Photoshop Elements 12 review: Mobile albums and content-aware tools dominate new release
Adobe’s annual update to Photoshop Elements, its consumer image organizer and editor, offers a satisfying array of new features. While changes in version 12’s Organizer focus on syncing and sharing photos for access on mobile devices, the Elements 12 Editor includes slick Instagram-inspired effects, textures, frames, new guided edits, and a content-aware move tool. Even more exciting is an intuitive image-correction method that remembers how you use it and a red-eye tool that works on animals—two features that even its flagship sibling Photoshop CC doesn’t have.
Elements 12 Organizer
One huge challenge in mobile photography is getting images off of your device. In version 12, the Elements Organizer lets you create mobile albums with Adobe Revel—a free online storage, syncing, and sharing utility, similar to Apple’s iCloud and Photo Stream. The free Revel iOS app also includes handy editing abilities. A Revel account gives you unlimited photo imports for one month, and 50 photos per month thereafter (a $6 monthly fee gives you unlimited imports). You can import photos into Revel and create mobile albums on your iOS device or in the desktop Elements 12 Organizer; you can them share automatically sync between them and share them via email.
The album is viewable in a Web browser (on a pleasing, but uncustomizable grid on a black background) in the invitee’s own Revel account or Elements 12 Organizer—a great way to share vacation photos. You can share single images via social media, with Twitter a welcome new addition.
Rounding out the upgrades to the Organizer is the ability to see Places and Event tags in the Tags/Info panel. You just drag and drop a tag onto an image to apply it; and in Places view, you can click a location on the map and choose Show Media to see just those photos.
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