Français, German/Deutsch, Italian/Italiano, Dutch/Nederlands, Danish/Dansk, Finnish/Suomi, Swedish/Svenska, Norwegian/Norsk, Portuguese/Português, and Spanish/Español. To see which product supports which languages, visit the main Adobe trials page and then click on the selection menu for whichever product(s) you’d like to try – it will tell you which languages are currently available.

Note: Very Important Instructions

You need to have a free Adobe account and be logged into it to use the links below, as Adobe sets a session cookie on your browser that allows you to access the direct download links. Otherwise, you will receive an “access denied” or “resume your download” message prevent­ing the connection. So please follow these instructions carefully or the links will not work!

0. Adobe recommends temporarily turning off any surfing restrictions you might have running, like site or cookie blocking, firewalls or antivirus software.
1. Click «here» to visit this page like you want to try Photoshop CS6, and then select the “Download Now” button at the bottom.
2. If you already have an Adobe ID, then please sign in with it (checking “Remember me“), otherwise take a minute to create one for yourself.
3. Now close or cancel the windows for that trial of Photoshop CS6.
4. OK, you’re logged in now at Adobe with the trials cookie set, so you can instantly download any of the software below. Just make sure you have enough disk space.
5. Download the files either by clicking directly on the DDL links, or by right-clicking and choosing “Save Link As…” on the popup menu – and save all files to the same place.
6. Then follow the product installation instructions here.

Creative Suite 6 – Adobe CS6 Downloads

All of these trials are supported on Mac OS X or Windows (32-bit x86 and 64-bit x64), with the exception of After Effects CS6, Premiere Pro CS6, and SpeedGrade CS6 which are 64-bit only. For more, see the complete set of system requirements for Creative Suite 6.

Note there is no separate trial download for Photoshop CS6 “Standard” – the trial is always the Extended version (having all Photoshop features including 3D and motion-based content), and then you decide which version you’d like to keep at time of product purchase.

You do not need to uninstall previous versions of Creative Suite; some users prefer to keep the older, familiar version(s) around as they come up to speed with the new product’s features, and some folks have CS3, CS4, CS5, and CS6 all on one computer.

It is suggested to use a browser other than Internet Explorer to download any of the files above. They can be quite large and sometimes IE has difficulty with the file or the download. Using Firefox or Chrome will work better.

Adobe CS6 Extra Content

This is Extra Content (also called Functional Content) that Adobe bundles with some CS6 applications. It is technically optional and not required to run the main products, but will improve your experience if you can take the time to download and add it to your installation.

What’s included in this free additional content are typically media assets, templates, tutorials, documentation, fonts, footage, sample files and projects, and so on. If you own a suite, you can download the bundle for that plus whichever applications are in it.

• InDesign CS6 Extra Content (130 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• Illustrator CS6 Extra Content (112 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• Premiere Pro / Encore CS6 Extra Content (733 MB)
            Windows:  File 1   File 2      Mac:  File 1
• After Effects CS6 Extra Content
            AE content will be migrated to the After Effects Exchange.

See our:

• Creative Suite 6 Launch Guide
• What’s new features for each product within the suites
• Version differences between CS6 vs. CS5.5 or from earlier versions
• Free Adobe CS6 Tutorials – 18 hours of video training
• How to save 80% with the CS6 Student Editions
• Watch a video replay of the Global CS6 Launch Event

Did these links work for you? Hope they helped out; please let us know with a comment below…

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• Photoshop Elements 9 & Premiere Elements 9 Direct Download Links

[UPDATE (April 23rd) – CS6 is out!]

Creative Suite 6 is now available for instant download and direct shipping, and there are many important differences in this release compared to Creative Suite 5, including hundreds of new features added to the individual applications.

And after giving away CS6 Master Collection earlier this month, we now would like to focus especially on Adobe’s popular lineup of Digital Imaging Products. In particular, we want to give brand new copies of Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4, and Photoshop Elements 10 to three of you, our amazing readers!

There will be one winner for each of these products, which are the commercial English versions for either Windows or Mac OS. The three winners will receive them in prize packages also containing Adobe/CS6 tee-shirts, pens, and other goodies. 1st prize is Photoshop, 2nd prize is Lightroom, and 3rd prize is PSE – with a total estimated retail value for all prizes of US$1000.

Sound good?  These are all brand new releases, so it may help to know what’s new in Photoshop CS6, what’s new in Lightroom 4, and what’s new in Photoshop Elements 10.

How to enter?  It’s easy to gain up to four chances to win…  The contest is open to residents of North America, U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and to enter just do one (or more) of the following:

That’s it!  Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the drawing – so if you do all four, you would receive 4 different chances to win one of these software packages.  Be sure your email is correct so that we can contact you. One entry per reader for each method, but please do share and tell your friends and colleagues who would like the software as well. Thanks also go out to our friends at Adobe for helping sponsor this giveaway!

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EDT on Friday, May 18th, 2012. The winners will be drawn at random from all valid entries, and contacted via email – and we’ll announce the lucky recipients (first names only) right here the following week. If you’re one of them, then you’ll be receiving Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4, or PSE 10 for free!

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Contest is open to residents of USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, with up to four entries per person as outlined above. The sweepstakes winners will be determined at random from all valid entries. The participants whose names are drawn must respond to email notification within 72 hours after sending. Estimated maximum retail value of all prizes is US$1,000, which will include the full, upgrade, or education versions as appropriate. By entering, all entrants agree to release ProDesignTools.com (the Sponsor), and its employees from all liability and claims relating to participation in the contest. No substitu­tions or transfer of prizes or cash redemptions permitted by winners. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, suspend or alter the rules and parameters of the sweepstakes. Sponsor also reserves the right to substitute a prize or prizes as Sponsor deems suitable in the event that prizes become unavailable for any reason.

All federal, state and local taxes, as well as any customs duties, other taxes, fees and/or sur­charges will be the sole responsibility of the prize winners. Winners under the age of 18 (as of winner announcement date) must have their parents’ and/or legal guardians’ consent to accept prize. By acceptance of prizes, the winners agree to release ProDesignTools.com from any and all liability claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for damages. Offer void where prohibited, regu­lated or restricted by law in a manner inconsistent with the purposes and rules hereof. This promotion is in no way associated or connected with Facebook or Twitter.

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

There’s no doubt that Creative Suite 6 will be out sometime later this year… We have a pretty good sense of when, but we’d like to get a leg up on the release and give out a brand new boxed copy of Adobe’s forthcoming top-of-the-line CS6 suite to our amazing readers who have helped build our site to what it is today…

Yes, that’s right, this is it: the big enchilada, the numero uno, the biggest of the best Adobe premium suites – it’s CS6 Master Collection, containing nearly every great application that Adobe makes!  It includes Photoshop Extended, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, Illus­trator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and many more – see all the applications it will likely contain when released.

We’ve given away a lot of software over the years, but this prize is our largest ever…  And it’s not an upgrade or an education version – this is the shrinkwrapped, full commercial English release of CS6, which has been generously furnished by Adobe.  Master Collection currently sells for $2,599 / €2,899 / £2,303 – and collectively the 15+ major programs within are worth $7,587 if purchased separately.

So what new features will be in CS6, compared to CS5.5?  Well, we have a good sense of Photoshop CS6 already through the free beta release download…  For the other products, Adobe’s CEO dropped some hints recently, in addition to nearly a dozen sneak peek videos, plus the inside scoop on the CS6 video products.

How to get it?  Well, it’s easy to enter.  The contest is open to residents of North America, U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is one (or more) of the following:

That’s it!  Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the drawing – so if you do all four, you would receive a 4 different chances to win the CS6 Master Suite.  Be sure your email is correct and current so that we can contact you. One entry per reader for each method, but please do share and tell your friends and colleagues who would like the software as well.

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Submissions are open until 11:59pm EDT on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012. The winner will be drawn at random from all valid entries, and contacted via email – and we’ll announce the lucky recipient (first name only) right here the following week. If you’re the one, we’ll ship you a shiny new box of Adobe CS6 Master Collection the moment it’s available, for free!

