Customer Ratings & Reviews

Will have to use the item more first which would take a while

Love this item. Very easy to use when changing sizes to print.

I love it. Would recommend to all my photography friends. I am learning something new every day.

Great product, have used for years. Even better at sale price, thank you! Fast shipping, too.

This product has an abundance of ways to enhance your photos. A bit difficult to use at first

Felt it could have had more items to edit better photos

A photographer suggested it and it's a good upgrade

Good way to edit and make presentations out of photos.

If you don’t have some knowledge of Elements, there’s a part of the program the has basic editing techniques to use. However, to get the full use of the software, you have to go to the expert mode. Prepare to be frustrated! I would not recommend for a novice

Really changes the quality of pictures makes me feel like a pro!

I have not had opportunity to use this program yet

works wonderful for all my photography needs. Have use Adobe Photoshop for many years

Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 has a variety of options that will appeal to both the novice and intermediate photographer, and it presents them using an easy to navigate interface. Installing the software was quick and easy. The box comes with two different discs, one for Mac and one for Windows. The back of the Windows disc has a serial code that you will need during installation. The package also came with a card with a URL for you to download the software if you don’t have access to a traditional CD/DVD drive. I was a little surprised when I was prompted to enter my Adobe ID. I already had one from my other Adobe products, but you may need to create one at this point if you don’t have one already. The software interface was initially a huge disappointment for me. I work with Photoshop at work, and the interface that greeted me when I first booted up Photoshop Elements looked very stripped down. That’s when I noticed the gray header bar above the canvas area. Photoshop Elements starts you off in “Quick” mode, but it also gives you the options to work in “Guided” or “Expert” mode (there is also an option for “eLive,” but this just seems to be an online site for inspiration and support). The Expert mode gives you more tools to choose from and feels a lot more like the Photoshop that I use at work. It doesn’t give you all of the same functionality, but it offers the core tools that I tend to use on a day to day basis. I give major props to Photoshop Elements for including the Quick Selection tool in both Quick and Expert mode. This tool does an awesome job at making selections within an image. You draw on the object you want to select, and the software automatically attempts to expand the selection based on the color and texture of the part of the image you’re drawing on. Should it get overzealous and select something you don’t want, you can go into the tool options and have it subtract from the selection or refine the edge to really fine tune your selection. I was also pleased to see that Photoshop Elements included support for layers. It supports both transparent layers and adjustment layers. These can be used for a variety of different effects. There are numerous Youtube tutorials on how to use layers to create a variety of different artistic effects. Photoshop Elements also provides support for using Photoshop brushes. These brushes use the .abr file format. Users can load a new brush by selecting the brush tool, opening tool options, clicking the squiggly brush stroke preview, and then clicking the menu in the upper right-hand corner to browse for the .abr file with their brushes. My only criticism is that Photoshop Elements does not appear to provide support for CMYK or PMS color models for professional printing. This makes sense as it’s not geared toward commercial print and Adobe has other products that better fill this niche. This does seem to offer all of the tools that your average to intermediate home user would ever need.

This was purchased to update a previous version. The price was cheaper than the update

I had the old version that would not transfer from old compute to new computer.

The output from processing RAW files using PSE 15 is the worst when compared to many free editors. Compared PSE 15 with PhotoDirector 8 and FastStone (free). Check this video for the quality of the output - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9xd4ikLDjY

I'm till trying to figure out how to use the software, but looks promising.

I have always been intimidated by this software's big brother, Photoshop CC, the mainstay of professional photographers, and way above my pay grade. This program, while powerful, is much more approachable to me, an amateur photographer with thousands, and I mean thousands, of (formerly) unorganized family photographs going back approximately 13 years. I have been spending the last several weeks using this program to simply organize my photographs. It has face recognition ability, which, although not 100 per cent accurate, is a huge help in being able to identify every existing photo of a particular family member. Unless you can find a photograph you need, the photo is useless to you. This program will help you find it quickly. This program also contains editing and enhancement tools that are extremely useful, with only a slight learning curve to grasp the fundamentals. I suspect that some will find them so useful and become so adept using them, they'll graduate to to "the big brother" Photoshop. Not me. This program is more than enough for my needs. It may test your resources, though. I am running Windows 10 on an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6-Core Processor and writing to an SSD for my organizational and editing work. I found my rig occasionally slowing a bit to handle tasks with Elements. The results were more than enough to justify the slight delay!

Like the older version of Adobe, it seemed to be easier to get around in than this newer version. Will take me longer to adapt to it but then since I am 77 years maybe that the reason. Sure it will get better the more I can work with it.

I have been wanting a program for awhile and this was one has met my needs.