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Compatibility

 

ElementsXXL works under Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7 (32-bit & 64-bit).


ElementsXXL requires the following application to be installed:

  • Adobe Photoshop Elements (Version 11 to 2024)
  • Adobe Photoshop (Version CS2 to CS6, CC to CC 2019, 2020 to 2024)


For Photoshop Elements 1-10 older versions of ElementsXXL are available. You can download trial versions of them and you also receive them after ordering ElementsXXL.

All menu items and most dialogs of ElementsXXL are localized to the language of Photoshop Elements. Some options of the ElementsXXL Preferences dialog and some messages are displayed in English or German only.

 

Feature/Version Table

Seveal features are missing in Photoshop Elements 11-12 and a few features are not available in Photoshop Elements 15 to 2024. The differences are described in the FAQ.

Here is an overview of which features of ElementsXXL are available in which version of Photoshop Elements:

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Photoshop
 
Photoshop Elements
Feature
CS
CC-2024
11
12
13
14
 
15 - 2021
2022-24
   
Run Photoshop actions (4)
 
Run Photoshop scripts (2)
   
ActionsXXL panel (70)
 
Batch Processing dialog (30)
FilterHub Panel (30)
NEW: Style Settings Dialog (150)
NEW: Layer Comps Panel (18)
Black & White filter (8)
Exposure filter (2)
Vibrance filter (2)
Curves filter
New Curves features (57/58) *1
Range Adjust (23)
Channel Mixer filter (27)
Color Balance filter (29)
Hue/Saturation Pro filter (30)
Selective Color filter (2)
Color Lookup filter (7/5)
Save Lookup files (7)
Noise Reduction (6)
Basic Denoise
Skin Smoother (16)
Skin Enhancer (10)
Blur Gallery (43)
Background Blur (5) *13
NEW: Sky Replace (21) *14
NEW: Sky Replacement Images 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500
HDR Toning (14)
Fill Flash (9)
Micro Contrast (4)
Clarity (4)
Add Haze (5)
Texture Enhance & Soften (10)
Highpass Sharpen (11)
Multi-Frequency Sharpen (7)
Sharpen filters (3)
Color Match filter (8)
Auto Lens Correction (19)
Chromatic Aberration Removal filter (3)
Warp filter (12)
Perspective Warp filter (7)
Lighting Effects (49)
New Shadows / Highlights Options (13)
16-bit/channel support for Filter Gallery, Auto Red Eye Fix, Remove Color Cast, Adjust Color for Skin Tone, Auto Smartfix, Adjust Smartfix & Convert to Black & White (7)
Auto Options (4)
Auto Saturation & Auto Color (4)
Fade / Fade Pro (23)
Anti-Alias (7)
Sharpening layer masks & color channels (2)
Preview Image feature for various filters
Label double click to reset controls (35)
Support for zoom key shortcuts (21)
Presets for filters and adjustments layers
560 560 650 650 650 650 650 650
   
Edit adjustment layers on the Adjustments panel (52)
 
Black & White adjust. layer (2)
Exposure adjustment layer
Vibrance adjustment layer
Curves adjustment layer (18)
Channel Mixer adjust. layer
Color Balance adjust. layer
Selective Color adjust. layer
Color Lookup adjustment layer

Replace Color adjustment layer (5)

Range Adjust adjustment layer

Adjustments panel icons (35)

   
Text on Path Tool
 
Pen and related tools (6/15) *2
Pen Pro Tool (15)
Puppet Warp
Mixer Brush Tool
Ruler Tool
Perspective Crop (6)
History Brush (3)
Slice Tools & Features (14/12) *3
Trim
Fit Image (5/8) *4
Content-Aware options (9)
Color Adaptation options (9)
Content-Aware Fill (9)
Crop Tool Preset feature (6)
Flow slider
Hide Cropped Pixels
   
Smart Filter panel (8)
 
Channels panel (14)
Channels sub menu (8)
Properties Panel (14)
Paths panel (21)
Brush panel (80)
Auto Corrections panel (25)
HistogramsXXL panel (19)
Scopes panel (26)
Find Layers (6)
   
Photoshop (Elements) skin
 
Startup progress dialog
New Icons & Buttons
125
125
125
125
125
125
New Key Shortcuts
27
27
29
29
30
30
Key Accelerators (2)
Key Shortcuts (10)
NEW: Icon bars (50)
Fit Layer(s) on Screen / 200% / Actual Size / Match All (4)
Layer panel context menu items
19
19
24
24
24
24
? buttons and Help menu items
20
20
51
51
50
50
49
49
Full Screen Mode
   
