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"

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.

"Gathering Info" doesn't go away from Welcome Screen of Adobe Photoshop Elements

Many times I have seen people talking about a problem with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 and 9.0, where gathering information progress bar doesn't go away even after multiple hours.

Here is a common workaround that worked for most of the folks I have talked to. Just have a look and give it a try in case you are also facing this issue:-

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Elements 9 Organizer location
2. Double click PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe for launching Elements Organizer
3. Click on "Welcome ..."
4. It will launch a dialog and there is an option for Signing-out.
5. Sign Out and Sign-In again.
6. Now launch Welcome Screen and you gathering info should not be bothering you now !

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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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....