Adobe Launches Premiere and Photoshop Elements 2022

[MacRumors]

Adobe today released new versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, which is the company's affordable photo and video editing software aimed at more casual users who want to improve their photos and videos with simple editing tools.

For Photoshop Elements 2022, Adobe is introducing an Adobe Sensei-powered feature that transforms a photo into a work of art. With a one-click filter, users can apply effects inspired by afamous works of art or popular art styles to their photos, and then adjust the result.

Adobe is adding moving overlays like snowflakes or sparkles that can be added to photos, along with animated frames. These can be saved as MP4s and shared as videos on social media networks.

With a warp tool, photos can be automatically warped to fit inside or around an object. A photo could, for example, be wrapped around a coffee cup in an image or placed in the frames of sunglasses for fun dual-photo opportunities.

Guided Edits, a feature that walks users through different edits that can be made to their photos, gets updates on a yearly basis. For the 2022 update, Adobe is adding Guided Edits for improving pet photos and extending photo backgrounds.

Other features in Photoshop Elements 2022 include animated slideshow templates, automatic software updates, a refreshed design that makes navigation easier, and support for GIF playback in the organizer.

For Premiere Elements 2022, Adobe added a new feature that resizes videos for social media while keeping the most important elements of the video front and center. Adobe says that it's ideal for clips with movement, such as a child's birthday party or a sporting event. There are also motion titles, mattes, and backgrounds available for non-horizontal videos.

Premiere Elements 2022 includes new Guided Edits for adding animated overlays like fluttering butterflies and adjusting shadows and highlights in videos.

Like Photoshop Elements 2022, Premiere Elements 2022 has gained a refreshed look, automatic software updates, new animated slideshow templates and GIF playback in the Organizer, plus it's easier to reduce file size with a slider that adds compression.

For more on what's new in Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, make sure to check out Adobe's website. The updates are available for purchase from Adobe for $99 each starting today, with bundle and upgrade pricing available.

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[neuropsychguy]

I’m a longtime user of Adobe products but there are few reasons to get Photoshop Elements when we have such excellent alternatives — Affinity Photo, Pixelmator Pro, and Acorn.

These are all about 50% the price of Photoshop Elements and regularly go on sale.

Edit: I'm not affiliated with any of those companies or products. I've been using Adobe Photoshop off and on for almost 30 years. I use both Affinity and Pixelmator from time to time (and have never used Acorn) but use them much more than Photoshop. There are reasons to use Photoshop Elements but those are mainly if someone has been using it for years and can't or won't switch (or needs it for some other random reason). For anyone not yet in the Adobe ecosystem or who is willing and able to switch, the alternatives are terrific and cheaper.

 

[ruka.snow]

I’m a longtime user of Adobe products but there are few reasons to get Photoshop Elements when we have such excellent alternatives — Affinity Photo, Pixelmator Pro, and Acorn.

These are all about 50% the price of Photoshop Elements and regularly go on sale.

Those products you suggest are way out of the scope of the user base that Photoshop Elements is aimed at. Affinity Photo is an excellent alternative to Photoshop, but way to complex for an Elements user.

 

[dandeco]

I remember using Adobe Premiere Elements during my Windows days and finding it pretty sophisticated and powerful for a consumer-aimed video editing application. When it first came out in 2004 (for Windows XP only), it was presumably the first (and initially only) consumer video editing software that let you work with 99 video and audio tracks. This was back when most Windows consumer video editing packages only let you work with one or sometimes two video tracks. And so when I got my first Intel Mac in 2011 (an early 2009 polycarbonate white MacBook) I couldn't resist getting the Mac version of Premiere Elements, as it was, and still is, a pretty good step up from iMovie for those who want more editing features and power but aren't ready for or able to afford Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Apple's Final Cut Pro. Though in subsequent years a few other similar alternatives appeared for Mac users such as NCH VideoPad Professional and Cyberlink PowerDirector, all of which are up to par with Premiere Elements in terms of features. Nowadays I've outgrown Premiere Elements and prefer to use Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro, sometimes PowerDirector, along with iMovie for simpler vlogs and such.

 

[Martin Spencer]

Is this a universal app or Intel only?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Can’t wait to see what the picture quality is going to look like.

 

[bebarhood]

The only thing I don't like about Adobe Photoshop elements is that you cannot upgrade to the next year version for free or a fraction of the price. I have APE 2019 and my "check for Updates" icon is disabled.

 

[autrefois]

the company's affordable photo and video editing software aimed at more casual users

I would agree with “more affordable” (compared to Adobe’s other offerings), but not “affordable.” $99 is still pretty steep for casual users imo.