See also:

— CS6 Grace Period! Buy CS5.5 Now + Get Free Upgrade to CS6 When It Ships

— Adobe: CS6 Due Out “Late in Q2″ with Very Compelling New Features

— Revealed! What’s New in CS6 for Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition

— Sneak Previews of CS6: Dreamweaver, InDesign, Flash Pro, Illustrator & Premiere

— What’s the Difference Between Photoshop CS6 vs. CS5 – What’s New & Changed?

And in the meantime check out these great resources for Creative Suite 5:

• Our Creative Suite 5.5 Release Guide
• What’s new features for each product in the new suites
• What’s the difference between CS5.5 vs. CS5 or even earlier versions
• Download a fully-functional free trial of any suite or product
• Ask the CS5.5 Experts: the first FAQ and the second FAQ
• CS5.5 demos – video tours on Adobe TV

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Terms & Conditions

Contest is open to residents of USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, with up to four entries per person as outlined above. The sweepstakes winner will be determined at random from all valid entries. The participant whose name is drawn must respond to email notification within 72 hours after sending. Estimated retail price of the prize is US$2,600. By entering, all entrants agree to release ProDesignTools.com (the Sponsor), and its employees from all liability and claims relating to participation in the contest. No substitutions or transfer of prize or cash redemptions permitted by winners. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, suspend or alter the rules and parameters of the sweepstakes. Sponsor also reserves the right to substitute a prize or prizes as Sponsor deems suitable in the event that prize becomes unavailable for any reason.

All federal, state and local taxes, as well as any customs duties, other taxes, fees and/or sur­charges will be the sole responsibility of the prize winners. Winners under the age of 18 (as of winner announcement date) must have their parents’ and/or legal guardians’ consent to accept prize. By acceptance of prize, the winners agree to release ProDesignTools.com from any and all liability claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for damages. Offer void where prohibited, regu­lated or restricted by law in a manner inconsistent with the purposes and rules hereof. This promotion is in no way associated or connected with Facebook or Twitter.

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

If you like Photoshop and want a free paid trip to Photoshop World plus a CS5.5 suite, check out Adobe’s Next Photoshop Evangelist contest…  All you have to do is create and upload a 1-2 minute video demonstrating your favorite “Hidden Gem” in Photoshop CS5.

What’s a hidden gem? Essentially, it’s just a lesser-known feature or workflow of the product that you find valuable – perhaps using a function or tool in a way that Adobe didn’t imagine… For some great examples, check out this helpful series of Photoshop Hidden Gems that Adobe produced.

Submit your video here »

The top 5 videos will be selected and voted on, with the winner receiving a $4,000-$6,000 prize package including a trip to the PSW Conference either in Washington, D.C. this spring, or in Las Vegas this fall – plus a full copy of CS5.5 Design Standard. The trip includes roundtrip airfare, lodging, event admission, and spending money – plus meeting Adobe’s Photoshop Product Team personally and the opportunity to demonstrate your hidden gem live at the show. Four runners-up will get a free $1,000 copy of Photoshop CS5 Extended.

It’s open to users 18 years or older in the USA, Canada, U.K, and Germany. No purchase is necessary to win – because if you need Photoshop CS5 to use for your entry, you can easily download the fully-working free trial for 30 days. You can submit as many original videos as you like, just be sure to mention the phrase “hidden gem” in each… For some ideas of what to talk about, see the list of new CS5 features for Photoshop (and all other products). Complete contest rules here.

The submission deadline is March 5th after which five finalists will be chosen by Adobe, and the grand prize winner will be selected by the Photoshop community on Facebook. All five finalists will be showcased by Adobe on several venues. So show off your Photoshop skills and sharing abilities and you could be on your way to Photoshop World this year with a new CS5 suite on your laptop and some fame to your name.

Enter here »

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

Anybody interested in some free copies of new Adobe Lightroom 4?

We’ve got them. Adobe says the 4th release of this very popular photography solution is due to ship fairly soon – however if you want to try it out and get your feet wet before then, you can just download and run the free LR4 beta version, though this shouldn’t be used for production or permanent work.

In the meantime, did you know that Adobe just extended an unprecedented deal on the current full version – Lightroom 3 – for half off the regular price of US$300, save 50% worldwide? Yes, it’s true, and never been done before – but you can take advantage of that here.  And you’d still be eligible and welcome for the free giveaway of version 4 by entering below.

So, we’ve got two brand new boxed copies of the final official Lightroom 4 product all lined up and would love to give them away to our faithful readers…  It’s easy to sign up.  The contest is open to residents of North America, U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is one (or both) of the following:

That’s it!  Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the drawing – so if you do both, you’ll receive a two chances to win the prizes. Be sure your email is correct and current so we can contact you. One entry per reader for each method, but please do share and tell your friends and colleagues who would like the software as well.

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EST on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. The winners will be drawn at random from all valid entries, and contacted via email – and we’ll announce the lucky recipients (first names only) right here the following week. If you’re one, we’ll ship you a shiny new box of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 the moment it’s out, for free… Good luck!

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Terms & Conditions

All federal, state and local taxes, as well as any customs duties, other taxes, fees and/or sur­charges will be the sole responsibility of the prize winners. Winners under the age of 18 (as of winner announcement date) must have their parents’ and/or legal guardians’ consent to accept prize. By acceptance of prize, the winners agree to release ProDesignTools.com from any and all liability claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for damages. Offer void where prohibited, regulated or restricted by law in a manner inconsistent with the purposes and rules hereof.

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• Win Adobe CS6 Master Collection Suite FREE! ($2,600 Giveaway)

[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

Welcome 2012!  Last year we gave away a lot of software, so to kick off the new year right, we’re going to be giving away a brand new boxed copy of the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium suite. This is one of the top-selling CS editions and the second largest prize we’ve ever done…

Creative Suite 5.5 was officially released in May, and contains a large number of new product features and improvements over CS5.  But this giveaway is not an upgrade or an education version – it is the shrinkwrapped, full commercial English version of CS 5.5.

CS5.5 Web Premium sells for $1,799 / €1,999 / £1,429 and includes the popular applications Photoshop Extended, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Acrobat X Pro, Flash Pro/Catalyst, Fireworks, among others… (see the complete list of products it contains)  If you want to try it out first and install it on your computer, that’s easy as the free trial is available for download for both Windows and Mac OS.

Owning Creative Suite 5.5 would also make you eligible to upgrade to CS6 when that product line eventually releases.

This giveaway is open to residents of North America, Europe/UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is the following three steps:

1. Follow us on Twitter and/or Like our Facebook page – this will allow us to contact you if you win…  (see “Subscribe” box at upper right)
2. Then tweet this post by clicking on the green “retweet” button just above, and/or Share this post on Facebook by clicking the blue “Share” button next to that.
3. Done.

There’s a third way to enter too – just leave your email for our free occasional Adobe Special Offers newsletter in the sidebar to the right… and you’ll add another chance, plus receive future notification of new Adobe deals and coupon codes (once in a while, never spam).
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Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the sweepstakes – so if you do all three, you’ll receive a total of 3 chances to win the Adobe CS5.5 Premium Suite. Please, one entry per reader for each method, but feel free to tell your friends and colleagues who’d like to win as well.

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012.  The prizewinner will be drawn at random from all Facebook fans and Twitter followers who have also shared or retweeted this post, plus new newsletter subscribers – and we’ll announce this lucky recipient right here within one week from the closing date.

If you’re the one, we’ll ship you the shiny new shrinkwrapped CS5.5 Web Premium for free! We’ll contact you via Twitter or Facebook or email simply to get your address for shipping, and then announce here with just your first name and hometown. That’s all there is to it.

In the meantime check out these great free resources for Creative Suite 5:

• Our Creative Suite 5.5 Release Guide
• What’s new features for each product in the new suites
• What’s the difference between CS5.5 vs. CS5 or even earlier versions
• Download a fully-functional free trial of any suite or product
• Ask the CS5.5 Experts: the first FAQ and the second FAQ
• CS5.5 demos – video tours on Adobe TV
• Timeframe for a future CS6 release

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We’ve given away a lot of products over the past couple years, but haven’t yet offered Adobe Lightroom…  So here, now, we’re giving away Adobe Lightroom 3 (value US$300) with a new camera bag!  Second prize is the Photoshop & Premiere Elements 10 Bundle (US$150), and for third place we have an Adobe-branded prize pack with T-shirt, pen, lanyard, and other surprises.

