How to check Backup/Sync Status and use other controls related to Synchronization Activities in Adobe Photoshop Elements

Various Sync Icons:

 You will see various sync icons attached to media items and albums present in a catalog that are marked for sync. It will be helpful to understand the meaning of each of these:

Backup Sync Meter in the Organizer Status Bar:

Icon  in Status bar is called as Sync-Meter which helps us to understand different states of Sync. Single click on the Sync icon in Status-bar to view the following context menu:

States of Backup/Sync Meter:

Red: This icon is shown when sync faces some problem due to which it cannot proceed further.

Yellow: This is shown for warnings due to which sync can continue but user needs to take some action.

 

Normal: The icon is shown when sync is running normally.

 

Options available in the Sync Meter Context Menu :

View Backup/Synchronized files:

Enables you to view those files that have already been synchronized. View not Backup/Unsynchronized files: Enables you to view those files which have not been marked for sync.

View files Pending Backup/Synchronization: 

It shows those files that are marked for sync but their synchronization is not yet complete. Sync may be pending due to one of the following reasons:
1.The files are still in the process of being synced.
2.The files are part of a version set but are not the top element, so their synchronization is pending

View and Resolve Conflicts 

Select the View and Resolve Conflicts option from the Sync Meter context menu to view the warnings and resolve them.

Pause/Resume Sync The Backup/ Sync Agent also facilitates you to do the following:

1. Pause Backup/ Sync: Temporarily pauses automatic backup/sync.
2. Resume Backup/ Sync: Restarts a paused Backup/Sync.
View Backup/ Sync Preferences It Launches Sync Preferences dialog which is covered in another Tutorial.

View Backup/Sync Status

Helps you to see what the sync is doing at that particular instant.

Option to Sign-In

If you are not signed in to your account then the catalog options are not enabled. Instead there is an option to Sign in through icon . This is shown in the image below:

Backup/Sync Options in the Windows System Tray

In the Windows system tray, right-click the Photoshop.com Backup/Sync Agent icon

The following options are available: 

View Backup/Sync Status: Enables you to view the status of sync activity 

Backup/Sync Only When Idle: Performs backup/sync when the computer is idle (that is, you are not performing other tasks, such as typing).

Pause Backup/Sync: Temporarily pauses automatic backup/sync. 

Resume Backup/Sync: Restarts a paused sync. 

Stop Backup/Sync: Turns off sync. With this option, sync can only be restarted by selecting ‘Backup/Sync is On’ through the Sync Preferences. 

Note: After you have stopped sync manually from the sync meter, you can start it again from the Sync Preferences. To increase the convenience of starting sync again, a ‘start backup/sync’ option is also provided in the sync meter present in the organizer status bar. This option is shown in the image below

I love Photomail in Adobe Photoshop Elements : Best way of quickly sharing your Photograpsh with Friends in interesting way

I Love Photomail in Adobe Photoshop Elements...

In my opinion its very bad way of sharing photographs through attaching jpg files with an email and other sharing methods are not very quick... Photomail is the solution for Photographers like me who want to share the photographs through an interesting mail in nice background template... Lets know more about how can we send a Photomail...

STEP-1: Select Photographs in Organizer Photo-Well which are to be shared and go to SHARE Pane

In SHARE Panel of Organizer, click on "Photo Mail" button and your workflow starts here..

STEP-2: Add/Remove Photographs for Emailing and opt for showing/not showing Captions with Photographs in E-mail

As we click on PhotoMail button in Share Pane, all selected photographs are shown on right side of main Photo-Well. There is a "+" which is used for adding more photographs from your catalog for E-mailing. "-" button is used to remove the photograph from selection-set on right. 

There is another checkbox on the top for showing captions with Photographs or not... Check this option as you wish....

STEP-3: Select the Friends with whom you want to share the Photographs and Write a Message

 

As you click Next after selecting the photographs, we are presented with opions to add a message for Email and selecting friends from my Contact Book.

*** If you are a www.photoshop.co user, your Contact-Book is always Synchronized between Adobe Photoshop Elements and www.photoshop.com. Anything added on www.photoshop.com will automatically be available in Adobe Photoshop Elements and Vice-Versa...

STEP-4: Choose a Stationery : Select appropriate Photo-Mail Template according to the mood of your Photographs...

In Adobe Photoshop Elements - Organizer. here are lot many templates for Photomail. I like 'Beach' and use it most of the times.. In Above image you can see different categories of Photomail Templates...

STEP-5: Customize the Layout : How to place your photographs and text in your mail

As you select Template and click Next, yo are presented with options for text and Photograph placement in the Photo-Mail. In above image, I have increased the size of Photographs to be shown in Photomail....

