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Adobe Photoshop Elements Changelog

What's new in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024

Oct 19, 2023
  • 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 (Sep 29, 2022)

  • Moving Elements:
  • Bring a touch of movie magic to any photo by selecting an area and adding motion. Choose the direction, adjust the speed, and then save your creation as an MP4 or GIF to share on social. Powered by Adobe Sensei*
  • Peek-through Overlay:
  • Create the illusion of depth in any photo by framing your subject with natural and realistic overlays such as flowers, leaves, grass, and more. Easily resize, adjust blur, or add a vignette to get just the look you want.
  • Guided Edit Search:
  • Easily find what you want to do or discover new things to try by searching on text-based search, using keyword tags, or choosing from explore section.
  • Apple silicon Native Support:
  • With full support for Apple M1 chip systems or newer, you’ll enjoy up to 45% faster performance on latest generation of Mac/Apple computers.
  • Performance Improvements:
  • Enjoy up to 30% faster installation and up to 50% faster launch times.
  • New and Refreshed Content:
  • Discover updated creative content like backgrounds, patterns, and skies to bring new energy to your photos.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 (Oct 8, 2021)

  • 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 2021 (Oct 9, 2020)

  • Easily edit, create, organize, and share your photos - and turn your favorite memories into forever keepsakes. Transform your favorite shots into moving photos with just one click. Make shareable creations by adding motivational quotes or personalized messages to your pics. Easily replace skies, remove haze, and erase unwanted objects to create epic outdoor scenes. Apply cool, custom duotone effects to your photos for a beautiful two-color creation. Make sure everyone in your photo is looking in the right direction by automatically adjusting the position of a person's face.
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements includes Elements Organizer, which helps you organize your assets.
  • Turn photos in to moving GIFs:
  • With one click, transform your favorite shots into moving photos-fun animated GIFs with 2D and 3D camera motion.
  • Inspire with quote graphics:
  • Make shareable creations by adding motivational quotes or personalized messages to your pics - you can even animate them! Choose from pre-set social sizes or create your own.
  • Fine-tune face tilt:
  • Make sure everyone in your photo is looking in the right direction by automatically adjusting the position of a person's face.
  • Move, scale, and duplicate objects:
  • With step-by-step help, it's easier than ever to select an object and change its position, size, and more-meaning you can make your creation look exactly how you want.
  • Make perfect landscapes:
  • Easily replace skies, remove haze, and erase unwanted objects to create epic outdoor scenes. With this easy Guided Edit, you're sure to create the perfect adventure photo every time.
  • Create modern duotones:
  • Apply cool, custom duotone effects to your photos for a beautiful two-color creation using this simple Guided Edit. Choose from custom pre-set social sizes, add a gradient, and more!

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020.1 (Oct 9, 2020)

  • This free update includes crash fixes. It also fixes an issue where the application was reverting to trial after installing an update. Additionally, this update fixes the following compatibility issues in Elements Organizer on macOS 10.15 (Catalina):
  • Unable to import media from sub-folders
  • Sub-folders of a folder are not shown in Import in Bulk dialog
  • Apply the update in one of the following ways:
  • Click Install Now or Install On Exit in the update message displayed in Photoshop Elements.
  • Choose Help > Updates (when the update message is not displayed).

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.2 (Dec 16, 2016)

  • This free update includes the bug fix for launch related crash on OS X.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.1 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • This patch fixes the print related crash on macOS 10.12.

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

  • 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:
  • Photo Text: Now you can easily transform any photo into cool visual text and add an embossed look and drop shadows to really make it pop. It’s great for anyone creating collages, scrapbook pages, cards, signs, and more.
  • Painterly: Convert your photos into unique works of art. Painterly teaches you how to paint an effect over your subject and then add textures and color themes—perfect for sharing on social media or as a printed keepsake.
  • Effects Collage: get artistic by adding multiple effects to a single photo. Tap into multiple templates and themes to choose one that suits your style.
  • Speed Pan: Don’t know how to or weren’t able to catch the perfect speed-pan action shot? No problem. This new guided edit adds a motion blur behind your subject to create the dramatic effect.
  • Frame Creator: A new way to create your own custom frames to complement your favorite photos and they can be added to the existing frame library.
  • 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 in Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.1 (Aug 12, 2016)

  • This patch release contains the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Performance improvements
  • Option to import media from iPhone/iPad to Elements Organizer on Mac OS X (v10.11)
  • Bug fixes (stability-related and others)

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

  • What’s new in the Elements Organizer:
  • Find and organize with ease: We’ve revamped the Elements Organizer so you can more quickly find the photos and videos you need. The enhanced People view does an even better job recognizing the faces in your photos, and it stacks them by person during import so it’s easy to find photos of specific people later.
  • The enhanced Places view makes it easier to assign locations to your photos and videos, and view them right on a map based on where you took them. And in the Events view, your media is clustered by date range making it easy to apply an Events tag to that cluster.
  • What’s new in Photoshop Elements:
  • 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)

  • 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.

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)

  • A completely refreshed, user-friendly interface featuring the same engine as Adobe Photoshop - the industry standard for digital imaging - includes easily-navigated Quick, Guided and Expert editing modes; one-click options; a helpful Action bar; and big, bold icons to help users get the most from their shots
  • Organize photos based on people, places (via Google maps geo-tagging) or events easily and intuitively
  • New Guided Edits make pro-level effects like tilt-shift, vignettes and high and low-key easy to create
  • New filters – Comic, Graphic Novel and Pen & Ink – inspire creativity by turning photos into stunning illustrations
  • Intelligent Photoshop technology makes it easy to extract objects from different photos
  • Easily share photos via email, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and more†

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.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0.3 (Apr 18, 2011)

  • Provides a fix for certain broken workflows involving the use of PSE 9 with Wacom tablets.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0.2 (Jan 6, 2011)

  • Will install a patch on top of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. It provides fixes for "Import from iPhoto". This update is ONLY applicable to Photoshop Elements 9 running on a MAC OS.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • Combine the best of multiple photos with Photomerge technology
  • Easily match a favorite photo style
  • Instantly unclutter or repair photos
  • Quickly share photos and videos on Facebook
  • Get just the right look
  • Conveniently print photo creations at home
  • Create fuller panoramas
  • Create stunning photo effects
  • Create the way you want
  • Create richly layered photos
  • Get creative inspiration enhanced
  • Enjoy support for Mac multitouch

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 (Mar 25, 2008)

  • Easily create perfect group shots with new Photomerge Group Shot
  • Batch apply one or more adjustments to multiple images simultaneously
  • Take advantage of Guided Edit mode for assistance with key steps when editing and making creations
  • Count on flexible layout options to create scrapbook pages, CD/DVD labels, and more
  • Select objects in your photos more easily than ever with the new Quick Select tool
  • Create and fine-tune rich, dramatic black-and-whites with ease
  • Get the perfect exposure with new tools for fine-tuning color, brightness, and contrast
  • Combine features from different faces for entertaining results
  • Experience native performance on Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers