What's new in Photoshop Elements 2023

Discover what's new in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023.

What's New Photoshop Elements 2023

From simple tweaks to advanced artistic options and adjustments, it’s never been easier to create photos you’ll love to share. Bring motion to your photos with Adobe Sensei AI*, add Peek-Through Overlays, and showcase your photos with new collage and slideshow templates. Plus, go beyond your desktop with new web and mobile companion apps (English-only beta), and enjoy faster installation and performance plus Apple silicon native support. You’ll find all your photo essentials in this easy picture editor.

New features summary

Moving Elements

Moving Elements

Bring a touch of movie magic to any photo by selecting an area and adding motion. Choose the direction, adjust the speed, and then save your creation as an MP4 or GIF to share on social. Powered by Adobe Sensei*

Peek-through Overlay

Peek-through Overlay

Create the illusion of depth in any photo by framing your subject with natural and realistic overlays such as flowers, leaves, grass, and more. Easily resize, adjust blur, or add a vignette to get just the look you want.

Guided Edit Search

Guided Edit Search

Easily find what you want to do or discover new things to try by searching on text-based search, using keyword tags, or choosing from explore section.

Apple silicon Native Support

Apple silicon Native Support

With full support for Apple M1 chip systems or newer, you’ll enjoy up to 45% faster performance on latest generation of Mac/Apple computers.

Performance Improvements

Performance Improvements

Enjoy up to 30% faster installation and up to 50% faster launch times. 

 

New an Refreshed Content

New and Refreshed Content

Discover updated creative content like backgrounds, patterns, and skies to bring new energy to your photos. 


Moving Elements

Bring a touch of movie magic to any photo by selecting an area and adding motion. You can now move the clouds in your sky, waves of the ocean current or any element of your static photo in just a few steps.

Select Enhance > Moving Elements to add motion to your static image. 

Moving Elements

For more information, see Moving Elements.

Peek-through Overlay

The Peek-through Overlay Guided Edit allows you to create the illusion of depth.

To apply the Peek-through Overlay Guided Edit, Select Guided > Fun Edits > Peek-through Overlay

Peek-through Overlay

For more information, see Peek-through Overlay.

Guided Edit Search

Guided Edit Search section allows you to find the right Guided Edit out of currently 61 Guided Edits. To use this feature, click the Search icon in the Guided workspace and you will land on the Search window.
Guided Edit Search

For more information, see Guided Edit Search.

Apple silicon Native Support

Photoshop Elements now runs natively on Apple computers with the Apple silicon M1 or newer. Experience faster performance while using Photoshop Elements on the latest generation of Apple computers.

Apple silicon Native Support

Improvement in Photoshop Elements 2023 (Mac ARM) compared to Photoshop Elements 2022 (Mac Intel).

Metric

Photoshop Elements 2023

Elements Organizer 2023

Mac ARM vs Mac Intel Systems

Launch1

up to 62%

up to 40%

File Open2

up to 40%

Select Subject

up to 43%

Moving Photos3

up to 43%

Moving Overlays3

up to 30%

Slideshow Creation4

up to 50%

Slideshow Export5

up to 26%

Configuration: 

Mac Intel: MacBook Pro (2020), 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM

Apple ARM: Macbook Air (M1, 2020), 16 GB Unified Memory

Note:
  1. The first launch of the application after system restart.
  2. A batch of 14 jpeg files was imported.
  3. The time taken to apply the preset.
  4. Creation of slideshow after system restart.
  5. Slideshow export to full HD resolution.

Performance Improvements

Get work done faster with performance improvements in Photoshop Elements 2023 across the board as compared to Photoshop Elements 2022.

Metric    

Photoshop Elements 2023

Photoshop Elements &  Premiere Elements 2023

Elements Organizer 2023

Installation time

Windows

up to 42%

up to 47%

Mac Intel

up to 40%

up to 43%

Launch1

Windows

up to 50%

up to 40%

Mac ARM

up to 62%

up to 40%

Reduction in Disk Footprint2

Windows

up to 39%

up to 44%

Mac ARM

up to 37%

up to 49%

Thumbnail Generation3

Windows

up to 71%

Mac ARM

up to 60%

Slideshow Preview Generation

Windows

up to 45%

Mac ARM

up to 42%

Configuration: 

Windows: Intel i7 8650U, 16 GB RAM

Mac Intel: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019), 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Mac ARM: Macbook Air (M1, 2020), 16 GB Unified Memory

Note:
  1. The first launch of the application after system restart.
  2. Disk Footprint: Calculated as space taken by the application after installation.
  3. Thumbnail generation with 50 images in the catalog

New and Refreshed Content

Try fresh looks for your photos with new backgrounds in the Replace Background Guided Edit, new skies in the Perfect Landscape Guided Edit, and new patterns in the Pattern Brush Guided Edit.

Perfect Landscape Guided Edit

Easily replace skies, remove haze and unwanted objects in your landscape shots. Now with new updated sky options.

Perfect Landscape Guided Edit

Replace Background Guided Edit

Select the subject in your photo and put it on a different background. Now with all new modern backgrounds.

Replace Background Guided Edit

Pattern Brush Guided Edit

Give your photo a little something extra by brushing on a fun pattern. Now with all new fun patterns.

Pattern Brush Guided Edit

Perfect Portrait Guided Edit

Get the perfect shot every time, with updated additional facial feature adjustments. Automatically open closed eyes, fine-tune face tilt, automatically smooth skin, and more.

Perfect Portrait Guided Edit

Photo collage

Create collages with just a few clicks. Choose from new modern templates and add text for a personal touch.
For more information, see Photo Collage

Photo Collage

New Slideshow Styles    

Show off your photos and videos in easy-to-create slideshows. Now with all new unique styles.

New Slideshow Styles

Photoshop Elements Mobile and Web Companion Apps (English-only beta)

  • Try the new mobile app to easily upload your media from your phone to the cloud to do more sophisticated editing on the desktop.
  • Use the new web app to access your media, create slideshows and collages and share to Facebook or via email or direct link.
  • Get started quickly with 2GB of free cloud storage. Accessible to licensed Elements 2023 users.
  • For more information, go to Mobile or Web
Note:

*Adobe Sensei is the technology that powers intelligent features across all Adobe products to dramatically improve the design and delivery of digital experiences, using artificial intelligence and machine learning in a common framework.

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