You can do what Adobe calls "Map Your Memories" by arranging your photos and videos according to location. Let's say your family goes on a new trip each year or summers at the sea shore. The new Organizer gives you the options to arrange your data in many ways. For example, if your device has GPS capabilities, It can locate an image on a map. The more metadata that is generated from your image capturing device: camera, phone, tablet, the easier this can be. Let's continue with some more new features in the Organizer. The screen capture on the right shows people I have excerpted from the Media Category and are now in the People category.
The one on the left shows a screen capture of some of the photos in my Celebration of Nation's Album. In this demonstration when I checked Smart Events, it took my "Unedited Images" Album and stacked all those images that were similar together.īelow are two screen captures. You can categorize your media files four main ways: Media, People, Places, Events, and a subcategory of events, Smart Events. One of the new features in Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11 is the way the Organizer can organize your media.
These items were dragged to the various albums. When I clicked on Import, I chose to import folders and, then, items from the folders. I created two albums initially by dragging the contents of the folders into the albums. On the main screen of the Organizer, you will see that a lot of the constant tasks such as undo are now at the bottom.Īs always, there are many ways to create an album. The menus are easier to read since they are now white. Once again it is different than it was in previous versions. When you first open the program, by just clicking on the button on the upper right, you can customize how the program opens - whether you want the Organizer to initially open or the Editing section.įirst we will explore the Organizer. The Organizer in Elements 11 has a new cleaner look as does the editing module of Photoshop Elements 11. Both Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements share an Organizer that gives users many customized ways to store their video, photos, images, etc. It takes many of the elements of Photoshop and presents them so that newcomers to image editing and experienced people can utilize the same program.
The editing section is based on the professional Adobe Photoshop. What is Adobe Photoshop Elements? Photoshop Elements is a very inexpensive, but extremely complete image editing and cataloging program. The fixed, default behaviour is thoughtfully designed but it's not suitable for every occasion.It is that time of year again and Adobe is releasing Photoshop Elements 11. Our biggest disappointment is that there are still no proper ripple editing options. While various other editors automatically apply a dissolve transition when two clips are overlapped, doing this here chops the overlapped clip in half, which has no practical use that we can think of. Holding down Alt and moving the mouse scroll wheel performs this task but it's hopelessly unwieldy, and the on-screen zoom control is a little fiddly too. Timeline navigation is now extremely responsive, but we'd like a better system for zooming in and out. Some of the effects can be fiddly to use, with parameters arranged as a long list of sliders and useful values bunched in the middle of the range. The Project Assets window can be pinned so it stays open, but it needlessly obscures the preview window when the Adjustments panel is open too. Effect settings appear in a panel to the right of the preview, and an extended set of colour-correction filters are permanently plumbed in and ready to use. Cryptic icons and tabbed panels are out in favour of direct access to key functions such as effects and transitions. The interface has had a thorough redesign and looks much cleaner and more inviting than before. There's no more frame-rate mishandling or sluggish controls, and preview performance is superb, with smooth playback of 10 AVCHD streams in our tests. Version 11 addresses these concerns head on. As Adobe catered the editor increasingly towards casual users, it seemed to be losing sight of what this editor does best. However, Premiere Elements has been held back by a clunky, unresponsive interface and poor attention to detail, including dropped and repeated frames in previews and exports. Sophisticated multi-layered animations are what this editor does best