For instance, chromatic aberration correction, which fixes unwanted fringing, is a Photoshop exclusive.Įlements doesn’t support vector formats, either – so the Pen tool, which creates advanced paths and shapes, is not an Elements feature. While Photoshop Elements packs a considerable amount of power, some tools are still reserved for Photoshop. Draw and Enhance tools, Graphics, Layers and Styles, Histograms, additional Filters, History, and more are all available in the Expert workspace. Photoshop Elements interface in Expert view.Įxpert mode has an expanded range of tools compared to Quick mode, enabling you to apply complex editing effects.
Quick mode enables users to access the Healing brush, fix exposure, sharpness, color, and lighting, and even provides the option to apply effects, filters, enhancements, textures, and frames. This layout lets you quickly perform common editing tasks and includes basic photo editing tools neatly distributed across the workspace. In Photoshop Elements, Quick view is a simplified interface with basic adjustments. Photoshop Elements divides the editing process into three workspaces: Quick, Guided, and Expert: Quick Photoshop offers six pre-made workspaces for different creative requirements: 3D, Essentials, Graphic and Web, Motion, Painting, and Photography. Elements is a photo processor, better suited to quick and easy refinements that don’t require intensive editing. This simplified application can help ease a budding creative into the world of digital editing without plunging them headfirst into a sea of pixels.īottom line: Photoshop is designed for in-depth, manual editing operations. Enter Photoshop Elements, which is designed to enable simple, streamlined editing processes while maintaining an accessible interface. Photoshop is the industry standard, but this can make it harder to approach for first-time users. Ease of useĪlthough Elements and Photoshop offer many overlapping features, Elements is geared toward an audience looking for a newcomer-friendly editing application. but I can take advantage of other advanced management options of Bridge for metadata especially.Note that Adobe offers a 30-day trial of both Elements and Photoshop if you’d prefer to try before you buy. Of course that ACR needs the subscription. That gives me the choice to "Open in ACR" from Bridge. Since I have also a CC subscription, I have set Bridge as my secondary editor. By the way, the option to rename at import is the most powerful of those available in the organizer (rename, export) or the editor (process multiple files).įor users of database management systems like organizer or Lightroom, renaming at import is only a personal choice, so you don't really need it, but if you prefer, no need to resort to Bridge, which incidentally is free for the desktop Creative Cloud users without any subscription.
A number of options in Bridge are available in the organizer for renaming in a more limited way.
That option is NEVER checked by default, someone has to change it to define the new template. That is not an option when importing from files and folders. How can I change the file name format in the Laptop so it appears like the format in the PCīy you import by getting files from camera or card reader, you have the option to rename files at import time. When I import images into PSE on the PC the file name is in the following format: 03 03 24_5759.CR3, when I import images onto the laptop the file names are in this format: 1R9A5778.CR3.
I'm running PSE 2022 on a PC and and Laptop.