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your photos. This sounds a lot like Google
Photos and its ever-eager Assistant. Newsletter
If you just want to cook up a cool image for
your Insta or social media account, Elements
2019 has you covered. You can create photo Team
collages with fewer clicks and stylish new tem- E
plates and then add frames and backgrounds, leven times a year it takes a TEAM to produce
for example. the LCACE Newsletter. Mike McEnery
(Newsletter Editor) publishers the club newsletter to
Or, if you want to learn some more advanced keeping our members informed of the latest news on
techniques, you can switch to the Elements
Guided Edit mode and its walk-through image computers and technology. Phil Bock submits his Presi-
processing effects. There are four new ones to dents RAM, and Lester Larkin submits the Club History.
try here, bringing the total up to 53. After hours of formatting these articles and searching
for additional articles to fill the pages. Mike emails the
You can create multi-photo text, where each completed Newsletter to J.J. Johnson (Assistant Editor)
letter contains a different photo, turn a photo
into a sketch for a colored pencil, old paper or and then he converts it from Microsoft Publisher for-
aged photo effect, add text or border overlays mat to an PDF and FlipPage format. J.J. (webmaster)
to your photos or – our favorite – create what then uploads the newsletter to the LCACE website and
we’re told are “fun memes” by putting pictures sends out a message on Google Groups to inform the
of cats into a box on a patterned background members that the newsletter is available online for
and adding some amusing aphorisms. members to view.
Premiere Elements 2019 gets some attention Occasionally Mikes gets some feedback from members
too, with an all-new Quick Edit mode that but he is always open for more of your comments. This
brings two interesting-sounding features.
Smart Trim automatically finds your best video goes along with Mike asking you to submit articles to
footage and helps you trim it, while the simpli- help cut his time searching for articles from other com-
fied Sceneline (a timeline, but with scenes, puter clubs.
right?) for combining photos, clips, audio and APCUG (Association of Personal Computer User
titles.
Groups) gathers articles from many of their member
There are two new movie guided edits, too – groups, and publishers them quarterly for other
one for making glass pane effects, and another groups to publish in their newsletters. This is conven-
for Luma fade transitions, where darker colours ient for Mike, but as a club he would like more articles
fade first in the transition from one clip to an- from our members. This would highlight what our club
other.
is doing to contribute to the world of computers and
There is a heavy emphasis on social media technology.
sharing in Photoshop Elements 2019, but apart
from a smattering of extra guided edits and an Join the TEAM
interface refresh, there’s not much here to
tempt more experienced photographers into So, if you have taken the time to completely read this
upgrading. article, consider taking the time to share you experi-
ences of a new or old piece of software or equipment
Keen photographers should note that there are by writing an article and share it with your fellow mem-
actually some quite powerful tools in the Or- bers. Remember our moto.
ganizer and the Editor's Expert mode, but Ado-
be's attention seems now to be firmly on the
beginner market.
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