Customer Ratings & Reviews

I like the new features to remove objects. Not excited about only a three year license to use. With my previous versions of desktop software they continue to operate for years.

I was excited to use this new version of Photoshop and Premiere Elements as I just got a new 'portable' camera. I sell registered goats, and clear photos are essential for far away buyers. Installation was a snap, so that will not be a worry for you. Because it is a full-featured program, you will need to spend time playing with it to find the best method for you. I started with an old kodak photo that is at least 50 years old. Using the sharpening and color restoration tools made it look fantastic! Using the Organizer allows you to open several photos that will be used in one final photo. I used this to make the before/after photos on this review. What's really great is that this program will guide you in making excellent edits and can even do neat stuff like expand the field of view, blur the background or foreground, convert to black and white, and more! For my used, deleting unwanted objects (like random goats in the background) and perfecting the tone, hue and brightness are the best features. On Premiere elements, you are able to splice together video clips, edit, move sound and more. I know this will come in handy with the video clips I am taking for you Youtube channel. Being able to put them together and add sound tracks or voice overs makes all of the difference in video quality and enjoyability. Can't upload a video example, but it works just as well as the photoshop! Overall, the best things about Adobe Elements is that many people use it, so you can ask people for advanced tips. The software is easy to use for a beginner, so you can continue to grow your skills without buying a new software. Finally, using this software is just a lot of fun!

Verdict: Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are great tools for photo and video editing. The “Elements” category really does simplify editing through guided tools without curtailing much from the full Photoshop and Premiere suites. Unless you are a professional photo or video editor, save yourself money and time and get this bundle. These tools now allow me to do all the photo edits I ever wanted, but really couldn’t figure out how to do with Photoshop without spending way too much time and frustration. Installation. Digital download for this bundle means that you can access the tools you need immediately. This bundle also comes with a 3-year license, which I think is a good deal. The 3-year expiration may be frustrating to some buyers, but I think new tools and technology will probably justify an upgrade in this timeframe anyway. Organizer. The Elements Organizer is probably my favorite feature! It allows me to access, sort, organize, and quick-edit all my media. From there, I can select to send photos or videos to either Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements. You can also rate photos by stars so that you can quickly find your favorite photos for a project. Face recognition does a good job at bundling the right faces together, but requires assigning a name to those faces, even after you have done that with another bundle of faces for the same person. The software still does most of the work and once complete, it’s easy to sort pictures to find specific people in the pictures. Quick edit tools are still fairly powerful with cropping, red-eye, effects, smart fix, lighting, color, and clarity. Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. Both tools provide a “quick” access to tools, “guided” tools, and “advanced” tools. I spent the most time in the photo editor because I have more photo edit requirements. In “quick,” I used the teeth whitening tool… about as easy as it gets: click the tool, click on all the teeth, and they are whiter! In “guided,” I used the sharpen tool on several pictures that were blurry. I also used the remove object tool to remove unwanted background items in pictures and to completely remove people from a nice scenery. I also used the move and scale tool and… wow!! I selected a person and move them completely away from where they were before, with the software filling in the blanks. That was remarkable. I appreciate the guided features so much that I don’t think I will ever use the advanced menu. Why get this? If you don’t need professional editing and don’t edit pictures on a daily basis, this is the tool for you. I have used and paid for Photoshop before, but when using only once a year, I had to relearn everything each time I paid for access. This was a waste of time and money, and frankly I just avoided photo edits because of the hassle. Now I can use this anytime and be quickly guided to achieve what I need to do. I am really quite happy with this. Things I love: - Three-year license - Photo and video editor in one bundle - Great “Organizer” feature - Guided tools are really easy to use - Powerful tools that will satisfy most requirements Things I don’t love: - I would like better automatic face recognition and name assignment. I don’t care if it’s not perfectly accurate… I would prefer an approximation of the four people I already identified upfront, instead of having to assign a name to 30+ bundles of faces. Overall, I am very excited about Adobe Elements. It provides me the powerful tools I need for media organizing, photo editing, and video editing through guided tools and an affordable price. I love it!

