Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025

[Jeff1574 74]

I just upgraded from Elements 2020 to 2025, and I am very impressed with all the added features. Has anyone else tried this ??

 

[cgw143 169]

I just upgraded from Elements 2020 to 2025, and I am very impressed with all the added features. Has anyone else tried this ??

Sub-only now. Dumb move in the face of growing competition.

 

[smoke665]

I just upgraded Bridge/LR/PS to 2026. All I can say is there are so many new features (especially AI Tools) that it's going to take awhile for me to digest.

 

[AlanKlein108 25]

summary of features for 2025 Elements:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/whats-new-2025.html

 

[KJ_North]

I have 2025 and use it for a couple features as I switched primarily over to LRC

 

[TJMcG139 23]

Sub-only now. Dumb move in the face of growing competition.

Limited-term license, not a subscription.

 

[cgw143 169]

Limited-term license, not a subscription.

Fact remains: not yours.

 

[Don Fischer]

I tried photoshop years ago and back then there was simply to much to absorb. The stuff I've been able to figure out was pacasa3, a free deal that didn't throw the whole world at you at one time. I felt photoshop was designed not to fix photo's but to make photos. Much to complicated for me.

 

[Don Fischer]

Wrote the above and got me to thinking. It seem's to me that photography is getting away from actually taking photo's. What it's all about any more is advanced photo editing. Seems like everyone Well almost everyone is lost with out their editing software. A simple touch up is one thing but remaking the photo to something you wish it was is a lot different. My favorite photo's are one's I have to edit very little; might be because I have to much trouble with the programs. I'm not talking about signing you name to the photo, I'm talking about redoing the photo to something other than what you wish you'd saw. Take a photo to the right guy and he can turn it into about anything you'd like and he doesn't need a camera to do it. Photo editing has gotten way out of hand.

 

[Jeff1574 74]

For me, editing is almost as much fun as taking the pictures ...

 

[TJMcG139 23]

Wrote the above and got me to thinking. It seem's to me that photography is getting away from actually taking photo's. What it's all about any more is advanced photo editing. Seems like everyone Well almost everyone is lost with out their editing software. A simple touch up is one thing but remaking the photo to something you wish it was is a lot different. My favorite photo's are one's I have to edit very little; might be because I have to much trouble with the programs. I'm not talking about signing you name to the photo, I'm talking about redoing the photo to something other than what you wish you'd saw. Take a photo to the right guy and he can turn it into about anything you'd like and he doesn't need a camera to do it. Photo editing has gotten way out of hand.

There’s definitely something satisfying about getting a photo that needs very little work. But editing has always been part of photography, even back in the darkroom days. Dodging, burning, contrast control — all of that was “editing,” just done with chemicals and light instead of Photoshop. Composites were made, things were added and removed from photos.
Modern tools just let us do the same things better and faster. For some photographers, editing is simply part of how they interpret a scene or express a creative idea. I almost always do some color grading. For others, it’s more about keeping things natural, and that's fine— both approaches are valid — it really depends on what the photographer wants to convey.
Learning a bit more about editing can actually make it easier to get closer to what you saw — not farther from it.

 

[TJMcG139 23]

For me, editing is almost as much fun as taking the pictures ...

Sometimes it's more fun than taking the pictures...

 

[smoke665]

@TJMcG I've always viewed editing as a way to "improve" an image not "salvage" it. Granted there are those times when for whatever reason it's a salvage job, but if you find yourself in salvage mode on more images than not, you need to improve your camera skills.

 

[TJMcG139 23]

@TJMcG I've always viewed editing as a way to "improve" an image not "salvage" it. Granted there are those times when for whatever reason it's a salvage job, but if you find yourself in salvage mode on more images than not, you need to improve your camera skills.

No argument from me on that. The term "salvage" may mean different things to different people, but for the most part, I think if it's that bad, just toss it. I do this for fun, and I'm not going to agonize over losing a shot here and there.

I like the car shows, and if you have ever been to one, you know how they jam all the cars together, the owners have their coolers and lawn chairs set up, there are vendors' tents all over, and of course, the crowds of people, and it's impossible to isolate a particular car. So, removing the background is an option available to us now, and it's easier than it's ever been. You still have to have a technically good photo to start with, and there is no reason why you can't use another of your own images as the background. That's just a composite, something that photographers have done forever.

 

[Jeff1574 74]

We all often get unwanted items or bad skies; editing helps make things look better.