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Adobe Photoshop Elements Changelog

What's new in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024.2

Apr 2, 2024
  • This free update includes:
  • In addition to English, the Adobe Elements web app (Beta) is now available in French, German, and Japanese. Learn More.
  • In addition to English, the Adobe Elements mobile app (Beta) is now available in French, German, and Japanese. Learn More.
  • Stability fixes
  • Security fixes (Removed VC12 dependencies)
  • Updates for Elements Organizer:
  • Fixed: Crashes that occurred during large catalog backups
  • Fixed: Silent Dumps created for Elements AutoAnalyzer and Elements Organizer

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024.1 (Dec 8, 2023)

  • New features summary:
  • New light and dark modes. Enjoy a whole new editing experience with a fresh look.
  • Color Match. Match color and tone to create a fresh new vibe.
  • Photo Reel. Create and share fast-moving Photo Reels.
  • Add Text Guided Edit. Create stylized text for shareworthy posts.
  • Quick Actions. Discover one-click Quick Actions in one place.
  • Other New Features. Free Adobe Stock Photos.New Artistic Effects. One-click sky or background selection. Auto sync. (English-only beta)

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023.1 (Apr 6, 2023)

  • This free update includes a fix for the Artistic Effect bug related to certain Intel GPU cards, in-product notification support in Photoshop Elements, and some critical bug fixes.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 (Oct 2, 2022)

  • Take a photo. Make it move:
  • Create an element of surprise by adding motion to select areas of your still photos. Choose the direction and speed of the motion, and then share your photo as an MP4 or GIF to wow people on social.
  • Create depth with a peek-through overlay:
  • Frame your photo subjects with overlays like flowers and leaves to add depth and dimension. Resize, get the blur just right, and even add a vignette for the perfect result.
  • New modern content for fresh looks:
  • Showcase your photos and videos in all-new collage and slideshow templates, and try new backgrounds, skies, and patterns in your favorite Guided Edits.
  • Quickly search and explore Guided Edit options:
  • Easily find what you want to do or discover new things to try by searching on familiar terms, using keyword tags, or choosing from popular options.
  • Experience better performance and stability:
  • Enjoy under-the-hood improvements that deliver up to 35% faster installation and launch times, and 45% smaller app size. If you're on a mac, you'll experience 70% faster launch times and performance on Apple M1 systems.
  • Go beyond your desktop:
  • Access, view, and share your photos on-the-go with web and mobile companion apps. Create collages and slideshows on the web. And get ongoing app updates and 2GB of cloud storage.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022.4 (Jul 15, 2022)

  • Instantly turn photos into art. In one click, transform your photos with effects inspired by famous works of art or popular art styles. Choose from amazing artistic effects that you can apply to all or part of your photo, and easily adjust the results for exactly the look you want.
  • Create not-so-still photos. Add moving overlays like snowflakes and sparkles, and create fun animated frames. Then save your creations as MP4s or GIFs to share on social and more.
  • Warp photos to fit any shape. Place one photo inside another by wrapping it around an object like a coffee mug or fitting it inside shapes like the lenses of your subject’s sunglasses. There’s no limit to what you can create!
  • Add motion to your static images. With one click, transform your favorite shots into moving photos—fun animated MP4s and GIFs with 2D and 3D camera motion. It’s easy and perfect for sharing on social media
  • Create perfect pet pics. Make your furry and feathered friends look their best. Frame them up just right, adjust color and lighting, select and refine detailed edges like fur, fix pet-eye, and remove collars, and leashes in a few simple steps.
  • Extend photo backgrounds. Create a stunning landscape or reposition your subject for the perfect social post by easily extending your photo’s background. The magic of Content-Aware Fill technology makes it all possible.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 20.0 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Instantly turn photos into art
  • In one click, transform your photos with effects inspired by famous works of art or popular art styles. Apply an effect to all or part of your photo, and easily adjust the results for exactly the look you want.
  • Create not-so-still photos:
  • Add moving overlays like snowflakes and sparkles, and create fun animated frames. Then save your photos as MP4s to share on social and more.
  • Warp photos to fit any shape:
  • Place one photo inside another by wrapping it around an object like a coffee mug or fitting it inside shapes like the lenses of your subject’s sunglasses. There’s no limit to what you can create!
  • Create perfect pet pics:
  • Make your furry and feathered friends look their best. Frame them up just right, adjust color and lighting, select and refine detailed edges like fur, fix pet-eye, and remove collars and leashes in a few simple steps.
  • Extend photo backgrounds:
  • Create a stunning landscape or reposition your subject for the perfect social post by easily extending your photo’s background. The magic of Content-Aware Fill technology makes it all possible.
  • Explore new slideshow styles:
  • Show off your photos and videos and tell your stories with new animated slideshow templates in a range of eye-catching styles.
  • NEW:
  • Instantly turn photos into art:
  • In one click, transform your photos with effects inspired by famous works of art or popular art styles. Apply an effect to all or part of your photo. Powered by Adobe Sensei.
  • Create not-so-still photos :
  • Add moving overlays like snowflakes and sparkles, and create fun animated frames. Then save your photos as MP4s to share on social and more.
  • Warp photos to fit any shape:
  • Place one photo inside another by wrapping it around an object like a coffee mug or fitting it inside shapes like the lenses of your subject’s sunglasses.
  • Create perfect pet pics:
  • Make your furry friends look their best. Frame them up just right, adjust color and lighting, select and refine fur, fix pet-eye, and remove collars, and leashes in a few simple steps.
  • Extend photo backgrounds:
  • Create a stunning landscape or reposition your subject for the perfect social post by easily extending your photo’s background. The magic of Content-Aware Fill makes it all possible.
  • Create & share:
  • Explore new slideshow styles:
  • Show off your photos and videos and tell your stories with new animated slideshow templates in a range of eye-catching styles.
  • GIF playback in the Organizer
  • Just click to activate your GIFs now that the Organizer supports playback.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021.3 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • Fixed issue: Center image option not working in the Print dialog box