Actually, all three winners will receive one of those prize packs, so much the better. The free copy of Lightroom is graciously sponsored by Adobe, and should do nicely until Lightroom 4 is released. Photoshop and Premiere Elements 10 are brand new, out five weeks ago.

The goal of the contest is to learn from our readers worldwide:
What would you like to see in the next release of your favorite Adobe product?

It could be any one – CS6 (any application), Lightroom 4, Acrobat 11, Photoshop Elements 11, and the rest.  What do you hope for, want Adobe to add/do/change, what’s on your wishlist?
Just share it in a comment below and/or on Facebook, and you’re entered.  Please be sure to include the name of the future product you’re talking about (for example, “In CS6 I’d like …”).

To double your power and effectiveness, then copy and paste the same comment into Adobe’s Official Feature Request form to let them know directly.  Here’s your chance to make your voice heard, and win some nice products doing it.

Then, at the end of the month, we’ll choose the three best comments posted to receive these three prize packages. Multiple comments per visitor on different applications are okay, but be reasonable and be sure to share and tell your friends and colleagues who’d like a chance to win and express their feedback as well – it’s good karma!

Submissions will be open until 11:59pm EST on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011. The three winners will be contacted via email – and we’ll announce the lucky recipients right here in early December.  Good luck and please spread the word!

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Just back from Adobe MAX 2011 and it was sensational… The keynote presentations were larger than life and filled with news and demos of new Adobe software and initiatives. The hundreds of diverse product sessions were incredibly educational. The show floor was a buzzing activity of experts, partners, and vendors… And the renowned “MAX Bash” party did not disappoint.

But perhaps the best part for those who weren’t there is the majority of the sessions were captured on video and are now offered online for free… In other words, pick your favorite Adobe product(s) and you can learn the latest tips, tricks, and techniques from the top instructors in the field from the comfort of your desktop. There are three major tracks below (Design, Develop, and Envision) with scores of different topics; most sessions are about an hour long and the collection runs to over 160 hours of video in total.

As for the two conference keynotes, those are also available for online viewing as well, and broken up into segments according to theme… The first day highlights included the unveiling of Creative Cloud, a membership-based collection of creative applications and services, the announcement of the Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition for smaller publishers, and the introduction of Adobe Touch Apps, including Photoshop Touch.

Day two covered the company’s latest HTML5 and CSS3 developments including the new Adobe Edge product, as well as Flash Player 11 with 3D, AIR 3, and Adobe’s acquisition of PhoneGap.

But without further ado, here are the best training and tutorial sessions direct from MAX, now free to watch…  160 hours – that’s 20 eight-hour days worth of content! Dig in…

MAX 2011 Design

Dive into the art and science of designing across media, including web, interactive, video, mobile, and print. Join us to expand your skills and be inspired.

• Acrobat for the Web Designer
• Adobe Illustrator: Secrets to working faster, smarter and more creatively
• Advanced Audio Restoration and Editing
• Advanced Integration Techniques for Muse (codename)
• Advanced Interactivity and Real-World Integration with Adobe Edge
• An Introduction to Creative Photographic Imaging on Tablet Devices
• Beautiful Typography: A Crash Course
• BrowserLab: An Online Service for Cross-Browser
• Building Adaptive, Multiscreen Websites with Business Catalyst v3
• Building Tablet Applications Using InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite
• Building Workspaces of the Future – Today
• CEM and the Studio: How your Digital Agency Fits into the Puzzle
• CSS Takes Over the World
• CSS for Web and Mobile Design
• Case Study: Buck Creative Agency
• Case Study: Give Your Web Design Agency a Boost with Business Catalyst
• Creating Accessible Documents More Efficiently with InDesign CS5.5
• Creating Dynamic Ads, Banners, and Rich Apps
• Creating eBooks for Distribution on Digital Devices with InDesign CS5.5
• Creative Sweet: Little-Known Features Found in Creative Suite
• Deploying Content to Mobile Devices with the WEM Content Sync Framework
• Deploying Flash Professional Content across Screens
• Design Better Experiences with Fireworks by Understanding How People Think
• Design websites without writing code with Muse (code name)
• Designing Game Interfaces
• Designing More, Stressing Less with Creative Suite
• Developing Accessible PDF Content for LiveCycle with Designer
• Dynamic, Cloud-Based Localization for Adobe’s Mobile Applications
• Easy 3D Content Creation and Workflow for Flash & Stage3D
• Editing Video from HDSLR Cameras in CS5.5 Production Premium
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Adobe Edge
• Expressive Painting and Illustration in Photoshop CS5 with Jack Davis
• For Creative Professionals: Adobe Mobile Apps and Why You Should Use Them
• For Creative Professionals: Create Anywhere. Customer Panel Discussion
• For Creative Professionals: Working with Adobe Mobile Apps + Your Desktop
• For Web and UI Designers: Work in New Ways with Mobile Apps
• From Web to Mobile to App in 60 Seconds with Dreamweaver CS5.5
• Get Your App Discovered: Android Market and Beyond
• HD Video and Audio: Best Practices Encoding for the Web and Tablets
• Hidden Gems and Technologies in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended
• How to Act Like an Agency within a Company
• How to Work Creatively and Quickly with 3D in Photoshop CS5 Extended
• I Didn’t Know Fireworks Could Do That!
• InDesign CS5.5 Power Shortcuts
• Introduction to Lightroom: The Develop Module
• Introduction to Lightroom: The Output Module
• Lightroom + Photoshop: Seamless Integration
• Lightroom 3 Crash Course
• Mastering Mobile Design in Minutes with Fireworks
• Mini-Fantasia in Miami: An Imaginative Melding of Music and Animation
• Photoshop CS5 Instant Effects: One-Click Techniques for Designers
• Photoshop SDK: An Overview
• Pixel Perfect: Photoshop Power Shortcuts
• Publishing to Digital Devices with InDesign CS5.5
• Shooting and Editing Interviews
• Sneak Peek: Build Powerful Online Businesses with Business Catalyst v3
• Taking Your Sites to the Next Level with Business Catalyst and jQuery
• The Art of Sesame Street
• The Best Practices for Application and UX Design for Large Data Sets
• Using Adobe’s Web Tools to Rethink Digital Branding
• Web and Interactive Design with Illustrator
• What’s New in Flash Professional CS5.5
• What’s New in InDesign CS5.5
• Which Flavor of Digital Publishing Suite Suits You?
• Workflow for Motion Designers

MAX 2011 Develop

Explore technical challenges faced in architecting solutions, building applications, integrating with enterprise back-end systems and services as well as basic and advanced development techniques.

