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> Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.

Dumb question: how would you pronounce this if you were saying it ? Specifically the ® symbol ?

I think it's an inflection thing. You unnaturally emphasize the word, pause a bit, and try to fight back conveying incredulousness with your facial expression.

Silly-but-true answer: When I'm reading stuff like that aloud and wish to both be silly and make a point, I just read it as "registeredtrademark", very fast.

Serious answer: You don't. You just leave it out in speech.

Reference the end of radio advertisements where they blast through the tiny text very quickly.

Unicode's name for it is REGISTERED SIGN. It's usually silent when part of a brand name, though.

Going by the Velcro website, you should be saying "Adobe Brand Photoshop Brand Elements software".

Ridiculous.

By saying adobeisaregisteredtrademarkofadobecorporation very fast :)

"R in circle". Just like copyright is "C in circle".

I can just imagine actors on some TV show saying this because the corporate sponsors demanded 'correct usage'.

In Ren & Stimpy comics, Powdered Toast Man always referred to the product for which he was named as Powdered Toast® or Powdered Toast™. I always took that as a hint that he pronounced the marks somehow.

Why the downvotes for such a simple, factual statement that answered the question? If you do an internet search for the phrase "C in circle" you'll find it is a quite common way to describe this symbol. On the Wikipedia talk page, someone mentioned hearing this description in their school textbooks which were recorded in an audio version. Way back when I volunteered for Recording for the Blind (now Learning Ally) I recall that this was also the designated way to read this symbol.

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