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021.2 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • Fixed issue: Application crashes while using touch pen with tablets.
  • Fixed issue: Application crashes while using the crop tool.
  • Fixed issue: Application crashes sometime during exit.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021.1 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • Fixed issue: Not able to type "@" in the german setup on the login page.
  • Fixed issue: In Elements Organizer, borderless prints leave borders on the bottom and the right size of the print

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.0 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • Adjust Facial Features:
  • Turn frowns upside down, adjust squinting eyes, and make other quick tweaks so everyone in your photos looks their best.
  • Enhanced Filter Gallery:
  • Filters are a great way to try on new looks and show off your creativity, and now it’s even easier to choose the best filter for your photo and fine-tune the details.
  • New Guided Edits:
  • Guided Edits transform seemingly complex tasks into easy to follow step-by-step instructions that guide you to fantastic results. Photoshop Elements now offers 45 Guided Edits, including five brand new ones in this release.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.1 (Aug 12, 2016)

  • This patch release contains the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Performance improvements
  • Bug fixes (stability-related and others)

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.0 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • Bye-bye, camera shake: We call Shake Reduction “your selfies’ best friend,” but it’s great for any photo shot with a handheld camera. Just click to remove the camera shake blurs that come from unsteady hands.
  • Never a hazy day: Ever notice that, when you take a photo of an outdoor landscape, moisture in the air can cause the background to look hazy? Now you can use Haze Remover to make the background as crisp as what’s up front. De-haze in one click, or use sliders for more control.
  • Speed Guided Edit for action shots: Whether your photo captures a ball in flight, a bike zipping by, or some other cool moment, now you can get step-by-step help amping up the action by adding cool motion blurs.
  • Resize in seconds with a new Guided Edit: Want your photo to fit a certain picture frame or spot on a website? With step-by-step help, resizing has never been easier.
  • Select hair in a snap: It used to be a real chore to select hair, pet fur and other fine details in photos. Now you can just paint loosely over the area you want to select, and Elements detects the edges and does the rest with the Fine Detail Selection option.
  • Get custom looks to fit any photo: Want to give a photo some extra style, but not sure which effect will look best? Elements analyzes the subject, color and lighting and Smart Looks gives you five effects that fit perfectly.
  • Quick edits made easier: Quick Edit mode is now even friendlier and easier to use, letting you rotate photos and make quick fixes faster than before.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 13.0 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Not sure what to do with the videos you take on your smartphone? Premiere Elements 13 helps you discover how to make quick movies, reduce camera shakiness and share with family and friends. And when you’ve mastered the basics, Premiere Elements can take you to the next level with built in Guided Edits, and access to some very powerful expert features.
  • Favorite moments: Instead of trimming out what you don’t want from your video, how about focusing on the good stuff? We’ve made it really easy to choose the best moments from your clips and pull them together into a short movie that’s great for sharing.
  • Easily tell your big life stories with Video Story: Do justice to weddings, birthdays, and other big life events. Just pick the story type, grab clips for each chapter, and Premiere Elements does the rest—trimming, transitions, and music based on the mood you choose.
  • Get the shakes out with Video Stabilizer: Make the footage you capture with action cameras and smartphones less shaky and more awesome.
  • Introducing Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements 13
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  • Posted by Bob Gager on Sep 23, 2014
