Chapter 1. Photoshop Elements Features Overview

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a pixel-based graphics photo editing application that was first released in 2001. Its release followed on from an entry-level program called Photoshop LE, a light edition of Photoshop, which was a product made available mostly for students and teachers, and, sometimes, bundled with other hardware products at the point of sale. If you count its LE predecessor, Photoshop Elements 2019 is in its 19th version.

Initially, Photoshop Elements was released as a basic, entry-level tool for the consumer. However, over the years, it has gone from strength to strength, inheriting many significant professional-level features from its more complex sibling, Adobe Photoshop.

So, how different ...

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