It works, but seems rather too like Instagram filters for a serious image-editing app. It’s capable of turning out some remarkable-looking images, and you have a degree of control over the process by limiting it to your image’s original color palate, or to either the subject or the background. If one-click transformations are what you’re after, the new Sensei-powered Artistic Effects allow you to change all the colors in a photo in a single click, hewing toward an art style you choose from the palette, such as Folk Art or Mosaic. Pro features like CMYK colors are missing, but the chances of a home user needing to output separations to a commercial printer are slim. And that part typifies Elements as a whole - it’s cut down compared with full-fat Photoshop (opens in new tab) and Lightroom (opens in new tab), sure, but the tools you really need as a home user are there. There's also raw image decoding with a cut-down version of Adobe Camera Raw.

You get a decent organisational app bundled with Photoshop Elements, the Organizer, which goes a long way toward preventing a large collection of images from spiralling into chaos.

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As does the ability to open the closed eyes of a subject - as long as you have a reference picture of what their eyes should look like. Few of them are new to this release, but tools such as Select Subject, which analyses your image, decides what the main subject is, then throws a selection around it so you can separate it from the rest of the picture, seems just a step away from pure magic. Artistic Effects get an Adobe Sensei overhaul, and the Organiser can now play back animated GIFs, while the whole app now has an automated update system.Īlong with the basic photo-fixing tools like cropping and spot removal, you now get special effects powered by Adobe’s cloud-based AI, Sensei. You can now make your photos move with video overlays that can be exported as video files or GIFs, and the new Image Warp lets you fit images up against things such as mugs. The 2022 release concentrates on guided edits and artistic effects.

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