Beautiful image!

...red sky at night, sailor's delight!

...red sky at night, sailor's delight!

Flakes Mill is exactly correct. Although Adobe offers annual updates, there's no need to buy every update. Most of the time the updates are for Beginner or Guided Modes. I'm pretty sure you do everything in Expert Mode and it's rare that they make an update to that. However, another subscriber here said that Elements 2022 had some updates to Camera Raw for some of the newer Camera Raw formats, if that's important to you.

I don't know anything about Elements 2022, but I have had Elements 2021 for over a year with no problems. If you can use Expert Mode, it's unlikely that E22 will do anything more than E21. If you are still using the Quick or Guided Modes, you'll probably see a few enhancements in E22. OBTW, there's nothing that you can do in Quick and Guided that you can't do better in Expert.

I don't know anything about Elements 2022, but I have had Elements 2021 for over a year with no problems. If you can use Expert Mode, it's unlikely that E22 will do anything more than E21. If you are still using the Quick or Guided Modes, you'll probably see a few enhancements in E22. OBTW, there's nothing that you can do in Quick and Guided that you can't do better in Expert.

I've used Eements for over 10 years. It has satisfied all my image processing needs, including transplanting my wife from the Atlantic Coast to Hawaii (shortly after we visited Hawaii), and changing her blouse color, and applying "makeup" to her face.

XPS 13 WITH touchscreen. I do all my photo editing on it (Photoshop Elements). Color quality is excellent and screen resolution is 250 PPS on a screenshot, without zooming. If your camera has a chip you may have to buy a chip adapter, not expensive. Also, the newer XPS' have only USB-C Ports. So if you're using USB connectors, including a wireless mouse, you'll need an adapter or a USB-C compatable mouse.

Last line. Isn't that the truth!

DirtFarmer has the most cogent and complete answer I've seen here. I use OneDrive as my cloud storage for all my files and it's sync'd to my computer hard drive. Therefore, every morning, my computer backs up OneDrive to my external drive. Regarding photos, I keep them on the camera chip until I know that the computer backup with them was successful. I have two external drives, one at home and one in the bank safe deposit box. Once a month, I swap them and update the one I brought home.
OneDrive also has a Vault for storage of your personal information. For security, it cannot be sync'd to your computer's hard drive, so it cannot be backed up as above. I back my Vault files to a thumb drive which I keep in my home safe. As with the external backup, I have a second Vault thumb drive in the bank safe deposit box and those thumbdrives also get swapped once a month.

Also a beautiful picture and pretty bride. Glad you made it through your Vietnam Tour. I volunteered for a fighter squadron headed to Vietnam. It worked out well. Jodi wrote me every day while I was deployed.

Dave H2, Here's a picture of our wedding. I was deployed most of our engagement, were married nine days after the fly-in (second picture). Jodi's mom had to buy the champaign. Why two bottles? One for Jodi and me, the other for my back-seater and his wife.

The Dell XPS 13 has great resolution and screen touch control. I do all of my post-processing on it, using Photoshop Elements. If you look hard you cn find one for $1000.00 Just make sure that it has a touch screen, some don't. OBTW, the XPS 13's now out have only USB-C ports, so you may have to buy an adapter. Not very expensive.

I was a Navy fighter pilot in 1965 when I first met my future wife. And we are still married for life. She was behind the Navy Exchange record counter when I walked in to buy some toiletries. When I saw her I quickly changed course and bought a record from her, Barbra Streisand's, "The Way we Were." Later I went back for anothr record and a date. She was behind the camera counter. I got a camera and a date. Five weeks later we were engaged. That wasn't quite the first camera I ever owned, but it was the most important one, bar none.

I'm not into the $1000+ cameras so what I say won't probably matter. I have a Canon PowerShot ELPH 360 HS. The battery and charger that came with the camera are both inferior to the PowerTrust batteries and chargers that I also get from Amazon. The Canon batteries are 800 mAh and the first charger that I got about six years ago for an ELPH 340, failed after two years. The PowerTrust batteries are 1200 mAh and therefore last about 1.5 times longer before needing a charge. I bought these from Amazon. Some of these batteries are about five years old and I've never had a problem with a single one.