#Adobe premiere elements 2018 test how to

By following step-by-step instructions you learn how to combine two parallel video layers using blending modes.Īnimated Overlay effects are also a new feature in Photoshop Elements 2022, though the Premiere Elements version doesn’t offer the AI assisted option of automatically placing the particles behind the main subject (as you can in Photoshop Elements using Adobe Sensei.) However there is the option to isolate a subject by drawing round it (though this tool isn’t highlighted when following the Animated Overlays guided edit.)Ī less flashy but perhaps more useful Guided Edit is Adjust Shadows & Highlights. The Animated Overlays Guided Edit also offers social media-friendly effects such as light leakage and lens flares. You can also introduce weather-related elements such as rain, fog and even bolts of lightning, which could be useful for drama productions. Premiere’s leaves are semi-transparent regardless of which blending mode you try. PowerDirector produces more solid looking leaves (possibly due to an embedded alpha channel). These Overlays help Premiere Elements catch up with rival app Cyberlink PowerDirector (which also enables you to add falling leaves to a clip).

Premiere Elements 2022 adds two new Guided Edits to its repertoire – Animated Overlays and Adjust Shadows and Highlights. The Animated Overlays guided edit teaches you to how to add effects such as floating bubbles or falling Autumn leaves to your video footage. Here we’ve added lightning, fog and rain elements on separate layers. New weather themed animations help change the look and mood your clips. Step-by-step text instructions are accompanied by pop-up highlights around various buttons and panels, so you can quickly learn how to find and use the workspace’s key editing tools. Here 28 themed Guided Edits (three up from last year) walk you through the video production process – from the basic tasks of importing, re-ordering and trimming clips in the timeline to adding post-production graphical elements such as titles and captions. The novice video editor should head over to the Guided workspace. You can also add titles and transitions here. The Quick workspace is the perfect place to trim single clips or cut a few shots together in the timeline before sharing them as a sequence. If you’re familiar with Photoshop Elements then Premiere Elements will look similar thanks to the same three workspaces - Quick, Guided and Expert. There’s no noticeable difference to the light grey look of the Premiere Elements 2022 workspace compared with earlier incarnations, but this will be comforting to those already using version 2021 (or earlier).

Here we’ve added light leakage and lens flare. You can combine animated overlays as multiple layers to produce more complex effects.