STEP-7: Cick Next and Photomail is ready to Send

Try it out and I am sure you will like it !!!

Do you know that Adobe Elements Organizer is Free in 8th Version of Adobe Photoshop Elements?

Are you aware that Organizer is FREE in 8th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Yes, its right and here I would be sharing more specific details about Organizer in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.

Why I am saying it's FREE: As you might be aware that Adobe provides trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements which can be used for 30 Days. After 30 days you need to pay for valid serial key. In PSE8, you can continue to use Elements Organizer without paying anything.

Here are few other facts about Elements Organizer in PSE8:

1. Elements Organizer is first time shipped with Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0, which is a video editing application for hobbyist Users.
2. Face Recognition is one of the cool and new feature of 8th release of Adobe Photoshop Elements.
3. Elements Organizer 8.0 supports Multi-Machine Sync through www.photoshop.com
4. It Helps you analyzing your video files automatically on some standard parameters.

Much More...

Just check it out...

What is special for US Users in "Adobe Photoshop Elements"???

Hi,

If you are in US and looking for Adobe Photoshop Elements for your Photographs, let me share what additional benefits you will have. I am really sorry to say that some features in Adobe Photoshop Elements are disabled for Non-US Users, but Yes, they have few other alternatives... Here I will be talking about the extra benefits a US User can have...

Here is the list of benefits you have:

1. 2GB Free Space on www.photoshop.com

2. AutomaticBackup/Sync Solution which enables you backing up your media files to www.photoshop.com automatically. And most importantly, it keep the updated files on www.photoshop.com.

3. Live Album Sharing with your Frinds through www.photoshop.com

4. Free Album Template which are shippped time to time. So most of the times you get new templates for sharing your memories with friends. Templates for Halloween, New Year, Christmas etc.

5. Lot of Artworks and other type of Content for Photoshop Elements Editor.

6. Time to time, new tutorials are pushed through Elements Inspirational Browser. These tutorials are very helpful and in case you have good understanding of any good use of Product, you can publish a Tutorial for Elements Users.


APART FROM THAT PLUS USERS GETS SOME SPECIAL CONTENT, TEMPLATES and TUTORIALS IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS.

To know more about 8th release of Adobe Photoshop Elements check out http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/

Preparing photographs for your Blog/Wesite by using Batch Processing in Adobe Photoshop Elements for resizing, renaming and exporting into new file-type

Preparing photographs for your Blog/Wesite by using Batch Processing in Adobe Photoshop Elements for resizing, renaming and exporting into new file-type 

As discussed in last post we can also do batch processing in organizer for exporting low resolution files for my blog or website. I prefer this method when I don't need watermarks, because this mechanism does not support adding Watermarks.

Lets come to the point and discuss how to do this. I will proceed with the workflow I prefer.

1. SELECT YOUR FILES AND OPEN EXPORT DIALOG

Normally I organize my similar or relevant photographs through Albums in PSE Organizer. I select my Album and it shows all the files in Organizer Image-well. Press CTRL+A to select all the files in album which I want to export. After Selection, Go to File > Export to New File(s). It will the dialog shown below:

In above dialog you can see that all selected Photographs are shown in left panel and there is flexibility to add more or remove some photographs from this selection. Use "+" and "-" signs to do so...

2. SELECT FILE-TYPE YOU WANT

In  first section of this dialog, select the file format you want to export. There are five options : 

1. Use Original Format

2. JPEG

3. PNG

4. TIFF

5. PSD

In my case, I use JEPG normally... Its your choice what you need...

3. SELECT RESOLUTION AND QUALITY

Next step is to select appropriate resolution. I prefer 640*480 for my blog and its your choice but its preferred to use file-size less than 1024*768....

Quality is only applicable for JPEG files and we will talk more on Quality parameter on this blog...

4. SELECT THE LOCATION WHERE YOU WANT TO EXPORT

Next step is to select the location where you want to export the selected files. It gives you option to launch Windows Explorer to locate the folder or create a folder.

5 GIVE APPROPRIATE NAME TO YOUR FILES

Last step is to give appropriate names to your files and click on Export to get renamed, resized files in desired format...

Batch Processing in Adobe Photoshop Elements (Editor) : Resizing, Auto-Adjustments, Watermarking, Renaming, Labeling and Changing File-Types

Batch Processing in Adobe Photoshop Elements (Editor) : Resizing, Auto-Adjustments, Watermarking, Renaming, Labeling and Changing File-Types

As discussed in last post on this blog, here is one of the method to prepare a set  of files you want to prepare for uploading to your Website or Blog...