 

[opeter]

I remember using Adobe Premiere Elements during my Windows days and finding it pretty sophisticated and powerful for a consumer-aimed video editing application. When it first came out in 2004 (for Windows XP only), it was presumably the first (and initially only) consumer video editing software that let you work with 99 video and audio tracks. This was back when most Windows consumer video editing packages only let you work with one or sometimes two video tracks. And so when I got my first Intel Mac in 2011 (an early 2009 polycarbonate white MacBook) I couldn't resist getting the Mac version of Premiere Elements, as it was, and still is, a pretty good step up from iMovie for those who want more editing features and power but aren't ready for or able to afford Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Apple's Final Cut Pro. Though in subsequent years a few other similar alternatives appeared for Mac users such as NCH VideoPad Professional and Cyberlink PowerDirector, all of which are up to par with Premiere Elements in terms of features. Nowadays I've outgrown Premiere Elements and prefer to use Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro, sometimes PowerDirector, along with iMovie for simpler vlogs and such.

Well, I used Serif Software's Movieplus on Windows. It was a great video editor with some features, that even many of the professional level NLE video/movie editors didn't have or you needed 3rd party plugins for doing that.

One of these was unlimited audio and video tracks, motion path/tween animation, many transition effect, text animatios, blue and greenscreen, you could freely move graphics inside the video (like you can with regular graphics software with selection boxes, transormations, rotate etc.), support for .psd layers and many more.

Sadly, they don't make/update it anymore.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Those products you suggest are way out of the scope of the user base that Photoshop Elements is aimed at. Affinity Photo is an excellent alternative to Photoshop, but way to complex for an Elements user.

Then why not just use Apple's Photos app if someone needs something simple? I know there are differences in what they can do but someone who needs simple editing can stick with Photos. Someone who needs something more can learn an alternative.

If someone already knows Adobe UIs then they can get Photoshop Elements. If people have no experience with Photoshop or Elements, why would they spend time and more money learning it when they could spend less money and the same amount of time learning an alternative. If someone is starting from scratch (meaning no experience with any image editing software), it's not going to be harder to learn how to edit in Pixelmator or Affinity or Acorn than it is in Photoshop Elements.

I say that as someone who just "gets" and who generally likes Adobe's UIs. Photoshop Elements was great years ago. It's still great but there are more powerful (but still straightforward to use) alternatives that cost much less. I've been using Photoshop and other Adobe products since the early 1990s so I'm not making this argument from an "anti-Adobe" position.

 

[ian87w]

Do these "Elements" software still use UI from the 90s? Sometimes I downloaded their trial just for fun, and every time I was amazed that the UI has not changed at all. It feels like those old Windows 3.1 programs and color schemes.

 

[w5jck]

I’m a longtime user of Adobe products but there are few reasons to get Photoshop Elements when we have such excellent alternatives — Affinity Photo, Pixelmator Pro, and Acorn.

These are all about 50% the price of Photoshop Elements and regularly go on sale.

Totally different target markets. Affinity Photo, Pixelmator Pro, etc. are targeted for enthusiast photographers, people who know their way around a camera and who have the aptitude to learn proper editing skills. Photoshop Elements is targeted towards the lazy crowd of selfie takers and smartphone users who need their hands held, and all the editing done, by the editing app with as little talent, creativity, and effort required of them as possible. Why would these couch-potatoes lift a finger to learn a skill when they can push a button and pretend they are ever so talented and intelligent? Why do you think Apple makes the iPhone cameras so automatic and offer so little as far as iPhone photo editing software? Short answer, they know the typical iPhone user doesn't have enough talent to take good photos or edit them to look good, so they offer seamless, hidden in-phone editing to try to make those crap photos more presentable so the couch-potatoes will buy newer iPhones when they are released.

 

[Artsketch]

Are these native Apple Silicon?

 

[ruka.snow]

Then why not just use Apple's Photos app if someone needs something simple? I know there are differences in what they can do but someone who needs simple editing can stick with Photos. Someone who needs something more can learn an alternative.

If someone already knows Adobe UIs then they can get Photoshop Elements. If people have no experience with Photoshop or Elements, why would they spend time and more money learning it when they could spend less money and the same amount of time learning an alternative. If someone is starting from scratch (meaning no experience with any image editing software), it's not going to be harder to learn how to edit in Pixelmator or Affinity or Acorn than it is in Photoshop Elements.

I say that as someone who just "gets" and who generally likes Adobe's UIs. Photoshop Elements was great years ago. It's still great but there are more powerful (but still straightforward to use) alternatives that cost much less. I've been using Photoshop and other Adobe products since the early 1990s so I'm not making this argument from an "anti-Adobe" position.

