Adobe Photoshop Elements 2026 - PC Windows,Mac OSX

Sold as a 3-year term license.

• This is a license for a full 3-year term.
• The license is non-renewing — it expires 3 years after redemption.

Photoshop Elements makes photo editing simple — whether you want to make a quick fix or a custom creation. Dive right in and build skills as you go with Quick, Guided, and Advanced editing modes. Tap into the power of AI to easily enhance your photos and instantly generate all-new images, objects, and backgrounds. Add style with artistic effects, motion, and creative templates. And automatically organize your photos for easy searching and sharing.

Top Benefits

• Type a description to create all-new images and backgrounds or add anything to your photos with the power of generative AI.
• Easily erase distractions, replace backgrounds, touch up faces, change colors, and more with AI.
• Dive right in and grow your skills with Quick, Guided, and Advanced editing modes.
• Enhance your photos with effects, text, graphics, and animation.
• Showcase your pics in Photo Reels and collages, and access thousands of free Adobe Express templates for social posts, videos, posters, and more. 
• Effortlessly organize your photos with quick import from popular cloud services plus automatic sorting and backup, and find them fast with automatic tagging, curation, and face recognition

New Features

• NEW Bring ideas to life with generative AI.
  Type a description to create anything from a basic background to a detailed image.*
• NEW Add new elements with generative AI.
  Brush over an area and then type a description of an object to see it appear.*
• NEW Restore photos with AI.
  Revive memories by erasing scratches, creases, and wear and tear.
• ENHANCED Make anything disappear in seconds.
  The AI-powered Remove tool now automatically detects people in the background of your photos for easy removal.
• NEW Easy access to free Adobe Express templates.
  Take your photos further with thousands of free templates for social posts, videos, posters, and more.
• NEW Enhance text with color fonts.
  Grab attention with more vibrant text.
• NEW Learn with visual tooltips.
  Built-in hints and animations help you get up to speed fast.
• NEW Edit more easily than ever.
  Get great results fast with modern crop handles, toolbars that adjust based on what you’re doing, and a spell checker.
• NEW Import mobile pics via QR code.
  Scan a code to bring your mobile photos right into Photoshop Elements.
• ENHANCED Import and view more easily in the Organizer.
  Quickly import from cloud services like Google Drive and OneDrive, and get easier access to full-screen mode and zoom controls.

*Photoshop Elements 2026 comes with 25 generative credits per month. Each generative AI action in Photoshop Elements consumes 1 credit. If you use all your credits for the month, you can buy more credits within the app, or wait for the monthly credits to reset.

Most popular

• Turn photos into art with Artistic Effects.
  Just click to add effects inspired by famous works of art or popular art styles.
• Select an area and make it move.
  Bring a touch of movie magic to any photo by selecting an area and adding motion. Choose the direction, adjust the speed, and then save your photo as an MP4 or GIF to share on social.
• Quickly touch up facial features.
  Get the perfect shot every time by automatically opening closed eyes, turning frowns upside down, fine-tuning face tilt, automatically smoothing skin, and more.
• Beautiful photo collage templates.
  Create collages with just a few clicks. Choose from modern templates and add text for a personal touch.
• Replace backgrounds in seconds.
  Select the subject of a photo and place it on a different background to make your pic even more amazing. And spruce up your scenes with contemporary backgrounds.
• Create stylized text.
  Align text horizontally, vertically, or on a path or a shape with the Add Text Guided Edit. Warp it and style it with gradients, textures, and patterns.

