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  • More than 2200 new features for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Windows

  • UI Improvements
    • Support for the new dark UI of Photoshop Elements 2024 and higher
    • ElementsXXL adds 10 panels, 150 icons, 30 key shortcuts, 100+ dialogs, 350+ menu items
    • Photoshop (Elements) skin for all ElementsXXL dialogs including slider styles and Bright, Gray and Dark mode
    • Two icon bars for quickly executing certain features
    • Key shortcuts editor for assigning your own keys to most features
    • Startup progress dialog is shown while Photoshop Elements is starting up and does not react to user input yet
    • Full Screen Mode feature for making the image window as large as possible
    • Double clicking the labels resets the values of sliders and blend mode combo boxes on the 35 dialogs and panels
    • You can use zoom key shortcuts (Ctrl + 0 / 1 / + / -) with many filter dialogs

 

  • Actions, Scripts, Filters & Adjustment Layers:
    • NEW: Portrait/Lanscape/Outdoor Portrait Adjust filters: Lets your chnage brightness, contrast, saturation and color of foreground, background and sky areas at the same time.
    • NEW: HDR-Combine automatically increases the dynamic range with the help of up to three layers. It offers eight sliders for improving the HDR look
    • NEW: Auto-Expose denoises layers, creates multiple exposure effects, combines light trails or night shots and applies other blending effect
    • NEW: Remove Detail dialog that replaces a selected area with real image data from other photos
    • NEW: Remove Moving Objects removes people and other moving objects from a series of photos
    • NEW: Super Resolution effectively resizes images by using multiple photos of the same scene.
    • NEW: Denoise Layers combines clean pixels from multiple shots
    • NEW: Fix Underexposure brightens images while removing noise and restoring details
    • Sky Replace dialog for replaceing the sky in an image with a better one. 500 sky images are included.
    • Style Settings panel: 5 new layer effects, 15 new blending options, 90 new layer style settings, Gradient editor plus load, edit and save .asl style files.
    • Layer Comps panel for creating layer compositions, editing them and quickly switching between them
    • ActionsXXL panel for action recording
    • Batch Processing dialog
    • FilterHub panel for filter execution
    • Open and run Photoshop actions and scripts
    • Up to 12 new filters: Range Adjust, Curves, Exposure, Vibrance, Color Balance, Channel Mixer, Black & White, Selective Color, Color Lookup, Sharpen, Sharpen More, Sharpen Edges
    • Up to 11 new adjustment layers: Range Adjust, Curves, Exposure, Vibrance, Color Balance, Hue Saturation Pro, Channel Mixer, Black & White, Selective Color, Color Lookup and Color Replace.
    • Edit adjustment layer directly from the Adjustments panel
    • Up to 400% faster rendering of 20 filters with the Preview Image feature
    • Hundreds of filter presets for various filters and adjustment layers
    • Auto Saturation feature that analyzes the image and reduces or increases the saturation accordingly
    • Auto color correction features
    • Auto Corrections panel for applying up to 20 automatic corrections
    • Hue/Saturation Pro filter for enhanced hue and saturation effect
    • Lighting Effects filter for adding virtual lights and volumetric light
    • Micro Contrast filter for bringing out the texture in smaller or larger details
    • Clarity filter as in Camera Raw, but with additional Shadow and Highlight control
    • Add Haze filter with Shadow and Highlight control
    • Auto Lens Correction feature
    • Curves filter with 17 adjustable curves, 6 sliders, Equalize & Colorize features and 150 presets
    • Enhanced Color Balance filter and adjustment layer with many new color controls and presets
    • Enhanced Channel Mixer filter and adjustment layer with new color controls and presets
    • Sharpen individual color channels or layer masks with the Unsharp Mask and Adjust Sharpness filters
    • Shadows/Highlights filter dialog with seven new options and a preset feature
    • HDR Toning filter for HDR-like effects and shadows/highlights control
    • Fill Flash filter for simulating the effect of softly lighting a daylight scene as well as adding backlight effect
    • Highpass Sharpen filter for sophisticated sharpening without the risk of oversharpening
    • Multi-Frequency Sharpen filter for sharpening small and big details at the same time
    • Noise Reduction filter for effective noise reduction
    • Reduce Noise filter for removing noise caused by sharpening
    • Skin Smoother filter for making skin areas look more smooth with various methods
    • Skin Enhance filter for adjusting the brightness, contrast and color of skin areas
    • Texture Enhance & Soften filters for increasing or decreasing the sharpness of textured areas.
    • Blur Gallery features for sophisticated and highly customizable blur effects (Photoshop Elements 14 and higher only)
    • Background Blur filter for softening the background of portrait photos (Photoshop Elements 2020 and higher recommended)
    • Warp, Perspective Warp and Perspective Crop feature
    • Chromatic Aberration Removal
    • Match Color filter
    • Anti-Alias filter and water color effect

