Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 is an easy-to-use, consumer-oriented photo editing application that will almost surely surprise you with how many features it actually has. There's pretty much nothing you can't do with it; your photos can be turned into true works of art after you go through the numerous effects, corrections, and other filters offered. In addition to this there are special features for creating calendars, greeting cards, photo collages and the like with your photos. At the same time, much of the editing process is designed to be automated and simple, allowing you to bypass a lot of the technical stuff and jump to the creative part.
Photoshop Elements 2018 has a highly comprehensive collection of one-click tools and step-by-step guidance features for applying effects, corrections, and everything else. With a simple click here and there, you can change colors, lighting, and textures, turn photos into illustrations, paint over photos, move objects, open closed eyes, turn frowns into smiles, whiten teeth, replace backgrounds, and so much more. You can also send your edited photos to friends and family on social media directly from the program.
Photoshop Elements 2018 also includes the Adobe Elements Organizer, which is a standalone browser that provides a visual view of all your photos sorted by date, subject, people, places, faces, and other criteria. Creating a slideshow is simple within the Organizer. You just simply need to check off the desired photos, click on "Slideshow" and the Organizer will take care of the rest. You can even choose to apply some basic corrections to the batch in Organizer before sending them off.
The application can be installed on up to two computers and used alternately on one at a time.
Your photos are automatically curated based on quality, faces, subjects, Smart Tags, and more, so you don't have to search for the standouts.
Reimagined Slideshows
With one click, your best photos are automatically selected and brought together into a stylish, animated slideshow with a theme, and you can easily customize the slideshow with different photos. If you also have Premiere Elements 2018, sold separately, you can combine photos and videos together in the same slideshow.
Open Closed Eyes
Did someone blink? Photoshop Elements 2018 automatically copies the open eyes from one photo and blends them into another to correct the shot.
Auto Selection
Make precise selections by simple dragging.
Guided Edit: Replace Background
Four new Guided Edits have been added, bringing the total to 49. Guided Edits provide step-by-step photo editing help. The new Replace Background Guided Edit allows you to select the subject of a photo and place it on a background that's more interesting, all within seconds.
Guided Edit: Artistic Overlay Effects
Embellish any photo with a shape overlay and one-click effects that add more of a creative touch. This Guided Edit is great for scrapbook pages and photo crafts.
Guided Edit: Watercolors
Get help turning any photo into a beautiful, textured watercolor, and you can even finish it off with text.
Guided Edit: Double Exposures
Bring one photo to life within another to create a surreal effect. Photoshop Elements 2018 walks you through the steps.
- Search based on a combination of criteria, such as people, places, events, and more
- Smart Tags are applied automatically based on subjects like sunsets, birthdays, cats, and dogs
- Find photos according to the people in them, the place you took them, what you were doing, visual similarity
- Tag faces in photos using your Facebook Friends list
- Touch-enabled Quick Edit
- Help right within the interface via eLive
- Turn frowns into smiles
- Remove camera shake in selfies and other handheld shots
- Remove haze in landscape photos
- Edit a batch of photos at one time
- Choose your favorite composition from four crop options
- Easily remove "pet eye" discolorations
- Instantly unclutter and repair photos
- Whiten teeth
- Fix red-eye
- Simplified Filter Gallery for trying new looks
- Elements analyzes your photo and gives you five effects that fit perfectly
- See five variations of each effect to get the look you want
- Zoom burst, tilt-shift, vignette, high-key, and low-key effects
- Turn photos into illustrations
- Paint on up to 100 effects
- Add one-touch frames, effects, and textures
- Photo text, Effects Collage, Painterly, and Speed Pan
- Color Pop, Recompose, and Black & White
- Guided Edits offer step-by-step help with creative techniques and effects
- Easily select detailed edges like hair or fur
- Create photo remixes for all-new scenes
- Easily move objects and have the background fill in
- Edit raw images
- Recompose to any size without distortion
- Create group shots
- Make panoramas
- Blend your Facebook profile and cover photos
- Create cards, photo collages, and other keepsakes to print at home
- Share photos to Facebook and Twitter
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- Photoshop (PSD, PDD)
- BMP (BMP, RLE, DIB)
- CompuServe GIF (GIF)
- Photo Project Format (PSE)
- JPEG (JPG, JPEG, JPE)
- Photoshop PDF (PDF, PDP)
- Pixar (PXR)
- PNG (PNG, PNS)
- TIFF (TIF, TIFF)