AI and automation 

• Discover one-click Quick Actions in one place.
  Popular one-click edits are at your fingertips. Add four types of motion effects, instantly blur or remove a background, smooth skin, dehaze or colorize a photo, and more.
• Match color and tone to create a fresh new vibe.
  Choose from built-in presets or use a photo of your own, click once, and then fine-tune hue, saturation, and brightness.
• Select a sky or background with one click for easier editing.
  Automatic selections make it simple to enhance or replace just one area.
• Access free Adobe Stock photos to expand your creative possibilities.
  Try a new background or make a collage with access to thousands of beautiful stock photos from right inside Photoshop Elements.
• Remove JPEG artifacts for a smooth, natural look.
  Click once to enhance compressed JPEGs with this option in the Quick Actions panel.
• Layer on some animation.
  Add moving overlays like snowflakes and sparkles, and create fun animated frames. Then save your photos as MP4s to share on social and more.
• Add a sense of camera motion.
  With one click, transform your favorite shots into moving photos — fun animated MP4s and GIFs with 2D and 3D camera motion. It’s easy and perfect for sharing on social media.
• One-click subject selection.
  Automatically select the subject of your photo with a single click. Then, easily make isolated edits to the subject or the background.
• Warp photos to fit any shape.
  Place one photo inside another by wrapping it around an object like a coffee mug or fitting it inside shapes like the lenses of your subject’s sunglasses. There's no limit to what you can create!
• Automatically colorize your photos.
  Give black-and-whites new life with automatic colorization.
• Picture editing made easy.
  Easily whiten teeth, make skies blue, remove haze, reduce camera shake, and fix tilted photos. Plus, correct tone with a tool that remembers looks you like.
• Add fun filters and effects.
  Transform your photos with dozens of filters and effects that let you create blurs, painterly looks, distortions, textures, stylized text, and more.
• Make precise selections automatically.
  Just click or drag over an area to make a selection and then easily make isolated edits to the subject or background.
• Easily move objects.
  Feel free to move objects around in a photo — the background will fill in automatically with Content-Aware Fill.
• ENHANCED Crop with ease.
  Frame your photos better with modern crop handles. Or pick your favorite crop from the suggested options.
• Fix photos by the batch.
  Brighten, add color, enhance clarity, or add effects to multiple photos simultaneously. And you can use touch to get the look you want.
• HEIF and HEVC support.
  Import and edit HEIF photo files and HEVC video files on Windows as well as macOS.
• Enjoy a modern editing experience.
  Discover fonts, icons, buttons, and colors that are easy on the eye, and choose from light and dark mode options.

Guided Edits

• Erase distractions more quickly and easily.
  Put the focus on your subject by removing power lines, pedestrians, and other distractions with the swipe of a brush thanks to improved AI technology in the Object Removal Guided Edit.
• Create stylized text.
  Align text horizontally, vertically, or on a path or a shape with the Add Text Guided Edit. Warp it and style it with gradients, textures, and patterns.  
• Replace backgrounds in seconds.
  Select the subject of a photo and place it on a different background to make your pic even more amazing. And spruce up your scenes with contemporary backgrounds.
• Add peek-through overlays.
• Create the illusion of depth in any photo by framing your subject with natural and realistic overlays such as flowers, leaves, grass, and more. Easily resize, adjust blur, or add a vignette to get just the look you want.
• Quickly search and explore Guided Edit options.
  Easily find what you want to do or discover new things to try by searching on familiar terms, using keyword tags, or choosing from popular options.
• Add creative style with patterns.
  Give any photo a little something extra by brushing on a fun pattern — like hearts or stars. Experiment to see which ones you like best.
• Perfect your landscapes.
  Easily replace skies, remove haze, and erase unwanted objects to create epic outdoor scenes. With this easy Guided Edit, you’re sure to create the perfect adventure photo every time.
• Create perfect pet pics.
• Make your furry and feathered friends look their best. Frame them up just right, adjust color and lighting, select and refine detailed edges like fur, fix pet-eye, and remove collars and leashes in a few simple steps.
• Extend photo backgrounds.
  Create a stunning landscape or reposition your subject for the perfect social post by easily extending your photo’s background. The magic of Content-Aware Fill technology makes it all possible.
• Move, scale, and duplicate objects.
  With step-by-step help, it’s easier than ever to select an object and change its position, size, and more — meaning you can make your creation look exactly how you want.
• ENHANCED Create cool double exposures.
  Turn two photos into one work of art with a captivating double exposure effect. And now you can select your subject with one click to edit faster.
• Create modern duotones.
  Apply cool, custom duotone effects to your photos for a beautiful two-color creation using this simple Guided Edit. Choose from custom preset social sizes, add a gradient, and more!
• Add a pop of color to B&W pics.
  Highlight a single color or a specific object, then turn the rest black-and-white for a dramatic effect.
• Turn part of your pic into a sketch.
  Add an illustrated sketch effect to your favorite photo. Brush on the look of your choice, including pencil, colored pencil, old paper, and old photo.
• Create multi-photo text.
  Design visual text that features a different photo inside each letter. Easily adjust and resize your photos to make names or other words that look great.
• Make fun memes.
  Turn your photos into memes. Just type in your text and add filters, borders, and more.
• Mix things up to create something new.
  Seamlessly combine multiple photos to create a never-before-seen image, create panoramas, blend exposures, or combine features from different faces for fun results.
• Add artistic overlay effects.
  Embellish any photo with a shape overlay or add one-click effects that make it a work of art.
  Make amazing watercolors.
  Get help turning any photo into a beautiful, artistic watercolor — and even finish it off with text.
• ENHANCED Picture incredible text.
  Turn a photo into cool visual text. Fine-tune background opacity with a slider, and then add an embossed look and drop shadows to really make it pop.
• Attention-grabbing effects.
  Create photo paintings, effects collages, panoramas, and speed pan action shots.

