Let's know Rick Peterson who shares wonderful stuff at http://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/

Today I came across some wonderful online tutorials talking about efficient ways of doing things in Adobe Photoshop Elements. After seeing the ease with power of these tutorials, I thought of sharing a wonderful website maintained by Rick Peterson. 

Rick maintains http://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/ website which talks about various things around Adobe Photoshop Elements. Some wonderful tutorials are available on this website for beginners as well as as folks who have been using Adobe Photoshop Elements for many years. 

Rick recommends some of the useful books on Adobe Photoshop Elements and here is more information - http://www.essential-photoshop-elements.com/photoshop-elements-books.html

I will stop here to leave you all with these links to explore some wonderful stuff about Adobe Photoshop Elements.

"Adobe Air: This installation of the application is damaged, try re-installing or contacting the publisher for assistance" - How to resolve this problem of Elements Inspiration Browser

If you are facing above mentioned error while an attempt to see tutorials in Adobe Elements Inspiration Browser or there is something related to installation of Elements Inspiration Browser. then follow below mentioned steps to resolve this -

Tutorials are not shown in Elements Inspiration Browser inside Adobe Photoshop Elements

Recently a knowledge-base document is published by Adobe, which tells about upgrading Elements Inspiration Browser application, which is an integrated module of Adobe Photoshop Elements but technology used is AIR.


It's generally recommended to use latest version of EIB and on the other hand if you start facing some problems with older version, it becomes must to upgrade. Please check out the link shared below to get rid of any problem due to which you are not able to access Tutorials in Adobe Photoshop Elements.


http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/926/cpsid_92622.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...

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Tutorial - Creating HDR Images - Part 1 : By Mark Galer

Few days back I was discussing with my friend about Exposure Merge in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and we started discussing about few things like: 

- Can we create HDR images in Adobe Photoshop Elements?

- How can we create HDR in Adobe Photoshop Elements?

- Etc..

See this video by Mark Galer and you will appreciate how people exploit different features in Adobe Photoshop Elements for achieving specific goals.

Mark Galer has written many Books on Digital Imaging and specially Adobe Photoshop Elements. CLICK HERE to know more about the books written by Mark.

Welcome Screen in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0

Christmas Template Greeting CardIf you install Photoshop Elements and try to launch it from shortcut on desktop or Start menu, following window is launched. We call it Welcome screen which helps you selecting appropriate workspace you are looking for.

In PSE7, lot many things are changed in Welcome screen. Let me describe what all new is there in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0. 7th release is very well integrated with http://www.photoshop.com/ and it has a pod on right side which shows you valuable information dynamically. You will notice information like avaialability of creative Christmas Template during december month and other seasonal things time to time.

On left side, there are different buttons for:

1. Photoshop.com Membership

This section shows some basic details about your http://www.photoshop.com/ account.

2. My Account

On clicking this, all account details are shown in a separate dialog. For accessing your account details, it asks for your password for security purpose.

3. Backup Settings

In PSE7, there is a new feature for backing up or synchronizing your catalog with http://www.photoshop.com/. Clicking on this will launch Organizer with Backup/Sync preferences dialog where you can set different setting for activating Sync activities.

4. My Shared Gallery

This will land you to http://www.photoshop.com/ account with all publically shared albums.

5. Tutorials:

If you have http://www.photopshop.com/ memebership, Adobe gives some extra tutorials time to time. Just click on this section to launch Adobe Inspiration Browser where you can browse through many good tutorials for Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements.

Many people have shared there reviews about PSE7 Welcome screen as performance problem.

CLICK HERE to know more....

How Adobe Photoshop Elements is integrated with www.photoshop.com ? OR What extra you get in Photoshop Elements if you have www.photoshop.com membership?

You must be aware that three years ago Adobe came up with a new digital Imaging web portal called www.photoshop.com. It's a rich internet application for organizing and editing your photographs online. I will not be discussing more about different features on www.photoshop.com.

Here we are going to discuss benefits of www.photoshop.com membership for a PSE user. Now let me clear first that www.photoshop.com is only available in US, so all the benefits in PSE are for US users... I think Adobe must be thinking about expanding the boundaries but as of now its US only.

What you get extra in Adobe Photoshop Elements if you have www.photoshop.com Membership?

1. Capability to Backup/Sync your catalog data to www.photoshop.com.

If you are basic memeber, you gets 2GB of free space which can be utilized to keep your precious memories online on www.photoshop.com. You can expand the memory by spending some dollars but prizes are reasonable.

Check out http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/faq/ for more details.

2. Sync your multiple machines with www.photoshop.com

3. Extra Album Templates for sharing your photographs in better way. If you have Basic or Plus membership, you gets new templates in PSE and these templates are pushed regular based on seasons. Plus Members get some extra templates which are more creative and content-rich.

4. Downloadble content for Editor Artworks.. Similar to above... PLUS members have extra content in editor as well.

5. Interesting Tutorials for beginners as well as Experts through an integral application called "Inspirational Browser"

What is special for US Users in "Adobe Photoshop Elements"???

Hi,

If you are in US and looking for Adobe Photoshop Elements for your Photographs, let me share what additional benefits you will have. I am really sorry to say that some features in Adobe Photoshop Elements are disabled for Non-US Users, but Yes, they have few other alternatives... Here I will be talking about the extra benefits a US User can have...

Here is the list of benefits you have:

1. 2GB Free Space on www.photoshop.com

2. AutomaticBackup/Sync Solution which enables you backing up your media files to www.photoshop.com automatically. And most importantly, it keep the updated files on www.photoshop.com.

3. Live Album Sharing with your Frinds through www.photoshop.com

4. Free Album Template which are shippped time to time. So most of the times you get new templates for sharing your memories with friends. Templates for Halloween, New Year, Christmas etc.

5. Lot of Artworks and other type of Content for Photoshop Elements Editor.

6. Time to time, new tutorials are pushed through Elements Inspirational Browser. These tutorials are very helpful and in case you have good understanding of any good use of Product, you can publish a Tutorial for Elements Users.


APART FROM THAT PLUS USERS GETS SOME SPECIAL CONTENT, TEMPLATES and TUTORIALS IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS.

To know more about 8th release of Adobe Photoshop Elements check out http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/