While professional designers, photographers and videographers await every new release of Adobe’s full-function Photoshop and Premiere editing suites, amateurs received their fill of new features on Tuesday when Adobe released new versions of the consumer-level Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements software packages.
Photoshop Elements 7 adds a number of easy-to-use features for touching up amateur photos. For instance, the Scene Cleaner function allows users to brush away unwanted objects in snapshots, like tourists in the background of a shot, automatically. Similarly, the Smart Brush tool can improve lighting or texture in specific areas of a photo, and Quick Fix tools can help with a number of common tasks, like whitening teeth or brightening blue skies.
