The flagship Photoshop Elements integrates a built-in Photo Downloader which automatically searches for and imports video frames as well as images from floppies, discs, flash drives, media cards, cameras, and mobile phones. If it's a digital image, this application will dress it up. It features numerous tools, special effect filters, and correction options for photo manipulation and enhancement, including an Auto Red Eye Fix that automatically repairs red eye problems it detects at import. Edited images can be output to Photo Book pages, greeting cards, CD/DVD jackets, photo albums, scrapbooks, and calendars.

New to this edition, it also features Web-compatible, animated Flash-based photo galleries and flipbook stop-motion videos consisting of several shots taken in sequence through the Burst Mode feature on a digital camera. Photos imported into and touched up with Photoshop Elements can be incorporated in digital student reports, book reviews, news stories, and other work for posting on the school Web site or class blog, or sharing on disc. Elements 5.0 stands on its own as a user friendly but very powerful digital photo package offering Photomerging for grand sweep panoramic shots, a better organizer for grouping and managing burgeoning collections of images, improved support for the RAW image format, more templates, themes, and artwork for photo-based layouts, and increased options for attention-grabbing photo galleries.