New in Photoshop
Elements 2022
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PHOTO WARPING
Image warping is now more strongly built into Elements. If
you want to make an image fit to the contours of another, open
it on a new layer, then press Ctrl + T to enter Free Transform and
resize it to fit. Then click the new icon on the bottom bar that
looks a bit like the windshield of a car, or a bent window with a
curved line underneath it. This toggles you into Warp mode, and
the corner handles on the image you’re transforming will now
bend it in on itself, and eventually fold it back over itself if you
pull them far enough [Image A]. There’s a pop-up menu called
Warp at the bottom of the interface, which allows you to choose
and customize pre-set warp shapes. It’s a bit of a difficult tool to
get to grips with, and proper preparation and sizing of the image
you want to warp is crucial, but for those times you want to fit an
image around a curve, it’s extremely useful.ADOBE UPDATES PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS, its beginner-friendly image-editing app, every year,
but we’re starting to wish it didn’t. The problem is not that it’s an excellent program, but the
urge to upgrade to the latest version is strong and the new features rarely justify the price.
It’s fine if you only upgrade every time you buy a new PC, but annually? Elements isn’t priced
as a subscription, unlike its big brother Photoshop CC, which gets a constant flow of patches
and upgrades. Instead, you pay once and use the software for as long as your PC supports it.
The 2022 version of the app piles on the automation, with clever transformations powered by
Adobe’s Sensei cloud tech. There’s a thrust in the direction of moving images too, with mobile
overlays that can add fun to social media posts. There’s photo warping, edits to perfect your
pet pictures, clever background extensions, new slideshow templates, and more. –IAN EVENDENYOU’LL NEED THIS
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TURN PHOTOS INTO ART
Obviously, your photos are already art. What this
Sensei-powered feature does is to turn them into
paintings. It’s like the Watercolor or Oil painting filters
of old but brought bang up to date. Find it by opening
either Quick or Expert mode and clicking the FX Effects
button at the bottom right, then choosing the Artistic
tab. There are loads of choices, some of them based
on a single recognizable painting or artist, while others
are more abstract. There are 30 to choose from, and
each can be modified with a Keep Original Photo Colors
checkbox, which often appears to do nothing of the sort,
an intensity slider, and the ability to apply the effect to
the subject or background (or both) using Adobe’s clever
auto-selection tech [Image B].A B© JOHANN, MATHEUS BERTELLI, NICOLA GIORDANO, ALYSSA SIEB, UPLIFTSTORES.Photoshop Elements is as concerned
about what you do with your images
post-editing as it is with editing them,
and so there are new slideshow export
options available in the 2022 version.
Accessed through the Organizer, the
organization app that comes bundled
with Photoshop Elements, exporting
a slideshow means either curating a
folder of images yourself, then pointingthe slideshow creator at it and telling
it to use all the images, or pointing it at
a folder and telling it to use the ‘best’
images. We’re not sure what criteria it
uses to determine the ‘best’ ones but,
using the Media menu, you can always
add any that you like but that it decided to
skip. You also have some control of the
overall look of the slideshow using the
Themes menu.There are eight different slideshow
themes to choose from, ranging from
the look of postcards being pinned on
a wooden wall, to pans, zooms, and
different colored overlays. You can add
music using the Audio menu and add
text captions from Media. When you’re
finished, you can export it directly to
YouTube or Vimeo, or save it to your hard
drive as a 720p or 1080p video file.EXPORTS
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