However, that helps you to learn how to use some of the tools in the Expert area.Īs you’d expect, the Expert section has a more comprehensive collection of tools in the column on the left of the screen than the Quick area. Generally the auto-selection tools work well, but they can’t always be relied upon and you may need to use the refining tools to get the best results. There are also no local adjustments available in Photoshop Elements’ version of Camera Raw. Instead, you can select from a range of presets and then adjust the degree of effect that’s applied. It is also possible to convert an image to black and white, but you don’t get control over all the colour channels, which is somewhat disappointing. The range of controls is more limited than Photoshop’s and Lightroom’s, but the most important controls are there, so you can adjust the exposure, white balance, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks and clarity, vibrance and saturation. (Image credit: Angela Nicholson/Digital Photographer)Īs with the full version of Adobe Photoshop, if you try to open a RAW file in Photoshop Elements, it opens Camera Raw automatically. You switch between them by clicking on the options at the top of the screen. This has three modes – Quick, Guided and Expert – each with a different level of control. If you’re more interested in perfecting your images than creating things with them, you need to open the Photo Editor. There’s also very little control over the slide show you can’t change transitions or make one of your own images the title slide, for example. It would be nice to have a clean, white option. Even the Monochrome theme for photo books alternates between black and white backgrounds on pages. With the exception of the photo prints, the templates that Elements offers for printed products have rather fussy backgrounds.
These include slide shows, collages, prints, photo books, greetings cards, calendars and CD jackets. That’s because the software doesn’t simply import the file location information, it also analyses the images to enable you to create stacks of similar shots, which takes quite a bit of time.Īfter importing some images to the Organizer, tapping ‘Create’ reveals a selection of items that you can make. If you have a large collection of images, we recommend importing them in batches. You can add names and group them (Image credit: Angela Nicholson/Digital Photographer) (opens in new tab) Tapping on the People tab at the top of the Organizer reveals any faces that the software has found in your images.
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