As smartphone cameras advance, offering features that rival and sometimes exceed the point-and-shoots of old, hobbyist interest in photography has surged, not only for documenting friends and family, but for recording a critical world view—similar to classic street or landscape photography. When Apple posts billboards of scenes shot by amateurs and pros using their iPhone, it’s not hard to see where the inspiration comes from. For those who want more visual tricks than Apple Photos offers (especially for composition and special effects) they turn to, an app designed for consumers who seek an easy way to achieve sophisticated special effects. Elements, now in its 15th iteration, is no, but a good number of its advanced features are derived from the company’s flagship app and namesake.

Adobe is wise enough not to mess too much with the basic formula and general interface of this app, preferring to enhance and add to its features. With version 15, the updated Organizer companion rocks brand new search capabilities and batch processing, while a new crop of guided edits refresh the main editing package. Adobe Elements 15 Organizer The Adobe Elements Organizer, an analog to Photoshop’s Bridge, acts like a mini digital asset management system, keeping track of all photos and videos to make them accessible to the two main Elements apps, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. Aside from import/export and organizational functions like ratings and tags, the Organizer features face recognition, geo-tagging, and built-in maps. The Organizer is also the place for basic fixes like rotation and auto-correction.

In version 15, it does a lot more. The Organizer now has more intelligent capabilities, like its new Smart Tags feature.

From the search interface you can see exactly what tags the app has placed on your images. Google Photos, Flickr, and Apple Photos already use artificial intelligence to automatically determine content for tagging photos. Adobe says that deep learning algorithms were used to develop the Smart Tags feature, but that there is no on-going AI technology running in the Organizer. Photoshop Elements Organizer Smart Tag and visual search interface.

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You can use the app’s enhanced search functionality to quickly scroll by Smart Tags, People, Places, Date, Folders, Keywords, Albums, Ratings and Media Types, whose icons run down the left side of the window. You can choose from the icon or just type in search criteria in the box at the top of the window. You can use the And or Or command to narrow down your search from thousands of images, video, audio, and projects to find the item you want.

Note that each smart tag search builds on the previous one, so make sure the text box at the top reflects only your current search. Type in or use Smart Tags to combine or exclude keywords in your search. The Organizer’s new Instant Fix update now lets you batch correct photos imported into the app. Just group together your chosen shots, and the new interface offers a set of adjustable sliders to fix them all simultaneously for clarity, color, light, brand new special effects, and more. New batch processing in the Organizer.

Photoshop Elements Editor Adobe’s famous Quick, Guided, and Expert editing modules lie at the heart of the Photoshop Elements Editor, making it the go-to app for amateurs seeking a more sophisticated but accessible alternative to Apple Photos. This new version debuts five new guided edits to perform complex tasks via step-by-step instructions. In this version, however some were better than others.

Picture text While it can be a fairly straightforward task to accomplish that beloved classical postcard effect of filling in lettering with a landscape or other images, you need the proper tools and know-how. Elements’ new Photo Text guided edit makes it drop dead simple to achieve.

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The feature lets you choose from the fonts within your system and even lets you add an embossed look and drop shadows for a pro finish. Pick from your own font collection; fat ones work best for stuffing in pictures. Put a photo inside your text for that old-time postcard look, or maybe a Springsteen album cover. Just choose the Type tool and start typing.

You can select and cycle through all the selections to help you decide. After you choose your font, you can enlarge, fit, and apply some simple effects.

Occasionally, this feature had glitchy performance; I’d choose a font and start typing without it registering any letters on the canvas. In that case, I cancelled and started over to achieve the advertised results.