Problem with email sharing in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0/8.0 on Windows7

If you are using 7th or 8th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements on Windows 7, then you might be seeing following message while emails sharing.


"There is no email program associated to perform the requested action. Please install an email program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel."

Here is one of the workaround which may resolve your problem (Give it a try ...) :


Check out http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/848/cpsid_84866.html

Do comment back in case this doesn't work for you or face some problem while trying this !!!

Adobe Photoshop Elements with Windows Live Mail 2011 - How to make it work ?

If you use Windows Live Mail as default email client in Adobe Photoshop Elements, then you must be knowing that WLM 11 is not compatible with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0. To work with emails and photomails, you need to follow below mentioned steps :

a) Uninstall Windows Live Mail 2011 : Go to Control Panel and uninstall Windows Live Essentials 2011
b) Install the previous version of Windows Live Mail from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=56883de5-2024-4631-806e-757693072a1c
c) After the successful installation of the Windows Live Mail, configure your Windows Live Mail. This will make sure that there are no issues with the Windows Live Mail.
d) Launch Elements Organizer , Go to Preferences > Sharing. Change Email client to Windows Live Mail and Click Ok.

Adobe Photoshop Elements crashes when sharing a Photomail - How to resolve?

Recently I saw  few people facing this problem and here is one of the workaround which worked most of the times. Please try and comment back in case it doesn't work for you :

a) Browse to the directory where you have installed Photoshop Elements 9.

For e.g. if you have installed PSE on C: , then browse to “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Elements 9 Organizer\”.

b) Select and Right Click on “PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe” .

c) Select properties and the “Compatibility” tab and select checkbox “Run this program in compatibility mode” .

d) From the drop down items, select “Windows XP”.

e) Click OK and launch Elements Organizer  9

f) Complete the Photomail workflow once. (There might be a slight performance issue but we would suggest you to complete the process.)

g) Exit Elements Organizer 9

h) Repeat the first 2 steps.

i) De-select the compatibility checkbox marked in Step 3.

j) Re-launch elements organizer 9 and complete the Photomail workflow.