Face tilt allows you to re-orient faces towards the camera, although as you can see from the center face it doesn't fix the direction of the subject's eyes. In the example below, you can see that while I could fairly successfully tilt one face towards the direction of the camera, with another face the direction of the eyes doesn't change, so the effect doesn't work very well: This otherwise reasonable family snapshot suffers from not everyone looking at the camera, a perfect situation to try out the new Face Tilt features. I tried it on some group portraits and found it to be powerful but not unlimited. It allows you a limited ability to tilt one or more faces in an image in different directions. Common use cases include having them face the same direction as other people in the photo or facing towards the camera. One of the headline features of the new Photoshop Elements is the ability to change the direction a portrait subject is looking. Face Tilt Added to Portrait Enhancement Features Elements Auto Creations continue to get more interesting, like this one that automatically applied a portrait effect to a random - 20-year-old - image in my library. I still wish it was easier to simply get to the editors, but the new Home page is growing on me. Adobe has enhanced it with more useful items and more actions you can take directly from it. That's been true of the Elements' start screen - called the Home Page - at least until now.

So flashy start screens with lots of distracting promotions for things you may not be interested in at all, and probably not right at that moment, mostly just get in my way. I generally prefer that they get right down to business when you open them. I'm kind of old school when it comes to using applications.

There are some nice new bells and whistles in both, which I'll cover below, but it's probably not a 'must-have' upgrade for users on a tight budget. I've been testing an early version of the 2021 editions of Adobe Premiere Elements ($99.99) and Adobe Photoshop Elements ($99.99). Their optional annual upgrades also appeal to those who don't like the idea of having to subscribe to software licenses. For those who don't need the power or want the complexity of the full version of Photoshop or Premiere Pro, Adobe's Elements offerings have long been a strong alternative.

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