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Adobe Unveils Photoshop and Premiere Elements 13 for Mac

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Adobe today released new versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, its lower-cost photo and video editing software aimed at consumers. Both Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13 have gained several new features, focusing on improved editing tools, additional guided techniques, and Elements Live, a new portal that offers tips and tricks directly within each app.
"Our customers don't always have the time or the know-how to get the results they desire," said Shanmugh Natarajan, senior director, engineering, core technologies and products at Adobe. "In Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13, we focused on developing tools that automate the process or guide customers through the steps to create the photos they'll love and want to share."
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Photoshop Elements 13, Adobe's image editing software, includes updates that Adobe says were inspired by customer request. One of the main new features is the Photomerge Compose tool, which is used alongside the Refine Selection Brush to allow users to seamlessly copy people or objects from one image to another with just a few clicks.

There are new tools to create matching Facebook cover and profile photos, customizable with text and graphics, plus there are new guided edits available for creating black and white photos with hits of color. Guided edits are Adobe's interactive tutorials, which offer step-by-step instructions on completing various tasks in app.

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Photoshop Elements 13 also gains new Effects Variations, offering extra options for each existing effect to give users up to 50 filters that can be applied with a click, and there are impressive new cropping tools that include crop suggestions. The Intelligent Crop Suggestions tool analyzes faces and photo composition to select the four best crops for a particular image.

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Premiere Elements 13, Adobe's video editing software, introduces new tools to minimize the time that users spend editing their footage. Favorite Moments can be used to mark the best spots in a video, which can then be automatically assembled into a short movie, and Video Story assembles various clips, adds in transitions, music, and applies a theme for a particular occasion like a birthday party. Simple themed slideshows can also be created.

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Premiere Elements 13 offers improved shake stabilization to improve the look of videos shot with hand-held devices like smartphones, and there are new Guided Edits to help users add motion to movie titles and improve dramatic effects in one area of a scene using masking techniques.

Elements Live, available in both Photoshop and Premiere 13, includes content curated by Adobe, tips, tricks, and tutorials. It also lets users see what other people are using the software to create.

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Both Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13 for Mac and Windows can be purchased separately on Adobe's website for $99.99 each, with bundles available for $149.99. Existing users can upgrade for $79.99 or $119.99 for the bundle.

Article Link: Adobe Unveils Photoshop and Premiere Elements 13 for Mac
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/24/adobe-photoshop-premiere-elements-13/
I much prefer Pixelmator on Mac. Low price point and does everything an amateur/semi-pro Photoshop user needs. Plus the UI looks better.
 
For "consumers" they'll have to lower that price. Many new to Mac people will simply use iMovie and iPhoto (Photos) despite that fact that this is a superior product (I'm assuming).
 
Paradoxally said:
I much prefer Pixelmator on Mac. Low price point and does everything an amateur/semi-pro Photoshop user needs. Plus the UI looks better.
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Just the opposite for me. I own Pixelmator, but I find the black UI very difficult with which to work. So, I still do almost everything on Photoshop CS3.

In any case, it's nice to see that Adobe is still actually selling software, and not everything is subscription-based.
 
Loyalty4Life said:
Still no perpetual license and pay a monthly Adobe tax? Huge pass!
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R*T*F*A.

Both Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13 for Mac and Windows can be purchased separately on Adobe's website for $99.99 each, with bundles available for $149.99. Existing users can upgrade for $79.99 or $119.99 for the bundle.
 
How does Premiere Elements compare to iMovie? Does anyone have experience using both?
 
japanime said:
Just the opposite for me. I own Pixelmator, but I find the black UI very difficult with which to work. So, I still do almost everything on Photoshop CS3.

In any case, it's nice to see that Adobe is still actually selling software, and not everything is subscription-based.
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I have Pixelmator too and don't like it very much either. I have pushed my drawing out to Sketchbook Pro and my photography to Intensify/Tonality/FilmPack/After Shot. Pixelmator is okay for touching up, the fact that it saves it out to its own format is a PITA though.

I'm at least glad they didn't take the subscription route with their consumer products. I hope that Autodesk sees this and thinks again about charging a ridiculous amount to use the crappy Pixlr presets. It's the kind of thing that ruined Aviary's old business of web based tools (funny enough, Aviary was just bought out by Adobe!).
 
Paradoxally said:
I much prefer Pixelmator on Mac. Low price point and does everything an amateur/semi-pro Photoshop user needs. Plus the UI looks better.
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japanime said:
Just the opposite for me. I own Pixelmator, but I find the black UI very difficult with which to work. So, I still do almost everything on Photoshop CS3.