• Accelerate Business Results with Adobe Document Exchange Services
• Adobe AIR App Demo Showcase for Sony Tablet Devices
• Adobe Video Solutions Roadmap
• Aspect-Oriented Programming with Flex
• Automating Acrobat: Best Practices for using Actions and Scripting
• Best Practices for Building Flex Tablet Applications
• BlackBerry Webworks SDK for Tablet OS
• Building CRX Powered Flex Applications
• Building Collaborative Applications for Adobe Connect
• Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Building Enterprise Mobile Applications
• Building Interactive Content Using HTML5 Canvas
• Building the Best Gameplay
• Building the Next Killer Flash App for Facebook
• Case Study: City of Boston Situation Awareness Application on iPad
• Case Study: WebFilings, A Cloud-powered, Innovative Enterprise Application
• Creating Accessible Content on the Flash Platform
• Creating Amazing Video Experiences on the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet
• Creating Apps in 2D or 3D for the LG Cinema 3D and Smart TV Platform
• Creating Components for Web Experience Management (WEM) Solutions
• Creating and Optimizing 2D Flash Technology-Based Games for Mass Market TVs
• Deep Dive into Molehill (Stage 3D)
• Design to Release: Building a multi screen mobile application
• Developer and Designer Multiscreen Mashup with Flash Professional
• Developing 2D Games on Top of Stage 3D (Molehill) in Flash Player
• Developing Flex Mobile Applications
• Developing Next-Generation Games with Stage3D (Molehill) Part 1
• Developing Next-Generation Games with Stage3D (Molehill) Part 2
• Developing the Samsung Smart TV Application with Adobe AIR for TV
• Development Best Practices for Authoring Across Devices
• Discover What’s New in Document Services – Designer
• Discover What’s new in LiveCycle Data Services
• Discover the Unknown Flex 4.5
• Elegant Design Powered by the Flex SDK
• Encoding for Performance on Multiple Devices
• Enterprise Java and Flex
• Enterprise Live Video Strategies with Multicast and P2P
• Extending Flex and Adobe AIR to the Enterprise with Data Service Connectors
• Extending the Web Experience Management Solution with Custom Components
• Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst Sitting in a Tree…
• Flash Gets Physical: Connecting with Game Controllers, Arduino, and Sensors
• Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services with CloudFront CDN
• Flash Platform Roadmap: Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player, AIR
• Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3: Changing the Game
• Flash and 3D, Start Your Engines!
• Flex and Flash in an HTML5 and Native App World
• From Desktop to Mobile: Application Functionality for Small Screens
• HTML5 Semantic Web
• HTML5: The 2012 of the Web
• High-Performance JavaScript
• How to Develop Amazing Enterprise AIR Apps for Tablets and Smartphones
• How to Develop and Monetize Your Creative Suite Extensions
• How to Extend Your Desktop AIR Applications Using Native Extensions
• How to Extend Your Mobile AIR Applications Using Native Extensions
• How to Rapidly Build HTML5 Web Apps with Sencha Technologies
• Keeping Current with ColdFusion
• Maven and Jenkins for Enterprise Flex Applications
• Mobile Apps That Wow
• Multiscreen Project Best Practices
• Node.js and You
• Optimizing your Adobe AIR app for Sony Android tablets
• Performance-Tuning Mobile Flex Applications
• Practical Mobile Development with Flex and Adobe AIR
• Programming a 3D First-Person Shooter Game in Flash
• Pushing Pixels: Blitting for Gaming on Web, Desktop, and Mobile
• Pushing the Envelope with Interactive PDF from InDesign
• Putting the Multi in Multiscreen
• Stepping from Android Java to the Flash Platform to…Everywhere
• Streaming Video to HTML5, Apple, and Flash Enabled Devices
• TV: The Final Frontier for App Monetization
• The App Opportunity with Barnes & Noble
• The Flash Platform and Alternativa3D: Amazing New Possibilities
• The Incubator: Test the Bleeding-Edge Capabilities of the Flash Platform
• Tips and Tricks for Building Desktop Applications with Adobe AIR
• Vanished: Learning Science through ARG Gameplay
• What’s New in Adobe AIR – and What’s Next
• What’s New in Flash Catalyst CS5.5
• What’s New in the Flex SDK
• What’s Next in ColdFusion
• Working with AIR Native Extensions

MAX 2011 Envision

Discover and explore strategies for building engaging experiences across multiple screens.

• 10 Whirlwind Demos with Adobe Web Experience Management
• Accelerate Business Results with Adobe Document Exchange Services
• Acrobat for the Web Designer
• Adobe AIR App Demo Showcase for Sony Tablet Devices
• Adobe@Adobe
• An Introduction to Creative Photographic Imaging on Tablet Devices
• Animating in Flash Professional CS5.5 with Chris Georgenes
• Building Adaptive, Multiscreen Websites with Business Catalyst v3
• CEM and the Studio: How your Digital Agency Fits into the Puzzle
• CSS Takes Over the World
• Case Study: City of Boston Situation Awareness Application on iPad
• Case Study: Give Your Web Design Agency a Boost with Business Catalyst
• Case Study: WebFilings, A Cloud-powered, Innovative Enterprise Application
• Creating Apps in 2D or 3D for the LG Cinema 3D and Smart TV Platform
• Creating Dynamic Ads, Banners, and Rich Apps
• Deploying Content to Mobile Devices with the WEM Content Sync Framework
• Deploying Flash Professional Content across Screens
• Designing Game Interfaces
• Designing the Digital Enterprise
• Developing Accessible PDF Content for LiveCycle with Designer
• Digital Publishing: Looking Back and Forward
• Digital Publishing: Reinventing the Brand Advertising Paradigm
• Digital Publishing: Riding the Next Wave of Corporate Publishing
• Dynamic, Cloud-Based Localization for Adobe’s Mobile Applications
• Easy 3D Content Creation and Workflow for Flash & Stage3D
• Extending the Web Experience Management Solution with Custom Components
• Flash Platform Roadmap: Flex, Flash Builder, Flash Player, AIR
• Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3: Changing the Game
• Flash Professional Sneak Peek: A Glimpse at the Future
• For Creative Professionals: Adobe Mobile Apps and Why You Should Use Them
• For Creative Professionals: Create Anywhere. Customer Panel Discussion
• For Creative Professionals: Working with Adobe Mobile Apps + Your Desktop
• For Web and UI Designers: Work in New Ways with Mobile Apps
• Get Your App Discovered: Android Market and Beyond
• MTV Networks: Behind the Scenes on World-Class Broadcast Events
• Maximizing Audience Engagement
• Panel Discussion: Positioning Flex and Flash in a World with HTML5
• Pushing the Boundaries of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in Academia
• Putting the Multi in Multiscreen
• R/GA’s Strategies for Successful Multiscreen Implementations
• Sneak Peek: Build Powerful Online Businesses with Business Catalyst v3
• Social Studies: Connecting Content and Community in the Cloud
• Taking Your Sites to the Next Level with Business Catalyst and jQuery
• The App Opportunity with Barnes & Noble
• The Best Practices for Application and UX Design for Large Data Sets
• The Experience Architecture
• The Flash Platform and Alternativa3D: Amazing New Possibilities
• The Future Enterprise Developer
• Tips & Tricks for Tablet Development: The Making of Adobe Ideas
• What’s New in Flash Professional CS5.5
• Yahoo!: Scalable and Consistent Video Delivery to All Devices

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Adobe collaborated with a community of educators across the US and UK to develop the appropriate depth and breadth of each project. Additionally, Adobe co-developed the classes with the International Society of Technology Education (ISTE) to create standards-aligned, career-track, course materials that focus on the major fields below. They are recommended for use when preparing for Adobe certification (Adobe Certified Associate, or ACA).

The three extensive course offerings are:

1. Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production
2. Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design
3. Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production

Visual Design develops key digital skills such as design, communication, project management, and graphic and print technology. Students use Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to develop images, InDesign CS5 to design and build layouts and print materials, and Illustrator CS5 to create vector-based graphics and illustrations to add interest. They use Adobe Acrobat Pro to review and improve content, produce print-ready materials, and develop a portfolio. The curriculum can be used in photography or graphic design education, or in broader career and technical education.

Digital Design develops important digital skills such as web design and production, project management, and web technology. Students use Adobe Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, and Fireworks CS5 to develop static and interactive graphics. They use Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 to design and build websites, and Flash Professional CS5 to apply design solutions requiring rich media and interactivity. This curriculum can be used in web design education or in more general career and technical education.

The Digital Video curriculum develops knowledge in storytelling, capturing and editing video and audio, and finalizing content for DVD or web through emphasis on design, production, project management, and video technology. Students use Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to edit video, and Soundbooth CS5 to create and edit audio. They use Adobe After Effects CS5 to enhance videos and add motion effects, and Encore CS5 to produce content for a DVD. Use this curriculum in career and technical education courses — or any other course that involves the use of video.

Learn more about the free downloadable curriculums… There are CS4 versions of the classes still available as well.  If you need the software as well, just download a free trial of any suite.

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The links given below go to the authentic and secure files residing on Adobe’s servers, are guaranteed genuine and will not change. They are especially useful when you are unable to download Adobe’s free trials via other means – often due to difficulties with the Akamai Download Manager (the Adobe DLM). With the links provided below, you can use your own browser’s download capability, or another download manager of your choice.

For setting up Elements on Windows (both PSE 10 and PRE 10), each program consists of two downloaded files: an .exe and a 7-Zip file (.7z). The .exe file will only work (and install) once the .7z file is fully downloaded and resides in the same location. For the Mac, it’s just a single .dmg file for each program.