I like to think of myself as an amateur photographer using DSLR and cell phone almost equally, with a small bit of drone footage, depending on the event.  I picked up the Adobe - Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 2025 software to see if it would improve the time it takes to put together multimedia packages as well as fix those 'not quite perfect' shots. The digital download is quick and easy, purchase the package, then go to Adobe and enter your code to download the software and create an account if you do not already have one. The app size is about 6.5 GB, but you'll want at least 10 GB to install and use. I'm using a Windows machine and had zero issue with the guided install process. Setting up your Adobe account is the most time consuming part, after that it's ready for your first project.  While I do have some projects that I've spent hours learning how to improve my skills, I wanted to share the experience from a new user perspective, as well as some photos of what you can do in under 10 minutes. In Photoshop Elements, which handles all things photo related, you have tabs for editing: Quick, Guided, and Advanced. This will let you determine what type of fixes you want and how much you want the software to edit versus your input.  I find that I gravitate to the guided options primarily for quick easy things such as resize, background fix / blur, remove object (my personal favorite), color edits, exposure fixes, and so much more.  You can go to the quick tab for single one click solutions such as brighten or blur, however I like to have a guided workflow so I can play with different combinations to get the perfect edit.  In the advanced setting you can define layers and treat each layer with individual characteristics, again, this is much more than a quick 10 minutes, and it's the stuff that makes professional photographers look brilliant, even when your subject closed their eyes in the otherwise perfect shot. In addition to Elements, the second software package is Photoshop Premiere Elements which is all things video, multimedia, and slide show. In Premiere I can string together slideshows, automation, text and graphics, plus add in music.  I use this for all things banquets and celebrations related, such as highlight reels, memories, and special events to have custom videos or media shows play in the background.  Basic use of both software packages is intuitive. To test this, I let one of the teens try it out for the first time. I find that they gravitated towards the guided options, and did some basic image quality improvements from an air show we recently attended, see the attached photos from 10 minutes of editing from a first time user. Overall, not bad for the attention span and complete unwillingness to read the guide prompts that you would expect from a teenager who would rather be doing anything else.  With the addition of Premiere to the software package, I find that I'm spending more time on the video editing features. I attached a photo of what can be done in under 5 minutes, if you look at the stills that I built into a quick slideshow of a flyover I did, you can see where I added some text, music, transitions, and it actually looks like I put more than 5 minutes effort into it! Again, this software can make you look talented very quickly, if you're willing to put a few hours of practice in, the options are endless. Other neat things to call out, the Elements software will merge multiple photos, change backgrounds, fix skin blemishes, create memes, turn photos into words, and offers all of the filter, texture, and shading options you can imagine.  Think of all the stuff your phone does, but 20 times better and with more ability to adjust and control. The AI features do bring a new level of ease to straight forward editing if you want auto editing without much user intervention. Bottom line, as an amateur to photo editing I can effectively use 70% of the tools immediately, as this software will work for you and teach you, with the most common edits being intuitive. If you want to grow and use these tools in a professional capacity expect to spend time learning the tools and how to optimize your time and edits without spinning your wheels. This software feels very similar to the 2020 version, with a few more tools and improved AI editing functions. I do like the Premiere media editing features, and love the fun I'm having creating multimedia presentations. I find that the Elements software can be useful if you are a complete newbie, but it can also scale, grow, teach you some things, and if you stick with it long enough, you'll be that person on social media who is doing all the sarcastic literal edits that everyone asks for. 

Its probably been 6 or 7 years since I last used Adobe photo/video editing software. Editing/enhancing photos has always been pretty easy and there are a lot of programs that do this well. Editing videos, on the other hand, I have found to be cumbersome and extremely time-consuming. Its just not my thing. But I have a ton of photos and videos that I want to share with family members and friends and I was in need of a new photo/video editing program to start working on this so I decided to get the 2025 version of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements. I read somewhere that it is user-friendly and pretty straightforward. After working on a few projects with my new software, I would say that’s mostly true but not without some hiccups. Editing photos with Photoshop Elements was pretty straightforward and there are plenty of tools in Photoshop to do what you want. Using the Slideshow option, for example, created nice slideshows of my pictures very quickly and its easy to customize the theme and output/share the final product. I’ve also made some nice collages that were simple and effective. When it came to videos and using Premiere Elements, first I would say that I suck at editing videos and have tried all sorts of programs over the years. When I started my first video using Premiere Elements I used the Guided Edits which displays a series of videos and, in true Noob fashion, I started with the “Get Started” video. It helped get me going and I started learning from there. I also found lots of tutorials and videos on the Adobe help page. I gotta say, my first video from a recent trip to Italy eventually turned out pretty good but it was kind of a struggle. It took a LONG time, of course this was my first and it will get better with practice. I had some preview window rendering issues, which also takes a very long time, and the program locked up/crashed a few times even though my computer’s specs exceed the minimums required to run the software. For instance, the Rendering window would be moving slowly along then get to, say “93% complete, 1:32 minutes remaining” and then it would just sit there and do nothing. I don’t know why, what’s up with that?? That was frustrating. Same thing happened when exporting the final video into an MP4, sometimes I would get an “unexpectedly quit” message. Sometimes when encoding it would get to, say, 91% complete and then just sit there. Sometimes I’d cancel it and start over, see if that would help. Patience is not one of my virtues. When it just sits there and does nothing I have no patience for that. But eventually through trial and error (and hours), closing down all other programs and free’ing up my CPU as much as I could I got a final product and it was pretty good. I’m guessing I need a more powerful processor/computer but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. Other glitches also occurred, for example, when trying to add a music score I’d sometimes get the message “editing and playback of score will not work correctly. Please reopen project”. So I’d do that but it still wouldn’t let me add the score. But then if I tried to load a different score, one that I didn’t particularly want to use for that part of the video, it would let me add it. I don’t know why, probably user error, but I couldn’t figure it out. It is noteworthy that when you purchase the 2025 version you don’t get a perpetual license to use the software, you get a 3-year license only and apparently will have to upgrade and pay again. Not sure I like that idea too much. Look, I am not a Youtuber nor do I want to be. I am a home user looking to share some memories with family and friends and from that standpoint I have found Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements to be fairly user-friendly with lots of options and support/help articles. There are a lot of other features I have yet to use and I have an awful lot to learn. So overall as a new user/editor and weighing the pro’s and con’s I ran into I’d rate it 4 stars.

