Moving from one machine to other when all files are on External Hard Drive and don't want to go through Backup/Restore route

Today one of the user asked on forum about transferring Organizer metadata to a new machine without Backup/Restore because all the files are already on an external hard drive which can be used with new computer.

It's not a recommended workflow and always recommended way is to backup and restore from one machine to other.

Anyway, if you want to try this route, please make sure that drive head on new computer is same as that of old computer. E.g.- If this hard drive is detected as E drive on old computer then is should be detected as E on new computer. Even if that's not the case, one more step will make things work for you.


Steps -


1. Launch Organizer on your old computer
2. Open the catalog which you want to transfer to new computer
3. Go to Help Menu and select 'System Info'
4. Copy path for 'Catalog Location :'
5. Open this location in Windows Explorer
6. Copy all the files/folders from this location and move it to new computer
7. Launch Organizer and open this catalog now by keeping USB HDD connected.
8. Try some operation on files in Organizer and see if things are working.


If drive head is different on new computer, reconnect all your files correctly and go ahead !!!


Try this and leave your comment about the experiences...

Photoshop Elements is crashing on my Macbook pro with LION on it

For last few days I have been going through various forums where behavior of Photoshop Elements on Lion is being discussed. Some of the folks are seeing some crashes which are not there on Leopard or Snow-Leopard. 


Following workaround has worked for many of the folks -




1. Go to Mac Settings dialog.
2. Click on Energy Saving option
3. Uncheck the "Automatic Graphics" in Energy Saving Preferences.



If you are also seeing some crashes on LION with Adobe Photoshop Elements. Try this workaround and share your experiences.

Not able to open more than one file in Adobe Photoshop Elements - Edtior

Recently an issue has been observed by folks who have upgraded to LION OS on Mac. When they try to open iPHOTO photographs in Editor, option for Opening the files gets disabled after opening one file. 


There are some workarounds to this problem and work well.


Here are some details -


1. Open iPhoto and drag any image from it to the PSE Editor icon on the doc.

2. Press Ctrl+O and from the open file dialog box drag the image into the PSE workspace when all other images are in floating windows mode.

3. Set PSE as an default editor in iPhoto and then open images from there.

4. Import images from Iphoto into the organizer . From the organizer open photes in PSE Editor.
 
Any of these workarounds should in this case. 

if you are facing this issue and trying any of these workarounds, please comment back to certify these.

Do you want to see thumbnails of Raw files in your windows explorer only !

At times, when we have to look at photographs in Windows explorer it's difficult to see thumbnails for our raw files. Organizer is of course a way to explore the files but at times needs is there to go to explorer and figure out some files.


Microsoft has just released "Microsoft Camera Codec Pack" which allows us to see thumbnails in explorer only. Please have a look at the link shared below and share your feedback through comments.


http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Mac's new OS LION - Is PSE6 set to run in Rosetta

LION is latest OS from Mac and Rosetta is not there. If you are using Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 or 9.0, you need to do anything, but in case of PSE6 you have do be aware of few things before upgrading to LION. Barbara has very well explained this on her blog and I don't want to rewrite it again. 


Check check -


http://barbarabrundage.com/2011/07/29/photoshop-elements-6-and-lion/

Date/Time problem with latest update of Adobe Camera Raw

Recently a problem has been discovered where time shown for Raw files is not correct. Problem is clearly visible to folks who shoot RAW + JPEG. In this case JPEG and RAW have different times, due to which order changes drastically in Elements Organizer.


Adobe has recently released an article to go to back to ACR 6.3 for some time and wait for next update to come. They are trying to fix this problem in upcoming update.


As of now, this is main concern for people who have following cameras - 

• Canon EOS 600D (Rebel T3i / Kiss X5 Digital)
• Canon EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Kiss X50 Digital)
• Fuji FinePix S200 EXR
• Fuji FinePix F550 EXR
• Fuji FinePix HS20 EXR
• Fuji FinePix X100
• Hasselblad H4D-40
• Kodak Z990
• Nikon D5100
• Olympus E-PL1s
• Olympus E-PL2
• Olympus XZ-1
• Samsung NX11

Folks with these cameras need to wait for next update because ACR 6.3 will not work for your raw files. if you click JPEG, then it's not an issue for you. 


Check out following link to know how exactly you ca avoid this problem - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/915/cpsid_91582.html




And note that files need to be re-imported into Organizer to get correct dates. Not all files but the only sets which are imported after updating ACR 6.4/6.4.1 

How to switch off Face Recoginition in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0

In past few days I have been seeing folks who are done with most of the face recognition activities in their old catalogs and want to switch it off. There are few cases, where folks don't want to use Face recognition because its not an important workflow for them. Because again and again rectangles keep popping up on top of photographs in Elements Organizer.

To switch off Face Recognition in Elements Organizer, follow these steps -


1. Launch Elements Organizer
2. Go to Edit Menu and Click on 'Preferences'
3. It will launch Preferences dialog. Now click on Media-Analysis tab.
4. Make sure that option for "Analyze Photos from People Automatically" is unchecked.

Adobe Photoshop Elements on LION - Have you tried it?

Although we know that Photoshop Elements is not supported on LION, but there is no harm in trying it. I have seen many folks using it and working fine. Some of the folks have been discussing some issues on LION ... Here we are trying to list down known issues with LION and Adobe Photoshop Elements, with probable workarounds...

I have seen different  forum discussions on Adobe websites and also visited Mac app portals where Photoshop Elements 9.0, 8.0, 6.0 are marked as working application with some users facing some issues which have not very clear understanding if those have workarounds or not.


Please have a look at an article published by ADOBE on LION support by different application - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/905/cpsid_90508.html

Adobe Photoshop Elements on LION

Did you use your Adobe Photoshop Elements Version on LION? I used my 9th version on LION and so far it's doing good and haven't seen any issue. 

I thought of starting this so that folks can share theoir experiences with other versions as well.


As of now, I heard one issue due to which Photoshop Elements crashes on quit. I read more about this problem on web and found that issue is seen on machines which have OnONE installed and OnONE is working to resolve this. In case you are encountering this crash in Adobe Photoshop Elements, just check out

http://www.ononesoftware.com/support/2073/