Customer Ratings & Reviews

I used Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements on my 2017 MacBook Pro. I have not use Adobe Photoshop or Premiere before, and I have also not used Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements before. This was my first time using Adobe Photo and Video editing products. Photoshop Elements: Photoshop Elements seems to be a pretty decent program for editing photos. It has three methods for performing your edits: Quick, Guided, and Expert. Quick provides some very basic functions for editing. Guided steps you through the process of performing different edits such as object removal, rotating, sharpening, etc. Expert provides you with all of the options available within the program. I tested opening HEIC photos and editing them and this program had no issues with that. For 2021 software, this program does seem a bit dated. The interface is pretty boring, but the number of features seems to be pretty good and it does seem to work well. This software has a pretty decent number of features and also can help step you through how to use them. I think this is nice for beginners and those who are inexperienced in photo editing. From using this on my Mac and editing photos, the software performed well. I was not very familiar with using Photoshop software, and it was not very clear how to use some of the features in expert mode. The guided mode helped step me through some of the features and it has several that it can step you through. Overall, if you are looking for a fairly basic program to edit photos, this should be decent. I have used other photo editing programs that are more polished and in some ways more intuitive, but the guided feature here is pretty useful and straightforward. Premiere Elements: Premiere Elements was a big disappointment! I have used this same computer for video editing on iMovie which has worked well, but Premiere Elements did not work well at all! There was severe lag in premiere elements. My computer is not slow, and I can confirm this from my experience editing videos in iMovie. In Premiere Elements, I would click a setting or option or pause the video playing and it would take 2 or 3 seconds to respond. Regardless of features, the amount of lag and lack of optimization on this software makes it pretty much unusable! It would take forever to edit videos on this program, so for me, this makes it pretty useless. Beyond this, like Photoshop Elements, the interface looks dated. Additionally, for video editing, this program seems very basic and lacking in features. If you don’t know how to edit videos and just need software for very basic and minimal editing and have no experience doing so, this could work for you. Like Photoshop Elements, this has three methods for performing your edits: Quick, Guided, and Expert. Quick provides very simple and basic functionality. Guided steps you through how to use features like trimming clips and adding titles. Expert allows you to use all of the features available in the program, assuming you know how to use them. The lag I experienced may just be a Mac issue. This program seems very poorly optimized for MacOS and looking at the design, I would expect to see a program like this in Windows. It’s almost like this is a Windows program just being emulated to run on MacOS because of how laggy and slow it is. I definitely would not recommend Premiere Elements for Mac users! It may be better optimized and a fair option for Windows users, though. Conclusion: My thoughts are based on using this program on a Mac. The poor performance of Premiere Elements may just be an issue on Macs, so I would look to other reviews for comments on this if you plan to use this software on Windows. Photoshop Elements seems like a decent program. It has several features and capabilities and worked well on my machine. If you have very limited photo editing experience, you might find the guided options helpful and that might help to make the photo editing process easier to understand. I wasn’t impressed with this software, and personally prefer other photo editing programs I have used on my Mac, but if you are looking for something with guided steps or are a beginner with photo editing, this might work well for you. Premiere Elements was a HUGE disappointment. If you have a Mac, DO NOT buy Premiere Elements. The lag in this program was extremely annoying and made it very difficult to use. Do not waste your time or money on this if you have a Mac! This may perform fine on Windows computers, but I am not sure. If you need a basic video editor on Windows, this might work fine for you. It is pretty basic software, so don’t expect a lot of capabilities. It does have the guided feature which shows you how to use different editing features. This could be helpful on a Windows computer if you have no video editing experience and need to do some basic editing. Overall, I wasn't impressed with these programs and would not spend a lot on them. Photoshop Elements is decent and might work well for some use cases. Premiere Elements is horrible and pretty useless on the Mac. This may be different on Windows, but I would definitely not recommend Premiere Elements for Mac users!