These are two very strong programs that give a huge amount of functionality for a cheaper price than buying into Adobe’s creative cloud subscription. However, I need to say up front that rather than a full license, however, these programs are now offered on a three year basis. This is not something I especially like; in the past, elements has been a perpetual license. And, I was told that upgrading to 2025 elements would not affect my 2022 Elements that I had previously installed. However, since downloading 2025, 2022 has not been functional. Maybe that’ s a me problem, but, it is what it is. I wanted this upgrade primarily because I got a new camera, and I could not use my 2022 Elements to edit photos shot in raw, as the new camera used a new format. Any attempt to upgrade the raw editor plug-in failed for the 2022 program. Is that a good reason to keep using these programs? That’s up to the user. What these are: As I mentioned, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are pretty powerful editing programs. They have enough complexity, in fact, in their “advanced” modes to make me wonder what the pro versions of the software offer. My guess is likely that pro has a better interface—at least I hope so. When I reviewed Photoshop Elements 2022, I noted that I was surprised how familiar the interface felt, even though I had not uses Photoshop in at least a decade. Now, I’m using a three year advanced program and, well, it still feels like the same old interface. While that may make it familiar, I also feel like it’s one of the clunkier programs I deal with very often. That said, some features have been added, especially in the “guided” edits area, while the more technical parts of editing remain pretty much the same as they have always been. So that means the user can do some easy edits with limited tools and choices in the “quick” edits area, or one can use the “advanced” setting to add a lot of complexity with multiple layers, adjustments, extra tools, refinements in tools, added filters, and special styles and graphics. Elements still enables all the kinds of “photoshop” magic that users have gotten used to—creating new compositions, editing and refining, adjusting colors, etc. I think for a lot of people it will shine in the “guided” edits era, which helps a user do very specific adjustments with some guidance and choices. While some of the features in the “guided” edits are downright cheesy, others are effective and even can help you understand some skills that you can later use in manual editing. I’m thinking some of the guided edits to fix levels, brightness, crooked shots, off-contrast, color, etc. Some of the more creative guided edits—double exposures, collages, playing with photo boundaries, scale, text, memes, etc.—can also be good time savers if you have a very specific look you want to achieve. I should report as well that this 2025 elements does have an updated photo raw plug in and I can use it with raw photos from a 2024 Canon RF series camera. This editor works pretty well, although I admit I have not yet fully learned the ins and outs of batch adjustments and other nuances. Premiere Elements is very similar to the idea of Photoshop Elements, but it’s for video editing. I had not used Premiere Elements before, and I think it has some great features. It has a reasonably simple setup, just popping a video from source into the editing track and going from there. The program also separates out the audio track and gives ample ability to adjust both. Here, I did make good use of the tutorials and guided edits to start learning the program. It definitely helped make the steps to achieve a result more clear, and I think this will be a really nice resource for being able to make some nice videos compilations, adjust colors across videos, change orientation of frame aspect for videos, and simply cut and knit together clips. There is also a bank of audio that you can download and use under your video to replace unexciting or even bad audio from a video. You can use Premiere Elements to make videos for the web, social media, or to share with others. There are also special features, like using the program to make a stop motion film by with your still photos. There are also quick guides for adding title cards and text, music tracks, graphics and overlays, transitions, and even just clipping and rearranging videos. Some of these premade templates are a little goofy, kind of like 2006 YouTube videos…then again, maybe 2024 YouTube videos aren’t *that* different. What’s not great: Both of these programs feel clunky. I tried them in a stripped-down mode—just on a laptop—and in a more expansive mode, with a large separate monitor and mouse. They are both much easier to use when using the larger screen and a mouse, if not a dialpad (especially for Premiere). Using Premiere Elements was downright difficult on just a small 13” screen and a touchpad. A mouse greatly improves it, but the arrangement of the different windows and pop-up guides crowds the working area to an extreme. Photoshop Elements is also better with the largest screen you can use and the most sensitive tools. It is not as impossible on the laptop, but definitely the big screen is far superior. That said, I’ve also had trouble with the way PS Elements displaying on my bigger screen. This may be an issue because of my computer and it’s high resolution setting, but nonetheless, I cannot use the program in an extended desktop environment without the menus looking very odd and the sizes of the fonts being off. If I mirror my screen, however, the program looks normal on the larger monitor. What still strikes me odd about both programs is that there are parts of them that feel like they have been around since 1997. There is a “create” menu on Photoshop Elements that will let you make things like cards or “quote graphics” and…it just seems like these could be upgraded. I’m not sure you get much better here than what you encounter in an online photo printing service software package. The cards, actually, seem much worse to me. Some of the filters and stock backgrounds seem equally dated. There’s a lot to like about these programs, and they do function well if you know what you want to do with them. There is a learning curve, and possibly a frustration curve too. If you want to purely edit photos and not perhaps to do creative things with them, maybe Lightroom is the better options. But, PS Elements and Premiere Elements will allow you to do much more, much more precisely with your photos and videos than with basic editing programs of the options available on a photo printing site.

