


Now that Adobe has officially cut the price of its Photography Cloud subscription to $10/month for Photoshop, Lightroom, and its mobile apps, the economic advantage of spending $100 on each new version of Photoshop Elements isn’t all that compelling unless you only upgrade every few years. It will cut off a bit of the bottom of some screens, but it still works okay.The Elements Organizer application and the Premiere Elements Editor automatically zoomed on my test Surface Pro 3.Įlements is still the go-to product for those who don’t want a subscription You can force that manually by going to Preferences -> Displays & Cursors -> High Density Displays, and selecting it yourself. But some, like the Surface Pro 3, don’t have quite enough resolution to push the UI over to 200% zoom. The Photoshop Elements 14 Editor is designed to scale its UI elements automatically on high-DPI Windows machines.

It is nearly as powerful as the photo-specific tools in Photoshop. Finally, there is the Expert mode, for when you know what you want. There are more Guided edits than ever - helpfully separated into Basic, Color, Black & White, Fun Edits, Special Effects, and Photomerge. For a deeper dive, perhaps into types of corrections with which you are unfamiliar, the enhanced Guided mode helps you find your way through a series of steps that might otherwise require watching a tutorial video and trying to take notes and repeat the steps on your own.
