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12th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements had brought a lot for great features for us - Let's check out

Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 is recently launched by Adobe and folks around us have already started exploring it. Here we are going to share some of the quick highlights of latest version and on daily basis, we shall be sharing specific details about this new release. We are really excited to explore this new version and I am sure that you will also be. Let's jump on to new stuff we have in 12th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

New Camera Raw Update is available for Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 with great support of new cameras in Market

Latest Adobe Camera Raw Update for Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 is available now (Adobe Camera Raw 7.4). So if you have bought a new camera recently, get ready to shoot in raw and experoience the amazing power of Adobe Camera Raw as well as Raw technologies shared by different camera manufacturers. 

Here is the list of new cameras supported in Adobe Camera Raw 7.4 -

Canon EOS 1D C

Canon ESO 100D (Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7)

Canon EOS 700D (Rebel T5i / Kiss X7i)

Casio Exilim EX-ZR700

Casio Exilim EX-ZR710

Casio Exilim EX-ZR750

Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR

Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR

Fujifilm FinePix SL1000

Fujifilm X100s

Fujifilm X20

Hasselblad H5D-40

Hasselblad H5D-50

Hasselblad Lunar

LEICA M (Typ 240)

Nikon 1 J3

Nikon 1 S1

Nikon D7100

Nikon Coolpix A

Nikon Coolpix P330

Olympus XZ-10

Pentax MX-1

Samsung NX300

Sony Alpha NEX-3N

Sony Alpha SLT-A58

 

New Camera Support in added in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 through Adobe Camera Raw update 7.4

Now raw files from following cameras will work with Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 -

Canon EOS 1D C

Canon ESO 100D (Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7)

Canon EOS 700D (Rebel T5i / Kiss X7i)

Casio Exilim EX-ZR700

Casio Exilim EX-ZR710

Casio Exilim EX-ZR750

Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR

Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR

Fujifilm FinePix SL1000

Fujifilm X100s

Fujifilm X20

Hasselblad H5D-40

Hasselblad H5D-50

Hasselblad Lunar

LEICA M (Typ 240)

Nikon 1 J3

Nikon 1 S1

Nikon D7100

Nikon Coolpix A

Nikon Coolpix P330

Olympus XZ-10

Pentax MX-1

Samsung NX300

Sony Alpha NEX-3N

Sony Alpha SLT-A58

These cameras files will start working in 11 version of Photoshop Elements, so if you are having any of these cameras and not using Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, you have following two options -

1. Get 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements OR
2. Only shoot in JPEG (which may not be a good idea of utilizing real power of your camera)

How to update Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 with Adobe Camera Raw 7.4 -

- Go to Help Menu of Organizer or Editor
- Check for Updates
- You will see Adobe Camera Raw 7.4 update
- Apply this update, restart your application and all raw files will start working on your software.

All the Best !!!  
 

I want to upgrade my older PSE version to current PSE version. How?

If you own any older PSE version, then instead of buying a full version, you can upgrade to current version (as upgrade will be less expensive than buying Full version). For upgrading, you can visit: http://tinyurl.com/9pgrhte.

How to manually Tag People Faces in 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements || Face Tagging in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11

Today we saw this query on Adobe Forums.  One of the user figured out that people recognition faces and photographs are shown in People Room  but what about photographs where faces are not detected automatically and if users want to tag them with a particular People Face?

Of course there is a simple solution for it. Manual People Face Tagging is also allowed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Here are two ways of doing it.

1. Double click on your photograph.
2. Now you see an option to 'Mark Face' > Click on it and proceed with your workflow.

What if you want to apply People Face Tag to multiple Photographs at same time?

1. Go to Media Room
2. On right side Panel, locate your People Keyword Tags
3. Simple drag n drop the tag you want to apply to multiple photographs in the middle of Element Organizer 11.

Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 is available for Adobe Photosop Elements 11

Latest Adobe Camera Raw Update 7.2 is only available for 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

How to update Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 - go to Help Menu and check for updates and install.

If you have other version of Adobe Photoshop Elements - Use DNG convertor to use photographs shpt with latest cameras which have support in Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 only.

Check out - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/extend.html to have better understanding

Not able to see People Tags in Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 || How to see People Tags in Elements Organizer 11

Since many of the things have changed in 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements. I just saw an option to hide or show People Tags in Organizer 11. Now People Tags are separately shown in Tags Panel of Elements Organizer 11. With that an option is provided under View Menu, through which you can hide or show them. For better understanding check out the screen shared below.