I use Adobe Premier Pro at work for putting together promotional and training media. It’s not my primary job but one of the hats I get to wear. I love Adobe and what it allows the end user to do. I recently changed roles and and currently don’t have access to the full CC license sweet of apps. so I was looking for a quick simple way to still put together home movies from vacations and do some photo editing and Photoshop Elements 25 and Premier Elements 25 nailed it! I don’t really like the subscription-style service model that Adobe has going on (and the rest of the tech world has going on) but it makes good sense for them . I pay whatever until perpetuity. But I love their software so what are you gonna do. Gripe over. This is a three year term which I like better than having to pay everymonth for it. BUT if you only need two months for a project…maybe a monthly subscription would work better??? Two months and shut it off. Regardless…I will have this for three years and will use the heck out of it. I downloaded the software and that was a little tricky. To be fair, I had an account previously and so I am not sure if the installation software got confused or glitched. What worked for me was to download everything and then completely get out of adobe and restart the PC and then log back in and I had the desktop shortcut icons on my desk top. Once you click onto the icon it takes you to the main splash screen. The splash screen has your last projects and pics and some really helpful suggestions as to how to creatively use the programs. If you are new to photo/video editing or just want to learn how to do it better, Elements really does a great job walking you through it. It also took some of my media and gave me some examples of frames and effects. It was really cool. The AI in the background engages me to be more creative, I like that. I also really love the “Organizer” button on the splash screen. It really lets me look at all my media in a flash and start mentally putting together a storyboard to work off of. Very intuitive to put it on the splash screen next to the “Photoshop and Premier” Buttons. It makes it feel very accessible and I really appreciated having it there…anyway. I got started with photoshop. If you're familiar with Photoshop already, you will feel right at home. If you are new to Photoshop use the handy guides they have. I was using Photoshop 22 and what was cool, is there was a box that asked me to select which version of Photoshop I was upgrading from and told me what was different in the new 25! Pretty cool. I also like how clean and clutter free the user interface feels. The AI was perfect for getting rid of unwanted background items. I had a pic of my partner and I kayaking on a coral reef and another kayak’s front end was in the shot…BOOM gone in a flash (see pic) I also got rid of a lens flare on a gorgeous balcony beach shot that bothered me in a second. With Photoshop Elements…what ever you can dream up from titles to some cool motion overlay items are yours to explore! The work space has a “Quick”, “Advanced” and “Guided” layout…just find the right one for you and your off. Adobe makes it soooo easy to bring out the gold color in a sunset while not loosing the shadowed detail of palm trees with a few previewed iterations for you too choose from. I mean you could spend hours tweaking each setting but why…With AI you don’t have to, which allows more time to dive into the creation of the project and not get lost in minutia! Next up was Premier Elements. I use video editing way more than photo editing. But I add a lot of stills into the project. The user interface was clean and very intuitive. The “timeline” is classic and as easy as it can be to trim and cut video, mix some basic audio, and some cool and artful transitions. My partner and I went to Akumal Mexico last year and I grabbed all the media from the phones, Gopros, and cameras and easily imported them into the organizer. I was off and running. Adobe really lets me tell our story so we can throw it on the tv anytime and be back in paradise with a polished professional-looking home movie! Adobe is the best hands down. They have been innovating and fine-tuning for as long as I have been doing Audio/video. If you are looking for a solid suite of software that delivers…Adobe Photoshop Elements 25 and Premier Elements 25 will not disappoint. The three-year license agreement might disappoint a little but the software surely will not.

One of the things I liked about Adobe Elements was that it was one of the few pieces of Adobe software that didn’t need to be on a subscription like all their other products. But now, a 3 year license? Sure, in 3 years you might want to get their new updates anyways, but I don’t like being forced into it. Element’s has been one of those editing software packages that you don’t need to be a professional at to make for some interesting effects on photos or videos. While, at the same time, could be one of those that you download and install again 5 years later so you can do that effect again. But, apparently not any more. Now, you can “rent” it for 3 years and pay more later when you decide to use it again. No, it’s not a subscription, but if you want to use it after 3 years, it might as well be. One thing I still never understand is why, when I select “Premiere Elements” in my start menu, I still get this loading app which I then have to select Video Editor, same for “Photoshop Elements” and pick again. I would get it if it was just a link to “Adobe Elements” for example, then I pick, but no, I wanted Premiere to do a video, but I have to load this app to then load the app I selected in the first place. As for features, they have the classic Quick, Guided and Advanced modes. Where you can make simple changes to a photo or video, like add text, trim or combine media. The photoshop guided mode has various edits that guide you along, but don’t really help you learn the system if you wanted to do it on your own in advanced mode. As it puts the buttons in place and pretty much says to follow the steps. It does the effect it shows, but you don’t learn how to possibly do it on your own through the menu, or perfect it. Then, it doesn’t do it all that great and sort of dumps the rest of trying to fix it on you with the ‘Healing Brush’. See example photos below where I tried to remove a person from a stock photo, which it did, but then added another pole and then I tried expanding the scene, which it just did a bunch of clone stamping looking awful. They have changed things up a little bit, like on the export side of things for videos it used to just show a simple small, medium, large size, now it has more dropdowns for format. Plus, you can export in multiple formats at the same time, like for YouTube or Instagram with different aspects of resolutions on each. However, for some reason, they still can’t handle MKV or H.265 videos. At least the ‘Guided’ section of the video editor is more like a tutorial and shows you where to go in the menu and how to modify the track, after you download them. Overall, it is still Adobe products for photo and video editing, simplified and limited compared to the professional products. I still can’t get over the 3 year license and that has pretty much ruined it for me, as explained at the start. Considering how many other editing products are out there, sure it might take some more video watching to learn the “fun” edits, but at least you know you can still do it in 3 years with the software you paid for.

Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are noticeably different experiences compared to their full-fledged counterparts, and any user who has used either will notice a difference upon first opening the Elements program. I am most familiar with older versions of Photoshop and am newer to video editing, with my main experience being in DaVinci Resolve — suffice it to say, it was a surprise to open up Elements and see how different it is. It feels simplified and more user-friendly, but there is a sense of loss. It feels stripped down. And although PS Elements does have an "expert mode," which does offer some familiarity, it does not hold up to the full Photoshop experience. Shockingly, though, I think that's okay. I'll start with Premiere Elements, which I'll call PE for simplicity's sake for the rest of this review, because of my relative unfamiliarity with Adobe Premiere. I have no experience to draw from and compare PE to, but I found it fairly intuitive and straightforward. It's a more robust editor than Windows Movie Maker, if you remember that, and offers some fun features like filter effects and wacky transitions that look like something out of the '00s. You can add titles and text, and even combine multiple clips and audio tracks on a timeline. It is very approachable and more than enough for the average home video editor, with the one added caveat of the guided editing mode being a glorified tutorial downloader compared to the guided editing mode in Photoshop Elements. While the step-by-step guide is useful, it's difficult to see its necessity in a day and age where you could google a tutorial for a certain effect and find ten different people explaining exactly how to accomplish it. Photoshop Elements, which I will call PSE for the rest of this review, is similarly approachable with enough functionality to satisfy most hobbyists. Unfortunately for PSE, it has limitations that make it tough to meet the needs and expectations of more advanced users. For instance, PSE does offer the ability to import raw photos directly, but it only supports certain cameras. It lets you import a decent array of file types, but you can't export SVGs, and weirdly, unlike the full version of Photoshop, you can't export your work from your canvas. You can only "save as," and must use the Organizer to export. This isn't a big deal as both offer the same functionality, but it is an odd limitation. It also doesn't support CMYK, making it a dealbreaker for working on print work reliably. On the other hand, PSE offers some features that I can see being appealing to newbies and experts alike. The AI tools, like background replacement, facial feature touchup, black and white colorization, and object removal, are generally useful in my testing and often surprisingly decent, given how hit or miss AI editing tools can be. On that note, you may find that there are still some "miss" cases. As an example, the "adjust facial features" tool sometimes failed to detect faces in family photos at all, especially in more challenging lighting or slightly tilted-away-from-the-camera angles. I have experienced similar issues with facial detection software and am aware that there is some racial bias in these types of detection softwares, so my hope is that this feature can only get better with time and more training. In fairness, it did work most of the time with the more neutral "portrait" style photos and worked best on white faces in more neutral lighting facing towards the camera, which is a pretty specific set of circumstances. There are also tools and effects like moving elements and moving overlays that, while sometimes coming out looking more gimmicky than actually useful, can sometimes look pretty nice. I did find that the moving elements in particular could come out looking sludgy, but worked best with photos with sky and/or water elements. Nature photos came out nicely, for example. You can tell that PSE is geared toward a much more casual crowd than Photoshop when looking at the suggested project ideas, too, such as greeting cards and photo collages. PSE does a great job of offering ideas and guiding the user in general. Both PE and PSE offer web and mobile apps, both of which are in beta currently. I found that they were severely stymied compared to the desktop versions, with simple things like drag and drop to import not working. The mobile app in particular was middling and not worth the install space compared to other photo editing apps which have the added bonus of being free, like Snapseed. Since these are in beta, I hope the experience on web and mobile improves. The biggest issue I ran into was not downloading and installation, which was seamless on my Windows 11 machine and even my Snapdragon Windows laptop. It wasn't even the RAM hogging, which Adobe is well known for. It was their newly updated payment model for PE and PSE, which changed from a perpetual license to a 3-year license. While it is still cheaper than the full suite of Photoshop and Premiere, it is disappointing to see Adobe double down on its stance of users merely "renting" software rather than outright owning it. Another issue I encountered was with the built-in Organizer tool, which replaces the familiar Bridge. I found it to be less powerful and less useful than Google Photos, which has its own useful suite of editing tools and even AI tools. The newly added auto-tagging falls short of Google Photos's own recognition software, in my opinion, and the lack of automatic album adding and creating is a dealbreaker for managing my photo library. Ultimately, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements aren't built for professionals — and that's okay. They are clearly targeting a much more hobbyist, casual demographic and they have done a decent job of doing so. Youtubers or Tiktok content creators will likely find usability in both PE and PSE, and for a cheaper, "lite" version of both, they are a great way to get acquainted with the Adobe environment. However, I believe that Adobe has failed to consider that with other options on the market, like Canva, they will need more than integrated PoD services to win over the more novice hobbyists who simply want to make edits for a family photo scrapbook and want the flexibility of a good web and mobile app as well as more visually appealing stock photos and graphics (no shade to the artists who contributed to their library). Both PE and PSE hit a strange middle point where absolute novices will likely still feel somewhat overwhelmed, but both are also too impeded for power users. For the users willing and wanting to learn more about photo and video editing, or the more advanced hobbyists who are not yet ready to pay five times the asking price of this software bundle *per year* (!), the Elements lineup is a good match. Pros: + much, much cheaper than the full-fledged versions of Photoshop and Premiere + technically not a subscription (though the 3-year license term does seem quite similar to one...) + more user-friendly and approachable, great for hobbyists + fun effects and templates Cons: - weird limitations like no CMYK, only supporting raw from certain cameras, and no SVG support make it a no-go for most professionals using it for design or print work - web and mobile apps leave much to be desired - not a perfect experience for newbies, best for people somewhat familiar with photo/video editing - Organizer is also an imperfect experience and was kind of laggy on my machine. It also lacks the fullness I need from auto tagging software for managing a large photo library - three-year license term is a disappointing move from Adobe

