A hands-on review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 reveals a powerful image-editing program at a very affordable price. Though it is designed to be a simple platform for hobbyists, 'memory keepers' and digital scrapbookers who enjoy creating photo and video keepsakes of life events for family and friends, it's relevant, in my opinion, for anyone with a camera. (Bundled with Adobe's Photoshop Elements is its Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 video editor. Read my review on that program here.)
Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 PC/Mac Disc Manipulating still images tends to be easier than editing video—tweak the brightness, add a vignette effect, throw on a filter (or three), and you've. Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 review: Organizer helper app Last year, Adobe left the Organizer — the link between the photo and video app that ships free with the program — on its own without a.
On the Mac, Premiere Elements is more powerful than iMovie with a more traditional interface, but I think it's a bit slower and more intimidating as well. Users of previous versions running 64-bit. This product, 'Adobe Premiere Elements,' is for video editing, only. Whereas, 'Adobe Elements,' is for photo editing, only. Before making my purchase, I visited the Adobe website to review the features of Premiere Elements, to see if it had added features that would be useful to me.
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Pros may enjoy the simplicity, new Adobe Sensei Artificial Intelligence (AI) features, and the fact that it's one of the few remaining boxed Adobe products. The MSRP for Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 is $99.99 for new users or $79.99 to upgrade. Bundled with Adobe Premiere Elements video editor it costs $149.99 for new users; $119.99 to upgrade.
What's New with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 Software?
As mature as Photoshop Elements is (it must be nearly into its 20s as far as versions), Adobe keeps creating new features to incorporate. Often, Elements is given features before Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Many of these new features are a result of Adobe Sensei Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allows otherwise complex manual tasks to be handled automatically.
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In Elements 2021, you can now add motion to still images, change the tilt of faces in a photo, replace skies, remove haze, and eliminate unwanted elements while filling the areas with the background that was behind the element. Each of these makes good use of Sensei AI.
Two additional non-Sensei Guided Edits (bringing the total to 58) are also incorporated: duotone creation and the ability to move, scale and duplicate elements in a photo.
Along with new Guided Edits, you are now able to add motivational quotes or personalized messages with preset and customizable templates, as well as animations to photos before posting on social media through links provided directly in Photoshop Elements.
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At last, automatic catalog backup is included so that albums, keyword tags, people, places, events and more are saved and available for easy recovery if needed.
User Friendly Guides
Not only does Adobe manage to incorporate new features into Photoshop Elements, it makes them easy and fun to try and then apply. Adobe accomplishes this by walking you step-by-step through what could be complex tasks with guided edits.
While there are nearly enough features in Photoshop Elements to please professionals, some very useful and fun features are available for even first-time users. The Elements Organizer that first opens when you click on the Photoshop Elements icon on your desktop starts you out with a box asking 'What would you like to do today?' Typing in 'calendar' or 'greeting card' or many other terms bring up a dropdown list of options, and then it directs you to online help with detailed steps to follow to accomplish the task. The video tutorials are also a great help for both new and seasoned users looking to try a new effect as well.
While not new to this version, Photoshop Elements includes direct connection to Fujifilm Prints and Gifts for fulfillment options, and to Twitter and Flickr for social media sharing.
What I Like About Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021
Given an appropriate image, the new features work exactly as intended. It's almost magical how skies are replaced, heads are turned and still photographs are transformed into animated GIFs.
Photoshop Elements 2021 not only saves time and frustration with some tasks, it is also capable of doing things that I never thought were possible, like being able to turn one person's head to match the angle of everyone else's without having to swap the head from another photo with the correct head position. That is truly awesome. As is the ability to seamlessly move the position of one person in a photo to a different position.
Playing around with portraits, I discovered that I can replace a white or blue seamless background with a sky in Perfect Landscape. To be walked through the necessary steps to accomplish tasks while the software actually performs the task is a real bonus for new users, and it's a huge time-saver even for the professionals who could have figured out how to do these 'tricks' in Photoshop.
What I Don't Like
The organization of these Guided Edits, however, can be confusing. With six different categories (Basic, Color, Black and White, Fun Edits, Special Edits, and Photomerge), it can take a few mouse clicks through the tabs to find the edit you wish to make.
Why is the new Move and Scale Object a Basic edit and not a Special Edit? And why is Adjust Face Tilt buried in the Adjust Facial Features options of the Enhance menu and not a part of the Perfect Portrait guided edit? With repeated use of the program, this will likely become less of an issue.
The implementation of other new features has a first-generation feel. While acknowledging the processing required to turn a still photo into an animated GIF, I would prefer it be quicker and with a greater range of motion. The ability to seamlessly replace skies in Perfect Landscape is a welcome feature, but I would like to be able to use my own collection of skies and clouds as well as the 12 included. The spot healing brush, as with its implementation in many programs, only 'kind of' works unless the background is very simple. And the Move and Scale Object edit, while again a complex function, often requires some additional cloning when the automatic smart fill doesn't work perfectly.
