

Photoshop Elements 2018: No support for HEIF Jackie Doveĭouble Exposure guides you in combining two different images into one, complete with special effects. Shape overlay has an abundance of designs that work well with portraits. Watercolor offers an infinite number of tools to dress up and add text to your snaps. Swap background takes this little doggie off the street and to the beach. With the new Auto Select feature, all you have to do is draw a box or Ellipse around a subject, and the tool immediately recognizes the foreground and the background for a surprisingly accurate selection. Photoshop Elements 2018: Auto Selectįor amateurs and pros alike, selecting objects or people and separating out foregrounds from backgrounds, evokes major time-sucking anxiety. Generic royalty-free music is included, but you’ll probably want to use your own soundtrack. Jackie DoveĬhoose from a modest selection of themes. Watercolor slideshow tool animates effects as it moves through your images. It takes just a few clicks and a few minutes to pump out a sharable slideshow. You can customize slideshows with your own soundtracks from iTunes, add captions to the images, rearrange slide order, or import additional images and videos. Photoshop Elements 2018: Slideshow toolĮase of use is the hallmark of the revamped Slideshow tool, which works in concert with Auto Curate to automatically select the best shots, letting you choose from among several built-in animated themes and soundtracks. Jackie DoveĪuto Curate is the brains behind the images chosen for slideshows. I found Auto Curate results hit or miss, as some obviously overexposed and underexposed photos were included among the best results. The app’s Smart Tag feature, introduced last year, helps Auto Curate identify image content. A slider lets you dictate how many photos you want to include in the results. This year’s Organizer debuts Auto Curate, an AI-derived feature that analyzes photos for quality parameters like composition, exposure, focus, and faces, choosing just a small fraction among potentially thousands of images. Auto Curate lets you use a slider to choose how many of your best shots you want to see.
