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Adobe releases Photoshop Elements and
Premiere Elements. AppleInsider is financed by its readers, and we may receive
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affiliate relationships have no bearing on our editorial content. Adobe has
released Premiere Elements 2022 and Photoshop Elements 2022, which add more
presentation styles and new automatic editing tools to the standalone photo and
video apps

. For 2022, Adobe’s annual
update of its popular image and video editing concentrates on making the apps
easier to use. Aimed more at consumers than professionals, both apps aim to
automate common tasks and provide new tools for sharing work. “This year’s
releases offer new Adobe Sensei AI- powered features to take your photos and
videos to new creative heights,” says Adobe in a blog post. “[For
example] Adobe Sensei AI technology allows you to easily transform your photos
into art in just one click.” In Photoshop Elements 2022,

 Adobe’s AI
technology lets users select a famous style of art and then have it
automatically applied to a photo, like a filter. It also now provides optional
“moving overlays like snowflakes, hearts and sparkles,” that can be
added to a still photo. “Then save your designs as MP4s to easily share on
social or use in your holiday cards,” continues Adobe.” The newly
updated Premiere Elements 2022 also concentrates on social media. With a click,
videos can be changed from 16:9 landscape mode, into sizes that fit social
media, such as Facebook’s 1:1 square.

 “We all love to share on social
media and Premiere Elements now allows you to easily edit and export your
videos in social- friendly vertical or square formats without losing
content,” says Adobe. “You can also add motion titles, mattes, and
backgrounds designed for non-horizontal videos.” Other features across
both apps include additional Guided Edits. “Photoshop Elements and
Premiere Elements boast 87 Guided Edits and are introducing four all-new
options this year,”

 continues the company, “including one for making
your furry and feathered friends look their best.” An example of Guided
Edits in Photoshop Elements 2022 These Guided Edits take users through
adjusting color and lighting, plus removing parts of an image, or refining
detail in others. Photoshop Elements 2022 and Premiere Elements 2022 are
already available for download from Adobe. They each cost from $99, or can be
bought together for $150.

 Adobe Premiere and Photoshop
Elements 2022 are now available. Adobe today launched new releases of Photoshop
Elements and Premiere Elements, the company’s low-cost photo and video editing
software geared at more casual customers looking to better their images and
movies with easy editing features. Adobe is releasing an Adobe Sensei-powered
tool for Photoshop Elements 2022 that turns a snapshot into a work of art.
Users may add effects inspired by renowned works of art or popular art styles
to their photographs using a one-click filter and then tweak the outcome. Adobe
is adding motion effects, such as snowflakes or glitter, to photographs, as
well as dynamic frames. 

These can be
saved as MP4s and shared as videos on social media networks. With a warp tool,
photos can be automatically warped to fit inside or around an object. A photo
could, for example, be wrapped around a coffee cup in an image or placed in the
frames of sunglasses for fun dual-photo opportunities. Guided Edits, a feature
that walks users through different edits that can be made to their photos, gets
updates on a yearly basis. For the 2022 update, Adobe is adding Guided Edits
for improving pet photos and extending photo backgrounds. Other features in
Photoshop Elements 2022 include animated slideshow templates, automatic
software updates, a refreshed design that makes navigation easier, and support for
GIF playback in the organizer.

 For Premiere Elements 2022, Adobe added a new
feature that resizes videos for social media while keeping the most important
elements of the video front and center. Adobe says that it’s ideal for clips
with movement, such as a child’s birthday party or a sporting event. There are
also motion titles, mattes, and backgrounds available for non-horizontal
videos. Premiere Elements 2022 includes new Guided Edits for adding animated
overlays like fluttering butterflies and adjusting shadows and highlights in
videos. Like Photoshop Elements 2022, Premiere Elements 2022 has gained a
refreshed look, automatic software updates, new animated slideshow templates
and GIF playback in the Organizer, plus it’s easier to reduce file size with a
slider that adds compression.

 Check out Adobe’s website for more
information on what’s new in Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements.
Beginning today, Adobe will provide the updates for $99 apiece, with pack and
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Adobe Photoshop review © Provided by Space Adobe Photoshop review: Image shows
the software being used on a picture of the desert. Adobe Photoshop has been
offering users cutting-edge digital image manipulation tools for the best part
of 30 years. And while there’s no denying the show-stopping power it still
offers, its market-leading status is being challenged by the likes of Affinity,
Luminar, and Adobe’s own sibling Lightroom. The software is now only accessible
via a subscription service, and while this alienates those who would rather pay
for their software upfront, the advantage of this model is that users get the
latest version and features every time they are released, rather than having to
pay any upgrade fees.

 The latest version of Photoshop CC 2021 dropped in
September, bringing with it some genuinely cool new features, alongside the company’s
Sensei (artificial intelligence) technology which promises to perform edits in
the cloud and automate mundane tasks. Most users turn to Adobe Photoshop to
process their photographs, but the software is also a brilliant offering for
digital artists, website and graphic designers, plus video editors too, thanks
to its complex handling of file types, layers, and compatibility with other
Adobe programs. So good is Photoshop at allowing users to manipulate images
that it’s been given its own term, Photoshopping.

