Adobe’s easier and admittedly less pricey take on Photoshop now includes some of the AI features the big version normally includes.
This year may well be the year of AI in everything, particularly AI in phones and even the AI PC, but software is where much of the artificial intelligence effort tends to be. Microsoft’s Copilot can provide text summaries and other ways to rewrite material, Google has Gemini for its AI software efforts, and there are plenty of other examples out there.
Adobe has been experimenting in AI additions to its creative collection software for long enough, with the results found across Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign, and others. Even the recent Adobe Creative Express AI additions are an intriguing effort, not just allowing you to make images from nothing and inject them in an image, but also have an online model create artsy images for your purposes.
The problem so far has been that Adobe’s AI efforts have largely been focused on the high-priced Creative Collection, something that charges a monthly fee and is typically for creatives with the money to spend.
Families and students might have missed out, but that appears to be changing.
Adobe has recently relaunched the Elements apps for Photoshop and Premiere, with the former including AI additions for folks who want them.
That includes AI-powered object and human removals, allowing you to brush away parts of an image, and have the app work out what to replace with. It’s the sort of feature Pixel owners have been offered in Google Photos for a couple of years now, not to mention other pieces of photo software, so may not be as big a draw card.
It’s not alone, either. Alongside is a depth of field controller with AI-adjusted blur to make any image look like a portrait, a colour-changing feature to tweak the colour of things inside of a photo, and an image combination feature to blend photos together.
There are other features along for the ride, while owners of an Apple M3 Mac, such as the M3 iMac, M3 MacBook Pro, and this year’s MacBook Air will see faster performance thanks to full support for the chip.
Photoshop Elements 2025 is one part of the release, with Premiere Elements 2025 covering the video editing side of things, though AI doesn’t play as serious a part.
While the full version of Premiere has grown to include AI transcription affecting the edits, Premiere Elements won’t be getting that. Rather, the year’s release will see text controls, improved colour controls, an easier to edit timeline, and free title templates, not to mention the Apple M3 support.
Features aren’t technically the the same between the Elements and full editions of either, but then neither is the price. While a proper version of Adobe’s Creative Collection typically runs at $88 per month for all apps — or $14 per month for Photoshop and Lightroom, and $33 per month for Premiere Pro, not to mention the $6.99 per month for Adobe Firefly AI — Elements by comparison is relatively inexpensive.
In Australia, the Elements versions of each will run for around $150 each, essentially acting as a one-off license over the space of three years, with both available now.
