Adobe announced the latest version of its “Elements” creative software, Photoshop Elements 2025 and Premiere Elements 2025. The newest annual releases introduce new artificial intelligence-powered features and more Guided Edits designed to help users of all experience levels edit their photos and videos. In Photoshop Elements 2025, a new AI-powered Remove Tool makes it easy to erase and replace distracting objects in photos, including unwanted people and distracting objects.
This new feature includes an accompanying “Object Removal” Guided Edit to walk new users through the process. The tool uses AI to identify a painted-over object and generate new pixels to seamlessly replace it in the scene, similar to what users can do in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Another new AI-powered tool is a Depth Blur filter, which automatically adds blur where it’s needed most.
Users can adjust details like blur strength, focal distance, and focal range to achieve a natural-looking result similar to what could have been achieved with a professional-grade fast lens. Additionally, Photoshop Elements 2025 introduces a simple color-changing tool that allows users to select and change the color of an object, piece of clothing, or natural foliage. Photoshop Elements has long included a range of collage tools, enabling users to combine multiple photos.
Now, with AI-powered subject detection tools, it’s easier to blend subjects from one shot with the background of another. Editors can learn this type of photo compositing with a new “Combine Photos” Guided Edit. Additional updates for Photoshop Elements 2025 include four new Quick Actions to add motion to still photos, new textured photo backgrounds, and full Apple M3 support for improved performance.
On the Premiere Elements 2025 side, the video editing software features new dynamic title templates with fine-tuned control over text, alignment, direction, color, and more. A new White Balance tool allows for specific color and brightness adjustments to selected parts of the scene or the entire frame. Premiere Elements 2025 also adds support for LUTs, which video editors can use to dial in a precise look or mood for their footage.
New AI-powered photo editing features
To make video editing more straightforward, Premiere Elements 2025 features a simplified Timeline that groups certain file types for a more navigable user interface. Adobe Stock title templates are now integrated into the software, simplifying the process from ingest to export.
The app also includes a variety of new Guided Edits. As part of Adobe’s push into web- and mobile-based editing, Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2025 work alongside web and mobile companion apps, currently in beta. These apps allow users to view their edited Elements photos and videos from any browser or compatible mobile device for additional edits and streamlined sharing.
The apps sync with Elements Organizer, making it easy to access edited files across all devices. Among the most significant changes with this year’s Elements releases has little to do with new features but instead concerns the ways users purchase and own the software. While prior versions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements have been lifetime licenses, where the user buys the software and owns it indefinitely, this year’s release has moved to a three-year license term.
Adobe states that there are no monthly or annual recurring subscription fees like those with Creative Cloud software. However, Elements 2025 is now, at its core, a subscription service. Customers pay a fee (the precise amount depends on if it’s a new purchase or an upgrade) and then have access to the software for three years.
Once that period is up, users will no longer have access to the software’s editing functions, although they will still have access to Elements Organizer to view and manage their files. There is no automatic renewal, and users will presumably need to purchase the most recent version of Elements once this period has expired. Pricing and availability for the software are $99.99 each for a three-year license term, or $79.99 when upgrading from a prior version of the software.
The apps can also be bought in a bundle for $149.99, or $119.99 as an upgrade.
