Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements offer a wealth of new AI tools that can help you create more professional-looking videos and photos. Here are three of the most popular AI tools in these programs:

  1. The Magic Wand: This tool is used to select areas of your image to be edited, and then uses a variety of commands to make the selection. You can use it to move objects around, resize them, or add effects.
  2. The Curves tool: This tool is used to create basic shapes in your image, such as circles, squares, and triangles. You can also use it to add brightness and saturation levels, as well as other effects.
  3. The Masking tool: This tool is used to hide or reveal parts of your image with specific colors or shapes.

The headline feature for Photoshop Elements 2023 is “Moving Elements,” where you can select areas of a still image to make them animated. Adobe showed off flowing water in a waterfall photo as an example, or sand kicking up in an image of someone riding a bike. The newly-animated images can then be saved as a video or GIF for easy sharing. There’s also a new “Peek-through Overlays” option for creating a depth effect in photos, more filters for applying artistic effects, and more slideshow templates.

Premiere Elements 2023 has the same artistic filter options as Photoshop Elements, and adds 100 new audio tracks to use in projects. Adobe says both applications have “up to 35% faster installation, 50% faster launch times, and 48% reduction in app size.” The apps also open up to 70% faster on Mac computers with Apple Silicon chips (M1 & M2), like the latest MacBook Air.

Finally, both applications now have companion apps for web browsers, iPhone, and Android. You can’t actually edit photos and videos through the companion apps, but they can be used to upload photos and videos to your Adobe cloud storage, which can then be easily accessed from Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements on your computer.

Source: Adobe