Can we upgrade Adobe Photoshop Elements from lower version to latest version in Market || Co-existance of different versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements

We picked this very generic topic today, because in past we have seen lot of generic queries around the same.Without going to specific questions, we would like to share few points about Adobe Photoshop Elements, which may help you in answering your question related to installation/use of various versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements on same computer or Mac.

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"

CHANGE - "Licensing for this product has stopped working." - Message is shown on launching Adobe Photoshop Elements on MAC

Some of the Mac users of adobe Photoshop Elements may get 'Licensing for this product has stopped working.' error on launching Adobe Photoshop Elements on MAC computers. Here we are sharing two solutions : Start with first solution and move on to second if doesn't work for you !!! After using these workarounds, licensing data and activation details need to be re-entered...

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

Organizer don't open || Organizer quits unexpectedly || Not able to use Organizer in Adobe Photoshop Elements

We have been seeing various problems where Organizer is quitting unexpectedly whether we open it from Welcome Screen or Editor. Many forum topics have mentioned this and recently one of engineers from Adobe has shared a solution at http://forums.adobe.com/message/4080817#4080817, which has worked for many folks. So we thought of sharing this for users of this blog if you face something like this future. 

This problem has a very simple solution.

1.  Go to  <root>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Elements Oganizer/9.0/Organizer.

2. Locate contacts.xml file present at mentioned location.

3. Rename this contact.xml.

4. Relaunch the Organizer after renaming this file. 

Hope you would be able to Organizer after these. Please do leave comments if you have a similar problem and still not able to resolve.

10th Version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is out now !!!

I just checked facebook update where 10th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is launched in market. More details about this release are available at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html 

Next thing comes into mind, that how the new version will help me. Do I need it? So here is the list of new things in Adobe Photoshop Elements -

Not able to open more than one file in Adobe Photoshop Elements - Edtior

Recently an issue has been observed by folks who have upgraded to LION OS on Mac. When they try to open iPHOTO photographs in Editor, option for Opening the files gets disabled after opening one file. 


There are some workarounds to this problem and work well.


Here are some details -


1. Open iPhoto and drag any image from it to the PSE Editor icon on the doc.

2. Press Ctrl+O and from the open file dialog box drag the image into the PSE workspace when all other images are in floating windows mode.

3. Set PSE as an default editor in iPhoto and then open images from there.

4. Import images from Iphoto into the organizer . From the organizer open photes in PSE Editor.
 
Any of these workarounds should in this case. 

if you are facing this issue and trying any of these workarounds, please comment back to certify these.

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

On MAC, how to download photographs into Photoshop Elements Organizer instead of iPHOTO?

On Mac version of Organizer in Adobe Photoshop Elements, there is no way to automatically import photographs on attaching a device, Camera or Card-Reader. Many times I have heard people saying that they want to download their photos directly into my organizer but instead iPhoto opens up and downloads them there ! Then they have to go to Organizer and import through File Menu option.


As mentioned earlier, there is no way to automatically import photographs into Elements Organizer 9.0. But there is a way out to stop auto-import into iPHOTO to avoid unnecessary confusion. Here are the steps to follow:


1. Go into the iPHOTO preferences
2. Choose Connecting Camera Opens > No Application. 


Now when we will connect any camera/card to the MAC, it will mount as a drive on the desktop. From organizer, launch the Downloader by choosing file>get photos>from Camera or Card Reader.

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

5-Star Rating to Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 by www.macdirectory.com

I just read a review by Ric Getter on Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. and he rates this software with 5 Stars at www.macdirectory.com

For more detailed review comments visit : PSE8 Review by Ric Getter