Templates

• Create and share fast-moving Photo Reels.
  Reels zip through favorite shots, each with its own text, effects, and graphics. Save them as MP4s or GIFs for easy sharing.
• Beautiful photo collage templates.
  Create collages with just a few clicks. Choose from stylish templates and add text for a personal touch.
• Amazing slideshow templates.
  With one click, your best photos are chosen and brought together with short video clips to create an animated, customizable slideshow.
• Create a collage of effects.
  Get artistic by adding multiple effects to a single photo. Photoshop Elements walks you through it and gives you templates and themes to choose from.

Effortless organization 

• Find photos faster with auto-tagging.
  Smart Tags are added to your photos based on subjects like sunsets and birthdays, and the people in your photos are also recognized so it’s easy to tag and find them later.
• Find your best photos with Auto Curate.
  Your photos are automatically curated based on quality, faces, subjects, Smart Tags, and more, so you don’t have to search for the standouts.
• GIF playback in the Organizer.
  Just click to view your GIFs — the Organizer supports playback. 
• Organize automatically.
  Go from hundreds of mystery folders to a visual view of your photos automatically sorted by date, subject, people, places, and events.
• Search with multiple keywords.
  Find the exact photos you’re looking for by searching on a combination of things, including people, places, events, and other favorite subjects.
• Automatically back up your catalog structure.
  Cataloging — albums, keyword tags, people, places, events, and more — is key to photo and video library organization. All this information is automatically backed up for easy recovery.

*Photoshop Elements 2026 comes with 25 generative credits per month. Each generative AI action in Photoshop Elements consumes 1 credit. If you use all your credits for
the month, you can buy more credits within the app, or wait for the monthly credits to reset. Learn more about generative credits.

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Windows Requirements

• Intel 8th Generation or newer processor or AMD equivalent with AVX2 and SSE4.2 support; Windows on ARM processor not supported
• Microsoft Windows 11 (version 23H2) or later, 64-bit versions only; Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 not supported
• 8GB of RAM; 16GB recommended
• 9GB of available hard-disk space to install application; additional space required for downloading online content and for temporary files during product installation and usage (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1280x800 display resolution (at 100% scale factor); 1920x1080 or higher recommended
• 1.5GB of GPU memory
• Microsoft DirectX 12 compatible display driver
• Internet connection required for product activation and download of features and online content

Mac OS Requirements

• Intel 8th Generation or newer processor; Apple silicon M1 or newer processor recommended
• macOS 14 (14.4 or later), macOS 15 (15.5 or later)
• 8GB of unified memory; 16GB recommended
• 8GB of available hard-disk space to install application; additional space required for downloading online content and for temporary files during product installation and usage (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 1280x800 display resolution (at 100% scale factor); 1920x1080 or higher recommended
• Internet connection required for product activation and download of features and online content