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Last updated on
Feb 20, 2025
Your Story! Just a tap away with Adobe Elements Mobile Application
Imagine capturing a breathtaking sunset, a spontaneous road trip, or a fun moment with friends and family. Now, picture turning those photos into a stunning masterpiece—all while you’re still on the go. That’s the magic of the Adobe Elements mobile app. With just a tap, you can apply effects that bring your story to life. No complicated steps, no waiting—just quick and seamless edits at your fingertips. It’s like having a creative studio in your pocket, ready whenever inspiration strikes. With Adobe Elements Mobile app your story isn’t just captured—it’s crafted.
As part of the Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements release, we’re offering a mobile companion app that makes it easy to upload photos and videos to the cloud and then do more sophisticated editing in the Elements desktop apps.
The app is available as a public beta to the licensed users of :
- Photoshop Elements 2025 and Premiere Elements 2025 desktop applications
- Photoshop Elements 2024 and Premiere Elements 2024 desktop applications
- Photoshop Elements 2023 and Premiere Elements 2023 desktop applications
We are also offering a free 7-day trial of the mobile apps. The app supports Android v9 or higher and iOS 14.5 or higher.
How to install
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Use your Adobe ID to log in to the app. You don’t need a serial number or redemption code.
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Once you’ve had a chance to try the app, we’d love to hear what you think. Use any of the following methods to provide feedback:
- Adobe forums
- The feedback area within the app.
- Private ratings and feedback via Google Play.
To install the iOS companion app, you’ll need Apple TestFlight. The Adobe Elements mobile companion is a beta app, and Apple limits the number of users to 10,000. If downloads have reached the limit, you’ll be notified that the app isn’t accessible.
Here’s how to get started:
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Tap on the Apple App Store badge or scan the QR code below to access TestFlight directly from your iOS phone and follow the instructions to download and install the app.
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Install the Adobe Elements iOS app from the TestFlight app interface
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Open and sign in to the Adobe Elements iOS app with your Adobe ID.
TestFlight will notify you each time a new app build is available, and it will let you know what’s new in the latest build. If you have TestFlight 3 or later, you can turn on automatic updates to have the latest builds install automatically.
Once you’ve had a chance to try the app, we’d love to hear what you think. Use any of the following methods to provide feedback:
- Adobe forums
- The feedback area within the app
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Features
Capture a photo and enhance it effortlessly with the Adobe Elements Mobile app, with its powerful features at your disposal to help you create stunning, professional-looking edits in just a few taps.
Here’s what you can do with the Adobe Elements mobile app (Beta):
- Upload photos and videos to the cloud for access in the Elements desktop and web apps.
- Access, view, and share photos and videos.
- One-click Quick Actions for photos - Auto Crop, Auto Straighten, Auto Tone, Auto White Balance, Remove Background.
- Basic editing for photos: crop, rotate, transform, change aspect ratio.
- Adjustments for photos - Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation etc.
- Create Auto Background, Pattern Overlay, and Moving Overlay creations with your photos.
- Import media from phone gallery to Photoshop Elements 2025 using QR code.
- Store up to 2GB of photos and videos with free cloud storage.
Creations on Mobile
We are excited to announce the introduction of Creations on mobile. You can now easily view and create your own Creations, both on web and mobile platforms. The following options are now available for you to explore:
- Photo Collage (2-5 photos)
- Moving Overlay (1 photo)
- Pattern Overlay (1 photo)
- Auto Background (1 photo)
Tip:
Photo Collage: Combine photos into a single, stylish layout to showcase multiple moments together.
Moving Overlay: Add dynamic, animated overlays to a photo, giving it a lively, eye-catching effect.
Pattern Overlay: Apply creative patterns over a photo to enhance its visual appeal with unique textures and designs.
Auto Background: Automatically detect and change or remove the background of a photo for a fresh, customized look.
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Steps to Create a New Creation:
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Once you're ready to begin, you can start the creation process by either clicking on a photo or navigating to the Creations Tab.
- Upon selecting a photo, click on the Create action on bottom bar.
- Or on the Creations Tab, select the Create button floating on the right corner of the screen.
