Featuring a refined feature-set along with updated tools for improving your photography, Photoshop Elements 14 from Adobe is a versatile editing application offering control over the look of imagery, as well as benefitting the organization and sharing aspects of your workflow. This 14th edition allows you to compensate for blurry handheld photos using the Camera Shake Reduction feature, as well as improve clarity with Haze Removal. The suite of Guided Edits now contains 34 distinct looks, including step-by-step lessons on resizing photos for specific application and applying motion effects to your imagery. For improved control, an enhanced selection tool lets you broadly paint over areas of hair or fur, and automatically achieve natural-looking, well-detailed selections of these organic shapes. For expediting your editing workflow, the Quick Edit mode lets you make fast, simple fixes in a streamlined manner and Photoshop Elements 14 can also analyze your photo and instantly come up with five new variations involving the use of creative effects.
These editing tools and functions complement the rich set of foundation features in Photoshop Elements, including the ability to use content-aware technology to automatically replace backgrounds, process raw files for greater control over image appearance, and composite and stitch together multiple photos for creative compositions. Finished photos can be shared to social media sites directly from within the application, and photos can also be tagged for easier sourcing via the Organizer.
- Camera Shake Reduction - Benefitting your handheld photos, this one-click tool helps to clean up unwanted camera shake for a sharper, clearer appearance.
- Haze Removal - Ideally suited for landscape photos, this tool removes haze from scenes for cleaner looking vistas with similar definition, contrast, and clarity in the foreground and background.
- Resize - Step-by-step guides are available for resizing your photographs depending on specific applications, such as certain frame sizes or various web applications.
- Quick Edits - Rotate, resize, and apply quick fixes to images using this intuitive, straightforward editing mode.
- Crop Options - This automated tool provides four different cropping suggestions for a variety of composition options.
- Correct Pet Eye - Similar to removing red-eye in photos, this dedicated tool cleans up green, yellow, or other discolorations in your pets' eyes.
- Unclutter and Repair - Helping to clean up and improve the quality of imagery, this tool helps to maintain a consistently clean style throughout groups of photos.
- Adjustments Preview - Prior to committing an edit to your photo, you can preview a range of different adjustments types in order to select the best one.
- One-Click Color Correction - This one-step function automatically cleans up and enhances colors, such as for whitening teeth or making skies bluer.
- Portrait Corrections - One-click corrections for enhancing portraits let you quickly remove red-eye or instantly smooth out skin tones.
- Custom Looks - For instant versatility, the software will analyze the subject, color, and lighting in your image and generate five distinct, finished effects to choose from.
- Effects Variations - After choosing an effect, Elements will produce five different variations of the effect for easier refinement.
- Creative Effects - A variety of creative effects can be used to enhance the look of imagery, including zoom burst, photo puzzle, tilt-shift, vignette, high-key, and low-key effects. Additionally, one-click photo restoration is possible.
- Creative Finishing - Complement your images with creative frames, effects, and textures.
- Photo Illustrations - Photos can be converted to look like illustrations using Comic, Graphic Novel, and Pen & Ink filters.
- Import Effects - Effects, styles, and actions can be used and sourced from third party photo sites, blogs, and other resources.
- Paint on Effects - More than 100 effects can be applied to images using the paint brush tool.
- Guided Edits - 34 different Guided Edits are provided to help you simultaneously produce and learn how to achieve distinct looks through editing, including how to add a sense of motion to a photo or how to resize imagery to fit specific design constraints.
- Hair and Fur Selections - A refined selection tool lets you broadly paint over an area with hair or fur in order to automatically achieve detailed, natural selections.
- Photomerge Compose - Enabling you to create photo remixes and mashups, this tool lets you quickly and easily select objects from one image, insert them into another, and then adjust the color and lighting to create a realistic appearance.
- Refine Selections - Using the nudge function, you can refine the boundaries of your selection to include or exclude just the right portion of the scene.
- Content-Aware Move - When making a selection and removing a subject, content-aware technology can automatically and intelligently fill-in the background.
- Auto Smart Tone - This tool helps to optimize color and tone adjustments based on learned personal preferences.
- Raw Editing - A broad range of raw file types are supported and can be processed and edited in Elements 14.
- Recompose - Photos can be recomposed to any dimension without distorting key subjects.
- Lighting - Simulated lighting controls help you to enhance the look of artificially lit photos.
- Panoramas - Wide-field imagery can be created in order to produce creative panoramic photos or simply to contain a large group photo.
- Facebook Cover Photos - Helping to achieve a unique effect with your Facebook profile, this tool blends both your profile and cover photos to give the appearance of a single image.
- Slideshows - Creative photo slideshows can be produced and contain multiple images per slide.
- Text - Curved or flowing text can be added to photos for a creative look.
- Finishing - Photos can be turned into calendars, photo books, and more, and support is available for printing with your home printer.
- Social Media and Email - Finished photos and videos can be easily shared via email or uploaded to social media sites, including Twitter, Vimeo, and Facebook, from within the application.
- Saving - Photos can be saved in either JPEG or PDF formats.
- You can easily find the photo you're looking for by searching for the people in it, by using a map and searching for where you took the photo, based on what you were doing in the photos, or based on specific objects within the photo. Enhanced search capabilities help to expedite the process in finding the exact image.
- Helping with the organization of your imagery, you can quickly tag faces in your photos using your Facebook Friends list; organize photos and video clips with visual tags; and edit and preview photos in full-screen directly from the Organizer.