


First, you can crop the scan to the desired area. It brings together a host of tools aimed at resuscitating ancient images you have scanned.

The final new addition, Restore Old Photo, is aimed at enhancement rather than special effects. This isn’t an effect you will use very often, but it is quite eye-catching so there will be a few times when you want to give it a whirl. You can rotate and select as many pieces as you like. You can then select one and move it as if it hasn’t been put into position yet. The Puzzle Effect lets you split your image into a puzzle made of small, medium or large pieces.

The wizard leads you through cropping the image to place your subject at the centre, then applies the blur to create the zoom burst. The Zoom Burst is basically a radial blur. The new additions consist of tutorials for Zoom Burst, Puzzle Effect, and Restore Old Photo. There are now more than 25 Guided Edits in Photoshop Elements, more than Premiere Elements, making a rather useful collection to ease newcomers into advanced photo editing effects. They are essentially wizards that lead you through tasks without you having to find the necessary tools in the icon bars on the left. The Guided Edits were new to Premiere Elements 12, but already existed in Photoshop Elements. Similarly, you can add textures to the image, and put them in frames, although the latter can be a little cheesy, as is often the case with this kind of effect.Īdobe has extended the Guided Edits, intended to help new users get to grips with using the software and some of the advanced methods available. In Quick mode, Adobe has provided effects as preview thumbnails you can simply click on to add to your image. So Photoshop Elements has some handy tools for the serious image editor, but there are also some useful additions for the everyday consumer.