  • With back-to-school season in full swing and the holidays rapidly approaching, it’s the perfect time to do fun things with your photos and videos. On behalf of the Elements team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 13. While you’ve been enjoying summer, the Elements team has been working hard behind the scenes to bring you a slew of new features that simplify complex editing tasks and bring to life new tools that are as simple as the click of a button or swipe of a brush. Now it’s easier then ever to make your photos and videos stand out with your family and friends.
  • Elements Live Educates and Inspires
  • One of our primary goals on the Elements team is to help inspire and educate our customers on a daily basis, and I often hear from them about their desire to keep learning every day. In response we have developed Elements Live, a new in-app experience that serves up tips, tricks and inspiration right at your fingertips. From how to get started, to inspiration and tutorials on more complicated techniques, Elements Live provides a convenient source of fresh creative inspiration.
  • Discover what you can do with Photoshop Elements 13:
  • If you’re like me, you take a lot of photos of family and friends and love having access to them wherever you are. In Elements you can transform them, create with them, share them, and access them on the go. Photoshop Elements 13 offers new ways to add artistic touches to your snapshots so you can share them wherever you are.
  • Create new scenes: I’m usually the one taking the photo, so I never end up in the photo. Photomerge Compose solves that problem by making it easy to copy an object or person from one photo to another where it then blends the color and lighting for a natural look.
  • Create the perfect composition: Cropping photos is the #1 thing that users do with their photos, so we made it a lot easier to get great results by providing four crop suggestions that are based on the rules of composition. So, you don’t need to know the rules, you just need to pick the one you like and you’re done.
  • One click Effects tailored to your taste: We’ve added forty new One Click Effects to make it easy to get the look you’re after. Simply pick an effect category, and Elements brings to life five different versions of that effect so you can choose the look that works best for your photo.
  • Stand out from the crowd on Facebook: Create a custom Facebook cover by blending your profile and cover photos together in ways that show your creativity and personality.
  • Refine your selection: There are many options for making selections in Photoshop Elements. We now offer a really easy way to fine-tune your selection by simply nudging out to increase or nudging in to decrease a selection. Elements magically knows what you’re trying to do and makes the whole process easier.
  • Have fun with black-and-white photos with new Guided Edits: Converting your photos to Black and White is a great way to get more creative. We’ve added a new Guided Edit to help you through the process but have also added a couple of fun ways to make your B&W photos more interesting. With a new Guided Edit to make a single color pop against a B&W background and another one for creating a hybrid of color and B&W. With these three new Guided Edits, getting really creative by mixing colors, blacks, and whites has never been easier.
  • Take a look at what’s new in Premiere Elements 13:
  • Not sure what to do with the videos you take on your smartphone? Premiere Elements 13 helps you discover how to make quick movies, reduce camera shakiness and share with family and friends. And when you’ve mastered the basics, Premiere Elements can take you to the next level with built in Guided Edits, and access to some very powerful expert features.
  • Favorite moments: Instead of trimming out what you don’t want from your video, how about focusing on the good stuff? We’ve made it really easy to choose the best moments from your clips and pull them together into a short movie that’s great for sharing.
  • Easily tell your big life stories with Video Story: Do justice to weddings, birthdays, and other big life events. Just pick the story type, grab clips for each chapter, and Premiere Elements does the rest—trimming, transitions, and music based on the mood you choose.
  • Get the shakes out with Video Stabilizer: Make the footage you capture with action cameras and smartphones less shaky and more awesome.
  • New Guided edits make it easy to create fun movies:
  • add motion inside your movie titles to create a fun look
  • punch up the drama with effects or blurs that draw attention to one part of your video