In any case, it's nice to see that Adobe is still actually selling software, and not everything is subscription-based.
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I love Pixelmator, but they definitely have some odd choices in UI.

Still not nearly as user unfriendly as GIMP though.
 
Sad

Since I refuse to pay a subscription to rent software from Adobe this is about as close to PhotoShop as I intend to get.

The sad thing is, I have apps for my iPhone that blow many of the effect of Elements out of the water. I have on some occasions edited and applied effects to images before sending it to my computer to finish off.

Elements should be capable of performing some great visual effects to images, and instead it has lame settings like 'make a pencil drawing' and 'glow' which are so lame, and have so been superseded by modern apps.

In the last three iterations of this software we have seen tiny incremental improvements, but considering this is version 13 of the software it should be amazing by now.

Adobe continue to disappoint, I think I'll skip lucky 13, since even their web site has no real compelling reason to upgrade, unless I want to 'step up' to PhotoShop CS and pay them software rent in perpetuity.
 
I'm surprised Adobe didn't release this as Photoshop Elements CC or Premiere Elements CC and take in a subscription like they did with Creative Suite.

CS6 is what I'm sticking with and the last Adobe product I purchase unless they do away with the subscription model and bring back the old business model of paying for it once. Many users like me don't want to be stuck with a subscription and to be locked out of the application unless we pay a ransom.
 
SoAnyway said:
I'm surprised Adobe didn't release this as Photoshop Elements CC or Premiere Elements CC and take in a subscription like they did with Creative Suite.

CS6 is what I'm sticking with and the last Adobe product I purchase unless they do away with the subscription model and bring back the old business model of paying for it once. Many users like me don't want to be stuck with a subscription and to be locked out of the application unless we pay a ransom.
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Same here. Elements has a lot of nice quickie stuff but I'm so used to Photoshop CS6's batching capabilities that I don't want to give it up. Almost everything I do is in ACR. No CC subscription for me. I would gladly however pay the $200.00 or so for a perpetual license.

Some day I'll replace my Canon 5Dm3 and will have to choose a RAW processor. Ugh.
 
Traverse said:
For "consumers" they'll have to lower that price. Many new to Mac people will simply use iMovie and iPhoto (Photos) despite that fact that this is a superior product (I'm assuming).
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I use gimp for a lot of my image editing despite having Photoshop Elements installed on my Mac Mini.
 
Loyalty4Life said:
Still no perpetual license and pay a monthly Adobe tax? Huge pass!
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xmichaelp said:
Many you should actually read the article next time?
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Definitely. Although I think you have to admit that the headline alone can be misinterpreted as "Adobe unveils Photoshop (as in the full PS) and Premier Elements".

On topic: I find it interesting how Adobe manages to keep an almost exactly annual cycle for Photoshop/Premier Elements. Since version 8, they all were released on or around September 24.
 
Loyalty4Life said:
Still no perpetual license and pay a monthly Adobe tax? Huge pass!
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To all the people who seemed to criticize the above statement, maybe that person meant - a huge pass, not a fail.

Maybe give Loyalty4Life the benefit of the doubt since it'd be ludicrous to desire to pay a subscription for Photoshop Elements.
 
Paradoxally said:
I much prefer Pixelmator on Mac. Low price point and does everything an amateur/semi-pro Photoshop user needs. Plus the UI looks better.
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Pixelmator looks great - and is great value, but sometimes PS Elements benefits from its full-PS heritage.

In particular, I use PS Elements 11 for things like rendering PDFs to bitmaps, cropping, resizing, resampling and saving at various resolutions for websites. I've tried Pixelmator for this (and occasionally re-vist when there's been an upgrade) but it just doesn't cut the mustard. Yes, Pixelmator will do those things, superficially, but with nothing like the fine control PSE gives you over formats, resolution, colour depths etc.
 
Another vote on how its nice to see this being sold and not leased monthly.

I may have to look into whether this fits my needs more then the older non subscription based PS that I currently have.
 
Nice update. I Like Pixelmator, great app resizes images much faster than Acorn does but not a powerful and finely tuned as Photoshop.
 
I won't be interested until Adobe add Photomerge and HDR tools to Lightroom.
 
And when Adobe have picked up enough elements users - they'll make it subscription only as well, and dump on the what's left of their customer base.

Was a loyal Adobe customer 15 years +

No thanks.
 
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