The Photo.app is probably more than anyone needs in those camps and there is iMovie too. Yet Adobe will still sell Elements to millions based on name, ease of use, and the amount of books and other training material sold along side it. I feel your comment suggests that you are just a more advanced user than what these products are aimed at so you just can't get that mum isn't going to try learning Affinity or Pixelmator when she has been using Elements for the last two decades.

 

[Moonjumper]

I remember using Adobe Premiere Elements during my Windows days and finding it pretty sophisticated and powerful for a consumer-aimed video editing application. When it first came out in 2004 (for Windows XP only), it was presumably the first (and initially only) consumer video editing software that let you work with 99 video and audio tracks. This was back when most Windows consumer video editing packages only let you work with one or sometimes two video tracks. And so when I got my first Intel Mac in 2011 (an early 2009 polycarbonate white MacBook) I couldn't resist getting the Mac version of Premiere Elements, as it was, and still is, a pretty good step up from iMovie for those who want more editing features and power but aren't ready for or able to afford Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Apple's Final Cut Pro. Though in subsequent years a few other similar alternatives appeared for Mac users such as NCH VideoPad Professional and Cyberlink PowerDirector, all of which are up to par with Premiere Elements in terms of features. Nowadays I've outgrown Premiere Elements and prefer to use Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro, sometimes PowerDirector, along with iMovie for simpler vlogs and such.

DaVinci Resolve has a free version that is far more capable than most paid alternatives.

 

[Wildkraut]

Wooo with nice garbagify my great photos plugins.

 

[sdragon]

Is this a universal app or Intel only?

Exactly what I want to know, too.

 

[DotCom2]

Are these native Apple Silicon?

Looks like no. Intel Macs only.

macOS​

• Intel 6th Generation or newer processor
• macOS 10.15 or macOS 11

 

[opeter]

They have only this information:

Tech specs | Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025

System requirements for Adobe Photoshop Elements.

www.adobe.com

macOS​

• Intel 6th Generation or newer processor
• macOS 10.15 or macOS 11
• 8GB of RAM
• 7GB of available hard-disk space to install applications; additional 3GB to download all optional content; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1280x800 display resolution (at 100% scale factor)
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from DVD)
• Internet connection required for product activation and content download

 

[SamB_]

I just wish they'd release a version of flipping *anything* that wasn't riddled with time-crippling bugs.

 

[somnolentsurfer]

Those products you suggest are way out of the scope of the user base that Photoshop Elements is aimed at. Affinity Photo is an excellent alternative to Photoshop, but way to complex for an Elements user.

I have trouble imagining anyone who needs more than what Apple Photos can do but doesn’t want to pay for full Photoshop who wouldn’t rather spend a little time learning more powerful software than spend the extra $50 for Elements over Affinity Photo.

 

[ruka.snow]

I have trouble imagining anyone who needs more than what Apple Photos can do but doesn’t want to pay for full Photoshop who wouldn’t rather spend a little time learning more powerful software than spend the extra $50 for Elements over Affinity Photo.

Yet Adobe has managed to do it for decades and people still want to buy it along with the books teaching them how to use it. Intermediate programs can be the hardest to leave behind.

 

[CarlJ]

Yet Adobe has managed to do it for decades and people still want to buy it along with the books teaching them how to use it. Intermediate programs can be the hardest to leave behind.

I suspect a huge amount of it goes simply on name recognition - "photoshop" is a verb these days, and modified images are "photoshopped" in the common psyche, much like a tissue is almost invariably called a "kleenex". So when people want something more than Photos.app offers (and oftentimes they don't realize all that Photos.app can do), they think, "well, I need Photoshop".

 

[chickenpiccata]

The only thing I don't like about Adobe Photoshop elements is that you cannot upgrade to the next year version for free or a fraction of the price. I have APE 2019 and my "check for Updates" icon is disabled.

In my limited experience, "Check for Updates" only refers to fixes for the current version, not new versions. Fixes seem to be few and far between and apparently are never published for anything but the latest version, hence the option is disabled once your version is a year old.

Adobe is offering $20 off for upgrades from prior versions, though I didn't check if there was a limit to how old that version could be. And I've found that retailers offer sales prices on or before Black Friday (end of November), so you can watch for those. That's when I buy mine, though I only upgrade every few years. I have no use for all these social media feature upgrades, and I have no pets.....

 

[bsbeamer]

Fully realize these are not the "Pro" versions of Adobe software, but why are these not included for those who pay the yearly subscription for "everything"? There always seems to be a 3-6 month period where the Elements version has some new feature the "Pro" version either lacks or is way more cumbersome to achieve.