Can Premiere Elements 10 edit Photos?

I just have a quick question. Can Photoshop Premiere Elements 10 be used for photo editing, or is it just for video editing?
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Welcome to the forum.
The image editing capabilities of PrElements are extremely limited, and mainly revolve around some Scaling of Still Images, a bit of Vector Art placement, in Titler, very, very light compositing, and then some Effects, that can be applied to Still Images in the Timeline.
For any real image editing, one will want an image editing program, like PS, or PSE.
Good luck,
Hunt

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