A final issue that may affect some users is the lack of in-program help. As with most Adobe software, you need to be actively online in order to access help. Without a solid internet connection, you are out of luck if you need help or want to view a video tutorial.
How It Compares to Other Image-Editing Software
It's a crowded marketplace for software at this level, with updates to many of Adobe's competitors recently released and others promised. Some competitors such as Luminar 4 offer a wider range of presets than Elements 2021, while others such as On1 Photo Raw and Affinity are far more complex to use but have far more features. That said, Photoshop Elements 2021 offers an ideal set of features for its target audience of 'memory keepers' as well as professionals not wanting to deal with the complexity or subscription model of Adobe Photoshop.
For more information or to purchase, visit the website.
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Bring collages to life!
Collages are a creative way to share your memories and tell a story visually. Photo collages have been around for long; we now bring you video collages.
With the new Video Collage feature in Adobe Premiere Elements 15, create dynamic collages with photos and videos. Choose from various designs and layouts, arrange the media as per your needs, and finally choose how you want the videos in the collage to be played. Your video collages are perfect for sharing on YouTube and Vimeo.
Hazy landscapes? Make every shot look sharp in seconds!
Cut through the haze and fog in your videos with the Haze Removal feature in Adobe Premiere Elements 15. Take landscape videos without having to worry about the haze on even a clear day - select the video and process it with the Auto Haze Removal feature. For more enhancements, including varying levels of sensitivity to haze, try it manually.
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Remix any audio clip or mp3 file to match the length of your video. Just drag the trimming handles, and your audio clip is automatically adjusted to your target duration.
Adobe Premiere Elements 15 creates a natural sound, so you never lose the soul of your audio.
Easily create a signature look!
This guided edit helps you to apply same adjustments or effects to multiple clips in one go and create similar effects across these clips. To use this guided edit, go to Guided mode > Video Adjustments > Add an Adjustment Layer.
For more information, see Adding an Adjustment Layer - Guided Edit.
Organizer and Quick Edit mode are now touch-friendly!
At last, automatic catalog backup is included so that albums, keyword tags, people, places, events and more are saved and available for easy recovery if needed.
User Friendly Guides
Not only does Adobe manage to incorporate new features into Photoshop Elements, it makes them easy and fun to try and then apply. Adobe accomplishes this by walking you step-by-step through what could be complex tasks with guided edits.
While there are nearly enough features in Photoshop Elements to please professionals, some very useful and fun features are available for even first-time users. The Elements Organizer that first opens when you click on the Photoshop Elements icon on your desktop starts you out with a box asking 'What would you like to do today?' Typing in 'calendar' or 'greeting card' or many other terms bring up a dropdown list of options, and then it directs you to online help with detailed steps to follow to accomplish the task. The video tutorials are also a great help for both new and seasoned users looking to try a new effect as well.
While not new to this version, Photoshop Elements includes direct connection to Fujifilm Prints and Gifts for fulfillment options, and to Twitter and Flickr for social media sharing.
What I Like About Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021
Given an appropriate image, the new features work exactly as intended. It's almost magical how skies are replaced, heads are turned and still photographs are transformed into animated GIFs.
Photoshop Elements 2021 not only saves time and frustration with some tasks, it is also capable of doing things that I never thought were possible, like being able to turn one person's head to match the angle of everyone else's without having to swap the head from another photo with the correct head position. That is truly awesome. As is the ability to seamlessly move the position of one person in a photo to a different position.
Playing around with portraits, I discovered that I can replace a white or blue seamless background with a sky in Perfect Landscape. To be walked through the necessary steps to accomplish tasks while the software actually performs the task is a real bonus for new users, and it's a huge time-saver even for the professionals who could have figured out how to do these 'tricks' in Photoshop.
What I Don't Like
The organization of these Guided Edits, however, can be confusing. With six different categories (Basic, Color, Black and White, Fun Edits, Special Edits, and Photomerge), it can take a few mouse clicks through the tabs to find the edit you wish to make.
Why is the new Move and Scale Object a Basic edit and not a Special Edit? And why is Adjust Face Tilt buried in the Adjust Facial Features options of the Enhance menu and not a part of the Perfect Portrait guided edit? With repeated use of the program, this will likely become less of an issue.
The implementation of other new features has a first-generation feel. While acknowledging the processing required to turn a still photo into an animated GIF, I would prefer it be quicker and with a greater range of motion. The ability to seamlessly replace skies in Perfect Landscape is a welcome feature, but I would like to be able to use my own collection of skies and clouds as well as the 12 included. The spot healing brush, as with its implementation in many programs, only 'kind of' works unless the background is very simple. And the Move and Scale Object edit, while again a complex function, often requires some additional cloning when the automatic smart fill doesn't work perfectly.