This has some negative
connotations, sure, but it also goes to show how powerful and ubiquitous the
software is both for professional industry users and consumers. Let’s delve
into some of the latest features and see how the 2021 Creative Cloud version
brushes up for both newbies and loyal fans. Adobe Photoshop review: Features
Clever sky replacement options Neural filters are still in beta Sharing and
saving options via the cloud Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 boasts several headline
additions, but for new users, it’s worth stating what hasn’t changed and still
works brilliantly for enhancing and manipulating photos. Photoshop’s basic
editing functions such as blur, sharpen, erase, and clone will satisfy
hobbyists, and for complex graphics editing, there are layers, selections, and
extra channels.

 Moving to the latest tools, Adobe is making big noise about the
development of Sensei AI technology, which is designed to speed up editing
tasks. One of the latest Sensei-powered tools is Neural filters, a panel accessed
from the main menu that offers one-click edits using information from the
Cloud. In this panel, you’ll find a list of Al filters which need to be
downloaded from the cloud first, plus a wait list – nice-to-have tools that are
planned for later releases. 

The featured filters include Skin Smoothing, JPEG
Artefacts Removal, and Style Transfer, plus many more that are currently listed
as Beta options, such as Smart Portrait. It looks as if there’s a lot to please
retouchers or portrait photographers, however, the results we got were a mixed
bag. 

When we tried adding a smile with the Smart Portrait filters, for example,
the teeth ended up looking like a creepy caricature. This isn’t surprising, as
the Neural filters work by adding new pixels that weren’t there in the original
image. Given how machine learning works, it’s likely these Beta filters will
improve in time and with more testing. And of course, all edits are
non-destructive, so you can easily remove an effect you don’t like. 

Another
Adobe Sensei offering, which was updated in August 2021, is the Sky Replacement
feature. While it’s always been possible for landscape photographers to create
drama in their scenes by blending in a new sky in Photoshop, in the past, this
involved careful and time-consuming masking. Sky Replacement is definitely not
in Beta mode, and the results are incredibly convincing, in part thanks to the
ability to fine-tune the lighting so that the foreground tones match the sky.
In all of our experiments, the software did a great job of finding the horizon
line and masking features such as cliffs; it’s genuinely surprising how easy it
is to transform a landscape shot on a dull day into something more inspiring,
which will be a boon to generation Instagram or hobbyists who don’t want to
faff around.

 At times, Photoshop is a complex piece of software to get to grips
with, but newer Photoshop users – or those who just want to improve – can make
great leaps by using the Learn section of the home screen. When you click on a
hands-on tutorial, you’ll then be guided in real-time through the editing
process required for a host of different skills to make easy work of
retouching, adding shapes, combining images, and other essential creative
techniques. Although Adobe Photoshop CC is available as a standalone
subscription, buying it as a package with Lightroom CC will revolutionize the
workflow of many modern photographers. 

The two programs are designed to work
together in the Cloud, and when you open Photoshop, it’s possible to open up
and work on images saved in Lightroom. These Cloud documents also save
automatically as you work, too, so if you want to switch to mobile or iPad
editing on the go, the files are already there waiting for you. In the same
way, working collaboratively on images with clients, friends or coworkers is
easy; simply send them an invite with a quick and automated email invite from
the main window. While it’s impossible to review all of Adobe Photoshop CC’s
features, the layout and interface remain as rich as they’ve ever been, and the
tools just as industry-leading. 

While some of the AI edits do need some time to
develop, provided you’ve got a powerful enough machine (see Compatibility
section) to run Photoshop, you should be impressed by how smooth the editing
actually is. Adobe Photoshop review: Compatibility and plugins Adobe Photoshop
should only be downloaded onto a powerful machine – that’s a minimum 8GB of RAM
and 4GB of available hard-disk space. You’ll also need at least a 1280 x 800
resolution display. In terms of operating systems, it’s available for Window 10 (64 – bit) type 1809 onwards. 

Adobe Photoshop is also available as an app on
Apple’s iPad. Adobe Photoshop review: Price and subscription options Adobe
Photoshop is only available with a monthly or annual subscription plan, but
this does include updates to the latest version as soon as it is released. Photoshop
is available as either of Adobe’s Cc package or the Photoshop software Single
software subscription, Togather of which have minor differences. Adobe
Photoshop (which features the desktops and iPad platforms, Hundred GB of
Cloud-storage’s software, Adobe-Fresco’s software, Adobe-Portfolio’s software,
Adobe-Font’s software, and the last 
Adobe-Spark’s software) costs $22.99 for every month if purchased separately
as a subscription.

 Light-rooom’s software, Lightrooom Classic’s software,
Photoshop on desktops and iPads, and twenty GB of cloud storage are all
included in the Creative Cloud Photography plan, which charges $9.99 per month.
 Adobe also offers a free 7-day trial.
Should you buy Adobe Photoshop? If you work with images in any capacity as a
professional, you should definitely have Adobe Photoshop in your arsenal. It’s
the best image editor out there, even if it has a few random features and new
Neural filters that some users will never touch. 

Landscape photographers
looking to jazz up their scenes will benefit from the Sky Replacement tools,
while commercial designers and shooters should find the option to invite others
to edit images genuinely helpful. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by Photoshop’s
interface, so if you’re a hobbyist starting out with image processing and want
an easier learning curve, take a look at Skylumm’s Luminar AI and Affinity
Photo as alternatives. Adobe Photoshop is market-leading when it comes to
transforming single images, but won’t clear up a chaotic system or help you to
organize files on your computer and drives. Take advantage of Adobe’s
Photography Plan and use it alongside Adobe Lightroom to establish a sensible
storage workflow.