Adobe's updated consumer-focused Elements apps are here. Photoshop Elements 2025 adds new Magic Eraser-style object removal, depth of field adjustments, and more. Meanwhile, Release elements 2025 for video creators features dynamic titles, color correction tools, and a simplified timeline.
Elements apps, which Adobe debuted 23 years ago, take select features from high-end professional suites and distribute them to casual users. They're 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 them for $100 each in one-time purchases, rather than requiring a subscription. (You can also combine both for $150). With today's ai capabilities, easy-to-use apps let you do more than ever without much technical knowledge.
Photoshop Elements 2025 adds an ai-based Delete feature similar to the professional version of Photoshop (along with Google's Magic Eraser and Apple's Cleanup Tool). Like competing versions, Adobe's tool lets you brush an object, person or animal, and removes it, completing a replacement background.
Elements 2025 also adds a fake portrait mode (Depth Blur) feature to any image. Select a focal point and Adobe ai will add blur to create a sense of depth to simulate a large aperture lens. From there, you can modify the blur intensity, focal length, and focal range.
A new color correction feature lets you select an area of a photo, choose a new color in a pop-up dial, and slide it until it looks how you want. Photoshop Elements also has a photo blending tool that allows you to combine a subject from one image and a background from another, creating something new. The app also adds an ai motion effect feature that simulates subject motion blur.
Premiere Elements, Adobe's consumer video app, also adds new ai features. A new white balance tool and footage color LUTs (lookup tables) give you easy-to-use color curves and presets, making it easy to tweak the overall mood.
The video app also adds a simpler timeline. “See grouped video tracks and grouped audio tracks for easier navigation, find your most used editing options in the new Quick Tools menu, lock individual tracks to prevent accidental changes, and more,” Adobe wrote in its press release. . Plus, Premiere Elements adds dynamic titles with more text controls, and you can use title templates from Adobe Stock without paying extra.
Both Elements apps fully support Apple's M3 chip “for faster performance on Mac computers.” (Here are the full Windows and macOS system requirements for tech-specs.html?promoid=V2XYKZXQ&mv=other” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Photoshop Elements;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:8;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>Photoshop Elements and tech-specs.html?promoid=VBF1KRGN&mv=other” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Premiere Elements;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:9;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>premiere elements.) The app pair will also have stripped-down mobile and web app counterparts for editing on the go.
Adobe MAX Conference starts on October 14. That's where the professional publishing community can learn more about the new ai (and other) features coming to the company's high-end subscription-based desktop apps.