Smart objects (15)
 
Linked Smart Objects (4/7) *5
Smart filtering (13)
Filters on Layer Masks of Smart Objects (6)
Native Smart Filters *6
100
100
100
100
112
112
Supported 3rd Party Smart Filters
307
307
307
307
307
307
   
Auto-Align/Auto-Blend Layers (2)
 
Blend Pro (22)
Layer mask options (3)
Vector masks (17/2)
Combine Shapes (4)
Rasterize (10/11) *7
Fill Opacity
Layer Groups (4)
Merge Group
Hide/Show Layers
Align Layers (6)
Distribute Layers (6)
Lock Layers (4)
Link Layers (2)
Delete Hidden / Empty Layers (2)
Stamp Down / Stamp Group / Stamp Layers (3)
Stamp Visible
Matting (3/4)
Rename Layers & Add Layer From File (5)
NEW: Edit Layers (24)
Delete Hidden Pixels
Select Similar Layers
Split Layer (18/20)
   
Convert to 16-bit/channel (3)
 
16-bit Rendering (25)

Additional tools in 16-bit mode (Tool Mode)

29
29
29
29
29
29
Photoshop-like Image Size (13)
16-bit transformation, rotation & scale (12)
   
Color Range (14/24) *8
 
Focus Area (6) *9
Select > Background
NEW: Select > Foregound / Foreground+ (4)
NEW: Selection From > Sky / Sky+ / Sky++
Apply Image (4)
Calculations (15)
Replace Background (32)
Quick Mask Mode (2)
Fill Layer/Selection (3/4) *10
Selection from masks, shape, opacity, channels, skin (12)
Shadows, midtones and highlight selections (9)

Modify Selection features (14)

New Guide Layout (14)

New Guides from Shape (3)

   
New text anti-aliasing types (3/5) *11
 
Font Preview Size (6)
Text Tracking
Paragraph Text
Spell check text layer
Find and Replace text
Convert text to shape
Work path from text
   
Soft Proof (14)
 
Color Settings (11)
Assign Profile / Convert to profile (6)
Custom Pixel Aspect Ratio
   
Browse in Organizer
 
Open sub menu (3)
Save a Copy & Close Others (2)
Quick Export (11)
Export PDF (18)
Copy Special / Paste Special (9/1)
Copy and Paste multiple layers (2)
Copy to document (14)
Save Recovery Information
Preference Options (39/5)
History Options (3) *12
   
Total Feature Number  
856
854
 
1930
1926
2019
2082
 
2073
2063

= works on images with 8-bit and 16-bit/channel (if applicable)
= works only on images with 8-bit/channel
= already built into Photoshop Elements
= not available


*1 = Photoshop Elements 15-2022: Photoshop button on the Curves filter dialog which displays the Photoshop version of Curves.
*2 = Photoshop Elements 13/14: Besides ElementsXXL's Pen Pro Tool feature you can also use the hidden pen tools of Photoshop Elements
*3 = Photoshop Elements 15-2022: The two slice tools are not available
*4 = Photoshop Elements 13-2022: Fit Image and Image Size offer "Automatic" and "Preserve Details" interpolation options
*5 = Photoshop Elements 13: Linked smart objects are only usable with some limits
*6 = Photoshop Elements 15-2022: 12 new smart filters from the Enhance/Adjustments menu
*7 = Photoshop Elements 11-12: Rasterizing styles does not work in these versions of Photoshop Elements
*8 = Photoshop Elements 11-12: Not all features of Color Range are available.
*9 = For 16-bit images the view mode and output are limited to the selection option

*10 = Photoshop Elements 13-2022: Color Adaptation feature available
*11 = Photoshop Elements 13-2022: "Windows LCD" and "Windows" anti-alias options
*12 = Photoshop Elements 12-2022: The "Log History to Metadata" features does not work
*13 = Photoshop Elements 2020-2022: No automatic masking in previous versions of Photoshop Elements
*14 = Photoshop Elements 2024 & Photoshop 2021 and higher recommended


 

Supported 3rd Party Smart Filters

In addition to the native Photoshop Elements filters ElementsXXL also supports 307 plugins from 30 plugin companies as smart filters:

