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If your phone or camera embeds GPS data in the EXIF information, the Places mode in the Organizer displays a map of the world and stacks the photos you have taken in windows on the map. I don’t know anyone other than serious stock photographers who spend the time to accurately keyword their images, so Smart Tags comes in handy when you are looking for all of your flower photos, or the photos you took at Christmas. While not new to Elements 2018, the eLive (Elements Live) mode, available in the Organizer as well as the programs, provides help, inspiration, videos, and guides to new features.
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In Photoshop Elements Editor there are now 45 Guided Edits, from correcting skin tone to correcting exposure and color when composing an element from one image into another. These walk you through complicated processes step by step. What provides the greatest user friendliness in both Photoshop and Premiere Elements are the Guided Edits. The watercolor Guided Edit currently offers only three watercolor effect presets, but the other options add to the creative possibilities. This is accomplished while incorporating advanced features gleaned from Adobe Photoshop CC in Photoshop Elements Expert mode. User FriendlinessĪdobe Elements, with its emphasis on advanced amateur and general consumer photographers and videographers, remains one of the most user friendly imaging programs available. If there are multiple faces, Photoshop Elements selects each face and a green highlighted circle shows the face you are currently adjusting. The program automatically selects the face before it opens the image in a new window. There are sliders available to adjust the lips, eyes, nose, and face. New in Photoshop Elements 2018 and especially interesting for portrait photographers is the new Adjust Facial Features in the Expert>Enhance dropdown menu.
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The new Guided Edits walk you through correcting distortion problems with action cameras and drones, trimming and adding titles to animated social posts, running video clips forward and backward, and how to create freeze frame titles for your videos. There are also four new Guided Edits in Premiere Elements and the ability to extract a still image from a raw video capture. The new Smart Trim feature automatically trims videos based on people or action or a combination of both. Add to these new Watercolor, Replace Background, Shape Overlay, and Double Exposure Guided Edits and you have some powerful new tools at your disposal.ĪI also plays a role in Premiere Elements.

AI also comes into play with the new Open Closed Eyes and Auto Selection features. The Auto Curate option is also available in the new slideshow tool and adds a title slide, transitions, effects, and music to the images it selects. You can choose how many of the best to see. When you select the Auto Curate checkbox with still images displayed, Photoshop Elements trims the visible collection to the “best” captures. The Elements Organizer now has an Auto Curate option in the menu bar. These Smart Tags are accessed with the Organizer Search function and act much like keywords, sorting your images by events, seasons, sunsets, flowers, and more. When images are imported into the Elements Organizer, the program automatically applies Smart Tags. What’s NewĪI plays a major role in the newest features in both Photoshop and Premiere Elements.
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I worked with the Elements bundle on both Mac and Windows platforms, concentrating on Photoshop Elements but with a few peeks into Premiere.
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Upgrade pricing of the bundle is $120, and individually is $80. The programs are also sold individually for $100, with 30-day trials also available. The Photoshop Elements 2018 bundle, comprised of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, is available for $150 on both Mac and Windows 64-bit platforms.

Powerful new AI-based tools seemingly perform miracles during several previously tedious image and video editing tasks. With the introduction of Photoshop Elements 2018, you receive not only a slew of updates, improvements, and new Guided Edits, you are also among the first to experience the power of artificial intelligence (AI), “content intelligence” in Adobe-speak, applied to image and video editing.
