One of the most exciting projects you can tackle in image editing software that supports layering—Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator, etc.—is to combine images in interesting ways.

Adobe's latest annual update to its home video-editing package, Premiere Elements, tries to pack more of everything onto the disc: more clip art, more themes and more effects. Version 8 also includes ...

Adobe Elements programs, the less feature-packed cousins of Photoshop and Premiere Pro, are designed to simplify photo and video editing — but the latest versions take this a big step further, by ...