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.

Incorrect Sunbofders created while importing through Adobe Photo Downloader in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 || Hot-Fixes for Adobe Photo Downloader in PSE10

Recently Adobe found some problem with Adobe Photo Downloader in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 and some fixes have been provided. This mainly talks about the workflow when users download media-files (photos or videos) using Adobe Photo Downloader, subfolders are created with an incorrect date. Select Advanced Dialog > Create Subfolder > Shot Date  from Adobe Photo Downloader to create a subfolder for the downloaded assets. The subfolder name has an incorrect date. This is the user problem Adobe has tried to fix.

If you are facing this issue and want to resolve check out following links as per your version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/930/cpsid_93025.html - For Users having Windows version of Adobe Photoshop Elements

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/930/cpsid_93050.html - For Users having Mac version of Adobe Photoshop Elements

Best Community for Photoshop Elements Users - Feedback.photoshop.com

As a Photoshop Elements User if you ever face any problem, the place to look out for a solution are forums maintained by Adobe, where lot of expert users have most of the workaround available in quickest possible way. I have seen many users, who have used almost every version of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Some of the Expert Community Advisers are very active on forums. In fact many times, you can search the same problem being discussed in various discussions and resolution is ready in one of them. So first thing to do on forums is search for relevant discussion, where you may find the solution directly without even starting a new discussion. If you fail to find anything relevant, it's advisable to start a new discussion there. Old Forum link for Adobe Photoshop Elements is - http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements

Now most active forum for Adobe Photoshop Elements is - http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_elements

So whenever you face any problem with Adobe Photoshop Elements on win or Mac, follow below mentioned steps -

1. Go to http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements  and search for relevant information. 

2. If you find relevant details, it best. But if not, go to http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_elements and search this forum now. Hopefully you should be able to find something relevant. 

3. After searching these forum and web, if you think that problem you are facing is unique then go ahead and start a new discussion, preferably on feedback.photoshop.com, because this most active forum now. Hopefully you will get some relevant replies during first day.

Apart from this, if you own other Adobe Products as well then Feedback.photoshop.com has few forums as of now. Products shown below have forums on this portal and for others, you will need to visit - forums.adobe.com only.

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products

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

Few relevant Links for Adobe Photoshop Elements Users !!!

These links are randomly placed and the ordering here doesn't signify anything !!!

http://barbarabrundage.com/category/photoshop-elements/ : This website belongs to Barbara Brundage and here is how she introduce herself "Harpist, arranger, and music publisher, Barbara is also a Mac fan and the author of the Missing Manual books for Photoshop Elements. "

http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm : John is one of my favorite doctor for Adobe Photoshop Elements. Sometimes I wonder about the fact that how he can know so much about a software and from where did he find time to help other folks on Adobe Forums. I am great Fan of John !!!

http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-Elements-training-tutorials/280-0.html - Lynda.com also shares some nice tutorials on various Adobe products and Photoshop Elements is also one of them.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshopelements/using/index.html - Here is the place to find updated HELP for Adobe Photoshop Elements.

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Photoshop-Elements-tutorials//Most-recent/1/ : Here is an interesting website which sometimes share tutorials for Photoshop Elements !

Finally, here is official page of Adobe Photoshop Elements where most of the details can be found :- http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel/

If you search on Google, there are lot many other links online but many of them either sell thier tutorials or magazines. I have tried to list few URLs which may be helpful in getting appropriate information about Adobe Photoshop Elements for Free !!! I will keep adding more Links here...

What happens on deleting files which are marked for SYNC

Features like Backup/Sync are very important as more closer to your real assets and also very risky if you don't understand them better. This become more important to understand the behavior when we talk about asset deletions and movement of media files from one place to another.


Today we are going to discuss deletion workflows in Elements Organizer and Photoshop.com with their impact on other side. I assume that before reading this article, you are well aware of backup/sync workflows and terminologies involved. If not, just check out http://photoshopelementsbyadobe.blogspot.com/search/label/Sync


As you know that that Backup/Sync feature ensures that any change we do on one side, its propagated to other.. i.e. Adobe Photoshop Elements to www.photoshop.com and vice-versa.


