Product reviews
"There are now 88 Guided Edits to help you learn the details of editing while performing creative transformations. Guided Edits are one of the hallmarks of the Elements series. Users can learn while they express themselves and eventually progress to more advanced editing."
– Jon Sienkiewicz, October 2023
"Like Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements also has gained a fresh new look with new buttons, icons, and light and dark modes. New audio effects like reverb, DeHummer, and Vocal Enhancer improve the listening experience. And a new match color and tone feature allows you to copy colors from photos and videos for a stylized look."
– Amber Nealy, October 2023
"Feeling artistic? The new AI-powered Artistic Effect option now enables you to add effects inspired by famous works of art or popular art styles. Working with text has been made easier too, and the program now lets you align text horizontally, vertically, or on a path or a shape. You can also warp it and style it with gradients, textures, and patterns.”
– Jeff Harris, October 2023
“As a long-time user of Photoshop Elements in particular, and being impressed with Adobe’s AI advances this year, I was naturally curious about these upgrades … The first may seem superficial, but it’s a big deal to me: Both apps now sport a more native-looking (meaning darker) dark mode that I find vastly superior to the older versions, and this makes a big difference in my day-to-day usage. There are also new fonts, icons, and button styles. The overall effect is very nice and it’s a noticeable upgrade.”
– Paul Thurrott, October 2023
“Adobe has announced the 2023 updates to both Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements with a focus on making the apps — which have historically been designed to be dead simple — even faster to use and easier to understand.”
– Jaron Schneider, PetaPixel, October 2022
“Elements gets better every year, and with a healthy boost of new music and background content plus AI (in the form of Adobe Sensei), this year’s versions are over the top.”
– Jon Sienkiewicz, Shutterbug, October 2022
“The latest releases also take photos to the next level with updated creative content, including new backgrounds, patterns and skies. To showcase photos in fun ways Adobe has added new collages and slideshow templates.”
– Mark Sparrow, Forbes October 2022
“For Photoshop Elements 2023, the most dramatic update is the ability to add motion to still photos. To do so, you just need to select the part of the image you want to move and indicate the direction of movement using the arrow tool. The AI will then do the rest.”
– Steve Dent, Engadget October 2022
“Photoshop Elements was once a very basic, stripped-down version of its pricier sibling, aimed purely at hobbyists and beginners. But it's become increasingly capable over time, as Adobe incorporates the AI tech it calls Sensei to add cool new features that take the work out of editing.“
– Tom May, Digital Camera World, October 2021
“Photoshop Elements 2022 brings you an updated look with color changes across the application. PSE now comes with a lighter, brighter and cleaner user interface. In Photoshop Elements 10 and earlier we had a dark interface, like Photoshop CC has nowadays. PSE is heading into even lighter colors this year.”
– Melissa Shanhun, Digital Scrapbooking HQ, October 2021
“Using Adobe’s Sensei AI capabilities, Photoshop Elements 2022 can transform photos into art with just one click. You can choose from multiple artistic effects, each based on famous works of art, and do so to an entire photo or just a selection.”
– Paul Thurrott, Thurrott, October 2021
“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.”
– William Gallagher, Apple Insider, October 2021
“Adobe has unveiled the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022, which utilizes its Sensei AI technology to do all the heavy lifting — just like the previous version — and introduces new tools, like moving overlays, artistic photo effects, easy object selection and removal, and more .”
– Anete Lusina, PetaPixel, October 2021
“With absolutely zero skill or knowledge you can create stunning images you’re proud of, and that’s not just marketing hyperbole. With one click you can transform your photos mimicking famous works of art or popular art styles. Powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s photography-smart AI, you can tweak the results to match your taste.”
– Jon Sienkiewicz, Shutterbug, October 2021
“I’m most excited about the Warp feature as this has been something you could only do in the more expensive full Photoshop program until now. Your photos fit to any shape. Now you can place one photo inside another by wrapping it around an object like a coffee mug or fitting it inside shapes like the lenses of sunglasses.”
– Katie Nelson, Katie the Creative Lady, October 2021
“Adobe has made it pretty simple to ‘fix’ an image that isn’t quite right...you’ll have help with exposure, straightening and other artistic types of editing. The same holds true for Adobe Premiere Elements, which includes fun, new features to make your videos a bit more than just straight out of phone/camera videos.”
