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"

"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.

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.

How to Create Shortcuts of Organizer & Editor of Adobe Photoshop Elements on Desktop

During installation process of Adobe Photoshop Elements, we can create shortcut on Desktop. This Shortcut launches Welcome Screen of Adobe Photoshop Elements and further we need to choose if we want to launch Organizer or Editor. Many folks create desktop shortcuts for Organizer & Editor, so that Welcome screen can be bypassed to directly launch relevant application.

Why there is an Exclamation Mark in bottom-right of my Adobe Camera Raw Dialog of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 || Process Version in ACR 6.7

Are you seeing an Exclamation Mark (!) in Adobe Camera Raw Dialog of Photoshop Elements 10.0. Actually you must be seeing it for some of the photographs after updating Adobe Camera Raw version 6.7. This version for Photoshop Elements comes up various Process-Versions supported. 

Adobe Camera Raw 6.7 for Photoshop Elements 10 is available with support of New Cameras and some added functionality || Better Noise Reduction and More...

Today Adobe has released Adobe Camera Raw 6.7 update for Photoshop Elements 10.0. This is a bit different update as compared to other Camera Raw Updates for Adobe Photoshop Elements. Let's have a look at new cameras supported with this update - 

Canon EOS 1D X (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Canon EOS 5D Mark III (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Canon PowerShot G1 X (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Canon PowerShot S100V (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix F505EXR (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix F605EXR (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix F770EXR (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix F775EXR (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix HS30EXR (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix HS33EXR (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Fuji FinePix X-S1 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Nikon D4 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Nikon D800 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Nikon D800E (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Olympus E-M5 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Pentax K-01 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Samsung NX20 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Samsung NX210 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Samsung NX1000 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Sony Alpha NEX-VG20 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Sony SLT-A57 (is supported in Adobe Camera Raw 6.7)

Apart from supporting new Cameras in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0, here are few added changes you will notice in Adobe Photoshop Elements -

 1. Improved Noise Reduction Controls with more flexibility in handling Luminance and Color Noise. Just check out screenshot shared below -

With Adobe Camera Raw 2012, we get Luminance Detail, Luminance Contrast & Color Detail sliders to get appropriate contrast & details after appying noise reduction. All these sliders need to be used in sync to get best results.

2.  In Adobe Camera Raw 6.7, you will find Red Eye Removal controls on right, instead of fly-out menu on top. Just an interface change. Please see image below for more clarity.

3. In last tab of Adobe Camera Raw 6.7 dialog, you see a new dropdown menu which shows 3 options - 2003, 2010 & 2012. This is something interesting and we will try to share detailed information in separate article on same blog. If you are not using Lightroom4 or Photoshop, you need not to think about it. Here is how it looks like -

Some basic points to note about it for now -

a. By default all new photographs are opened in Process-Version 2010.

b. If you open a file which is editied in Lightroom4 or CS5(ACR6.7) or CS6 using PV2012, you will see the changes in ACR dialog of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0.

c. Whenever we open a photograph in PV2012, some of the sliders will not be accessible and need to go back to PV2010 in Elements.

More details about Process-Version will be shared soon !

Adobe Photoshop Elements freezes on an attempt to use TEXT Tool in Editor || Resolution for Tools problem

Whenever someone talk about hang problem while using any of the tool, the very resolution comes into the mind is about resetting that tool in Adobe Photoshop Elements. This has recently been heard on forums again and we thought of sharing the way how to do it. This resolution can be tried when any of the Left tool starts behaving abnormally. Let's have a look at the process to resolving hang problem while using Text Tool Here...

On LION, last opened photograph is always opened with Editor of Adobe Photoshop Elements || How to Get rid of unintended opening of a Photograph on every launch of Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor

If this is a problem you are facing on LION that whenever you launch Adobe Photoshop Elements, last opened photograph is always opened with it. This is something which is not related to Adobe Photoshop Elements and some default settings in LION are causing this. 

This must have been happening with other applications as well. Did you notice it? So you want to stop this then go to  System Preferences -> General and uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps"

Can't open/launch Welcome Screen from Home button on Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor or Organizer || Adobe Photoshop Elements not working anymore

If you are one of the few user of Adobe Photoshop Elements, who are facing some problems with launching the application or not able to open Welcome Screen from Editor or Organizer, then first we would like to ask few very simple questions -

Q1. Are you using 10th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements

Q2. Are you using Auto Launch settings for directly launching Editor or Organizer without even showing Welcome-Screen?

Q3. Can you live without using Auto-Launch Settings?

How to avoid Welcome Screen of Adobe Photoshop Elements || Don't want to se Welcome Screen by directly launching Editor or Organizer

At times, many folks don't want to use Welcome Screen as they consider it a advertising media. Although reason is not completely right, as many times useful information about updates is also shared with users of Adobe Photoshop Elements. But if you are one of the user who has decided not to use Welcome Screen, due to this or other reason, check out the quick way of avoiding Welcome Screen and Launching your top use part of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Let's see Step by Step guidelines for avoiding Welcome Screen in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

One simple workflow provided by Adobe is to set default application to be launched every time when you Double click Adobe Photoshop Elements icon. Let's see exact steps and then discuss another way of avoiding Welcome Screen Completely.