So many times a question comes about special handling of deletion cases. And answer is yes !! There is some special handling of workflows involved in online deletion of a photograph or video etc...


So here is what exactly happens :


Behavior is governed by a preference "When I delete online file, ask me before deleting it from my computer"

By default this option is ON, which means that you will always be asked before actually deleting your file from the catalog. In such scenarios you will see Sysc-Meter is warning stage and you have to launch Conflict Resolution dialog for making the final call of deleting files or keeping them in the catalog. 

If we choose to delete the file, it means we are deleting it from catalog and file will still remain on hard-disk. To remove it completing from computer, check the option "Also delete from the Hard Disk".


If we don't choose to delete the file, behavior is different in PSE7/8 and PSE9.


PSE7/8 - File will not be deleted from catalog and will sync back to Photoshop.com in same album.


PSE9 - File will be removed from that album but remain in the catalog. This file will not sync back to Photoshop.com unless option for syncing loose media is ON.


Hope this article will be helpful in understanding the behavior of Asset deletion and its hadning by Backup/Sync in Adobe Photoshop Elements.


Please comment back, in case you have more queries around this workflow or anything else related to Photoshop Elements.

ADOBE PHOTO DOWNLOADER 4 COMPONENT HAS ENCOUNTED A PROBLEM : Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 or 6.0

Recently I have seen folks complaining about the problem where users get "ADOBE PHOTO DOWNLOADER 4 COMPONENT HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM" error on system restart. This should not happens on the machine with 7th, 8th or 9th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements. 

Here is the woraround to get rid of this message on every system restart :

1.    Click on “START” button on your desktop.

 

2.    After clicking Start, various options will be shown like shown below. (Note – Look and feel may be different depending upon operating system you are using.)

3.    Click on “Run” option here.
4.    Following dialog will be shown on clicking Run.

 

5.    Type in ‘msconfig’ here and click OK button.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 6.0

6.    Above shown dialog will be shown.
7.    Click on “Startup” tab
8.    Locate “Adobe Photo Downloader 4.0 …”
9.    Uncheck the option in the left.
10.    Click ‘Apply’ button and then ‘OK’

ORGANIZER is available on Windows as well as MAC with ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9.0

Many times I have seen people dreaming about ORGANIZER instead of Bridge with ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9.0... Organizer was there on windows and CS-Bridge was shipped with earlier versions of ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS... THis time Adobe decided to have Organizer with Editor on Windows as well as MAC...

On top of that it has very good integration with iPHOTO which is a native application of MAC and a part of iLIFE bundle..

ORGANIZER is an application used for better orgaizing your photographs, audio and videos and its also part of Premiere Elements... PREMIERE ELEMENTS is also available on Windows as well as on MAC with ORGANIZER... So it gives a complete solution to a person who has camera with video capture capabilities...

ORGANIZER is very popular application with great organizing capabilities with albums, tags, metadata-searches etc. There are lot many sharing services available in Organizer which includes, Sharing to FLICKR, FACEBOOK, PHOTOSHOP.com etc...

Apart from that, it has various automatic mechanisms for better organization like Face Recognition which automatically detects faces and try to identify who is that person, AUTO ANALYZER which helps in categorization of various files according to their properties and SYNC ENGINE which helps in taking backup of your data on Photoshop.com automatically as you add more media or edit somethings...

Organizer has various working views including Thumbnail View which shows all the files in Organizer in a particular order according to the order preferences selected... like 'Oldest First', 'Newest first', Custom Order etc... folder view which help in exploring all the files as per their original folder hierarchy which is very helpful sometimes... There is a date view which helps in organizing photographs according to days, Months or Years... So for example, if you want to see photographs of all your Birthday parties, just click on the date of your Birth and you will see all the pics clicked on that date...


