By Daniel Grotta Adobe on Tuesday unveiled Version 10 of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, applications widely regarded as the top Windows PC and Mac consumer programs for editing photos and videos, respectively. In spending some time on testing the new Elements programs, we found that they continue to deliver power and ease of use in the familiar tabbed interfaces. ![]() Sep 20, 2011 Adobe Photoshop may be the world's most famous image-editor, but it's a complex, professional tool with a professional price tag. Photoshop Elements is the 'amateur' alternative. However, instead of a “knock-your-socks-off” upgrade, the new versions represent incremental improvements, with a handful of nice new features. Chrome 65 updates for mac. The Organizer’s primary role is to help you get control over your vast library of pictures and videos. Organizer’s interface offers four tabs: Organize, Fix, Create and Share. Choosing to edit a video will launch that video in Premiere Elements, while selecting a photo to edit will launch Photoshop Elements (assuming that both programs are installed on your computer.) Version 10 supplies three new Search tools to help you manage your pictures and/or videos: Object Search, Duplicate Photo and Visual Simularity. (Visual Similarity, however, is new only on the Mac. It was already built into the earlier Windows product.) With Object Search, you select a section of a photo to define what you want to find. The Organizer will find those pictures that seem to match. We were impressed that, when we searched on “hands, the Organizer found pictures of hands, even when hands were only a small element of the entire composition. Still, we came across quite a large number of false finds (pictures that had nothing to do with the human hand, such as cityscapes). Through a slider, you can weight the search by color or shape. Yet you can’t further refine search results or teach the software by removing pictures or types of pictures from these results. Meanwhie, the “Duplicate Photo” features seeks pictures that are similar. It also offers to Stack them together, so as to help organize tshe large volume of images that are typically shot at the same time. Visual Simularity Search works in the same way as the Object Search, although it analyzes entire pictures to seek similar themes and subjects. Basically, the Visual Simularity and Duplicate Photo tools possess the same pros and cons as Object Search. All of them help to cut down on time wasted on manual searches. Uet they they are essentially dumb features that cannot learn from user input. In contrast, for some time now, Elements has offered Face Recognition, a feature that helps you keyword-tag your images. With Face Recognition, you learn from your own input which faces are good matches to names in your library. The big change with version 10 is that you can import and leverage your Facebook Friends List. Then, as you tag pictures, Elements offers matching names from your Friends List when you type in names. Alternatively, you can type a name that isn’t on the list. Then, when you upload tagged images to Facebook, the tags are automatically applied using Facebook’s system, saving time and effort. Still the previous version of Elements already provided a nice selection of sharing options, including private online albums, email, Facebook, Flickr, Smugmug and CEIVA Photo Frame. It also supported just about all the image and video file formats a consumer might need. Photoshop Elements Photoshop Elements’ tabbed interface is organized into Edit, Create and Share. From there, Edit is further divided into sub-Tabs for Full, Quick and Guided Edits.
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