1. Launch Welcome Screen (probably last time)

2. Click on 'Settings' link on top right part of Welcome Screen in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Adobe Photshop Elements has stopped working || Most common resolution shared on Forums

Before we start discussing about the problems due to which you may face a problem when Editor stops working, let's have a look at following forum threads -

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4119592#4119592

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4119591#4119591 

The very first suggestion given can be found about deleting preferences.  Let's see the detailed steps to do the same...

1. Close Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor.

2. Launch the Photoshop Elements Welcome Screen and hold down ctrl + alt + shift as you click Edit.

3. Continue to hold the keys until you see a message box asking if you want to delete Photoshop Elements settings file... 

4. Click Yes. Adobe Photoshop Elements will open with default preferences.

This is one of the very first step when you encounter any known issues with Editor. Even if this doesn't work for you, Please comment here with exact problem and we shall try to resolve it.

Photoshop Elements - Editor freezes while using Out of Bounds on Win7

Recently I was reading one thread on Adobe Forums where one user was facing some issue while using Out of Bounds feature on Windows-7. Editor used to freeze on clicking 'Add a Frame' option in guided workflow of Out of Bounds. 

I like the fact on User forums that folks sincerely help each other and one of the user actually searched for the solution on Forum and shared... Which ultimately worked !!! 


Here is the suggested workaround which worked for resolving this problem :-

1. Go to Control Panel of your Windows7
2. Then go to Appearance & Personalisation
3. Choose 'Change Theme'. 
4  Then change the theme to 'Windows 7 Basic'.  
5. Go back to PSE 9 and try again.


For more details about this discussion, check out -


http://forums.adobe.com/thread/872955?tstart=0 

 If you are also facing this and tried this solution. Please share your experience through comment or post on forum, so that other folks get to know about relevant things around the same.

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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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...

Adobe Photoshop Elements-Editor has stopped working

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Recently I read something on Adobe forum and found it very useful. One user was facing a problem after applying 7.0.3 update and suddenly Editor stopped working for him. This was not actually related to update but followin steps solved his problem. I though of capturing these details here:

There are many reasons why the PSE Editor might not getting launched or crashes. Here are some steps you can take to try to fix the problem. Even if you think you’ve tried some of these  before, try them again, precisely as described here:


1.      Delete the Editor’s preferences:

Start PSE to get to the Welcome screen. Hold down the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys and click Edit.  Keep holding down the keys until you see a window asking “Delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements Settings File?” Click Yes. (Note that this does not delete the Organizer’s settings.)


2.      Change the default printer, as described in these tech notes:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402704.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/400/kb400963.html

3.      If you have a Microsoft pointing device, the Microsoft Intellipoint driver software may be conflicting with the Editor. Try uninstalling it and rebooting. (Your device may operate without the software.)

4.      If the Editor crashes after displaying “Building TWAIN menu items” on the splash screen, see this tech note:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/408/kb408846.html


5.      Try Adobe’s generic troubleshooting steps.  If you’ve installed third-party plug-ins, start with that step first. 

Have you encountered : "Photoshop.com Services require an update to Photoshop Elements...."

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As mentioned in last post, Adobe has released a new patch for PSE7 to improve overall performance of Photoshop.com Services and some Security Fixes. Now onwards if you don't apply the latest patch, Photoshop.com services will not be available and you will see a message following message on launching Welcome Screen:

"Photoshop.com Services require an update to Photoshop Elements. Please update Elements using the Adobe Update Menager () or by checking the Adobe website at  http://www.adobe.com"

There is an "Update" button in this message dialog which takes you to a web-page having a downloadable zip file with 7.0.3 patch. Just go on with this and your PSE should be back with all Photoshop.com Services.

NOTE: When you apply the patch through Patcher.exe make sure that Welcome Screen OR Organizer OR Editor is not launched at that point of time...

Write back in case you have some other information about this update...

A useful link : http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/841/cpsid_84110.html

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UPDATE 7.0.3 FOR Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0/7.0.2: How to improve overall performance of Backup/Sync in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0

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Recently Adobe has released a Patch for Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, which is more about improving performance of Photoshop.com services like Backup/Sync, Online Sharing, Contact-books etc.

Today I found a good source of information about patch 7.0.3 on Adobe site and wanted to share that. Check out http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/841/cpsid_84110.html to know more about applying this patch.

One important thing which I came to know after reading this article : PSE 7.0 and PSE 7.0.2 will not have Photoshop.com controls until you apply this patch...

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Check out this Video for more understanding of Layers

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Few days back we discussed some basics of Layers in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Here is an interesting video on youtube about Layers... Check it out..

How to process raw files of your latest SLR in PSE7?

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If you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 and bought a new camera like Nikon D90, you must be facing the problem of opening NEF 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 PSE7 installed on your machine and trying to import/process NEF of Nikon D90 or Canon 7D, 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\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 7.0\Plug-Ins\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...