Before this review, I had never used Adobe Photoshop. I had certainly heard about it over the years, but I had never taken the time to try it for myself. After spending some time with these programs, I can say that it offers a deep experience that is only limited by your imagination. Adobe Photoshop is a great tool for modifying photos. There are three options for relatively easy edits: Quick, Guided, and Advanced. Each option is accurately represented by its name. Advanced allows for the most involved edits and requires more understanding of the program, while Quick and Guided are easy for anyone to use. I chose Guided to change a background; remove unwanted elements from a photo and then adjust the color; change the sky from daytime to sunset; and try out the double exposure edit. It was fun and the results were pretty impressive, even for an amateur such as myself. There is much more that can be done with Adobe Photoshop and I look forward to using it in the future. Adobe Premiere Elements is for working with videos and/or arranging photos into a video. As in Photoshop, it also has the Quick, Guided, and Advanced editing options, which allow one to begin with relatively easy edits and progress to more sophisticated edits. In the Adobe Premiere Elements program, I easily added a frame to my video; replaced the unwanted sound with a music track from the included options; adjusted the color; and added a custom title. Nice, easy, and fun to use. Again, I was impressed with how easy it was for someone with no prior experience to achieve these results. These programs from Adobe are pretty incredible, and could be explored far more in-depth than what I was able to do during my time spent with them. I appreciate that a beginner, like me, was able to create and edit successfully, while also realizing that pros will be able to take this program very, very far. I can't wait to jump back in and attempt to work on my skills, and perhaps find new features that I’m not familiar with. From my point of view, Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements represent two stellar programs that anyone interested in photo or video editing needs to try out. They are forgiving enough for a rookie to use, and offer a deep, in-depth experience for seasoned pros.

I've used Photoshop Elements in the past, but not much since I first got it in 2018. So I consider myself a new user. I also want to use it on any picture I capture with my S24 Ultra smartphone. So while it's not technically a stand alone camera, it has some really incredible camera feature specs that I want to highlight with Elements. It also shoots amazing video, so also having Premier Elements is just what I was looking for when it comes to editing software. It will take quite awhile to go through all or even some of the editing tools that Elements comes with. To regularly use them efficiently and be aware they are included is actually half the battle. And I say that in a good way because it will take time and practice to become good at using all these tools. One of the best ways to edit photos (and videos), is to take a lot of time and sit down and scrutinize all your favorite photos. Ever since capturing photos went digital, the skies the limit on how many photos everyone actually takes. I like to take a lot of pictures, that way I won't miss anything I want to see later (or so I tell myself). For me it's about taking the time to absorb the way a photo I took looks, and how I could make it better. In a lot of my pics, I always seem to find something I want to remove, which is true with a lot of shots I take while hiking. So I decided to try and become good at unwanted object removal, and Elements really made it relatively easy to do that, because it does what you want it to do, but you also have the control you want to make sure that what you expect to be edited, is the only thing getting edited. With my S24 I also have the ability to shoot in RAW mode and I wanted an editor that would be able to deal with these files as well. One of the features I was anxious to try out on the S24 was the virtual ND filters. Neutral density filters are typically glass filters you put on your camera lens to block out light to the CCD in measured increments. This lets you take those extraordinary slow shutter speed pics of waterfalls, making them look ethereal and mysterious. When using the virtual version on my phone, I went a bit too heavy handed and a lot of my photos turned out darker than I intended. As you can see in my waterfall photo, I was able to more than compensate for my mistake using Photoshop Elements. It allowed me to actually see the photo as I imagined it should look, and instead of chalking it up to inexperience and never looking at the photo again, I saved it and made something I enjoy looking at. So in using the editor, you can open any photo you want from your collection and then decide which mode you'd like to process it in. There's Quick mode that has a cut down toolbar collection. This is for more basic edits or for those that only want to stick a toe in the editing waters to get a feel for what can be changed. Then there's Guided mode that presents you with a bunch of different editing possibilities and literally guides you through the steps to get the most out of each one. Finally, there's Advanced. This is where you will be able to get the most serious editing done. The tool bar is full and you can even use layers for adding all kinds of extras. Both the Quick and the Advanced also have a lower right tool bar that lets you add effects, filters, styles and graphics. Some are AI driven and some are more manual. The point is, there is a ton of things to go through and try out. If you even need more help with an editing type, the Adobe web site is also filled with tutorials for any of their products, Elements in this case. When you have a need to edit RAW files (mine have the .dng extension), Elements will have you covered as well. When you open one of these files in the Photoshop Elements editor, you get a whole other series of tool bars to work with. These are grouped under three different expandable headings. The Basic tab expands to show you slider adjustment tools for things like tint, exposure, contrast, clarity, saturation, vibrance, etc.. The Detail tab has sliders for sharpening and noise reduction and lastly you have a Calibration tab. There's also a dynamic histogram up in the corner that changes every time you modify the settings. What's cool about using this tool is that if you're unsure what one of the sliders does, just hover your cursor over the name of the slider and you'll see a small pop-up that shows an example of what the tool does. It's great for learning, and reminding you of what each tool does. I've been able to create and “fix” a lot of my photos with this tool. I think if you're new to Photoshop Elements or really any of the Adobe packages, the biggest learning curve has to do with the terminology in the various pull downs, and also just getting used to the way even seemingly “easy” tasks can sometimes be elusive to find. For example, I struggled with finding the way to save a RAW photo as a .jpg. You can do this easily once you know how. Open up the Organizer and select the photo you want a different format of, select File and choose Export as New File(s). This brings up a pop-up window where you can select from different formats to save your photo as. Don't bother looking for the “Save As” choice to do this. Elements is a very powerful tool that brings professional photo editing to people like me who probably won't use it for every single photo, but will use it more and more to refine my editing skills and create fun photos and layouts or rescue photos that would likely never be looked at or appreciated. I love this suite of tools and I will definitely keep using it. Is it worth a subscription fee? It seems most every products Adobe offers is going that route, and I'm not going to spend money every month to edit photographs, and I'm sure a lot of people will be in the same boat with me on this. This is a fantastic entry level product that I'd hate to think I'll need to stop using some day to avoid paying a monthly subscription fee. If it remains a stand alone program, I'd be fine with that, but I understand that a lot of the AI features are just easier to develop and maintain by having a subscription, but honestly, I'm at my limit already with companies wanting me to pay a subscription for everything they offer.