Organizer is very rich in terms of functionality and it upon us how we can leverage its capabilities to get wonderful organizing experience...

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9 is out in market by ADOBE

Wohoooo....

Here is next release of PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS by ADOBE.... and its 9th version now which is available on Windows as well as MAC with amazing organizing capabilities of ORGANIZER which was available on windows with earlier releases... I am very excited and this post may be confusing due to the same.. So forgive me for that and I am going to share some cool and new features of Adobe Photoshop Elements soon... So keep tracking this place for new and exciting stuff in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 ....

As of now, lets have a look at new things in Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 :

1. ORAGNIZER on MAC (That effectively means all Photoshop.com services on MAC also...)

2. PHOTO Style Merge... which is one of the amazing feature to copy brilliant styles on one photograph to another... For person like me who have many good photographer friends, its very useful... I will use their photographs to nourish mine pics...

3. FUN EDITS.... especially OUT OF BOUNDS and PERFECT PORTRAITS... OUT OF BOUNDS helps creating amazing 3D-effects which looks like object is comsing out of the 2D plane and much more with some guided steps... PERFECT PORTRAITS are self-explanatory and its again in Guided Edit mode of Photoshop Elements 9.0

4. Amazing tool called "CONTENT AWARE FILL" which is simplified version of PHOTOSHOP CS5 and helps auto-completing a photograph when something is erased... try it out and its great...

5. iPHOTO integration in ORGANIZER ... Any user who wants to shift from iPHOTO :-)

6. Some significant improvements in Photo-Book workflows along with other creative things out there...

7. Face Recognition is awesome this time... will share detailed post sometime in near future...

Check out following link of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-Elements-Win-Mac/dp/B003YGMEAQ/ref=amb_link_353828142_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=top-1&pf_rd_r=1MQETBCH26WT1YW6AYYQ&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p=1273359502&pf_rd_i=photoshop%20elements

Few more links:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100920007234/en

How do you see the photos that were Backed-up/Synchronized Automatically?

Today I checked a generic topic on Adobe forums where a User want to know how many files are synchronized form my catalog to Photoshop.com. In past we have discussed many things about Backup/Sync of Photoshop Elements but never thought of this basic requorement. Let me throw some light on alternatives to check which are files are synchronized, pending etc.

 

In Elements Organizer, there is an icon in status dialog which is known as Sync-Meter. Please see above figure to know about  Sync-Meter. When we click on Sync Meter in status dialog, a fly-out menu comes up with various options. Top section of this fly-out menu has three Options:


1. View Backed Up/Synchronized files
2. View not Backed up/Synchronized files
3. View files pending Backup/Synchronization


These three options apply some search in your catalog and show corresponding results in imagewell. So if we click "View Backed Up/Synchronized files", all backed-Up/Synced files will be shown in Organizer.

 

If we search for "View files pending Backup/Synchronization" all files which are pending will be shown with an icon with each file. Please see second figure.

 

Apart from knowing the status at file level, there is another way to know which album is pending for Sync. Third figure shows some icons in front of albums. This icon indicates that album has at least one file pending for Backup/Sync.

Please share your feedback about this post and let us know in case you have more queries regarding this behavior. 

Creating Panorama in Adobe Photoshop Elements is very easy

Click Here to see more details...

- Click photographs of the same plane (Height) ... Make sure that there is some scene-overlapping in photographs clicked by moving left to right or vice-versa.
- Download the Photographs into a folder
- Launch PSE-Editor
- Go to File :: Panorama Photomerge
- It will open a dialog where you need to specify the files from which you want to create a Panorama.
- Click OK and you will get a Panoramic view of the location...

****NOTE****

- Use Tripod to click the picks if you have... You can click without tripod but need to take care of height...
- Click the photographs such that any two photographs have some overlapping area...
- Don't change Camera Settings when you are clicking photographs for Panorama...(You can notice some lines in above pic... These are due to different exposures and tilt in camera...)

