How to Alter/Trim Canvas Size to avoid unused regions on the sides || Adobe Photoshop Elements Scripts

Today is again a day of sharing brilliant information found on Adobe Forums. Of-course, we shall not be copying the details of the formula shared. This is one of the technique which has been noticed at various places in Adobe Photoshop Elements Forums and proved very useful. I have tried it yet but feedback is quite good.

So if you are also looking for a solution to trim down your canvas to make your creation look good, check out following link - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4361259#4361259

Don't forget to say Thanks for Author(photodrawken) of the formula on same link !!

"Barbara's Sort of Tech Blog" - A Knowledge Mine for folks using Aodbe Photoshop Elements

I think, I need not to write anything now. Title of this post is self explanatory and Barbara's name is quite popular among users of Adobe Photoshop Elements. She is top contributor on Adobe Forums for 'Adobe Photoshop Elements' and popularly known as 'Community Profession' there. She has answers to most of the queries related to Adobe Photoshop Elements, irrespective of version, platform or other variables you can think of. 

She is Author of popular book 'Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 - The Missing Manual' and other version books related to Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Apart from these books, she keeps sharing relevant information about Adobe Photoshop Elements at http://barbarabrundage.com/ and idea of today's post is to share this link with all folks who use this wonderful product by Adobe.

Enjoy !!!

How to restore back-ups of older versions (7.0, 8.0, 9.0) in latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements (10.0) || Restoring PSE7/8/9 catalogs in PSE10

Here we are going to talk about very basic workflow of Backup/Restore between different versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Every latest version of Adobe Photoshop Version supports backward compatibility for Catalogs, which means that any catalog of older versions can be reused in upper versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Normal Catalogs of old versions can be converted directly into newer version catalogs and if there are backups of catalogs, restore operation automatically convert the catalog for new version. Let's take an example of PSE8 backup which we want to restore in PSE10 -

1. Launch Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0

2. Go to Restore option under File Menu

3. Go through guided steps of locating backed up files and start restore. 

Hopefully Restore in newer version works well for you. Please feel free to post any comments for further queries around specific scenario about Backup-Restore in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Map functionalities are not present in 10th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements

Most of us know that Placing on map and Geo tagging functionality have been cut-down in 10th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements and this happened because of discontinuation of Yahoo-maps. Adobe Photoshop Elements used to integrate Yahoo-maps and which are discontinued by Yahoo. Even this functionality has stopped working in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. 

For example, in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 workflow of placing on map is broken as blank screen is shown on any attempt to use Geo-tagging workflow. But if we take out files with GPS info and try to use the info on Flickr-maps, it works very well.

Are you confused with number of DVDs you get with pack of Adobe Photoshop Elements?

Many times, folks ask me about the DVDs they get on buying a licensed copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Recently the frequency of questions has raised significantly after launch of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 and we thought of sharing few basic things about Software Pack of Adobe Photoshop Elements.