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Note: Very Important Instructions

You must have a free Adobe account and be logged into it to use the links below, as Adobe sets a session cookie on your browser that allows you to access the direct download links. Otherwise, you will receive an “access denied” or “resume your download” message prevent­ing the connection. So please follow these instructions carefully or the links will not work!

0. Adobe recommends temporarily turning off any surfing restrictions you might have running, like site or cookie blocking, firewalls or antivirus software.
1. Click «here» to visit this page to begin the trial process the normal way, and select the “Download Now” button at the bottom.
2. If you already have an Adobe ID, then please sign in with it (checking “Remember me“), otherwise take a minute to create one for yourself.
3. Now close or cancel any windows that have popped up.
4. OK, you’re logged in now at Adobe with the trials cookie set, so you can instantly download any of the software below. Just make sure you have enough disk space.
5. Download the files either by clicking directly on the DDL links, or by right-clicking and choosing “Save Link As…” on the popup menu – and save all files to the same place.
6. Then follow the product installation instructions here.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 (PSE 10) Direct Download Links

Photoshop Elements 10 – Windows (1.5 GB):   File 1   File 2

Photoshop Elements 10 – Mac (2.0 GB):   File 1

Adobe Premiere Elements 10 (PRE 10) Direct Download Links

Premiere Elements now comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions… 64-bit offers higher performance but choose the 32-bit flavor if you’re unsure what your system is.

Premiere Elements 10 – Windows 32-bit (1.4 GB):   File 1   File 2

Premiere Elements 10 – Windows 64-bit (1.5 GB):   File 1   File 2

Premiere Elements 10 – Additional Content – Windows (3.0 GB):   File 1   File 2

Premiere Elements 10 – Mac (1.8 GB):   File 1

Premiere Elements 10 – Additional Content – Mac (3.2 GB):   File 1

The additional content contains InstantMovie themes, title templates, DVD/Blu-ray menu templates, and music to enhance your movies created with Adobe Premiere Elements 10 software. Themed HD and SD content includes Birthday Party, Road Trip, Outdoor Wedding, Broadway, Kid’s Channel, Family Memories, Extreme Sports, News Reel, Comic Book, and more.

Product languages supported: The Elements 10 tryouts are currently available in English, French/Français, German/Deutsch, Dutch/Nederlands, Italian/Italiano, Spanish/Español, Portuguese/Português, Swedish/Svenska, and Japanese/日本語 – for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Adobe says additional language versions will be available soon.

Installation Tips

• You do not need to uninstall previous versions of Elements; some users prefer to keep the older, familiar version(s) around as they come up to speed with the new version’s features.
• Install with an account that has administrative privileges (not a Limited User Account if you are using Windows Vista).
• For the easiest installation experience, quit any open programs, including virus protection software, prior to installing Elements 10.
• Read the accompanying Photoshop Elements 10 Release Notes in English, French, or German.
• If you run into any difficulties, see the Elements 10 Installation Troubleshooting page.

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

September’s here!  Labor Day, back to school, fall begins…  September also usually means the next release of Photoshop Elements – now version 10 – should be coming out soon…

Now, we can’t say yet what new features will be in PSE 10, but – true to form – we can start giving it away…

So as soon as it’s available, we’ll be shipping out five shiny new boxes for free – and one could easily be yours through the three ways to enter below.

Photoshop Elements is already the #1-selling consumer photo-editing software* out there, and this 10th edition is likely to inherit even more functionality from its big brother, Photoshop CS5 – which itself is slated to get a major upgrade to Photoshop CS6 next year.

If Adobe follows the same model of Elements 9, then PSE 10 would be available on both Windows and Mac (multi-platform) with the same capabilities – and work alongside any older release(s) of Elements you may have, with the ability to automatically import and convert your existing catalog.

This new giveaway is open to residents of North America, Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is the following three steps:

1. Follow us on Twitter and/or Like our new Facebook page – this will allow us to contact you if you win…  (move to the next step if you already do)
2. Retweet this post by clicking on the green “retweet” button just above, and/or Share this post on Facebook by clicking the blue “Share” button next to that.
3. Done.

There’s a third way to enter too – just leave your email for our free occasional Adobe Special Offers newsletter in the sidebar to the right… and you’ll add another chance, plus receive future notification of new Adobe deals and coupon codes (once in a while, never spam).
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Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the sweepstakes – so if you do all three, you’ll receive a total of 3 chances to win one of 5 copies of Photoshop Elements 10. Please, one entry per reader for each method, but feel free to tell your friends and colleagues who’d like to win as well.

[UPDATE (Sept. 20th) — Photoshop Elements 10 is now shipping!  Check the new features.]

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EDT on Friday, September 30th, 2011. The prizewinners will be drawn at random from all Facebook fans and Twitter followers who have shared or retweeted this post, plus new newsletter subscribers – and we’ll announce this lucky recipients right here within one week from the closing date.

If you’re the one, we’ll ship you the shiny new shrinkwrapped Photoshop Elements 10 for free! The box will be the full, upgrade, or education version of PSE 10 as appropriate. (Or if you’ve already purchased your copy by that time, just send us the receipt and we’ll reimburse 100% of your cost via PayPal.) We’ll contact you via Twitter or Facebook or email simply to get your address for shipping, and then announce here with just your first name and hometown. That’s all there is to it!

In the meantime check out our great free resources for Elements:

• Download the free 95-page e-book: Guide to Photoshop Elements 9.
• What are the differences between Photoshop Elements 9 vs. 8 vs. 7 vs. 6?
• Four hours of free online video tutorials for PSE 9, and the same for PSE 7/8.
• See Adobe’s current coupons and discounts running for Elements.
• Consult the free online documentation/manual and the keyboard shortcuts.
• Review the best books available for Photoshop Elements.
• Download a full and free trial of Photoshop and/or Premiere Elements 9.

Good luck and spread the word!  To make things more interesting, you can also leave a comment below with what you plan to do with it if you win…

Or, let us – or Adobe – know what you hope will be in Photoshop Elements 10, and how you would use it… What new features are you looking for or wishing to see? More content-aware fill, addition of puppet warp, 16-bit picture workflow, native 64-bit support, more effects, more artwork/templates, more sharing options, performance or interface improvements, or others? Of course, we’ll have the full scoop on PSE 10 right here the moment it’s out…

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Terms & Conditions

Contest is open to residents of North America, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, with up to three entries per person as outlined above. Participants whose names are drawn must respond to email notification within 72 hours. By entering, all entrants agree to release ProDesignTools.com (the Sponsor), and its employees from all liability and claims relating to participation in the contest. No substitutions or transfer of prize or cash redemptions permitted by winners. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, suspend or alter the rules and parameters of the sweepstakes. Sponsor also reserves the right to substitute a prize or prizes as Sponsor deems suitable in the event that prize becomes unavailable for any reason.

All federal, state and local taxes, as well as any customs duties, other taxes, fees and/or sur­charges will be the sole responsibility of the prize winners. Winners under the age of 18 (as of winner announcement date) must have their parents’ and/or legal guardians’ consent to accept prize. By acceptance of prize, the winners agree to release ProDesignTools.com from any and all liability claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for damages. Offer void where prohibited, regulated or restricted by law in a manner inconsistent with the purposes and rules hereof.

Winners

UPDATE – Announcing our PSE 10 giveaway winners!  Congratulations to all five:

Surprisingly, no international folks on the winner board this time – but in previous contests quite a few European readers have walked away with the prizes…

Thank you all for participating, and please stay tuned for our next giveaway coming soon!

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

MAX 2011 – the big yearly conference for all-things-Adobe – is coming up in just two months in Los Angeles, California… And continuing our long tradition of free Adobe giveaways, we’ve got one free and full conference pass (worth $1,495) to give away, plus one $400-off ticket discount, both courtesy of our friends at Adobe Systems.

Adobe MAX 2011 will be chock full of expert keynotes and presentations, technical ses­sions and talks, surprise announcements and sneak-peeks, evening events and get-togethers, and possibly some freebies.

In fact, most of the over 200 training and tutorial sessions from MAX 2010 were recorded and are still available on-demand for free viewing, covering all Adobe tools.

