The slightly frustrating thing about Photoshop Elements is that it’s a good app, it’s been a good app for years, but the need to stick to an annual release schedule means it’s being released with meaningless new features and without the interface overhaul it badly needs. While there's nothing here aimed specifically at astrophotographers, there's a lot of competition in this sector, and the Adobe name carries a lot of weight. If you’re looking for a robust image-editing app and don’t want to subscribe to the Photographer’s Bundle, this is a great choice. New in 2022 is an automatic update system, which downloads and installs patches as they become available, but it won’t upgrade you to a new version next year.
You pay once for Photoshop Elements, and a bundle is available with its video-editing brother Premiere Elements, which is a cut-down version of another Creative Cloud app, Premiere Pro. Photoshop Elements has traditionally been the choice of those who want an Adobe image-editing app but don’t want to buy into the Creative Cloud subscription ecosystem (even though this nets you Lightroom as well as Photoshop in the excellent value Photographer’s Bundle). The snowflakes in the background of the image began to fall more slowly, and with slightly more jerkiness, than they had before.Īstro stackers will be pleased to note that Adobe’s famous layer system survives another year’s upgrade, with the ability to open lots of images and blend them together untouched.Īdobe Photoshop Elements review: Price and subscription options The one-click Artistic Effects are complete almost as you’ve completed your click, and the only time we encountered slowdown was in the Moving Overlays section, when we enlarged an image to fill our 4K screen. Even so, you’ll want a computer (PC or Mac) that has plenty of RAM and some fast SSD storage, as these can bottleneck a processor.Īs it is, though, plenty of care seems to have been taken to make Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 as responsive as possible. Everything else is carried out by the CPU, and luckily most modern processors are more than powerful enough to throw around the images produced by today’s digital cameras.
Related: Seascape Photography guide (opens in new tab)Īdobe Photoshop Elements 2022: PerformanceĪdobe Photoshop Elements 2022 can use your computer’s graphics processor, but only for the Adjust Facial Features and Liquify tools.
It works, but seems rather too like Instagram filters for a serious image-editing app. It’s capable of turning out some remarkable-looking images, and you have a degree of control over the process by limiting it to your image’s original color palate, or to either the subject or the background. If one-click transformations are what you’re after, the new Sensei-powered Artistic Effects allow you to change all the colors in a photo in a single click, hewing toward an art style you choose from the palette, such as Folk Art or Mosaic. Pro features like CMYK colors are missing, but the chances of a home user needing to output separations to a commercial printer are slim. And that part typifies Elements as a whole - it’s cut down compared with full-fat Photoshop (opens in new tab) and Lightroom (opens in new tab), sure, but the tools you really need as a home user are there. There's also raw image decoding with a cut-down version of Adobe Camera Raw. You get a decent organisational app bundled with Photoshop Elements, the Organizer, which goes a long way toward preventing a large collection of images from spiralling into chaos.
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