When I tried Adobe Photoshop's AI Assistant earlier this year, I couldn’t help but think about how helpful the tool could be for someone learning to edit photos for the first time. Now, Adobe's photo editor built for beginners is gaining that built-in AI assistant.
Announced this week, the new Adobe Photoshop Elements 2027 and Premiere Elements 2027 launch with a list of new AI-powered photo editing tools. The updates bring a handful of key upgrades made to Adobe’s pro photo and video editors down to the software’s little siblings.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2027
Photoshop Elements now has a built-in AI chatbot that Adobe says is designed to help users learn how to make adjustments to photos. While built-in help has long been a part of the Elements family, the chatbot allows users to ask something in plain text and get recommendations on adjustments from the AI as well as step-by-step instructions.
The AI Assistant echoes a similar feature brought to Photoshop earlier this year and, like that original launch, is arriving first in a public beta.
Outside of the AI assistant, Photoshop Elements is also borrowing two key AI-based tools from its big sibling Photoshop: Generative Expand and Generative Upscale.
Generative Expand is a tool for “un-cropping” a photo and adding in more to the edges using generative AI. The tool is particularly useful when trying to crop to a different aspect ratio for prints
Generative Upscale, like the tool by the same name inside Photoshop, uses AI in order to increase the resolution of a photo, helpful for low-quality files and older photos.
Those AI tools will also be located in a new AI tool hub built to make those tools easier to find.
Along with the AI tools, Adobe also added new creative filters to Photoshop Elements, including oil painting and duotone, with sliders to control the intensity of the look.
Adobe Premiere Elements 2027
Like the photo editor, Adobe’s beginner video editor updates are heavy on AI. A new generate image feature allows users to put an AI-created photo into the video using a text description.
Using AI, users can also now create titles and text that are integrated into their surroundings.
Premiere Elements isn’t getting the same AI assistant as the photo editor, but a new Contextual Toolbar allows users to locate the right tool by typing in what they want to do.
Elements Organizer
One of my favorite AI-powered photo tools is the ability to search for a specific photo. That capability is coming to the Elements Organizer. It’s only in English and only in beta, but it's built to help users find a specific photo or video even when that media doesn’t have the right tags attached.
The organizer also has improvements to the ability to find and delete duplicates to free up hard drive space, while a new Share to Phone can transfer photos using a scannable QR code.
Bringing the AI tools designed to make edits easier, like image search and an AI assistant, makes sense for the Elements family, as it's Adobe’s tools that are built for beginners and non-pros.
Adobe offers Elements with a three-year license at $149.99 / £130.49 / AU$241.99 / CA$196.99 for both programs or $99.99 / £86.99 / AU$160 / CA$130.99 for an individual program. Adobe offers a 7-day free trial for new users.
It's worth noting that Adobe's smartphone Photoshop app is also more tailored towards beginners – and is free to use, with more advanced tools requiring a purchase.
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