First a couple of installation observations. Both the Photoshop Elements 2021 and the Premiere Elements 2021 installation routines triggered untrusted software warnings forcing me to agree to installing untrusted software. I know genuine Adobe software can be trusted and you can to, but those warnings are probably not something Adobe should ignore. The downloads from Adobe are getting pretty big: Photoshop Elements 2021 Zipfile is 4.1 GB and the Premiere Elements 2021 Zipfile is 3.5 GB. Together they take up 15.7 GB of drive space when unzipped. The size is not really a problem, but you just need make sure you have much more than that available wherever it is you download and unzip the installation files. Don't target a drive that's cramped for space. Photoshop Elements 2021 is Adobe's new photo editing software for the consumer or home market. I've been enjoying each year's improvements to Photoshop Elements ever since I first received v15 back in 2016 and it nevers ceases to amaze me how smart this software is getting. I use it mostly to manipulate and improve photos I include in the email newsletters I create for a local charity that I volunteer with. It makes that task much easier. Anymore I find it difficult to improve upon the Auto functions when playing around with color, sharpen, cropping, and so on. For instance, when creating the photo collage "Spring_In_My_Orchard" that I uploaded for this review, I went with all of the recommended color enhancements and crops to the individual photos I took one April a few years back. When Photoshop Elements created the collage, it chose the simple layout you see in the final collage. I forced the software to try all the other layouts, but I rejected them all and went with the original choice made by Photoshop Elements 2021 because there was nothing better in my choices. I did use the new Perfect Landscape tool to add a bluer sky to the photo on the upper left which originally had a washed out white sky. And in that same photo I used the Spot Healing tool to remove an orchard deer fence from the near background. I was very pleased with my results. In the before and after photo called "Dog_Portrait", I used number of Photoshop Elements 2021 tools to transform the lucky backyard photo of one of our dogs on the left into the portrait-style image on the right. I was having so much fun creating this transformation that I can't really remember what all tools I used. But I love the results. The last photo I uploaded for this review "Old_Photo_Restored" was the before and after comparison of an old photo restoration I just did of my wife's grandfather on a portrait taken on his 19th birthday back in 1919. I used the Restore Old Photo tool found in the Guided-Special Edits. I played around with the Dust Removal, Sharpen, and Crop tools found there. I thought the results were amazing! She said it made a handsome man even more handsome. So, if you're like me and don't mind not being a genius graphics illustrator and in contrast are only interested in quick and pleasing results, you can't go wrong with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021. It really has been getting better with age and the decent price makes buying the annual fall releases almost painless. Premiere Elements 2021 is the new video editing software. Like I said above, I've been enjoying each year's improvements to Premiere Elements also. I'm not much of a video editor, yet I like learning about it by playing around with cellphone videos of family and Premiere Elements 2021 makes that easy to do. For this review I did some exploring with the Guided-Fun Edits to try expand my video editing and enhancing abilities past simple trimming, splitting, transitions, and text that I do for drone videos. While there is a lot of smart, guided adjustments and edits, I clearly I need to spend a lot more time studying the online tutorials to do justice to this very smart software. I'm looking forward to it. Bundled with the photo and video editing software is a tool called the Organizer. Basically, it does just as its name implies. It gathers together and organizes your photos and videos and makes them available to the two editing programs. It will also do automatic backups for you. As always, Adobe puts out a top-notch product. The 2021 versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are no exception. I can highly recommend these two products once again without any reservations whatsoever. They are better than ever!

I was excited to use this software because I use a lot of photographs in my livestock business and knew I needed something better than the programs that come on PCs. I had used Adobe years ago and felt that I was overwhelmed with choices and terms I did not understand. This software gives you three levels of editing-- Quick, Guided and Expert. Using the Guided version shows me what the proposed change area is! In pictures! This is wonderful. I was able to quickly edited some photos and learn some new skills. The Guided portion allows me to expand my usage and graduate to the more Expert levels. Using the video editor, I was able to stitch together several video shorts of baby kids running and make a longer version, all while cutting out the bits where they ran outside the lens range. Perfect for me! On the photos I am attaching photos where I changed lighting, contrast and such (white goat with kids), cropped and took out a second goat and the big goat poops, while sharpening the highlights on a black goat, and then cutting a black goat out of one picture and placing him in a differnt background. I really find the Guided portion will make me a competent photo editor! I strongly recommend this product for anyone who needs to update and clarify photos, but not to the tiniest pixel but was afraid of a complicated program. This program is for you!

I can’t recommend this enough for anyone who wants to start editing photos. Once you get this installed and tied to your adobe account you are welcomed to a plethora of learning opportunities. There are several tutorials for you to get your feet wet and ease your way into broadening your skills. I have to say the search function provides way more information than I was expecting as well. Simple known terms like “layer”, “tone”, “plug-in” all reveal plenty of information useful to any beginner. You have three options that get you familiar with the environment and some of the most used tools. Quick mode is great for people just learning what the most frequently used tools actually do or doing exactly what the mode name suggest…quick edits that need little attention to achieve. Guided mode literally gives you a step-by-step process to accomplish anything from simple edits to the more moderate/complex borderline. Load a picture in the workflow at the bottom, choose a guide, the media fills the screen and a custom pallet with the appropriate tools and instructions are provided for you. You can also dive right in and skip to the expert section if you’re so inclined. What those who are bit more seasoned to the Adobe Photoshop and Premier Pro environment(s) is that a lot of highly usable features are present in a very familiar and vanilla layout. My first reaction was to start changing the layout to add some tools in a familiar spot and find the dark mode option as well. In my attempt I found that you can’t do either. What I did find is that there is still a lot of tools available to use for a non-professional variant of the software. So much so that it feels like a steal especially for anyone learning about media editing. I really wanted to take advantage of Organizer app but it has been rough. I’ve stress tested it with a large library of roughly 32,000 files of mostly photos with some video to import. It gives the impression that it works but it’s only in part. Most of it was missing and would only load if you navigate to that folder through the application and import by individual folder. It works but if you want to do something like preview a video you imported it starts pull a lot of resources just to play back a video. As in nearly 24GB of RAM. (General PC Specs Below) I have a feeling my issues might be an anomaly with the Organizer app. And even if I remove that from this package entirely, it’s still a really great tool. You can baby step your way to learning how to do professional level editing in a pretty short period of time. I just wish a dark mode and some simple layout customization were available. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Asus ROG Strix B450-F 32GB DDR4 RAM Samsung 970 Evo EVGA RTX 2080 Super

