Photoshop Elements 5.0 has a range of great new tools designed to tease upgrade money from the digital photographer’s wallet, none of which is more exciting than the new Photo Layout feature. Far from being a ‘one trick pony’ the feature brings with it a host of new technologies that will change the way that Elements users create picture montages and layouts for ever.

Adobe has created a new layer type, Frame layers, a new file format, the Photo Creations or PSE format, a new design system that uses special matched frames and backgrounds sets called Themes, a new set of Photo Creation projects that makes use of all this new technology and, finally, ...

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