With its wealth of tools and ease of use, Photoshop Elements remains a PCMag Editors' Choice winner for enthusiast-level photo editing software. Elements provides many of Photoshop’s tools and capabilities without requiring you to sign up for a subscription, as its big brother does. Like Adobe's pro-level Creative Cloud applications, new features in the 2023 Elements version add web functionality and take advantage of Adobe's AI technology, called Sensei. Adobe's consumer photo editing software continues to make splashy Photoshop effects possible for novices.

(On the, ahem, flip side, that mistake vastly improved the quality of the overall image.Photoshop Elements brings much of the visual magic pioneered by Adobe Photoshop to nonprofessional consumers. This is also one of the few times we've seen a Guided Edit fail - the final step is meant to allow you to flip the parts of the image that are sketched and which aren't, but in our test it simply turned the whole photo into a sketch. This is the kind of edit that tips over into the 'easy way to ruin a nice photo' category, especially as the pencil sketch effect isn't particularly convincing. Then there's a 'partial sketch' tool, where you can select part of a picture to look like it's been drawn in pencil (coloured or greyscale). For example, there are no instructions on how to move the photos within the frame of the letters, leading to awkward crops like the chopped-off face in the first O of our test image. As with all of the Guided Edits, Elements makes this process practically foolproof, but it only gets you halfway there. Here you select a background image, add some large text over the top of it, and then fill each of the letters with a different photo.

Arguably, the most impressive of these is the 'multi-photo text' process.

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