 

  • Layer Features, Smart Objects & Smart Filtering:
    • NEW: Open multiple files as layers, add documents as layers and save each layer as a separate file again
    • NEW: 12 stack modes for combining multipe layers including 4 unique ones including a dialog for selecting options for some of them
    • NEW: Crop Transparency tool removes the transparent areas of stacked layers and panoramas, which avoids the necessity of multiple manual cropping steps
    • NEW: Create Layer menu item for turning a layer style into a image layer
    • Open images as smart objects, create smart objects and enable smart filtering
    • Support for up to 112 native smart filters and 300 third-party smart filters
    • Smart Filter panel for adding and editing smart filters
    • Linked smart objects that update automatically when the source file changes (Photoshop Elements 13 and higher)
    • Edit smart objects in Camera Raw
    • Convert a smart object into a layer or layer group while removing the smart object
    • Apply filters to the filter mask of a smart object
    • Use layer groups for additional masking and better organization
    • Create and edit vector masks
    • Adjust the density and feathering of vector masks, shapes, layer masks and filter masks with Properties panel known from Photoshop
    • Adjust the fill opacity of layers
    • Align layers to a selection or each other and distribute them evenly
    • Stamp functions for creating a duplicated copy of layers or groups
    • Merge Group command for merging layer groups
    • Hide/show multiple layers
    • Many new layer features: Rasterize, Matting, Lock, Combine Shapes etc.
    • Split a layer into low and high frequency layers with the hep of 8 diffetent filters for effective portrait retouching
    • Split a layer into special RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSL, Lab, and YCbCr layers for sophisticated editing possibilities
    • Blend Pro dialog with 36 new blend modes, opacity values beyond 100% and masking features
    • Up to 23 additional menu items on the Layer panel context menu for quick access
    • Edit Layers dialog for editing various properties of multiple layers at the same time
    • Rename Layers dialog with a search & replace feature for layer names
    • "Add Layer From File" menu item
  • Enhanced 16-bit Image Processing:
    • Process 16-bit images with the help of smart objects, smart filters, adjustment layers and other layers
    • 27 additional 16-bit filters
    • Convert images from 8-bit to 16-bit per channel and back again
    • Use up to 29 additional tools with 16-bit images
    • Use additional 11 rotation, transformation and scaling features with 16-bit images
    • Quick Mask Mode lets you create or edit selections with all available filters and tools, e.g. the brush or gradient tool.
    • Use a vector mask with 16-bit images (Photoshop Elements 13 and higher)
    • Channels panel known from Photoshop
    • New Curves, Channel Mixer and Sharpen filters
    • Fade command for changing the blend mode and opacity of the last history step
    • Apply Image and Calculation commands like in Photoshop
    • Auto Saturation feature that analyzes the image and reduces or increases the saturation accordingly
    • Paste a 16-bit image from the clipboard into a new 16-bit document

 

