Adobe’s newest consumer Elements app is here. Photoshop Elements 2025 adds new Magic Eraser-style object removal, depth of field adjustment, and more. Meanwhile, Premiere Elements 2025 for video creators introduces dynamic titles, color correction tools, and a simplified timeline.
The Elements app, which Adobe debuted 23 years ago, takes hand-picked features from its high-end professional suite and gradually brings them to everyday users. These are like simplified, easier-to-use versions of Photoshop and Premiere Pro for people who don’t want to learn professional graphic design or video editing skills. The company also sells it for $100 per one-time purchase, with no subscription required. (You can also bundle both for $150.) Today’s AI-powered consumer apps allow you to do more than ever before, without a lot of technical know-how. Masu.
Photoshop Elements 2025 adds AI-powered deletion features similar to the professional version of Photoshop (along with Google’s Magic Eraser and Apple’s Cleanup Tool). Similar to these competing versions, Adobe’s tools allow you to brush away objects, people, and animals and fill in a replacement background.
Elements 2025 also adds a pseudo-portrait mode feature (depth blur) to any image. Once you choose your focal point, Adobe’s AI adds blur to create a sense of depth and simulate a wide aperture lens. From there, you can adjust the blur strength, focal length, and focal range.
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With the new color correction feature, you can select an area of your photo, choose a new color from the pop-up dial, and slide it until you get it just the way you want it. Photoshop Elements also has a photo merge tool that lets you blend the subject of one image with the background of another to create something new. The app also adds an AI motion effects feature that simulates motion blur in the subject.
Adobe’s consumer video app, Premiere Elements, also includes new AI features. New white balance tools and footage color LUTs (lookup tables) provide easy-to-use color curves and presets to help you easily adjust the overall mood.
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The Video app also adds a simpler timeline. “Group and review video and audio tracks for easier navigation, find the editing options you use most with the new Quick Tools menu, and lock individual tracks to prevent accidental changes. Yes, you can,” Adobe wrote in a press release. Additionally, Premiere Elements adds dynamic titles with more text controls and allows you to use Adobe Stock title templates at no additional cost.
Both Elements apps fully support Apple’s M3 chip “for faster performance on Mac computers.” (Here are the complete Windows and macOS system requirements for Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements.) The two apps also include a scaled-down web and mobile app for editing on the go.
Adobe’s MAX conference starts on October 14th. There, the Pro Editor community can learn more about the new AI (and other) features coming to the company’s high-end, subscription-based desktop app.