– Lauri Novak, Photofocus, October 2020
”Photoshop Elements 2021 not only saves time and frustration with some tasks, it is also capable of doing things that I never thought were possible, like being able to turn one person’s head to match the angle of everyone else's without having to swap the head from another photo with the correct head position. That is truly awesome. As is the ability to seamlessly move the position of one person in a photo to a different position.”
– Stan Sholik, Rangefinder October 2020
“This year’s update is loaded with powerful tools and features driven by Adobe Sensei, giving the users of these applications access to incredibly powerful and complex tools in a simple to use format, allowing them to create images and videos you’d never expect.”
– David Crewe, SLR Lounge, October 2020
“Adobe seems to rely on AI more and more, and it’s constantly adding new features to its software. Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2021 have just been announced, and they’re full of AI-powered features that are both useful and fun.”
– Dunja Djudjic, DIY Photography, October 2020
"Adobe Photoshop Elements is the go-to app for busy amateur shooters determined to make family memories come alive in a unique and artistic way."
– Jackie Dove, Tom's Guide, October 2018
"The updates include a variety of new and enhanced features across the board, and are great entry-level programs into both photo and video editing."
– Bryan Esler, Photofocus, October 2018
"If you are the designated family memoirist, you can count on Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 to give your run-of-the-mill photos a bit of a kick. The latest version of 2019 vintage does a good job of augmenting automated aspects of the program while giving the opening sequence a fresh coat of paint."
– Jackie Dove, MacWorld, October 2018
"Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2019 use Adobe’s Sensei AI engine to create photo and video slideshows as well as collages from different events, all without you having to lift a finger. Performance improvements have also been introduced across both applications, including faster installs and speedier edits with some tools."
– Hillary Grigonis, Digital Trends, October 2018
"By utilizing automation, Photoshop Elements 2019 is faster and easier to use than ever before. The changes start as soon as you open up the software, which has a new home screen featuring information about new updates, different ideas and projects you can try, tutorial content and more. For users who enjoy creating slideshows, you can now do so with the help of Adobe’s AI-powered Sensei technology. Plus, photo collages have been redesigned to be quicker to create and with more stylish templates."
– Jeremy Gray, Imaging Resource, October. 2018
“The new ability to select an object within a video and apply an effect to it or to its surroundings with just a few clicks, then have that effect track through the video is a wonder to behold. With the right video input, even if it is only a short section of a clip, it is a real attention getter.”
– Stan Sholik, Rangefinder, October 2020
“...the interface in Premiere Element s is clean and logical, and the guided edits make it easy to perform basic video operations. Users familiar with Photoshop Elements, or previous users of Premiere Elements will be editing in short order. It is generally easy to perform simple edits, such as trimming the beginning and end of videos, adding a transition between clips, and adding music.”
– Stan Sholik, Rangefinder, October 2020
“Adobe has made it pretty simple to ‘fix’ an image that isn’t quite right...you’ll have help with exposure, straightening and other artistic types of editing. The same holds true for Adobe Premiere Elements, which includes fun, new features to make your videos a bit more than just straight out of phone/camera videos.”
– Lauri Novak, Photofocus, October 2020
“This year’s update is loaded with powerful tools and features driven by Adobe Sensei, giving the users of these applications access to incredibly powerful and complex tools in a simple to use format, allowing them to create images and videos you’d never expect.”
– David Crewe, SLR Lounge, October 2020
“Adobe seems to rely on AI more and more, and it’s constantly adding new features to its software. Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2021 have just been announced, and they’re full of AI-powered features that are both useful and fun.”
– Dunja Djudjic, DIY Photography, October 2020
"Adobe Premiere Elements continues its long reign as the overall best consumer video-editing app, with new automated features and simplified workflows for quick video editing."
– Jackie Dove, Tom's Guide, October 2018
"Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 concentrates on two major areas, both of which rely on its Sensei AI engine. Users will appreciate the Auto Creations feature, accessible from the new Home Screen because you literally don’t have to do anything but hit the Share button. With its overhaul of the Quick Edit mode, the program channels two major kinds of edits to their most useful interface and then provides all the tools needed to accomplish the editing task. It is remarkably streamlined and will make for a faster and easier workflow for most home-based moviemakers."
– Jackie Dove, MacWorld, October 2018
"Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2019 use Adobe’s Sensei AI engine to create photo and video slideshows as well as collages from different events, all without you having to lift a finger. Performance improvements have also been introduced across both applications, including faster installs and speedier edits with some tools."
– Hillary Grigonis, Digital Trends, October 2018