Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 review

With Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 you can fix your photos and create eye-catching social media content with help from Guided Edits

Photoshop Elements 2023
(Image: © George Cairns)

Digital Camera World Verdict

Photoshop Elements 2023 provides all the organizing and fixing tools that the average photographer requires, plus it gives you in-app guidance on how to develop new creative image-adjusting skills. It may not be an essential upgrade if you already own Elements 2022 though the new Moving Elements command does create eye-catching social media content that should generate some extra likes on your Twitter or Instagram feeds.

Pros

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    New guided edits

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    Add motion to stills

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    Extra collage templates

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    Automated selection tools

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    No monthly subscription

Cons

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    Dated looking interface

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    Limited RAW editing tools

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The full version of Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop CC - is like a capital city, in that it would take a lifetime to explore every street. Photoshop Elements 2023 is more like a village. It takes much less time to explore and it even has a guide to its key areas.

Unlike the monthly subscription required for the full Photoshop CC, Photoshop Elements 2023 is available for a one-off purchase and you can upgrade the app to future versions for a discount price. Photoshop Elements 2023 is designed to help photographers create eye-catching images with minimum time and effort. 

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George Cairns

George has been freelancing as a photo fixing and creative tutorial writer since 2002, working for award winning titles such as Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, N-Photo and Practical Photoshop. He's expert in communicating the ins and outs of Photoshop and Lightroom, as well as producing video production tutorials on Final Cut Pro and iMovie for magazines such as iCreate and Mac Format. He also produces regular and exclusive Photoshop CC tutorials for his YouTube channel.