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Select the type of creation you want to make:
- Moving Overlay, Pattern Overlay, and Auto Background requires a single-photo.
- For a Photo Collage, you can use 2 to 5 photo from the selection page.
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After initiating the creation, you can wait for the progress window to complete the process, or you can minimize it while the creation is being prepared by simply tapping on the ‘X’ icon (cross icon) to minimize.
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Once your creation is ready, you will be redirected to the preview page from the progress window. Alternatively, if you minimized the progress window, you can access the preview from the Status Page.
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To review your finalized creation, long hold or press on the preview of the photo to compare the before and after output of the photo. After reviewing and finalizing your creation with the chosen template or background, click Continue to proceed.
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You can now:
Once you click on Continue, these are the options available Once you click on Continue, these are the options available - Upload your creation to the cloud, by tapping on ‘Upload to cloud’. Once your creation is uploaded, you can view the media on the Creations Tab.
- Save it to your gallery/photos, by tapping on ‘Save to gallery’.
- Share it directly to social platforms, by tapping on ‘Share’.
- Discard your creation, by tapping on ‘Discard’.
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These steps ensure a smooth and efficient creation process, allowing you to easily produce, save, and share your creations.
Viewing Creations:
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You can view all your mobile and web creations in the Creations Tab. Use the available filters to easily view specific types of creations based on your preferences.
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The three dot fly out menu available on the screen provides you with the option to sort your creations by the date of creation using the sorting filter 'Sort Media'.
Three dot flyout menu Three dot flyout menu "Sort Media" option to sort your creations "Sort Media" option to sort your creations Note:For iOS, you can also select your desired media using Select Media option. Now you can also long press or hold down on the media to select the media and then select multiple creations. After selecting your desired media from all the media files that are displayed, you have the option to share your selection using Share, save them to files or phone gallery, make it offline using Make offline and delete your selection using Delete.
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You can view, share, download, and delete your creations from the Creations Tab or individual media in single media view. You can even access your creations offline.
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All your creations are accessible from the Creations Tab, whether they were made on mobile or web, allowing you to manage, edit or share them seamlessly.
The Android and iOS mobile apps support the following formats:
- Photos: GIF, HEIC, JPEG, JPG, and PNG
- Videos: 3gp, 3gpp, avi, HEVC, m2v, m4v, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, and WMV
Tap the blue media icon in the lower right corner. You'll be taken to your phone library where you can choose the media to upload. Once your media is uploaded to the cloud, you’ll see a thumbnail on the Home screen, the media will appear automatically in the Adobe Elements web app and be accessible to download and use in the desktop apps.
Any media you upload to the cloud from the mobile app or web app will be viewable in the mobile app on the Home screen.
No. At the moment, the mobile apps are only available for use on phones.
Deleted media can be accessed in the Deleted Media tab of the Library screen. You've 30 days from the date of deletion to restore it.
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No, the web and mobile companion apps are available to licensed users of Photoshop Elements 2023 or Premiere Elements 2023.
Yes, we offer a 7-day free trial of the mobile app. Follow the installation instructions above to download and install the Android or iOS app. Sign in with your Adobe ID. Click on "Start Trial" when prompted. To continue to use the mobile app after the trial expires, you will need to purchase, install, and activate the Photoshop Elements 2023 or Premiere Elements 2023 desktop application.
Your media will appear in the Home screen based on the date the media was captured.
Your photos and videos are uploaded to Creative Cloud storage, where you can access them via the Adobe Elements web and mobile beta companion apps on your phone, your web browser, and the Elements desktop apps.
Yes, your media is stored in the Creative Cloud so will use existing storage.
- iOS app - click on your profile image in the top bar, click on your name/Adobe ID in the menu that opens, and you can see the amount of cloud storage used and available.
- Android app - click on Elements logo in the left of top bar, from the opened menu select “My Account” option, and you can see the amount of cloud storage used and available.
You can buy more storage here. Alternatively, you can permanently delete some media to free up storage.
Please connect with our support team via chat for help with any issues.
Click here for more information about the web beta companion app.