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12.0 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • ENHANCED - Discover a friendly and intuitive environment:
  • 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.
  • NEW - Take your photos and videos with you wherever you go:
  • 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.
  • NEW - Easily move objects:
  • Move objects in a photo and have the background automatically filled in with Content-Aware Move.
  • NEW - Pet-Eye Correction:
  • Remove green, yellow, and other “pet eye” discolorations as easily as you remove red eye in photos of people.
  • ENHANCED - Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds:
  • 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.
  • ENHANCED - Fix photos the easy way:
  • Easily straighten a photo and fill in any missing background with Content-Aware Fill for the Straighten tool. Available in Expert mode.
  • NEW - Share from Editor:
  • Sharing options previously only available in the Organizer are now available in the Editor.
  • ENHANCED - Share photos:
  • 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.
  • ENHANCED - Print using integrated online offerings:
  • Order prints, cards, and photo books online to bring your creations to life.
  • NEW - Add your personal touch, instantly:
  • Use a variety of one-touch Frames, Effects, and Textures to add depth to your snapshots.
  • ENHANCED - Learn as you use:
  • 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.
  • ENHANCED - Count on step-by-step assistance:
  • Get the results you want with Guided Edits. New options include Zoom Burst, Photo Puzzle, and Old Photo Restore.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Quickly turn photos into stunning illustrations:
  • Get the wow without the work by simply clicking to apply new Comic, Graphic Novel, and Pen & Ink filters.
  • Discover a friendly and intuitive environment:
  • 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.
  • Manage your photos more easily:
  • Intuitively sort and manage photos and video clips based on people, places, and events using new Organizer views.
  • Easily create pro-quality photographic effects:
  • Use new Guided Edits for step-by-step help creating tilt-shift effects that make photos look like miniature scenes, vignettes that draw attention to the center of your photos, and high- and low-key effects that add energy or drama with high levels of white or black.
  • Combine elements from different photos with ease:
  • Cleanly extract something from one photo to put in another. Industry-leading Adobe Photoshop picture editing technology makes it easy to select and refine the edges of hair and other tricky content, so you can add relatives to the family portrait, put a friend onstage with her favorite singer, and more.
  • Map your memories:
  • Relive your journeys by viewing your photos and videos on a map based on where they were taken.
  • Share videos on Vimeo:
  • Quickly share your video clips and movies on the popular Vimeo site.
  • Get fresh looks with new templates:
  • Impress friends and family by sharing photos in eye-catching new templates for printed photo keepsakes and Online Albums.
  • Take your photo editing to the next level:
  • Expand your editing options by quickly importing and applying effects and styles from popular photo sites and blogs. Even import actions that automate repetitive editing tasks.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 (Sep 27, 2011)

  • Paint effects onto specific photo areas:
  • Simply paint on any of 100 effects and patterns, including 30 new options, to enhance areas of your photos. New effects include Snow, Pencil Sketch, and Oil Pastel.
  • Easily create stunning photo effects:
  • Use new Guided Edits for step-by-step assistance when you want to highlight your subject by simulating depth of field, add a diffuse glow to create a dreamlike Orton Effect, or break a photo up into a fun collage of snapshots.
  • Add curving, flowing text:
  • Give photos or creations added flair with text that curves or flows any way you wish. Easily use text to outline shapes or objects, or have text follow any path you choose.
  • Tag faster using your Facebook Friends list:
  • Use your Facebook Friends list to quickly tag faces in your photos and easily share them on Facebook.
  • Find photos that contain specific objects:
  • Want to find shots that include your surfboard, your grandma's house, or the Eiffel Tower? Let Object Search automatically find your photos based on what's in them.
  • Get better composition with crop guides:
  • Make any photo more interesting or energetic using new crop guides. Choose either the Rule of Thirds or Golden Ratio option to create the best composition for your photo.
  • Easily manage even the biggest photo library:
  • Let Photoshop Elements automatically detect duplicate or near-duplicate photos so you can quickly group them or delete the ones you don't need. And count on improved search to find photos that have common content and color characteristics.
  • Get fresh looks with new templates:
  • Impress friends and family by sharing photos in eye-catching new templates for printed photo creations and Online Albums.
  • Upload to YouTube:
  • Upload your video clips to YouTube directly from the Organizer.
  • Save photo creations with greater flexibility:
  • Enjoy the flexibility to print, upload, and share your photo creations just about anywhere thanks to the ability to save to JPEG and PDF file formats.