I consider myself having modest editing skills, up until now I been using free apps to lighten brighten and sometimes add overlays. The Adobe Elements & Premier package allowed me to take my ideas further. It has proven really useful at editing/organizing GoPro videos of offroad adventures that I didn't know what to do with. The package has a landing page for all of your photos and videos to be in the same location, easily accessible for importing with lots of great ideas to get you started. It was great for editing pictures in Elements and for use as title/transitions in Premiere. I think the huge advantage for beginners is the guided tutorials for, where it allows users to drop files and create advanced edits in a few steps. Not only do both apps show you examples with before and after icons, but it also steps through the how-to for each tutorial, so when you are done with the steps, you have edited your photo or video. Usually in less than four steps I was able to create quality edits in the photo editor. I also enjoyed the guided tutorials in the video editor, which walked me through how to create a video, add clips, adjust timing, and audio. The combo package is a great value for beginners, and I am glad to see it offered with a 3-year license that also includes a free trial to Adobe's royalty free stock collection.

Who am I? Amateur photographer and videographer that doesn't want to pay monthly for LIghtroom and Premiere Pro. I use sony a6400, sony a6600, canon r7, and GoPro 11. Who is this software for? This is definitely for the weekend photographer who wants to touch up some pictures and stitch together some videos. People who make Youtube and TikTok videos. What I like: I like that I can go to advanced settings and do away with all the adobe hand holding automatic fixing of pictures. *Both progams have a lot of features that help with editing photos and videos *Can output 4K *I am able to add captions to my videos *Easy drag and dropping of files *Can upload easy to social networks *All my photos and video stay on local drives What can be improved: -Program seems to bog down my windows pc (13700HX, rtx 4070, 16Gb Ram). -Not all automated features work as described (removing people from pictures doesn't work well). -At least for me I had to create/use an Adobe account (I already had one) -The loading page is to busy and will confuse entry level people I like these programs better than the freeware type picture editors such as paint.net and video programs such as filmora. Adobe is the best for photo and video editing. I just really wish they put more work into their entry level photo and video software. Not much different than previous versions and just barely better than freeware photo and video software. I am glad adobe is keeping these entry level software as a 1 time license purchase (3-year term) rather than their annual paid monthly pricing. I would recommend that folks try Adobe free software and trial software if they are unsure about these products. Both Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements software has a lot of guided features that will help the user grow their skills and move to the advanced features this software provides. Buy the bundle and save $

Wow. Photo Editors have come a long way. Being someone who has used many different photo editors over the decades, there have been many ups and downs. The biggest gripes are the steep learning curves. Does Adobe Photoshop have a learning curve? Yes! But this time it is manageable. Photoshop Elements 2025 and Premiere Elements 2025 are both manageable in terms of the learning curve. I have had quite a bit of time using both programs now and have been able to use both and get some top notch results. From photos to video, both programs pack tons of features. There are a few features that can be a little difficult to learn, but the majority of features are pretty straight forward and easy to use. From creating a dynamic video, creating a slide show, dabbling with music tracks, or simply cropping a photo, both of these program make it pretty straight forward to do. The results are almost always spectacular. What makes this program stand out from other photo editors, is the choice to use "Quick", "Guided", and "Advanced" settings. For an experienced amateur like myself, I love the "Guided" choice of editing a photo. Selecting the brightness, contrast, scaling, rotation, and so much more are super easy with this option. One of the features I love is the "Before & After" option when editing a photo. Seeing the results side by side is so crucial. Once done editing your photos and/or videos, sharing them is super easy with Adobe. Flickr and Facebook are easy options to choose to share the pieces you created. Bottom line is that each photo I edited, came out realistic and super full of life. I was truly amazing by the results. Whether a newbie, intermediate, or advanced user, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere are at the top of their game. I can't see any reason to use any other program. From the amount of features, the ease of use, and the results, Adobe hits a grand slam with these programs. Highly recommended!

The upgrades to Adobe Photoshop and Premiere are great and were easy to install. I’ve used Adobe products for many years and they continue to provide an excellent experience. Purchasing the upgrade from Best Buy was also an easy, excellent experience.

Great deal on this 2025 Photoshop Elements and Premier. Not to mention, good for 3 years. Adobe has vast options to edit photos and videos easily...love it!!

I prefer the srandalone Photoshop option for my editing software needs on my desktop. Great software! It's the filter and fix OG with lots of tweaks. Pretty easy to use.

