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  1. Get to know Premiere Elements
  2. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  3. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  4. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  5. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  6. 360° and VR Video Editing
  7. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Stock Media
    7. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    8. Creating specialty clips
    9. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  8. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  9. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Color Fonts and Emojis
    6. Smart Trim
    7. Freehand Crop
    8. Delete All Gaps
    9. Change clip speed and duration
    10. Split clips
    11. Freeze and hold frames
    12. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    13. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    14. Replace footage
    15. Working with source clips
    16. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    17. Trim clips
    18. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    19. Artistic effects
  10. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  11. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  12. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  13. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  14. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  15. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Text Styles and Style Browser
    9. Align and transform objects
    10. Motion Titles
    11. Appearance of text and shapes
    12. Exporting and importing titles
    13. Arranging objects in titles
    14. Designing titles for TV
    15. Applying styles to text and graphics
    16. Adding a video in the title
  16. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  17. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

Discover what's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 2026.

What's New Premiere Elements 2023

Experience fast and easy video editing with Premiere Elements 2026, powered by AI and automation. Get started in a snap and grow your skills with Quick, Guided, and Advanced modes. Effortlessly trim and resize your videos and enhance them with effects, transitions, motion titles, and more. Add text to social clips, adjust color, and amp up the action with music and animations. Plus, organize your videos seamlessly for easy searching and sharing.

New features summary

Moving Elements

360° and VR Video Editing 

Edit and enhance 360° and VR videos.

Text Styles and Style Browser

Format text with style templates and a style browser

Performance Improvements

Freehand Crop 

Frame scenes better with freehand crop.

Apple silicon Native Support

Adobe Stock Access

Access free Adobe Stock media.

Peek-through Overlay

Color Fonts & Emojis

Enhance text with color fonts and emojis.

New an Refreshed Content

Other New Features

  • Delete All Gaps
  • New Motion Title templates
  • Rich Tool Tips

360° and VR Video Editing

Step into immersive storytelling with the new 360° and VR video editing tools in Premiere Elements 2026. Import and position your VR footage, apply effects, transitions, text, and graphics that wrap around the scene, and fine-tune the viewing angle to guide your audience’s gaze. When you’re done, export in VR for headsets or in standard formats for social media, so your story shines wherever it’s shared.

For more information, see 360° and VR Video Editing.

Text Styles and Style Browser

Enhance your text’s visual appeal and efficiency by applying Text Style Templates and using the Style Browser. Choose from default styles or reuse saved styles to quickly format text, reducing the time and effort spent on manual formatting.

Follow these steps to create new styles:

  1. Select a text layer and give it the stylistic Text or Appearance properties you want.

  2. Select the More Style icon in the Style section of the Tiles and Shapes panel to open the style browser. For additional style information, choose between the default icon view and a more compact list view. 

    Note

    Premiere Elements provides more than 30 pre-built text styles to help you get started.

For more information, see Text Styles and Style Browser.

Freehand Crop 

Frame scenes better with freehand crop. Just drag crop handles to resize your videos.

Apple silicon Native Support

You can access the Freehand Crop tool from the Toggle On-Monitor Tools drop-down on the Program Monitor or by adjusting the cropping parameters under Motion in the Effect Controls Panel.

To use Freehand Crop:

  1. Click the Toggle On-Monitor Tools drop-down on the Program Monitor.

  2. Select Crop from the list (other option available is Transform).

  3. Use the crop handles to trim unwanted parts of your video or adjust its aspect ratio.

For more information, see Freehand Crop.

Adobe Stock Access

Discover high-quality photos, videos, audio clips, and sound effects right inside Premiere Elements.

Apple silicon Native Support

To use this feature, follow the given steps:

You can bring stock videos, photos, audio, and sound effects into your project by browsing the Stock Media panel or using search, categories, and filters to refine your results.

To access Stock Media:

  1. From any workspace (Quick, Guided, or Advanced), click the Stock Media icon located below the Audio icon on the left panel.

  2. Select the desired category - Videos, Photos, Audio, or SFX, to choose the content you want to use.

  3. Click the download icon, then drag and drop the asset directly onto your timeline to use it. Or drag and drop the asset directly onto your timeline to automatically download it.

For more information, see Adobe Stock Media.

Color Fonts & Emojis

You can add vibrant, multi-colored text by selecting a color font from the Titles and Shapes panel or insert emojis from the Edit menu for extra flair.

To use this feature, follow the given steps:

Select a project and add it to your timeline, then select the Text Tool from the Quick Tools menu.

Now click anywhere in the Program Monitor to add point text, or simply select the Text Tool to click & drag, creating a text box for paragraph-style text.

  1. To add color fonts:

    • In the Titles and Shapes panel, choose a color font from the Fonts dropdown.
    • (Optional) Use the font styles picker to browse and switch between available styles for your chosen color font

  2. To add emojis:

    • Go to the Edit menu and select Emoji & Symbols. 
    • Once the emojis appear, simply click to add them to your text layer

For more information, see Color Fonts & Emojis.

Other New Features

Delete All Gaps

Delete all Timeline gaps at once.

To use this feature, follow the given steps:

You can identify and remove gaps in the Timeline by hovering over the gap using:

  1. Delete All Gaps - removes all gaps in the clip.

  2. Delete This Gap - removes the selected gap from the clip..

Tip

When you click Export with gaps still present in the Timeline, a warning dialog box alerts you that gaps remain in the timeline. Review the warning dialog and choose whether to remove the gaps before proceeding.

For more information, see Delete All Gaps.

New Motion Title templates

Discover an expanded collection of Motion Title Templates that make it easy to elevate your videos. With just a few clicks, you can add stylish text, engaging graphics, and smooth animations, giving your projects a polished, professional look without the extra effort.

For more information, see Motion Titles.

Rich Tool Tips

Learn with visual tooltips. Built-in hints and animations help you get up to speed fast.

To use this feature, follow the given steps:

  • You can explore Rich Tooltips by hovering over various features and tools. 
  • These tooltips display gifs or visual graphics illustrating each feature’s functionality and usage.. 
  • You can enable or disable them from Preferences.
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