Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 / Features

Organize, edit, create, and share more quickly and easily thanks to big, bold icons; a helpful Action bar; and the ability to choose from Quick, Guided, and Expert editing modes to fit your needs.

Adobe® Photoshop® Elements serves all your photo needs. Easily organize and find photos; edit and enhance them; create custom photo keepsakes; and share them via print, the web, and more.*

Easily view, relive, and share your Elements photos on your smartphone and tablet. And finally — unlock the photos from your mobile device, and see them in your Elements albums back at home.*

Intuitively sort and manage photos based on people, places, and events using new Organizer views. Find your photos using visual tags that represent people, places, pets, events, and objects.

Relive your journeys by viewing photos and videos over a map of where they were taken.*

Manage your photos and video clips in the Organizer. Use automated options to find your best photos and clips, or photos of specific things and people.

Move objects in a photo and have the background automatically filled in with Content-Aware Move.

Remove green, yellow, and other “pet eye” discolorations as easily as you remove red eye in photos of people.

Easily create your best-looking panoramas yet. Photomerge Panorama uses powerful blending capabilities to fill in jagged edges as it automatically stitches together multiple horizontal or vertical photos.

Get the photo fixes you’re looking for with one-step shortcuts that whiten teeth or make skies a vibrant blue. Make unwanted photo elements vanish with one stroke of the Spot Healing Brush, and use Auto Smart Tone for intelligent photo corrections.

Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. With Photomerge Group Shot, it’s easy to combine faces and bodies from a series of pictures to create a single perfect composite.

Easily straighten a photo and fill in any missing background with Content-Aware Fill for the Straighten tool. Available in Expert mode.

Sharing options previously only available in the Organizer are now available in the Editor.

Quickly post your photos on Facebook, YouTube™, Vimeo®, Twitter, and more. Now, easily share your Elements photos in shared albums, and view them on your smartphone or tablet.*

Order prints, cards, and photo books online to bring your creations to life.* Print folded cards to your local printer. (Services vary worldwide.)

Use a variety of one-touch Frames, Effects, and Textures to add depth to your snapshots.

It’s fun to produce professional effects using one of more than 25 Guided Edits. New effects include Zoom Burst, which brings dramatic action to your photos; Photo Puzzle, which gives a fun puzzle effect; and Old Photo Restore, which helps you fix an old or worn photo.

Get the wow without the work. Click to apply new Comic, Graphic Novel, and Pen & Ink filters.

Type titles and labels right onto your photos and edit them anytime. Choose typefaces from the Font menu, ranging from the fun to the serious, the poetic to business.

Get the results you want with Guided Edits. New options include Zoom Burst, Photo Puzzle, and Old Photo Restore.

Add sophistication to your photos. Reveal a portion of a photo through another photo by using layer masks that control the transparency of specific areas.