A final issue that may affect some users is the lack of in-program help. As with most Adobe software, you need to be actively online in order to access help. Without a solid internet connection, you are out of luck if you need help or want to view a video tutorial.
How It Compares to Other Image-Editing Software
It's a crowded marketplace for software at this level, with updates to many of Adobe's competitors recently released and others promised. Some competitors such as Luminar 4 offer a wider range of presets than Elements 2021, while others such as On1 Photo Raw and Affinity are far more complex to use but have far more features. That said, Photoshop Elements 2021 offers an ideal set of features for its target audience of 'memory keepers' as well as professionals not wanting to deal with the complexity or subscription model of Adobe Photoshop.
For more information or to purchase, visit the website.
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Your life is full of family activities and special events—and you shoot videos to capture them all.
Adobe Premiere Elements 15 simplifies the organizing and editing so you can have fun creating
and sharing great-looking movies. Find clips fast, add style with effects and music, and share on
Chrome 31 version download. disc, HDTV, and YouTube.
Note:
Adobe Premiere Elements includes Elements Organizer, which helps you organize your assets. For information about new features in Elements Organizer, see What's new in Elements Organizer 15.
Try the latest Premiere Elements|Explore Elements product suite Adobe acrobat pro dc download for mac.
Bring collages to life!
Collages are a creative way to share your memories and tell a story visually. Photo collages have been around for long; we now bring you video collages.
With the new Video Collage feature in Adobe Premiere Elements 15, create dynamic collages with photos and videos. Choose from various designs and layouts, arrange the media as per your needs, and finally choose how you want the videos in the collage to be played. Your video collages are perfect for sharing on YouTube and Vimeo.
Hazy landscapes? Make every shot look sharp in seconds!
Cut through the haze and fog in your videos with the Haze Removal feature in Adobe Premiere Elements 15. Take landscape videos without having to worry about the haze on even a clear day - select the video and process it with the Auto Haze Removal feature. For more enhancements, including varying levels of sensitivity to haze, try it manually.
Remix music to the perfect length! Install editplus windows 7.
Remix any audio clip or mp3 file to match the length of your video. Just drag the trimming handles, and your audio clip is automatically adjusted to your target duration.
Adobe Premiere Elements 15 creates a natural sound, so you never lose the soul of your audio.
Easily create a signature look!
This guided edit helps you to apply same adjustments or effects to multiple clips in one go and create similar effects across these clips. To use this guided edit, go to Guided mode > Video Adjustments > Add an Adjustment Layer.
For more information, see Adding an Adjustment Layer - Guided Edit.
Organizer and Quick Edit mode are now touch-friendly!
Edit and organize videos with your fingertips. Now, you can simply tap to find, sort, and enhance your videos in the Organizer and Quick Edit mode in your touch-screen devices.
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Need help? Find your answers directly from the eLive room. Adobe Premiere Elements 15 enables you to search for eLive content, Help pages, and troubleshooting knowledgebase articles from within eLive room.
For more information, see eLive.
Visually reimagined for you!
Selecting which Guided Edit to use is now easier with the new interface. In Guided mode, you can now choose the type of adjustment you want to apply to your video - Basics, Video Adjustments, Audio Adjustments, or Fun Edits. Choose one of the types of edits and view a graphical listing of all the Guided Edits available in that category.
Identify faces (close-up, single face, and group) in a clip with the help of the Face filter. The Face filter is enabled by default and enhances several workflows, such as Favorite Moments trimming and Video Story workflow, to give you much better output. You can disable the Face filter from Auto Analyzer Options under Preferences.
Quick pan-and-zoom movies of people!
Face frames have been added in the Pan & Zoom workflow for images only to automatically detect faces present in your image for better results. Now with Face Detection, it automatically highlights your favorite people.
For more information, see Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect.
Favorite Moments with favorite people
Now with Face Detection, Favorite Moments automatically finds the people in your videos and brings them front and center in fun, quick movies. With the Face filter enabled, the Favorite Motions trimming workflow now generates output that focuses on the movements as well as on People and give priority to close-ups and single/multiple faces.
For more information, see Mark and extract favorite moments.
Easier to trim what you don't need and keep the people!
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Now with Face Detection, Smart Trim gives priority to footage of people when suggesting places to trim, so you' get a great movie of friends and family. With the addition of the Face Filter in Adobe Premiere Elements, you now have the option to use the interest slider along with the quality slider in the Smart Trim workflow. The combination of quality and interest sliders now give you much better output.