  • AKVIS: AirBrush, ArtSuite, ArtWork, Chameleon, Coloriage, Decorator, Enhancer, HDR Factory, LightShop, Make Up, Nature Art, Noise Buster, Refocus, Retoucher, Sketch, SmartMask
  • Alienskin: Bokeh 1/2, Exposure 2-7, Exposure X-X4, Eye Candy 5-7, Snap Art 1-4
  • Amico Perry: Luce
  • AV Bros: Page Curl 2, Page Curl Pro 2, Puzzle Pro 3
  • Cybia: Alienator, Fluoron, HotShot, Retrograde, Vivida, BW-Plus, FastFix, G-Force, Hi-Spot, NightScope, Pseudo-IR, SkyGrad, Techni-X, AlphaWorks, ColourWorks, EdgeWorks, EmbossWorks, MasterBlaster, Mezzy, ScreenWorks, SwapShop
  • Digital Film Tools: Film Stocks, Light 3.5, PhotoCopy, PowerStroke, Rays, reFine
  • DxO Optics: FilmPack 3-5, ViewPoint
  • ePaperPress: PTLens
  • Exposure Software: Exposure X5
  • Filter Forge: Filter Forge 2/3
  • Flaming Pear: Freebies, Aetherize, Boss Emboss, Flexify 2, Flood, Glare, Glitterato, Hue and Cry, India Ink, Lacquer, LunarCell, Melancholytron, Mr. Contrast, Organic Edges, Silver, SolarCell, SuperBladePro, Swerve, Twist, Vibrant Patterns, Wavy Color
  • FocusMagic: FocusMagic 4
  • HDR Soft: PhotoMatix Tone Mapping
  • Imagenomic: Noiseware, Portraiture, Realgrain
  • LaserSoft: SDRx
  • Mediachance: Color! Color!, DCE Tools, ReDynamix
  • namesuppressed: AutoInterlace Free, Softener 2
  • Neat Image: Neat Image
  • Nik Collection: Analog Efex Pro 1/2, Color Efex 4, Dfine 2, Sharpener Pro 3, Silver Efex Pro 2, Viveza 2
  • ON1: ON1 Develop 2017, ON1 Effects 2017, ON1 Effects Free 10.5, ON1 Effects 10.5, ON1 Enhance 10.5, ON1 Portrait 10.5
  • Picture Code: Noise Ninja
  • PowerRetouche: Anti-Aliasing, Black Definition, Black/White Studio, Brightness, Chromatic Aberration, Color Corrector, Colorfringe Remover, Contrast, Dynamic Range Compressor, Edgeline, Equialize Luminance, Exposure, Film Grain, Gamma, Golden Section, Graduated Color, Illumination Editor, Lens Corrector, Levels, Noise Corrector, Posterize, Satuation, Sharpness, Soft-filter, Toned Photos, Transparency, Vignetting, White Balance, Zone System
  • RC Filters: Adaptive Contrast Curve, Adaptive Histogram EQ, Channel Saturation, Fine USM Sharpen/Deblur, Glamour Blur, Hue/Saturation Channels, Retinex, RG Color, Saturation Mask, Ultimate Hue/Saturation, Very High Radius High Pass Contrast, Very High Radius Unsharp Mask
  • Redfield: Bas-Relief, ATX, Craquelure 3D, Emblazer, Expressionist, Face Control 1/2, Fine Touch, Fractalius, iEmboss, Jama 2000, Jama 3D, Lattice Composer, Lattice XP, Perfectum, Plasteroid, Ripples Magic, Seamless Workshop, Sharpinion, Sharpinion HD, SketchMaster, Texturation 3D, Umatix, Water Ripples, Umatix, Fractalius 3D, Fractialus G4, Sharplet, Unobtanium, Unobtanium HD
  • Red Giant: Knoll Light Factory, Magic Bullet PhotoLooks
  • Skylum: Luminar, Luminar 4
  • The Plugin Site: ColorWasher 3, LightMachine 2, BWStyler 2, ColorStyler, ContrastMaster, FocalBlade 2, HyperTyle 2, NoiseControl, PhotoFreebies, Plugin Galaxy 3
  • Tiffen: Dfx 3
  • Topaz Labs: Adjust, BW Effects, Clarity, Clean, DeJpeg, DeNoise, Detail 2/3, Glow, Impression, InFocus, Lens Effects, PhotoFXLab, ReStyle, Simplify, Star Effects, Texture Effects
  • Van Der Lee: Halftone
  • Xycod: Postworkshop 3


If you want ElementsXXL to support other plugins as smart filters, please let us know.

 

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