I purchased the Photoshop/Premiere Pro Elements package for $99.95 on sale through Best Buy, and I find the price to be an incredible bargain for licensed versions of both programs. While some features are scaled back (i.e. PS actions can no longer be created), the addition of many beginner-friendly social media geared features may be appealing to new users. Expert Mode is available to those seeking the more 'traditional' Photoshop package. Not full blown Photoshop or Premiere Pro, but an exceptional value which will likely handle the needs of most non-professional image and video editors. For the price, I have no regrets whatsoever and recommend wholeheartedly.

I'm using Premiere for the first time and learning to edit video clips together. I'm happy to be able to use this version instead of the subscription price. The Photoshop version looks good but getting used to the way tolls are arranged there too. Good value for the upgrade.

This program is amazing! I was able to take out all the things in the picture I didn't want and they turned out so dang cute and professional! You couldn't even tell that things were there that shouldn't have been. There are so many amazing features. This is super simple to use as well step by step and has short videos to help teach and show you how to use each part of the program. Love it!!

EVERYONE USES either VIDEO cameras or Digital Cameras, like a Canon or Nikon or their own SMARTPHONE, which is the more common use today. If you use one of the most current smartphones today, you can get superior quality photos or videos. Yet, you still need to edit them. With Photoshop Elements, you can do a lot such as organize your photos, select & remove things in your photo you did not want, make slideshows, sharpen your photos to be nice and clean, and much, much more. The Premiere Elements works great editing videos, and so much more. If you take photos or videos, using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 for photos and Premiere Elements 2021 for videos are programs that can help you make your work on photos or videos look better. The best part is you get 2 programs for one price. For more information go to https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-premiere-elements.html At this Adobe Site, you can see more about these programs. Good Luck

I was looking for a reasonable priced photo editing software. This has met my expectations without spending a lot of cash.

Great product for creating fliers and videos purchased on sale so I got a great bargain

perfect for making normal video and photo edits, with great value for what it offers

The software was easy to install and use. Includes both picture and video editing.

The software was a great deal. The full version of Adobe Photoshop cannot be purchased to own. You pay about $60 per month to use it. Photoshop Elements can be purchased for $60 and has most of the features that an average user needs for editing photos. In addition the software includes a version of Adobe Premier for editing movies. The combo is a great deal.

I chose this software based on having a much older version. This version is extremely user friendly and works very well. I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves taking pictures, It is amazing what a little editing can do. Your photos will be impressive.

I mainly use Premiere, and don't have too much experience with Photoshop, but this combo package was too good of a deal to pass up on. Both programs are straight forward and easy to use if you already have experience in them.

I have the Adobe CS Creative Suite, and bought the elements suite for quick edits. For JPEG pictures, Photoshop Elements does quick and good work. for RAW files--it is back to photoshop. Premiere Elements handles 4k H.264 files better than the CS6 Premiere pro. While both apps work well, they certainly lack some of the pro features including the integration between apps. Still--for the price, they certainly do the job well. As an alternative to Premiere Elements, check out Pinnacle Studio. I think it is has a bit more capabilities than Premiere elements.

Basically the same user friendly program I have used before on Mac's and PC's. Bundle including PSE and Premier video editor is a good value.

I had purchased this the same day I got my 13 inch MacBook Pro and I took it home went to install everything but the serial numbers and stuff that they needed to activate it do not work Best Buy had to contact someone at Adobe to figure out why the serial numbers and registration information wasn’t working on my receipt that they had given me the day of purchase you have to purchase this product from Adobe themselves online to get a serial number that works So you can register it in your name

What a great package for folks looking to get into video and photo editing, but not necessarily looking for all of the super in depth tos seen in the Photoshop and Premier subscription based Creative Cloud packages,

I am not that familiar with the latest software, but it's pretty good when drawing or use of background. I use this as a combination with Clip Studio