Introduction: I am no photo or video professional editor by any definition, but I do enjoy editing both. I take a lot of pictures and videos of trips, motorcycle rides, and flying drones. For the drone and motorcycle videos, there is quite a bit of video editing. For this I have mostly been using open-source products. To get the final video, I must remove the noise from the drone and motorcycle, add music, add photos, add transitions and remove unwanted video. This requires numerous websites and A new venture I have started is to record 360° videos on my motorcycle while on rides. This opens an entirely new world of video, but also more editing. Like before, I use a multitude of tools to create the video intros, the video credits, music, and more, and then bring it all together for the final result. I say all of that to say this; I have recently started using Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2025 for the same projects, and it is changing my life with photo and video editing. The big difference is that I can do all the things I was doing across the numerous different platforms before, on just these two. No more jumping around from program to program to website, etc. to get the same result. I can now do it all in one suite, making my life easier, and ending up with better results. I have considered moving to Adobe many many times in the past, but for what I do, I couldn’t get past the price. But their Elements suite is very inexpensive compared to the other professional suites, making it an obvious choice. I’m not saying that the professional suites are not worth it they are the industry standard. I am an IT engineer, and I support clients who use them. It is very much worth it to the professional. But to a hobbyist or content creator as a side gig, it’s kinda expensive. But Adobe Essentials with a 3-year license is extremely affordable. What’s new with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025: • Guided Edits • Step-by-Step Editing • Create stylized text. • Add cinematic motion to photos. • One-click subject selection. • Facial features quick touchup. • Collage templates. • Additional filters and effects. • Extend photo backgrounds. • Move, scale, and duplicate objects. What’s new with Adobe Premier Elements 2025: • Titles with text controls. • Color correction tools. • Color grading tools. • Simplified timeline. • Free Adobe stock title templates. • Apple M3 support. • Share results with others via the Mobile app. • One-click Quick Actions for photos in the Mobile app. • Basic photo editing and adjustments for photos in the Mobile app. • 2GB of free cloud storage for your photos and videos. Workflow: When I do 360° video from a motorcycle ride, it is a multi-step process. I go to a subscription website to create the video intro and the credits into 2 videos. Then I go to another website to select the music I want in the final product. I take any images I want to add to the video and edit them. I edit the 360° video in the camera’s 360 video editor to the get video I want to publish. And then, I bring all that into my open-source video editor to bring it all together. With Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2025, I can do all of this in the suite except for the music and 360° editing. I edit the video, select my music, and do everything else in the Adobe Suite, with excellent transitions and very creative intros. The open source and free products I was using before are very good products. I have nothing against them, and they allowed me to create good videos on the cheap for a long time. But at some point, you need to stop and determine how much your time is worth. My previous workflow took a lot longer than my new Adobe workflow, and I’m actually getting the same or better results with Adobe. The AI intelligence built into the Essentials suite makes it so much easier to edit photos and videos. For instance, if I want to change the color of my motorcycle in a photo, I select the motorcycle body and Adobe highlights the entire things without missing parts or adding areas not part of the body. I then select the color and I’m done. But with others, I must spend time going around the borders to clean it up before moving forward. With some images, it took so long to clean up I decided to use other photos. These issues are no longer issues I have. Conclusion: The Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 & Premiere Elements 2025 is a powerful editing suite for the non-professional who does not need the entire Creative Cloud or Creative Suites. It is the full version of both products given as a bundle for a great price. It is still a subscription, but rather than paying monthly, you pay a one-time low price for a 3-year subscription. For a suite this powerful, it’s a great price. The AI integration brought into the 2025 edition is very effective. It makes selecting objects so much better and color correction so much more realistic. It has cut my editing time significantly. If you are a hobbyist, content creator, or own a small business doing editing, I highly recommend this Adobe suite for you, But the Adobe Photoshop and Premier Elements 2025 suite is really for everyone. Professional photo and video editing has finally come to the regular user, not just for the professional community. I highly recommend this product.

Hubby had accidentally left this in the cart in his bag. Was super relieved and happy to have it returned to us the next day when we inquired about it at customer service.

I’ve always wanted to learn Photoshop and Premiere, but I honestly don’t have a lot of time to do it. I tried using Photoshop on my daughter’s computer since she had a copy she needed for a school class but to be able for me to do anything well just takes too much work. Recently I was motivated again, but not wanting to spend a lot of money on something I didn’t think I cold learn well I decided to try GIMP. It was good and let me do what I wanted, but it was also really complex and a bit too steep of a learning curve. In my latest project I needed to do some video editing and so I decided to give the more updated version of Adobe’s products a try. This newer version is definitely a step up from what I used before as far as ease. I do like the different modes you can choose because it really speeds up the editing process if you’re not really sure what you’re doing. It does have its drawbacks and is a bit like filters are that it does a pretty amazing job of getting you what you want easily, but if what you want is more unusual, it may not really do it “right”. I was able to improve a number of photos from a recent vacation and make them look much better than they were, but it still has a bit left to be desired. For the video editing, it worked really well. It did struggle with a few files from our goPro, but overall it worked well. All the standard things I wanted to do were there, but I’m not a pro so there may have been things missing I didn’t know to look for. Both programs has a certain degree of AI built in. I think that’s what helps it do the simpler modes where it guesses what I wanted to do and then uses AI to do it. Its much better than armature me could do, but its not anything close to the AI expectations some people have. I guess that’s to be expected given the relatively weak computers we’re using compared to the big AI companies use. However, it is a pretty cool glimpse into the possibilities that they’ll come up with in the future. It is a 3 year only license which I was a bit irritated about at first. I always prefer an unlimited one. However, when I wanted to use my daughter’s last version to compare it to, it kept freezing up with the size and complexities of the video files and how old the computer was. I tried to put it a newer more powerful computer, but it wasn’t compatible. So I guess while 3 years seems like a bit of a rip off, the reality is that files keep getting bigger and bigger such that we need more and more powerful computers to do editing, and the programs are probably not compatible anymore after a few years do to OS updates (thanks Microsoft). Overall, Adobe is still the leader for a reason, and I wouldn’t suggest going with anyone else unless you’re really broke and want to try an open-source program along with all the complexities and frustrations that go with it. If you are just a beginner but want to do a little bit yourself, go with Adobe and their cool AI upgrades.