Anyway, back to the ticket giveaway: We’re awarding one full and free conference pass as a grand prize, and one $400 ticket discount to the runner-up. Any travel and lodging arrange­ments are the responsibility of the winners. The contest is open to residents of North America, U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is one (or both) of the following:

1.  Leave a brief comment below telling us why you’d like to go or how it will help your work – and make sure to include your current email address – and/or,
2.  Enter your email for our free exclusive Adobe Special Offers e-Newsletter in the sidebar to the right (once in a while, never spam, and unsubscribe any time).

That’s it!  Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the drawing – so if you do both, you’ll receive a two chances to win the prizes. Please, one entry per reader for each method, but be sure to share and tell your friends and colleagues who’d like a chance as well.

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EDT on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011. The winners will be drawn at random from all valid entries, and contacted via email – and we’ll announce the lucky recipients (first names only) right here the next day. The prizes are in the form of two special, unique vouchers that will give one completely free conference attendance, and one discounted registration.

Good luck and spread the word! And even if you don’t win either prize, find out how you can save $400 on Adobe MAX 2011 yourself!

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Adobe has just put out an excellent resource updated for CS5 / CS5.5 – a free printing guide in the form of a 140-page downloadable e-book. Earlier versions of this have been out for previous releases (see the older CS4 and CS3 links below), but now this is fully refreshed and upgraded for the latest versions of the products.

This very handy tome will tell you everything you ever need or wanted to know about getting great print results with your projects in Photoshop CS5 (including Extended), Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5/CS5.5, and Acrobat X Pro. All the different tools, setups, settings, options, functions, and formats – what they mean and how to best use them to achieve your goals.

Adobe describes it as, “learn the best ways of handling and preparing CS5 and CS5.5 files for print with this in-depth technical reference, designed especially for printers and production artists” – but anybody who would like a tutorial on how to print and generate the most optimal output from their designs can gain something here…

Because some technologies and concepts – such as PDF creation, transparency, and the Graphics Model – are common across all Adobe products used for print design and production, the first chapter of a dozen pages is devoted solely to explaining common terminology and back­ground resources. And with the groundwork laid, the rest goes into comprehensive detail on things you probably have wanted to know at some point but were afraid to ask or didn’t know where.

So now, whether you print from Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, or Acrobat, this ebook explains all you need to know about successful printing and output generation.

And luckily, the price is right!

• Read/download the Adobe CS5/CS5.5 Printing Guide (PDF, 140 pages, 20MB)
• Read/download the Adobe CS4 Printing Guide (PDF, 139 pages, 5MB)
• Read/download the Adobe CS3 Printing Guide (PDF, 120 pages, 7MB)

You may also be interested in another free e-book, the 172-page “Learn CS5: Step-by-Step and On-Demand” for training on Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, and Flash…

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You know all the usual reasons software makers give to register your software – to receive tech support, news, updates, offers, bug fixes, and so on.  It also protects your investment because it gives you permanent access to your registered serial number in case something ever happens to your computer or software.

Adobe adds another reason – to get free gifts. They’re called “complimentary benefits,” and they’re offered worldwide…

For example, if you register your Creative Suite 5 product, depending on what you own you could choose from one of these bonuses:

• a free copy of onOne Software’s PhotoTools 2.5 Standard plug-in for Photoshop,
• a complimentary copy of Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet Quick Looks plug-in for video,
• 30 days of free training at Lynda.com with more than 1,500 hours of Adobe training,
• a free download of the new and versatile text typeface font family Adobe Text, or
• a 30-day trial of the Creative Edge online library with thousands of books and videos.

Doing the same for Adobe Acrobat X gets you some similar choices – or a 10% discount coupon for anything at the Adobe Store, or four special edition Acrobat X PDF Portfolio themes, or discounts plus free access to Safari Books Online, Total Training, or Peachpit. Registering Acrobat also enables you to use services at Acrobat.com.

Users of older versions like CS4 and Acrobat 9 or 8 can qualify for exclusive benefits as well. Registering Photoshop Elements enables you to use Photoshop.com.

Note that to get these gifts you need to use “in-product” registration (the easiest)… Typically this is offered at the time of installation of the application, when a screen prompts you to register by completing just a few fields. Or, if your software is already installed, you can access your registration at any time by selecting Help > Registration or via Help > Complete/Update Adobe ID Profile from your application’s menu toolbar.

Also by the way, with any product registration, you also get on the list to receive invitations to special Adobe events. Just another reasonable benefit.

Questions? See the Registration FAQ. Or you can view your registered products.

(It should be noted that complimentary benefits do vary by product and region and are subject to availability. Adobe does not rent, sell, or lease customer information to third parties.)

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You may have heard of the recent releases of Flash Builder 4.5 (formerly Flex Builder, and now part of CS5.5), plus ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder 2…

And we’ve written about this particular offer before, but it bears repeating now that we have these major product refreshes for both Flex and ColdFusion.

Adobe will give you full versions of these premium devel­opment tools ($249 – $1,299 values) absolutely free if you qualify! And if you don’t, you might know someone who does and could benefit…

Free copies of Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Standard are given for non-commercial use to: (a) students, faculty and staff of eligible educational institutions, or (b) software devel­opers who are affected by the current economic conditions and currently unemployed.

The ColdFusion products are also available for free to educational customers, to use for learning purposes only and not for production use. Complimentary installation support is available, and if you are a teacher and would like ColdFusion 9 for multiple systems in your lab, you can request up to 30 education serial numbers.

So if you can qualify yourself for any of these categories, please go ahead and download your free software here.

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[UPDATE – Also see our new Photoshop CS6 Giveaway!]

Over the past year we’ve given away a lot of software… Last month we held our biggest giveaway yet – a copy of CS5 Production Premium (see our lucky winner).  This month things get even bigger and better – in partnership with Adobe, we’re offering a free boxed copy of the brand new CS5.5 Design Premium – the #1-selling Creative Suite edition…

Creative Suite 5.5 was officially released just two weeks ago, and contains a large number of new product features and improvements over CS5.  But this prize is not an upgrade or education version – it is the shrinkwrapped, full commercial English version of CS 5.5.

CS5.5 Design Premium sells for $1,899 / €1,899 / £1,509 and includes Photoshop Extended, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash Pro, Illustrator, Acrobat X Pro, among others… (see the complete list of applications it contains)  If you want to try it out first, the free trials also are now available.

This giveaway is open to residents of North America, Europe, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and all you need to do for a chance to win is the following three steps:

1.  Follow us on Twitter and/or Like our new Facebook page – this will allow us to contact you if you win…  (move to the next step if you already do)
2.  Retweet this post by clicking on the green “retweet” button just above, and/or Share this post on Facebook by clicking the blue “Share” button next to that.
3.  Done.

There’s a third way to enter too – just leave your email for our free occasional Adobe Special Offers newsletter in the sidebar to the right… and you’ll add another chance, plus receive future notification of new Adobe deals and coupon codes (once in a while, never spam).
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Each of these actions counts as a single entry into the sweepstakes – so if you do all three, you’ll receive a total of 3 chances to win the CS5.5 premium suite.

Submissions are open until 11:59pm EDT on June 30th, 2011. The winner will be drawn at random from all Facebook fans and Twitter followers who have shared or retweeted this post, plus new newsletter subscribers – and we’ll announce this lucky recipient right here within one week from the closing date.

If you’re the one, we’ll ship you the shiny new shrinkwrapped CS5.5 Design Premium for free! We’ll contact you via Twitter or Facebook or email simply to get your address for shipping, and then announce here with just your first name and hometown. That’s all there is to it!

In the meantime if you want to learn more about the products, check out our Creative Suite 5.5 Release Review. If you’re considering moving up from your current version and wondering about pricing, see what the upgrade cost would be. Our most popular article on the subject is, “What is the Difference between CS5.5 vs. CS5 vs. CS4 vs. CS3?”

You may also want to know about the complete hardware requirements for CS5.5, or download and run a free working trial of any of the suites or products… Then get started using the software with dozens of hours of free video feature tours and tutorials.

If you like, you can also leave a comment below with what you’d plan to do with it if you win – good luck!

