You’ve got options for outputting an image for web or print, along with dimensions (inches, centimetres or pixels), and storage requirements. Resizing has been made easier for beginners with another new Guided mode which walks you through the process in quick and easy steps. New Speed Effect Guided modeĪdobe has also added a new Fun Edit, called Speed effect, which basically recreates the effect of Motion Blur to an otherwise static shot to give a sense of movement. Selecting one of these tabs will present you with a list of the different guided edits which are available to you, for example “Pop Art” is listed under Fun Edits. It’s now arranged by the type of editing you might want to do, such as Basics, Black & White, Special Edits and Photomerge. Photoshop Elements’ guided mode has been redesigned with a new easier-to-use interface. You’ve got options which allow you to vary brush sensitivity to pick up on the minute details you need. So, for example, if you’re trying to select something like very fine strands of hair in a portrait shot, the Brush can be useful. While you can already make fine selections in Photoshop Elements 13, the new Refine Selection Brush tool in Elements 14 gives you additional controls to make even finer selections. Colour and lighting in a shot is judged, and five recommendations which the software thinks are best are made from a database of more than 2,000 different effects. Quick filter applicationĭubbed “smart looks” by Adobe, Elements 14 has a range of five different effects that can be applied to any photo with the touch of button.

You can use the software’s improved face recognition to sort your photos, with it getting better at recognising faces the more photos you add. You can order your files by People, Place and Events – that’s nothing new – but each of these sorting modes have all seen improvements. Again, there’s an automatic option, but also the possibility to vary the level of sensitivity to haze depending on how bad the problem in your shot is. If you find that your holiday shots are blighted by unsightly haze and fog, the new Haze Removal feature is designed to make light work of sorting that problem out. Not only is there an automatic option, but furthermore it’s also possible to correct specific areas of a photo if necessary.

Basically, this helps with photos which are just slightly out of focus thanks to camera shake – often a problem when shooting handheld (especially selfies). One of the new features that Adobe is keenest to shout about is its Auto Shake Reduction feature.

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