The B&W Selection tool lets you “paint” monochrome onto the chosen parts of the image, while the gimmicky “Color Pop” tool keeps one colour and desaturates the rest – an effect that gets tired fairly quickly. Under Guided Edits, a new Black and White option lets you turn colour images into high-contrast black and white, with an optional glow to add atmosphere. The remainder of the updates in Photoshop Elements 13 are even more mundane. It probably isn’t something you’ll use every day, though. When you’re happy with your work, the Upload button connects to Facebook and uploads the images directly. You can drag and scale your main image to your heart’s content, and if you wish you can “spill” your cover image into your profile image. This automatically sets up a correctly sized template for a Facebook profile, with a placeholder image and optional text overlay.

This sounds like a potentially promising way to get a fresh look at your images, but in practice we found Elements’ suggestions very obvious – and you can preview only one at a time, making it hard to weigh up which you prefer.Ī feature that does work well is the new Facebook Cover wizard, tucked away under the Create menu.

It’s a more visual and immediate way to work than the Refine Selection requester – and, incidentally, something that the full edition of Photoshop currently lacks.Īnother enhancement is the new Crop Suggestions feature, which analyses your image and comes up with four crop options. The best thing about it is the new Refine Selection brush, which lets you click and drag to expand, contract or smooth the edges of your selection. Beginners may find this a useful educational experience, but it’s hardly a creative revolution.

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