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One minor note: The box that Adobe generously sent us is officially for Windows, however because we already know it’s easy to switch CS5.5 platforms (e.g., from Windows to Mac, or vice versa), it should be no problem to change if you need to.

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[UPDATE (5/7/2012) – These still work to download the CS5.5 trials.
We also now have the new CS6 Direct Download Links!]

Some of the most visited resources on this site are the direct download links provided for most major Adobe products. So continuing in this tradition, here is a complete set of direct down­load links for all the new Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 software (Windows and Mac), for instant easy access and the ability to use your own download manager or download assistant if you have any difficulty with what Adobe normally employs and need to access the CS5.5 trials without it…

We have also linked the free CS5.5 Extra Content downloads (aka Additional or Functional Content) for all available products.

Below is a table for CS5.5 trial downloads in major languages. These links go to the auth­entic and original CS5.5 files residing on Adobe’s servers, are guaranteed genuine and will not change. For Windows, each program consists of up to two files, an .exe and a 7-Zip file (.7z). The .exe file will only work once the .7z file is fully downloaded and resides in the same location. For the Mac, it’s just a single .dmg file for each program.

The supported languages vary by product. The Western Euro­pean languages can include French/Français, German/Deutsch, Italian/Italiano, Dutch/Nederlands, Danish/Dansk, Finnish/Suomi, Swedish/Svenska, Norwegian/Norsk, Portuguese/Português, and Spanish/Español. To see which product supports which languages, visit the main Adobe trials page and then click on the selection menu for whichever product(s) you’d like to try – it will tell you which languages are currently available.

Note: Very Important Instructions

You need to have a free Adobe account and be logged into it to use the links below, as Adobe sets a session cookie on your browser that allows you to access the direct download links. Otherwise, you will receive an “access denied” or “resume your download” message prevent­ing the connection. So please follow these instructions carefully or the links will not work!

0. Adobe recommends temporarily turning off any surfing restrictions you might have running, like site or cookie blocking, firewalls or antivirus software.
1. Click «here» to visit this page like you want to try Photoshop CS5.1, and then select the “Download Now” button at the bottom.
2. If you already have an Adobe ID, then please sign in with it (checking “Remember me“), otherwise take a minute to create one for yourself.
3. Close/cancel any download windows that pop up for the trial of Photoshop CS6 (you can do a full trial for it later).
4. OK, you’re logged in now at Adobe with the trials cookie set, so you can instantly download any of the software below. Just make sure you have enough disk space.
5. Download the files either by clicking directly on the DDL links, or by right-clicking and choosing “Save Link As…” on the popup menu – and save all files to the same place.
6. Then follow the product installation instructions here.

Creative Suite 5.5 – Adobe CS5.5 Downloads

All of these trials are supported on Mac OS X or Windows (32-bit x86 and 64-bit x64), with the exception of After Effects CS5.5 and Premiere Pro CS5.5 which are 64-bit only. For more, see the complete set of system requirements for Creative Suite 5.5.

Note there is no separate trial download for Photoshop CS5.1 “Standard” – the trial is always the Extended version (having all Photoshop features including 3D and motion-based content), and then you decide which version you’d like to keep at time of product purchase.

You do not need to uninstall previous versions of Creative Suite; some users prefer to keep the older, familiar version(s) around as they come up to speed with the new product’s features, and some folks have CS3, CS4, CS5, and CS5.5 all on one computer.

It is suggested to use a browser other than Internet Explorer to download any of the files above. They can be quite large and sometimes IE has difficulty with the file or the download. Using Firefox or Chrome will work better.

Adobe CS5.5 Extra Content

This is Extra Content (also called Functional Content) that Adobe bundles with some CS5.5 applications. It is technically optional and not required to run the main products, but will improve your experience if you can take the time to download and add it to your installation.

What’s included in this free additional content are typically media assets, templates, tutorials, documentation, fonts, footage, sample files and projects, and so on. If you own a suite, you can download the bundle for that plus whichever applications are in it.

• CS5.5 Master Collection & Production Premium Extra Content (175 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• CS5.5 Design Premium & Web Premium Extra Content (176 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• CS5.5 Design Standard Extra Content (167 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• InDesign CS5.5 Extra Content (156 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• Illustrator CS5.1 Extra Content (120 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• Fireworks CS5 Extra Content (131 MB)
            Windows:  File 1                  Mac:  File 1
• After Effects CS5.5 Extra Content (744 MB)
            Windows:  File 1   File 2      Mac:  File 1
• Premiere Pro CS5.5 Extra Content (2.5 GB)
            Windows:  File 1   File 2      Mac:  File 1

See our:

• Creative Suite 5.5 Launch Guide
• What’s new features for each product within the suites
• Version differences between CS5.5 vs. CS5 or from earlier versions
• Ask the Adobe CS5.5 Pros: the first FAQ and the second FAQ
• CS 5.5 feature tour videos on Adobe TV
• Timeframe for a future CS6 release

Did these links work for you? Hope they helped out; please let us know with a comment below…

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A special gift for our readers: For a limited time, we’re offering a download of the Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Guide ebook, with 13 chapters and 95 pages of visual tutorials and feature how-to’s, completely free for personal use… And the vast majority of it will apply to the new Photoshop Elements 10 as well.

This e-book is a great overview and introduction to PSE 9, and covers a lot of helpful material for getting started with the product or learning more skills if you’re already familiar. You won’t find this book anywhere else.

The download is 4.7 MB in size, in PDF format (get the free and better Adobe Reader X, if you haven’t already).

If you don’t yet own Photoshop Elements 9, just download the fully-working trial from Adobe to run it for free for 30 days. Much of the training in the book will be relevant for older and newer versions of PSE as well.

See what’s new in Photoshop Elements 9 – including layer masks, photo style-matching, and even some content-aware fill functionality borrowed from Photoshop CS5…

If you currently have an older version of the software, you might be interested in a nice chart with the differences between Photoshop Elements 9 vs. 8 vs. 7 vs. 6.

Or, if you also like to learn by video training, check out these four hours of free video tutorials for Photoshop Elements 9, or alternatively for Photoshop Elements 8 or 7.

See also the free companion ebook download: Premiere Elements 9 Guide

Here is the table of contents and chapter descriptions for the free book… enjoy it!

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Guide

1. Overview of Photoshop Elements workspace
2. How to make selections
3. How to create shapes
4. How to rotate, level, crop, and size images
5. How to retouch a photo
6. How to quickly enhance a photo
7. How to apply filters
8. How to use layers
9. How to add and modify text
10. How to draw
11. How to create and share a slide show
12. How to create collages and photo books
13. How to export to print and web

1. Overview of Photoshop Elements workspace

This guide presents an overview of the Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 workspace including information on how to get started with Photoshop Elements 9.

Key terms: workspace

2. How to make selections

While in the Editor in Photoshop Elements 9, you can select an entire image or isolated parts of an image for editing. To select the entire image, use the commands in the Select menu. For more precise selections, you can choose from several selection tools in the toolbox.

Key terms: selections, image editing

3. How to create shapes

With the shape tools in Photoshop Elements 9, you can draw perfect geometric shapes, regardless of your artistic ability or illustration experience. The first step to drawing shapes is to select one of the six basic shape tools. You can add shapes to any file you can open in Photoshop Elements.

Key terms: shapes, layers

4. How to rotate, level, crop, and size images

You can make good photos look great with the editing tools in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. You can easily rotate, straighten, crop, resize, and recompose images. Some of the tools for these basic edits are in the toolbox.

Key terms: rotating, cropping, resize, recompose

5. How to retouch a photo

If your photo requires more touch-up than you can achieve by using Quick Fix, you’re ready to use the photo retouching tools in Photoshop Elements 9. These include tools for removing small and large imperfections, eliminating distracting objects, cloning parts of an image, blurring and sharpening parts of an image, adjusting color and contrast, and a lot more. The focus of this guide is five of the photo retouching tools, including Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Blur, and Sharpen.

Key terms: retouch, quick fix, color adjustments, healing brush, clone stamp

6. How to quickly enhance a photo

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 has tools that let you automatically adjust the tonal range, color, and sharpness of your photos. You can also remove dust spots or other defects from your photos. You can accomplish these tasks in different modes, depending on your experience and needs.