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Creating new Catalog in Adobe Photoshop Elements - Organizer

I am sure you know about CATALOGS in Adobe Photoshop Elements, if not check out following link and proceed further...

CATALOGS IN ORGANIZER 

Its pretty easy to create a new catalog in Organizer:

1. Just go to File Menu

2. Select Catalogs

3. Following dialog will be shown, Click New button on right top.

4. Following dialog will be shown, enter the name and click OK.

5. Welcome to new Catalog.

NOTE:

There are following three options in Catalog Management Dialog. These options decide where your catalog is going to create:

1. "Catalogs Accessible by All Users"

If this particular option is selected, catalog will be created @

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 7.0.0

WIN_XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs

WIN_7 : C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8.0.0

WIN_XP: C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs

WIN_7 : C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs

2. "Catalogs Accessible by the Current User"

If this particular option is selected, catalog will be created @

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 7.0.0

WIN_XP: C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs

WIN_7 : C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8.0.0

WIN_XP: C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs

WIN_7 : C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs

3. "Custom Location"

Here you have an option to select appropriate location. Click on BROWSE button in front of this option and select the location where you want to create new catalog.

How to play a set of photographs in particular order where Photoshop Elements in not installed

Recently I checked a user problem, who had shot some photographs for his client. He edited all photographs, added to an album, exported and started playing those files on clients machine where Adobe Photoshop elements was not installed. We we started showing the files, order was not the same as he had arranged in his Organizer.

Is there any solution to this problem?

Actually order of sepcific files is dependent on the application where we play the files. So in this case we need to play the files in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. This application show files as per the order they are shown in folder (Windows files system). Since there is no direct way of reordering files in windows explorer, we need to do something here... Lets see how this can be achieved through a workaround with Adobe Photoshop Elements - Organizer.

Follow below mentioned steps to achieve this:

1. Add all files to an Album
2. Select this album and reorder its files as per your choice
3. When files are in proper order, select all
4. File Menu > Rename
5. Give some relevant name
6. export these files to a folder
7. Copy this folder to the machine where you want to play the files one by one
8. Right click inside that folder and sort by name
9. Double click to play inside Windows Picture and Fax Player.

All the files will play in the order you had arranged inside Organizer Album.

People Recognition in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0

Today only I received a mail from Adobe with following image about people recognition.. Its a cool feature which is more helpful when you have lot of family/friends photographs in your catalog.. I will be writing about this feature on this blog soon....

JUST TRY IT OUT...

How to process camera-raw files of your latest SLR in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0?

"Could not complete your request because Photoshop does not recognize this type of file." ???

"The file is damaged or is a format that cannot be included."???

If you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and bought a new camera like  Sony A450, you must be facing the problem of opening your cmera files in Organizer as well as Editor.

Do you know why this happens?

Actually most of the camera manufacturer have their own proprietary file format as we have NEF for Nikon, CR2/CRw for Canon, SR2 for Sony etc. These manufacturers add another complicity when NEF of D200 is different that NEF of D90. Now Adobe has a plugin called "Adobe Camera Raw" which supports these file formats and provide flexibility to process/edit them.

Different versions of Adobe Camera Raw Plug-Ins support different Camera Models. Like, files of Canon 7D are supported in ACR5.6

To Understand more about it, refer : http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

Above mentioned link talks about which cameras are supported in latest version.

So if you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 installed on your machine and trying to import/process files from latest cameras, you will not be able to do so.

For that you will have to update ACR Plug-In. Here are the steps you need to follow for this:

1. Close Elements Organizer and well as Editor.
2. Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html and download latest Windows Plug-In
3. It will have Camera Raw.8bi file
4. Go to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements 8\File Formats\"
5. One 'Camera Raw.8bi' file will lying on this location.
6. Rename this file and copy the downloaded file into this location.
7. Relaunch Organizer and import the files of your latest SLR

It should work. If its still not working, send a comment here...