Adobe Photoshop Elements - Editor helps in processing multiple files for following operations. All these operations can be applied to a set of Files which are in some specific folder or opened in Editor...

1. File Renaming

2. File Resizing

3. Adding Watermarks or Labeling

4. Changing File Types 

5. Applying Auto-Adjustments    

        a. Auto Levels

        b. Auto Contrast  

        a. Auto Color

        b. Sharpen

Now lets talk about the workflow to achieve this.

Option to Launch Batch Processing Dialog : PSE-Editor >> File Menu >> Process Multiple Files 

At First we will discuss what can be source for Batch Processing. This dialog accpets files from three types of sources:

1. A Folder which contains all the files you want to process (Personally I use this method...)

2. All Files currently open in Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor...

3. Import from Integrated Camera n all..

 I will consider first scenario here where you have all the files to be processed in on Folder. So in first section of this dialog you need to select the folder where all files are placed. Check the option for including Subfolders in case its applicable for you....

Now you need to provide the location where you want to get the final files...In case you want the output files at same location simply check the option "Same as Source" and need not to provide a separate location for output files...

What's Next after selecting Source and Destinations for Files

Now its time to opt for settings you want to apply on all the files you have.... Lets consider second section of this dialog which gives various options for renaming your files. As you must be knowing that correct file name with meaningful information are very well entertained by image search engines... In Adobe Photoshop Elements, there are various renaming options: Please see Image below which showsthere options in a Dropdown...You can then choose the naming convention such as typing a document name and the sequential numbering system to be used...

Next is File Resizing :

In the image size area select Resize Images as that is what we came here to do. Select Constrain Proportions as you will want your images to be resized in proportion and not skewed or distorted out of shape.  Width and Height values can be mentioned in Pixels, Cm, mm, inches, percent... there is also an option to mention dpi values... For my Blogs, I use 640*480

Now type the largest Width or Height to use for your resized images. If you enter 800 for the Width you will be unable to enter a value for the Height and vice versa. This is because you can only set one value : width OR height .So if you enter 800 as the Width all images will be sized so their width is 800 and their respective heights will be adjusted in proportion. Portrait images will be taller than 800 pixels and Landscape ones will be shorter.

Here too you should set the resolution for the images.  For the web select 72 dpi.

  

File Type Conversion... 

To convert the files to a different format or to compress them, select the file format to use. For JPEG format images you can choose Max, High, Medium or Low quality. 

Auto Adjustments through Btach Processing in Adobe Photoshop Elements

You can also apply a Quick Fix to your images as you process them. These fixes include Auto Contrast, AutoLevels, Auto Color and Sharpen. 

Labeling and Watermarking

You can also apply Labels to your image such as adding a watermark or caption by configuring the options in the Labels area....This is a key feature in this dialog which is required by many photographers... In my case, I come to this dialog only because Watermarking is very easy through this... Most of the controls in this dialog are self explainator... Please let me know through comments in case you need more details on something related to this dialog...

When you are done with all the selection, Click OK and you will get your resized files in Destination folder selected.... HAPPY BLOGGING :)

How to resize Multiple files in a batch, for uploading on Web

Many of my friends ask a common question even when they are already using Adobe Photoshop Elements and play very well with Layers, Adjustments, curves and all.

Today one of my friend called me again and said that "I want to upload some of my Photographs on facebook, tell me a good way of resizing all of them with simple steps. Also tell me what size is good for web..."

In response to above, I asked him if she uses Organizer for managing the files? She said no, I am on Mac and it comes with Bridge and tell me if there is something in Editor I can use.

So yes, she had an option in Editor through which she could resize her photographs. Even a lot of other things are possible in one go. Things like Watermarking, Renaming, Auto-Adjustments and file-type changes... All this is possible through "Process Multiple Files" dialog which can be invoked from File Menu.

But remember, you need to keep all the files in one folder for processing...

I will discuss more on same topic for users who manage their media files in Organizer or keep there files on different folders on Hard Drive...

BATCH PROCESSING IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS:

1. Organizer : File >> Export to New File(s)
2. Editor ; File >> Process Mutlitple Files

Check out same space for more detailed information on these with pros and cons associated with different workflows...

Adobe Photopshop Elements Group on Facebook for good interaction with other folks who use Photoshop Elements for their Photographs

 Today I came across Adobe Photoshop Elements Group on Facebook ...

Its an interesting group having 800 fans as of now and gorwing day by day. This group provides good level of interaction among PSE users and there are many discussion going arround different editing tools, printing and other stuff...