How New Version of Adobe Photoshop Elements Look Like - Some Visual Screenshots of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 || Elements Organizer PART1

Making things easy and providing more convenient access to different things is probably, one of the main idea of 11th version apart from some cool features in it. Here we are going to give you some top level glimpses about the changes in main interface of Elements Organizer. And next post would run you through the similar stuff in Editor. Let's check out these screenshots and understand the kind of changes we have in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.

11st version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is available on Adobe.com now !

Much awaited version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is available to try & buy now. Just check out https://www.adobe.com/in/products/photoshop-elements.html for more details. We have just downloaded the trial and will be sharing a detailed highlights soon !

Is Welcome Screen in PSE, not so welcoming for you? || Not able to fully launch Photoshop Elements Editor or Organizer

Sometimes progress-bar keeps going without launching Organizer or Editor from Welcome Screen of Adobe Photoshop Elements. And this becomes very irritating. Here is a quick way to access Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor & Organizer.

Bypass the Welcome Screen by creating Desktop shortcuts for the Organizer & Editor and then restart your computer.

The Editor's executable is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 10\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe"

The Organizer's executable is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe"

There was an error opening up the Backup/Synchronization Preferences. Please close Preferences and try again. || Errors in sharing album to photoshop.com

Recently we saw problem in loading of Backup/Sync Preferences in Adobe Photoshop Elements. One of the users is getting following message on attempt of launching Backup/Sync preferences through CTRL+K or Edit Menu. - 'There was an error opening up the Backup/Synchronization Preferences. Please close Preferences and try again.'

This error was always encountered irrespective of Catalogs of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

So let me share the process that happens on launching Preferences, especially Backup/Sync Preferences. On launch, preferences dialog tries to fetch albums in Catalog and on Photoshop.com. Most of the times this error occurs in case Elements Organizer fails to fetch albums from Photoshop.com. There can be various reason for this, so typical process of narrowing it down is -

1. Try the same steps in fresh catalog. Ideally you should be able to see the problem there as well. If not, then it's something we need to work out together.

2. If above step creates problem in fresh Catalog as well, then check if you are able to load all albums on www.photoshop.com? I mean, go to Photoshop.com account and see if you are able to see all your albums there.

3. If you are facing problems with PSE as well as Photoshop.com, then there can be some case of corruption in Albums.xml or some other malfunction. This is something you may want to raise with Adobe, but before that try steps mentioned at - http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/incorrect-account-information-photoshop-photoshop.html

How do you nuse Keyword Tags in Adobe Photoshop Elements || Efficient use of Keyword Tags to increase your visibility on Internet

Keyword Tags in Adobe Photoshop Elements have been used as organizing metaphor for a long time and slowly some of the users have identified the power of Keywords.

Appropriate keywords in JPEGs can be very useful for Photographers to increase their visibily on web. JPEGs can have these Keywords as Metadata and major search Engines like Google work well indentifying right images for search. And majorly these searches depend upon these keywords. E.g.- If we search for New York Photographs on Google, results will show photographs which have right keywords associated.

Now point is to understand the way to write these Keywords into the JPEGs. So here is a simple process -

1. Attach appropriate Keywords Tags to your Photograph.
2. Select this Photograph and Write Metedata through File Menu option.
3. Now export these photographs.

How to check if Keywords are added to exported JEPGs or not? - Import these JPEGs to a temporary catalog and then if it throws a dialog for importing Keyword-Tags then it shows that Keywords are there in JPEGs.

Now if we use such photographs on our Blogs or Websites, chances will increase for these to come in search results on Google.

Is 'Building Preview' in Album sharing irritating for you?

Today I realized that Album sharing by trying various gallery-templates in Elements Organizer can be very irritating, especially when you have multiple photographs in an Album. Because every time, we apply a template it takes lot of time to build preview and time increases with number of photographs/files you have.

On discussing with one of my other PSE friend, I got to know about a simple workflow which can save lot of time.

1. Pick 3-5 of main photographs from your Album and go to Album Creation workflow.

2. Experiment with various templates you have and decide on a final template.

3. Now add more photographs to your album and share it.

So if we look at this process, it will save lot of time while experimenting with sharing templates in Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer.