This guide covers the following topics:

• Using Smart Fix and the auto enhance commands to apply auto adjustments to color, contrast, lighting, and sharpness.
• Fixing Red Eye.
• Using the Quick Selection tool to make changes to image selections.
• Using the Photomerge Style Match to auto-apply an image style to another picture.

Key terms: smart fix, red eye, quick selection tool

7. How to apply filters

You can use filters in Photoshop Elements 9 to change the look of your images. For example, you can apply special effects that turn an image into an artistic rendering of a photograph. You can apply filters to a selected area or to an entire layer.

Not all filters work on all images. You can’t use some filters on images in grayscale mode or use any filters in bitmap mode or index color mode. Many other filters will not work on 16-bit images. Once you have applied a filter, you can continue to reapply it to increase the effect.

Key terms: filters, layers

8. How to use layers

Layers are like stacked transparent sheets on which you can paint or place images, shapes, or text. You can see through the transparent areas to the layers below. You can work on each layer independently, experimenting to create the effect you want. You can adjust a layer’s color and brightness, apply special effects, change its opacity, and change its stacking order.

If you want to experiment with color, filters, or other adjustments, you can place an adjustment or fill layer above the image and see the affects without making any changes to the layer that contains your image. To remove the effects, simply delete the adjustment layer.

Key terms: layers, adjustment layers

9. How to add and modify text

You can add text to images in Photoshop Elements by using the Type tool. Once you add text, you can modify it by using the Type toolbar, by transforming the text box, and by applying layer styles to the text’s layer.

Key terms: text, modifying text, layers

10. How to draw

This guide is a basic introduction to drawing. After learning the basics, you can experiment with brushes to find the settings that work for you. When drawing freehand, you may prefer to use a tablet and pen instead of a mouse.

This guide covers three tools:

• The Pencil tool paints the current foreground color of an image and creates hard-edged lines.
• The Brush tool paints the current foreground color on an image and creates soft strokes of color.
• The Pattern Stamp tool paints whatever you have currently selected in the pattern picker.

Key terms: drawing, digital photography

11. How to create and share a slideshow

Slide shows are a fun way to share your pictures. With Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, you can customize your slide shows with music, clip art, text, and voice narration in the Slide Show Editor.

Key terms: slide show, slideshow

12. How to create collages and photo books

You can use your photos in creative projects, such as slide shows and photo books, and share them with family, friends, and colleagues.

Key terms: collage, photo books, digital photography

13. How to export to print and web

Once you finish editing your images or creating projects from these images, you can export images in formats for print (PDF) and the web (JPEG, GIF, or PNG).

Key terms: exporting images, print, web

Download this e-book for free now: Photoshop Elements 9 Guide

See also the free companion book: Premiere Elements 9 Guide

Plus: a free 172-page “CS5 on Demand” ebook covering Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, and Flash Pro.

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• Download Free 78-Page eBook on Adobe Premiere Elements 9

A special gift for our readers: For a limited time, we’re offering a download of the Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Guide ebook, with 9 chapters and 78 pages of visual tutorials and feature how-to’s, completely free for personal use… And the vast majority of it will apply to the new Premiere Elements 10 as well.

This e-book presents a nice overview and introduction to PRE 9, and covers a range of helpful material for getting started with the product or learning more skills if you’re already familiar. You won’t find this book anywhere else.

The download is 3.9 MB in size, in PDF format (get the free and better Adobe Reader X, if you haven’t already).

If you don’t yet own Premiere Elements 9, just download the fully-working trial from Adobe to run it for free for 30 days. Much of the training in the book will be relevant for older and newer versions of PRE as well.

See what’s new in Premiere Elements 9 – including easier import, terrific new audio tools, better sharing, and now available for Mac…

If you currently have an older version of the software, you might be interested in a handy chart with the differences between Premiere Elements 9 vs. 8 vs. 7 vs. 4.

Or, if you also like to learn by video training, here’s close to an hour of free video tutorials for Premiere Elements.

See also the free companion ebook download: Photoshop Elements 9 Guide

Here is the table of contents and chapter descriptions for the free book… enjoy it!

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Guide

1. Overview of Premiere Elements workspace
2. How to import video
3. How to edit clips
4. How to add transitions
5. How to add video effects
6. How to add titles
7. How to work with audio
8. How to do podcasting
9. How to share video

1. Overview of Premiere Elements workspace

Get an overview of the Adobe Premiere Elements 9 workspace and learn how to get started using Premiere Elements 9.

Key terms: workspace, video editing, video production

2. How to import video

There are four basic methods for adding media to your projects: capturing from tape or live sources, importing files from other types of storage, adding from the Organize workspace, or recording narrations from a microphone.

When you add media files to your project, they are added to the Project view and the Organize workspace. Each file is represented by a thumbnail, called a clip. Clips, whether they contain audio, video, or still images, are the building blocks of your movies.

Key terms: import video, audio, images, clips

3. How to edit clips

Editing clips includes previewing and trimming them to eliminate unnecessary material. It could also include revising clip properties such as speed, direction, and duration. If you have media clips generated by other programs, you can also edit them in their original applications from within Premiere Elements.

This guide covers the following topics:

• Working with the Preview window
• Trimming a clip in the Monitor panel
• Removing frames from the middle of a clip in the Sceneline
• Editing clips on the Timeline
• Applying auto quality enhancements
• Editing multiple clips
• Using Freeze Frame to export images

Key terms: video editing, clips

4. How to add transitions

By using transitions, you can phase out one clip while phasing in the next, or you can stylize the beginning or end of a single clip. A transition can be as subtle as a cross dissolve or quite emphatic, such as a page turn or spinning pinwheel. You generally place a transition on a cut to include clips on either side – a double-sided transition, but you can also apply a transition to just the beginning or end of a clip – a single-sided transition.

Key terms: video editing, transitions

5. How to add video effects

You can use effects to add a creative flair to your movie, or to fix exposure or color problems, edit sound, or manipulate images. Adobe Premiere Elements comes with preset effects that let you quickly and easily apply a preconfigured effect to footage. You can use included presets, create your own presets, or adjust and animate values as desired. You can animate the effects that you add to clips, either with presets, which have predefined keyframe values, or with keyframes you create with custom values. Presets provide a quick, easy way to animate effects, whereas custom keyframes let you create more precise and complex animations.

Key terms: video effects, presets, keyframes

6. How to add titles

You can design custom titles and images with Premiere Elements. Titles are a valuable addition to a movie and can serve many purposes, from naming the people and places in your movie to providing movie-style credits at the beginning and end. You can create titles by using any font installed on your computer and create other graphic objects by using the title’s shape-creation tools. You can create images from any graphic or photograph on your computer and use them to further customize and enhance your movies.

Key terms: titles, graphics

7. How to work with audio

At least half of your movie’s impact comes from its use of sound. Adobe Premiere Elements provides the tools, such as the Audio Mixer and the Audio Meters, to create a high-quality sound mix. You can narrate clips or set beat markers while previewing in real time. You can add a soundtrack to your movie, and trim it to the proper length, or use SmartSound soundtracks, which you customize to exactly fit your project. You can set the overall volume levels of clips and the relative volume levels within and among them. Finally, you can remove unwanted noises and add effects to the sounds in your movie.

Key terms: audio editing, audio production

8. How to do podcasting

In Premiere Elements, you can create videos and podcast them directly to PodBean, a podcasting service. You can also create audio or video files to use in podcasts by exporting files you create in Adobe Premiere Elements.

Key terms: podcasting, music, vodcasting, audio production

9. How to share video

You can share movies, stills, and audio in a variety of file types to the web, mobile devices, videotape, Video CDs, and Super Video CDs. You can also copy and save projects for editing and storage. The Share workspace in the Tasks panel contains everything you need to save and share your finished project. You can save your project for viewing on the web, a mobile phone, a personal computer, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and more.

You can start a new share by clicking any of the share options: web DVD, Disc, Online, Personal Computer, Mobile Phones And Players, or Tape. Each of these options opens a view in the Tasks panel that provides specific options and settings for sharing to the respective media types.

Key terms: video sharing

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