The Evolution of Photoshop Elements 2024

Photoshop Elements 2024 has been around for more than 20 years. PSE 3 was the first version to combine the Organizer, previously called Photoshop Album, with the Photo Editor. Each annual upgrade was sequentially numbered. I believe the last version was numbered sequentially was PSE 15. Somewhere around 2018, the sequential upgrade naming convention was switched to the year. And so here we are having PSE 2024 recently released.

For several years I have created a spreadsheet that compares the current version with previous ones. It soon became too wide for easy viewing, so I dropped off the older versions. My latest version covers only PSE 2020 through PSE 2024, and it requires zooming in to read it comfortably. The comments shown relate to the last version or the version to the left where that feature was added.

Click on the figure above to see the full table.

Please leave any comments below. How long have you been using PSE?

Until next time…

My First Interactve 360-Video

I have learning how to create a 360-degree video taken with my Insta360 One X camera for a bit. The one linked here was created using the MAGIX Movie Studio 2023. When you create a 360 video and upload it to YouTube it plays back in an interactive mode allowing you to dynamically change the view in the video.

This video was taken in Washington DC as I walked along the path in the National Mall few weeks ago.

I have several Insta360 videos I have never shared in this way. I am going to have to go back and take a look at them.

Until next time…

Second 360-degree Panorama from Watson Lake

I took two 360-panoramas while I was at Watson Lake in Prescott Valley AZ. This is the link to the second one.

https://donstouder.com/digital-photo-corner/10-20-23-360-pans/10-20-23 pano 2/10-20-23 pano 2/pano 2.html

I think this is a prettier side of the lake.

Until next time…

Adobe Releases Photoshop Elements 2024

A week or so ago, Adobe released their latest version of Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Elements 2024. New versions of this program have been released in early October for the past many years. It remains as a single purchase program for $99.99 in contrast to Adobe’s Photoshop 2024 and Lightroom programs that are subscription based. Here is the link to Photoshop Elements.

Buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024

As they always do, Adobe has added several new features and capabilities to their newest release.

This year they have added the following:

• Modernized the user interface of both the Organizer and the Photo Editor, including providing both light and dark viewing modes.
• Add Text Guided Edit
• One-Click Select
• Photoshop Elements Adobe Stock Integration
• Color Match
• Quick Actions
• Photo Reel
• Can Open the Desktop from the Web

Photoshop Elements remains one of the most popular image management (its Organizer) and feature rich photo editors for consumers, including AI buried within its features.   

The link above further describes and illustrates these new features. In the weeks ahead I will post examples of the new features as well.

Stay tuned…

Watson Lake 360-Degree Panorama

https://donstouder.com/digital-photo-corner/10-20-23-360-pans/1020-23 pano 1/pano 1 10-20-23.html

This is a 360-degree panorama of Watson Lake in Prescott Valley Az. I shot two panoramas from my DJI Mavic Pro Drone. The drone was about 100 feet high. This was the first panorama I took. The second one is actually better, since its shows a prettier side of the lake. I will post it next.

Until next time…

New Lightroom Classic AI Enhanced Noise Reduction

Adobe recently released several new enhancements to Lightroom Classic. One of my favorite and most useful features is is the AI Enhanced Noise Reduction tool. In this post I will show a couple of examples how effective this tool can be to remove noise in high ISO photos. Click on the link below to see what this awesome new tool can do.

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AppTip Sheet – LRC Enhanced Noise ReductionDownload

My Latest 360-Panorama

You are a couple of clicks away. 🙂

Access iPhone Lightroom Camera Photos with PSE 2023

More and more, I am using the mobile Lightroom Camera on my iPhone to take photos. This makes it quite easy to import them into Lightroom Classic. However, I want to access these images using Photoshop Elements 2023’s Organizer and Photo Editor. PSE 2023 added the new feature, Web Elements that makes this possible. This AppTip Sheet explains my current approach for doing this.

Click on the link below to view or download the tutorial.

Https://donstouder.com/digital-photo-corner/appsheettips/aptip sheet – lr camera to pse 2023.pdf

Let me know in the comments what you think of this approach. If you have another or better way to this, let me know that also.

If you would like to see more tipsw on using the new Web Elements added to PSE 2023, le t me know.

Until Next time…

2022 Road Trip to Colorado Recap

In late June Peggy and I took a road trip to see my granddaughter, Paige, play in a multi-day softball tournament in Boulder, CO. We decided to extend our trip on either side of the tournament to visit sites we saw along the way. Going to Boulder, we took a southern route to take as much of historic Route 66 as we could and west rim of the Grand Canyon. Coming home we took a more northern route.

Each day we recorded a pretty informal video describing where we were heading that day. Our trip lasted 15 days. These were all previously posted here and Facebook. Below are the links to each of these posts. It was a fabulous trip.

Day 1

2022 Colorado Road Trip – Day 1

Day 2

2022 CO Road Trip – Day 2

Day 3

2022 CO Road Trip Day 3

Day 4

2022 Colorado Road Trip – Day 4

Day 5 Though 9

2022 CO Road Trip Day 5 Through Day 9

Day 10

2022 CO Road Trip – Day 10

Day 11

2022 CO Road Trip – Day 11

Day 12

2022 CO Road Trip – Day 12

Day 13

2022 CO Road Trip – Day 13

Day 14 and 15

2022 CO Road Trip – Day 14 & 15

Well, there you have it. Now at least I can quickly relieve the trip whenever I want. 🙂

Until next time…

Adobe Releases Photoshop Elements 2023

Today, Adobe released the latest version of Photoshop Elements, PSE 2023, and Premiere Elements, PRE 2023, which is their consumer video editor. This is not surprising for they have released a new version at the end of September for many years now.

To be sure, these are generally incremental changes when a couple of significant new features are added along with several smaller improvements. PSE 2023 and PRE 2023 continue to be sold as perpetual license product and not by subscription.

I have been a beta tester for both programs for over 15 years and have been working with this version for the last several months. The link below is to Adobe’s announcement and description of the new release.

https://www.adobe.com/products/elements-family.html 

For the past several years, I have created and updated a matrix that compares the features of the currently released version of Photoshop Elements to its predecessors. This year I have reduced the comparison to comparing PSE 2023 versions starting with PSE 2020. It is shown in the PDF file linked below. It still is a large matrix requiring zooming to easily read the information.

https://donstouder.com/Digital-Photo-Corner/PSE%202023%20Feature%20.pdf

In previous years, my general recommendation for existing users of previous versions was to upgrade every other year. Since the upgrades are annual, the new features and performance improvements tend to be incremental. However, if you are using the cloud for your photos and also want Photoshop Elements on your smartphone, you should give PSE 2023 a close look, even if you are using PSE 2022. If you are using one of the older versions, you are ready for an upgrade. Many features have been added, even since PSE 2020 as illustrated in the matrix.

That is all for now but stay tuned. I will be describing several of the features in future posts.

Until then…