I bought this as an upgrade to PSE11. There are many excellent review of the upgraded features in this edition, and so instead I will mention some computer related issues I experienced. I intially loaded this onto a 32bit computer with 4GB memory running Windows 10. Unfortunately it just wasn't up to the job of doing more complex tasks, such as creating a panorama. I could only do this by shrinking the photos right down. Face recognition was very slow as were most of the tasks I carried out. Premiere elements was even worse. I could get it to work, but previewing the movie was very jerky. All of these things were symptoms of insufficient memory, but with 32bit, 4GB (3.5GB usable) is the maximum memory that can be utilised. In the end I bought a new PC with Windows 64bit and 8GB memory. As a bonus it had a 128GB SSD as well as a 1TB conventional drive. Having deactivated PSE14 on my original computer I re-installed it, and it was like different software. Everything worked smoothly and it zipped along. I can now create panoramas and edit my movies with relative ease.
However, there was one issue that you need to be aware of if you install the software on an SSD with limited space. The media cache files folder which defaults to the C: drive quickly starts to fill up and eventually could use up all available space. I was able to move the Premiere Elements cache files to my 1TB drive which is where I also set up my scratch files for both Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. However I could not find out how to move my Adobe Media Cache files which increased markedly every time I played a video file in Organiser. In the end I gave up and emptied my Adobe Media Cache files and removed all of my video files from my catlog. Now everything is fine, with the Adobe Media Cache Files folder remaining empty. I also cannot move the Adobe Media Cache which contains 100s of 1KB mcdb files, but these aren't causing me a problem at the moment and so I've left them. So in summary this is a great piece of software providing your PC is up to the job, and needs to be carefully set up if you want to have good control over your storage.
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Bluenote
You need to manage your cache storage carefully if using an SSD.
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 5 décembre 2015
Dave
Nightmare to install (for me), Much the same as the old version with more help support.
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 19 septembre 2016