GETTING AND SETTING UP PHOTOSHOP
ELEMENTS
You can either purchase Photoshop Elements together
with its enthusiast-level video-editing companion,
Premiere Elements, for $149.99, or buy it alone for
$99.99. A 30-day trial version is available for download,
too. Speaking of downloading, the app’s installer is not
small, at 2.4GB, and the installed program takes up
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macOS versions 10.11 through 10.13. Note that
Elements no longer requires Apple QuickTime.
I installed Elements on my test PC, a 4K touch-screen
Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC all-in-one PC. To get started,
enter your Adobe login.
For longtime Photoshop Elements users, here’s a quick
rundown of the major new features in the 2020 version:
Select Subject: This timesaving capability also just
came to Photoshop for iPad. It’s uncanny how the tool
uses AI to determine a photo’s subject.
Automatic Colorization: It’s not just converting a
black-and-white photo into a color one; you can also
play around with substituting or enhancing colors in
any photo.
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Object Removal: This capability has appeared in
many photo-editing applications, and I’m surprised it’s
appearing in Elements only now. You could already
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but this Guided Edit makes easy work of the process.
Smooth Skin: This one-click tool is intended to cure
acne, wrinkles, and freckles, all in one fell swoop.
Adobe
Photoshop
Elements
PROS Many powerful
image-manipulation
tools. Strong face-
and geo-tagging
capabilities. Excellent
output options. Auto-
tagging and powerful
search options.
Helpful guidance for
advanced techniques.
CONS Large disk
footprint. No
chromatic aberration
correction or lens
geometry profiles.
Lacks many social
sharing outputs. No
local help system.
Doesn’t integrate
with Photoshop cloud
documents.
BOTTOM LINE Adobe
Photoshop Elements
is an excellent option
for photo hobbyists
who don’t want to pay
a subscription. You
get many of
Photoshop’s best
features with more
ease of use.