Review: Adobe Photoshop Elements 14

By James Paterson

Introduction and features

Photoshop Elements is Adobe’s cut-price consumer version of Photoshop CC. Although it doesn’t offer the full feature set of its bigger brother, there’s plenty of depth to this beginner-friendly photo editor. Unlike CC, a monthly subscription isn’t required, so it’s worth considering if you prefer to pay up front for your software. If you’re into video editing, you can also choose to buy it bundled with Adobe Premiere Elements.

This is the 14th version of Photoshop Elements. With new features such as shake reduction and dehaze, as well as improvements to facial recognition and guided edits, the photo editor has much to offer for both beginners and experienced users.

Elements comes in two parts, the organizer and the editor. The editor also includes a pared-down version of Adobe Camera Raw for processing images taken in the raw format.

The Elements organizer

The organizer is for sorting your image library, with intelligent modes that help to divide your photos into categories based on People, Places and Events. All three categories have been improved since Elements 13. Facial recognition is the biggest revelation. Tasked with pulling out faces from a set of 200 wedding photos, the new …read more

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