You can do a lot more than in Photoshop Express, such as building up images with various layers, resizing backgrounds without affecting the people in a photo, replacing backgrounds entirely or erasing unwanted objects. In fact, for home users there’s more power on offer here than you probably need, and you certainly won’t feel constrained in terms of the tools on offer (unless you regularly use full Photoshop’s Curves tool: that’s one tool not present in Elements.)

It isn’t free but Elements is hands-down the best option for those who want ‘proper’ Photoshop without the subscription costs of Creative Cloud.Įlements is a more user-friendly version of Photoshop CC but still has many of the popular features and tools.

There’s no image resizing (but you can specify the output resolution to nearest 200 pixels of width) nor any support for layers.Īs it’s free, and you need only sign up for an Adobe account to use it, you may as well give it a whirl and see if it’ll do what you need it to. What you cannot do is edit specific portions of images, except when using the red-eye reduction and spot healing tools. You can see all Photoshop Express features here. That means you can add filters, crop, transform, adjust perspective, adjust (brightness, contrast, saturation, and more), add masks and more.

It’s much more like other quick photo-editing apps such as Snapseed and the one built into Google Photos. That means you can also use it on your PC or laptopįor a free app, it’s pretty good, though it bears no resemblance to the full version of Photoshop at all. If you need only basic photo-editing tools, Adobe offers a free app called Photoshop Express (formerly Spark) which is available from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store.

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