Not able to locate your Custom-Bursh in Adobe Photoshop Elements?

I have a Photo-blog and long time back I had created a a brush to watermark my photographs before I put them online. Few days back that brush gone away from Adobe Photoshop Elements. I was wondering the reason for the same and the best guess I could make was - custom-brushes are swiped on loading new burshes which are downloaded from free online websites.

So best way to keep custom-brushes is to save them after creation. In Brush selection dialog, there is an option to shape any of the brush. So whenever you create a new custom-brush, please save it explicitly. So that in future, it can be reloaded again after some problems with custom-brushes in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

"Define Brush" option under Edit Menu is always disabled in Adobe Photoshop Elements

Sometimes 'Define Brush' option under Edit menu of Editor (Adobe Photoshop Elements) remain disabled and at times, very irritating. 

Here is one of the main reasons for state being disabled - If any side of the image is more than 2500 pixels. So simple solution is to resize image to reduce each side (Width and Height) less than 2500 pixels. 

There is one another similar incident through which your defined brushes get lost. This happens when you load any new brush. So best way to avoid it is to save the Brush after you define them.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 - Lasso Tool Begins and then Quits

Today we are going to share something which is picked from Adobe Forums and solution has worked. It 's about the situation when your Lasso Tool starts creating problems. 

Here application quits on the usage of Lasso tool. So if this happens with you, just follow step mentioned below -

After opening a photograph in Editor workspace, click on the highlighted area in above image. It's area where image size is mentioned. Keep your mouse in clicked form for 10 seconds and Editor will go in 'Not Responding' state. Now leave it and try to use Lasso Tool. Not sure if this will also work on Win-XP or not, because Not-Responding state is more frequent on Vista & Win7 as compared to Win-XP.

Not able to launch Organizer after installing Adobe Photoshop Elements

Welcome to this this blog on Adobe Photoshop Elements and following article can be helpful to you, if you are not able to launch Organizer after installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements on your computer. This can be helpful, so try steps mentioned below - 

(Below mentioned steps are for version 9 of Adobe Photoshop Elements, but can be tried for other versions by replacing version number in paths mentioned below)

Win:

1. Navigate to location 'C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\9.0 and delete/rename the 9.0 folder.

2: Go to 'C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs‘ folder and rename the Catalogs folder.

3: Launch EO. It will throw ‘No catalog found’ error. Create a new catalog and click on ‘OK’. Now EO launches with first launch scenario.

MAC:

1: Go to /users/labuser/library/application support/adobe/elements organizer and rename or delete ’9.0’ folder.

2. Rename or delete the ‘catalog’ folder.

3: Launch EO.

Is Adobe Photoshop Elements crashing on launch/Start-up || Organizer is crashing on launch/start-up || Editor is crashing on launch/start-up

For Crash problem for Organizer :

A. Launch the catalog manager dialog box before launching organizer.

For this follow the steps-

1. Click on 'Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0' icon on desktop.

2. Hold the 'shift' key from your keyboard and click on 'organizer' tab in welcome screen.

3. Catalog manager dialog box will be launched. Create a new catalog. Probably Organizer will be launched.

4. If so, click 'catalog' under 'file menu' Select your catalog (with which organizer was crashing) and click on 'repair' button. Click on 're index visual similarity data' and click on 'ok' button. After this click on 'optimize' button.

5. Select the catalog and click on 'open' button.

B. If crash continues then you have to create a new catalog.

For Crash problem for Editor: 

 Delete Preferences: Try to launch Editor and keep pressing - ‘Ctrl+Alt+Shift’. It will show an option to delete preferences and then try to relaunch again.

Why do we get 'sweatPea error' in Adobe Photoshop Elements

This error occurs when there are some issues with Plugins on the system. When EO is launching it tries to fetch the plugins from two locations (for win7):

1.    C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\Plug-Ins

2.    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements 10

*** Version in above paths will change to PSE version installed on your computer.

As told already that this error occurs when there are some issues with Plugins. The issues can be-

1.    Plugins are not present at their recommended locations.

2.    Some plugins may be missing (may be removed by anti-virus or similar softwares).

3.    Plugins gets corrupted.

To avoid getting this error message-

>> Uninstall PSE. Now close any anti-virus (or similar software) and re-install PSE.