  • General Editing:
    • NEW: Features and Tasks panels & Tasks sub menu for running many features conveniently with one click
    • 15 new tools: Pen, Freeform Pen, Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, Convert Point, Path Selection, Direct Selection, Text on Path, Puppet Warp, Mixer Brush, Ruler, Slice & Slice Select, History Brush and Perspective Crop (Only 3 tools in Photoshop Elements 15 and higher)
    • Pen Pro feature with 7 new pen tools for creating and editing paths and shapes
    • Auto-Align and Auto-Blend features for recomposing portraits, creating panoramas and increasing the depth of macro shots
    • Channels panel known from Photoshop
    • Paths panel for creating and editing paths
    • Brush panel with 80 new brush features
    • Resizable HistogramsXXL panel with 16 histogram in 7 different styles
    • Resizable Scopes panel with 23 3D-histograms in 2 styles
    • 35 icons for applying adjustment layers added to the Adjustements panel
    • Image Size dialog like in Photoshop with "Automatic" and "Preserve Details" options
    • Fit image dialog for resizing an image with a maximum size in mind
    • Content-Aware option (including Color Adaptation option) for 9 different tools and dialogs
    • Content-Aware Fill dialog for improved content-aware results
    • Fade and Trim commands like in Photoshop
    • Fade Pro dialog with 36 new blend modes, opacity values beyond 100% and masking features
    • Apply Image and Calculation commands like in Photoshop
    • Replace Background assistent for creating great compositions in eight steps and masking fine hair
    • Soft proof option for seeing how your image looks on a certain device or printer
    • Convert to or assign a new color profile
    • Flow slider for the brush, clone stamp, pattern stamp and eraser tools.
    • Crop tool presets
    • Hide cropped pixels and reveal them again later
    • Fill Layer/Selection dialog with a Color Adaptation feature for the Content-Aware option (Photoshop Elements 13 and higher) and new History and Layer options.
    • Conveniently copy and paste one or more layers (even between documents) with the Copy and Paste menu items or their key shortcuts.
    • Copy/Paste Special sub menus with 9 new commands including a Paste As Smart Object command
    • Copy to Document features for copying (and automatically resizing) layers, a selection, a selected area and alpha channels from one document to another
    • Find Layers feature for selecting layers according to their name, kind, layer effect, mode and attributes
    • Preferences options: e.g. Non-Linear History, Log History to Metadata, Auto-Update All Documents, Export Clipboard, Ignore Rotation Metadata, Resize Image during Place, Always Create Smart Objects when Placing and Skip Transform when Placing
    • Nearest Neighbor and Bicubic Smoother/Sharper interpolation for various commands
    • Option to always open JPEG and TIFF files in Camera Raw
    • Custom pixel aspect ratio
    • "Fit Layer(s) on Screen" and "Actual Size" zoom options
  • Selections & Guides:
    • Select > Foregound / Foreground+ / Sky / Sky+ / Blue Sky menu items for selecting the foreground or sky in an image
    • Color Range feature for creating selections based on colors and tones
    • Focus Area feature for creating selections or layer masks based on sharpness
    • Quick Mask Mode for editing selections with filters and tools, e.g. the brush tool
    • Create selections from layer luminosity, layer masks, layer opacity, image luminosity, saturation and image channels
    • Nine shadows, midtones and highlights selection features for creative photo enhancements
    • Create selections from skin areas
    • Remove shadows, midtone, highlight and skin areas from an existing selection
    • Convert a selection into various shapes or add a soft edge to it.
    • Turn a selection into a row or column selection.
    • New Guide Layout dialog for creating guides according to certain row, column and margin values
    • New Guides from Shape command for creating guides around selections, layer masks, shapes, type layers or transparent layers.
  • Text Features:
    • Font Preview Size options
    • 6 new text anti-aliasing types
    • Spell check text layers and use Find & Replace on them
    • Convert text layers to shapes for more creative freedom
    • Adjust text tracking and use paragraph
  • File Saving & Export
    • Save in Background feature which lets you continue working while a document is saved (Photoshop Elements 13 and higher)
    • Save Recovery Information feature for automatically saving all documents in certain time intervals and reopening them after Photoshop Elements crashed
    • Quick Export feature as in Photoshop
    • Export PDF files with 18 additional options which includes saving CMYK PDF file for prepress tasks
    • Save Color Lookup files in 3DL, CUBE and CSP format for the Color Lookup filter and adjustment layer
    • Slice an image, add links and save it as a web page
    • Save a Copy menu item
    • Close Others menu item


 

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