There are also some new Connected Experience features coming soon in the form of new mobile apps for iOS and Android, and a web app that runs in any browser on any device.
If you’ve got a photo with an attractive background, such as a beach or some leafy trees then you can clone part of the background and use it to extend the background further – perhaps to turn a square photo into a wider landscape shot, or to lift a sunny blue sky higher for an upright portrait shot for social media. One really powerful Guided Edit that was introduced in 2021’s update is the ability to alter the aspect ratio of a photo by extending the background of a photo. One of the things that sets Photoshop Elements apart from many of its rivals is its use of Guided Edits, which give you step-by-step help in using some of the app’s most powerful tools. If your artistic ambitions are a little more modest, you can apply some simple animated effects – known as Overlays – such as falling snowflakes or flickering flames, to your photos and then save your work as a short video clip that you can upload to social media. One nice touch here is that you can apply the artistic effect to the entire photo, or just to the subject or background, which is a nice way of emphasising particular aspects of a photo. These aren’t always entirely successful – I suspect Vincent Van Gogh is spinning in his grave right now – but they’re fun to experiment with. The app has always had a selection of filter effects that could make photos look like paintings, using media such as oil paints or watercolours, but Sensei introduced a new set of Artistic effects that aims to mimic a variety of popular artistic styles, such as cubist and post-impressionist. Adobe’s 2022 version (which arrived in 2021) introduced new artificial intelligence techniques – which Adobe refers to as Sensei – to automatically perform editing tasks that might normally require hours of work.
The key to Photoshop Elements’ success is that it manages to combine powerful editing tools with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for amateur photographers to achieve impressive results. It’s worth noting, though, that the Mac App Store is currently still selling the 2022 edition of Photoshop Elements, so it’s probably best to buy the latest 2023 update directly from Adobe right now (plus, if you are in the UK it’s cheeper to buy directly from Adobe U.K.) Adobe also sells a bundle that includes both Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements for video-editing for $149.99/£130.36, which can save you even more money.
Photoshop Elements isn’t the cheapest photo-editor available for the Mac, costing $99.99/£86.56, but it’s still good value for money as it’s able to use technology from the professional version of Photoshop to provide some really powerful tools for editing your photos and adding creative effects.
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