Today at Adobe MAX 2021, I am thrilled to announce a major feature release of Photoshop on the desktop and iPad. There’s also a 30-day free trial available too, so you can check out the latest version before deciding if you want to buy it, or upgrade from last year’s version.Photoshop ships major updates across desktop and iPad apps - Extends Light Editing and Collaboration features to the Web (beta)ĭownload Photoshop on desktop and Photoshop on iPad The web apps is currently available as a public beta, with a beta of the iOS app also due towards the end of the year.īut, perhaps better than any of these new features is the fact that Photoshop Elements 2023 also adds full support for Apple Silicon, with Adobe claiming that the program will now run 45 percent faster on Macs that have M1 or M2 processors. The web app works in a similar fashion, and also includes some simple tools for quickly creating slideshows and collages without needing the full versions of the desktop apps. You can then quickly import these files into the desktop versions of Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements and get straight into your editing work. The mobile apps will allow you to upload photos and videos from your smartphone or tablet, and also provide you with 2GB of free online storage for your files. If you’ve got a photo with an attractive background, such as a beach or some leafy trees then you can clone part of the background and use it to extend the background further – perhaps to turn a square photo into a wider landscape shot, or to lift a sunny blue sky higher for an upright portrait shot for social media.

One really powerful Guided Edit that was introduced in 2021’s update is the ability to alter the aspect ratio of a photo by extending the background of a photo.

One of the things that sets Photoshop Elements apart from many of its rivals is its use of Guided Edits, which give you step-by-step help in using some of the app’s most powerful tools. If your artistic ambitions are a little more modest, you can apply some simple animated effects – known as Overlays – such as falling snowflakes or flickering flames, to your photos and then save your work as a short video clip that you can upload to social media. One nice touch here is that you can apply the artistic effect to the entire photo, or just to the subject or background, which is a nice way of emphasising particular aspects of a photo. These aren’t always entirely successful – I suspect Vincent Van Gogh is spinning in his grave right now – but they’re fun to experiment with.

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