Adobe announced updates to Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, its lightweight photo and video editing software bundle, aimed at the TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels crowd, with a focus on improving audio track selection and adding artistic effects to videos.
Photoshop Elements 2023 and Premiere Elements 2023 also add AI-powered features to the mix of editing options, such as auto reframing and “smart” trimming, as well as new web and mobile companion apps and full support for Apple’s M1-based devices. Over 100 new audio tracks and slideshow templates in “a range of modern looks and themes,” according to Adobe, are included in Premiere Elements 2023, as are effects inspired by famous works of art. Users can use AI to automatically combine scenes based on the style of their videos, or they can use tools to reduce noise in low-light videos and resize them for social channels while keeping the important parts of the footage in the frame.