Adobe today released new versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements for Mac and Windows with new automated tools, video collages, facial feature adjustments allowing you to change frowned faces into bright smiles with open eyes, a Photomerge Group Shot option that combines faces and bodies from a series of pictures to create a single perfect composite and much more.
Adobe Elements Organizer 15 is now optimized for touchscreen PCs and brings out Organizer and Quick Edit modes, smart tagging, enhanced search with support for places, events and popular subjects to locate the right photos, a better Instant Fix feature for batch-editing multiple images in one go, and more.
Organizer uses facial/object recognition to analyze your images and automatically suggest smart tags for popular objects letting you quickly sort photos by sunsets, birthdays, dogs, cats and other preset tags with minimal effort.
Here’s a video showing transforming frowns into smiles, adjusting squinting eyes and making other quick tweaks, which Adobe calls Adjust Facial Features.
Photoshop Elements 15 has gained five new guided edits, each offering step-by-step instructions on complex image editing tasks, so you now have 45 guided edits total.
The new guided edits include Photo Text for transforming an image into editable text, Painterly for helping you paint a stylized effect over a subject, Effects Collage for applying multiple effects to a single photo, Speed Pan for adding motion blur to a subject and Frame Creator for building and saving custom image frames.
And here’s a new haze remover tool in Premiere Elements 15.
Premiere Elements 15 has also gained a new Remix feature that automatically remixes any track to match the length of your movie, a Collage tool that combines photos and video for sharing on social media, face detection for video available in Favorite Moments, Pan and Zoom and Smart Trim, plus much more.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 15andAdobe Premiere Elements 15for Mac and Windows are available from the Adobe website for $99 each, or as a$149.99 bundle.
