![]() Unlike Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom, which start at $9.99 per month, no recurring subscription is required to keep using the Elements software.Ĭlose competitor Corel Paintshop Pro costs a one-time price of $79.99 and also offers many features found in Photoshop. If you're updating from a previous version, you pay $79.99. ![]() You can purchase Photoshop Elements either as a package with its enthusiast-level video-editing companion, Premiere Elements, for $149.99 or you can buy it alone, for $99.99. ![]() With its wealth of tools and ease of use, Photoshop Elements remains a PCMag Editors' Choice winner for enthusiast-level photo editing software. Elements provides many of Photoshop’s tools and capabilities without requiring you to sign up for a subscription, as its bigger sibling does. Like Adobe's pro-level Creative Cloud applications, new features in Elements add web functionality and take advantage of Adobe's AI technology, called Sensei. This consumer photo editing software continues to make splashy Photoshop effects possible for novices. If you’re already using Photoshop Elements then Premiere Elements will slot smoothly into your organizing, editing and sharing workflow. It is worth pointing out that Premiere Elements 2021 is particularly good value if you buy it at the same time as Photoshop Elements 2021, as a twin-pack deal.Photoshop Elements brings much of the visual magic pioneered by Adobe Photoshop to nonprofessionals. If you’re already using Photoshop Elements then Premiere Elements 2021 will slot nicely into your content-creating workflow and expand the contents in you social media feed. You can then stretch your creative wings using the tools in the Expert workspace. VerdictĬreatively grade your clips using adjustable split-tone style tint effects (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World)Īdobe Premiere Elements 2021 helps video-editing novices hit the ground running as it guides you through simple and then more sophisticated techniques. You can download a trial version of Premiere Elements 2021, that gives you 30 days of full access to the app, enabling you to take it for a thorough test drive. This auto tracking feature would benefit from a Guided Edit as it takes a while to get to grips with it. However when faced with a running dog Premiere Elements couldn’t keep track of the subject’s changing size in the frame. In practice we found that auto effect tracking worked well if your subject remains at a similar size in the frame throughout the clip (as the girl does in the demo). Auto tracking then ensures that the child remains sharp while she runs through a blurred background. The image is blurred with an effect and then the child is selected with a quick scribble. In the official Adobe demo video we see a child running through a field. A new feature is the ability to apply effects to specific objects and then have those effects follow (or track) the subject throughout the video. Premiere Elements 2021 does a great job of letting you trim long shots into shorter slickly edited shows complete with titles, transitions and extra ‘bells and whistles’ such as picture-in-picture effects. Isolate a moving subject from a blur-filtered background using auto tracking (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World) ![]() This occasionally involved multiple drag and drop attempts before we succeeded in applying an effect (while running Premiere Elements on a 27 inch 2017 model iMac). We also found the app a little sluggish when it came to dragging effects and transitions into the timeline. This is a new glitch that wasn’t an issue until we updated the app to the latest version (2021.1). On the Mac version of Premiere Elements we found that the contents of the Add Media and Project Assets panels weren’t always visible until we’d clicked on them multiple times. Unlike the Quick workspace you can add video and audio content to multiple tracks to combine footage in more creative ways. Extra tools such as filter effects can be summoned by clicking icons on the right. The Expert workspace looks very similar to other non-linear video editing apps with a timeline along the bottom, a bin full of project assets at the right and the edited programme is displayed in the viewer. The new Animated Mattes Guided Edit helps lets you reveal a video clip in a more creative way (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World)Īfter spending time trying the tricks and techniques introduced by the Guided Edits you’ll become more confident in exploring the Expert workspace.
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