Customer Ratings & Reviews

My Photoshop was so old the it wouldn't run anymore. Updating Photoshop seemed too expensive, so I stopped redoing pictures. The price from Best Buy was right for Photoshop Elements and it does enough of what I want to do, so I bought it. It was a good idea and I'm happy again.

Photoshop is to image editing as Coke is to soda. It’s common to hear people say “was that photoshop’d”? That’s because Adobe created the field of image editing at home, and in the workplace. There are many competitors, and they all try to be better than Adobe. For the price, you really cannot get any better. Back in the day there was a saying in business that went “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”. The same is true with Adobe Photoshop, you cannot go wrong with it. Sure, you can find cheaper (even Free), photo and video editors - but you get what you pay for. A decade ago Adobe Photoshop was a very expensive software package, most average people couldn’t justify spending that amount for home-use. A lot has happened since then, these days we have cameras on our cell phones that produce images with better resolution and vividness than DSLR’s from a decade ago. Adobe changed with the times, and they offer now an affordable way to use their excellent software without breaking the bank. Professionals still purchase the high-end versions of Adobe software, but for most regular folk (like me), the home edition is more than sufficient. I’ve been using the Elements package (Photoshop and Premier), for several years and really appreciate its ease of use and power. It gets better and better in every edition, and the 2019 carries forward that tradition. I love the convenience of downloading software online, it saves me time and gas and frustration rather than having to drive to a brick and mortar store to buy it. If you’ve never used Photoshop Elements and Premier - you’re in for a treat! But you have to go through an initial period of time to learn how it works. Plan on spending time figuring it out, there are tons of ways to learn the applications. Adobe provides user guides, videos and other types of tutorials. You’ll also find tons of videos online to help you get up and running quickly. Don’t get frustrated if you struggle, the software is powerful and takes some time learning it. You will be using Photoshop to edit photos, and Premier to edit and create videos. For 2019 Adobe has made their applications a bit more intuitive, so that if you use Windows (or Mac), applications now - you’ll feel more confident as you learn. They’ve added what they call ‘discoverability enhancements’, designed to help you make full use of the many features it has to offer. They optimized the software for improved performance, although I never had trouble with older versions it’s nice to know that Adobe did this to enhance the user experience. If you are like me and you’ve used PhotoShop and Elements before you may notice that the main screens have changed. I like the new design, although there wasn’t anything wrong with the prior edition in my opinion. There are new features in the 2019 to automatically create collages, and many other projects. This new automated features allows users to build all sorts of images and videos with a button-click. Adobe engineers developed this feature to quickly process and create professional looking images and videos. Very handy, and doesn’t take much effort to learn and use. The guided edit functionality will be a hit with a lot of users, the application steps the user through the series of edits. The end results are impressive! You’ll be amazed! The new quick edit mode takes this a step further by reducing the number of steps to edit files. I personally like having full control over editing my photos and videos. However lots of people don’t want to manually go through and edit everything. It’s personal choice, and since I’m familiar with the software over years of usage I like having the ability to use the software in an advanced mode. The list of improvements and features is well-beyond the purpose of this product review. If you want to know all the bells and whistles (there are tons), you should visit the Adobe website. But if you just want to know whether it’s worth it to buy this package? Well then, I’d say ‘no’ - it’s worth double, or triple! Honestly it’s a bargain, I can’t imagine the amount of development man hours have gone into creating this software. For the price of a nice dinner you can have a refined software program that will change the way you will edit and create videos and photos forever., Once you start using it, you’ll be hooked like me. Super Highly Recommended!

Good for amateur editing. But it is way too slow to work with. I have 8GB RAM, I7 Intel with 500GB SSD. Still, it is underperforming and takes so much time for every click.

Photoshop Elements is excellent with a lot of good options to make pictures better. Premier Elements is good for enhancing video and editing but is much more difficult to work its magic than with the pictures.

Allowed acceptance of prior data but needed assistance from Help. New features are not explained well. Need more tutorials. Printed Help Book should be supplied with disc (purchased in store).

Not as detailed as full blown photoshop but more than sufficient editing for most all photographers. The different levels allow you to do your editing instep by step guided or on your own!

If you're used to Adobe suite. This product let's you take care of the basic editing. If you want pro features you need to subscribe to a monthly/annual payment plan.

Only complaint is that the setup wasn’t completely clear and it took me a bit to figure out what codes needed entered in what locations. Product is great though

The product is great,my boyfriend loved it. It improves his videos and pictures editing. I will recommend it for any photographer looking for a decent editing software.

Great tool but one of the screens always freezes after completing the task. I was on for 30 minutes with support and hung up. Will have to try again

If you are not familiar with Photoshop, this program takes awhile to get used to and to discover all its capabilities. Powerful, though!

We purchased this software in store on Black Friday for the same price of just the Photoshop Elements 2019 price, so for the price of one we received both software packages.

I got it because it was on sale. It is a great program but it is very in depth program that will take a lot of time to learn for me, but I would buy it again.

This software is a bit complicated to use. It will do everything it seems but I'd prefer something more user friendly.

I bought this to create a video for my business. My husband was able to put together a quality video in no time. I absolutely love the effects.

Replaced my Corel with this software So far I am very happy with this. Am looking forward to learning more and using this software.

seems good but i think you need a subscription for multiple installations.

It works well, like it's supposed to, but there is a learning curve to the new version. I'm not really sure where everything is just yet.

Great product for my purposes. Not as powerful as the full version, but more than enough for a non-professional photographer.

Photoshop works as expected. I’ve used photoshop for a long time. New laptop new version of photoshop