Introducing Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 & Premiere Elements 2020

It’s never been easier to make your photos and videos look amazing and turn them into treasured keepsakes.

The Elements team is excited to announce the release of Photoshop Elements 2020 & Premiere Elements 2020.

This year we’ve focused on:

• Expanded automation powered by Adobe Sensei AI technology that makes it a snap to get started for new users while offering flexible creative options for Elements veterans.
• Five brand-new guided edits that help you discover easy ways to make incredible creations and effects that you can customize to look exactly the way you want.
• Enhanced capabilities for memory keepers of all skill levels to create and share memes, collages, and animated GIFs Create fun and creative photo projects with the ability to order photo prints, gifts, and gear with the new FUJIFILM Prints & Gifts service (U.S only) right inside Photoshop Elements.

Let’s dive into what’s new and enhanced for Photoshop Elements 2020 and Premiere Elements 2020.

New Auto Creations delivered directly to your Home Screen

Last year, we introduced the Elements Home Screen that welcomes you every time you open the apps.

The Home Screen offers a personalized experience by surfacing what’s new since your last version of Elements and content suited to your level of expertise. The Home Screen also features Adobe Sensei powered photo & video Auto Creations. In version 2019, we introduced slideshows and collages that are automatically presented in the Home Screen.

For the 2020 release, we’re introducing new photo effects Auto Creations, including, Black & White Selection, Pattern Brush, Painterly and Depth of Field.

Black & White Selection

Pattern Brush

Painterly

Depth of Field

Continued Automation Powered by Adobe Sensei

Photoshop Elements continues to simplify editing and creating with four new features that leverage artificial intelligence to get you started.

Automatically colorize your photos — Automatically colorize a B&W photo or give new life to an existing color photo.

New one-click subject selection automatically selects the subject of your photo with a single click and gives you the option to then easily apply an effect or cut out your subject and add it to another photo.

Smooth skin automatically — Photoshop Elements 2020 enables you to make the people in your photos look their best with Sensei powered skin smoothing functionality. Once applied, just use the slider to adjust the amount of smoothing to your preference.

New Guided Edits

Photoshop Elements 2020 is introducing two new Guided Edits, bringing the total to 55 step-by-step photo editing guides to help you quickly learn and grow your skills

Make unwanted photo objects vanish – This Guided Edit walks you through the steps that help you put the focus on your subject by easily removing distractions from your photos – from powerlines to pedestrians or selfie crashers.

Our second new Guild Edit enables you to add creative sparkle with photo patterns. Learn how to give a little something extra by adding a fun pattern. Brush on hearts, stars, and more to create a photo that looks amazing on printed cards, wall art, or social media.

Create Stunning Prints, Gifts, and Creations

U.S. customers can now quickly create and order over 140 creations including prints, wall art, mugs, phone accessories, and more with the new FUJIFILM Prints & Gifts service right inside Photoshop Elements.

Improve Grainy Videos

If you’ve ever shot video in low light, you know the pain of grainy footage. Make your videos more crisp with a simple drag and drop of the Reduce Noise effect.

New Guided Edits

Premiere Elements 2020 is introducing three new Guided Edits, bringing the total to 23 step-by-step video editing guides that help you get started.

Create dynamic time-lapse videos —This Guided Edit helps you turn a series of photos or videos into a time-lapse that speeds up the action.

Our second Guided Edit enables you to animate skies in your photos by replacing static skies with moving ones that create an eye-catching effect.

Finally, learn how to fill the frame to match your video. This Guided Edit teaches you how to transform a vertical clip or photo into a horizontal video (or vice versa) in a seamless way that eliminates black bars on the sides or top and bottom of your videos.

Find videos faster with Smart Tags

Premiere Elements 2020 features two new Adobe Sensei powered organization features that help you work with and find your video files faster.

Just like your photos, your videos are now auto-tagged with Smart Tags based on subjects like sunsets, birthdays, dogs, cats, and more. In addition, faces in your videos are automatically identified during import and stacked by person so that it’s easy to tag and find them later.

Enjoy faster performance and expanded HEIF and HEVC support

Last year, the team worked hard to improve performance with Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, and this year you’ll experience even speedier performance for everyday tasks. With the 2020 release, you can also import, and edit HEIF photo files and HEVC video files on Windows as well as macOS.

For a complete list of what’s new and improved, please visit the Photoshop Elements 2020 and Premiere Elements 2020 What’s New pages. Be sure to also follow us on Facebook.

We hope you’re as excited about this release as we are. Enjoy!