Questions

Hello,after buying the license and installing the newest Photoshop Elements 2026 on my Windows 11 Pro (version 24H2),  this error occurs - ,,The database file could be not opened. This can happen if the database file is corrupt, read-only, or not a database''.What do I do now? 

How do I recapture my lost albums? I have thie images, but can't use the Organizer features on the clusters of images.

Unlike PSE 2025, the 2026 Elements Editor does not retain, from file to file, the File>Close>Save Options>Organize: "Include in the Elements Organizer" & "Save in Version Set with Original".Without retaining these 2 Include & Version options, I have to click on them for each file Save which is particularly cumbersome since the "Process Multiple Files" option also does not function (report already acknowledged).

Hallo, in dem Elements 2026 hat die Speicherung von mehreren Dateien nur einmal funktioniert, jetzt kommt immer wieder folgender Fehler "Sie müssen für die Ausganedatei(en) eine Erweiterung angeben". Die Quelle sowie der Zielordner sind ausgewählt und die Konvertierung ist in JPEG gewählt. Die Dateinnamen sollen nicht verändert werden, daher habe ich dies nicht angeklickt. Was kann ich tun damit es funktioniert?

I am using organizer 2025. I cant figure out how to delete a peoples tag from multiple phots at the same time as its way to time consuming to do it one at a time. I have tried to find out online and even using AI and it tells me to select the person tag, then select the photos you wish to remove, then right click and select remove the persons tag.. EXCEPT there is NO option for this. The only option i can see is if I select them 1 at a time and remove the people tag from the Image Tag. If I select multible clips it shows no Image tags.   So under People tag I select the person, I then notice many photos does not contain this person so i wish to select them all and delete the person tag from them.. HOW ???   Please help so fustrating.

This information was sent to me from Support,First uninstall all Adobe related products and Adobe creative cloud desktop application, then restart your computer and download and install Acrobat Pro 2020.When uninstall Acrobat Pro 2000 and Photoshop Elements 2025 it works well but for Adobe Creative Cloud and Photoshop Elements 2018 I get this message,Translated:This file is not associated with any app to perform the action. Install an app or create an association on the Default Apps Settings page if an app is already installed.I can't find out how to do this./R²

Ich habe auf meinem MacBook Pro M3 Max bisher adobe Photoshop Elements Editor am Laufen gehabt. Nun kam das UpDate von Apple auf MacOs 26 Tahoe...und nix geht mehr!! Ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung:   [Mod: Moved to the Photoshop Elements forum]  

Hi, like may people I've been caught by the upgrade to Tahoe of my Mac so that PSE 21 no longer loads. I''m not sure if pressing on with Elements is the right thing for me but I had over 120k photos all carefully tagged, so in the short term I was loading the trial of 2026 to see what that was like. Unfortunately I'm getting an error when I try to convert my catalog. The message tells me to fix the error (no description) in the original software but obviously I can't do that. Has anyone encountered (and solved!) a similar issue? 

Je ne parviens pas à installer Photoshop 2023 sur mon "nouveau" PC (Geekom P12) tournant sous Windows 11. Sur "l"ancien" PC (Dell) pas de soucis.L'installation démarre bien puis s'arrête avec le message d'erreur 183. La solution proposée dans ce cas n'est d'aucune utilité et s'emberlificote dans le Creative Cloud etc. Solution?... Pas d'antivirus perturbateur, nettoyage de possibles fichiers Creative Cloud,... Quid?

You will gather immediately I am not IT savvy  I had aWIndows 10 Computer containing  catalogues in PSE 2018 and  2022 .  I had to change it as operating driveand storage were full. I employed someone to transfer all of my data to the new computer All of my 15 years worth of photos came over  but not the old versionsof PSE.  THey seem to be in there somewhere but If I try to run Adobe demands a redemption code.  I have now purchased PSE 2026 on  he new computer . Is there any way of getting my old catalogues with all the tags etc onto the new computer 

Liebe Community!Hat jemand so ein Upgrade schon einmal gekauft, wo der zu zahlende Preis höher ist als das Angebot (siehe Überschrift!)?Wo liegt der Fehler?Habt Dank für Eure Hilfe!Barbara  

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2026 Program error in photo editor 26.0 JPG file. Windows 11 (Version 23H2) Selecting an area with the Smart Brush tool "Enhance". Then "Retouch Image", "Adjust Lighting", "Shadows/Highlights...", "Brighten Shadows" Error: No preview, even though the box is checked. Clicking "OK" results in the error message: The "Shadows/Highlights" command could not be executed because a program error occurred. See attached screenshot.

I still get confused sometimes when trying to conceptualize Organizer. Also I have yet to try to 'tag' photos. My understanding is that the Organizer 'registers' photos and videos from one's hard drive and then lists them in a 'catalog database'. A few questions: 1. If the catalog lists them does each photo look like the original but actaully isnt? 2.when you look at 'tree mode' in the catalog is that the same as looking at the tree mode in explorer and will they have the same folder names?   2. if I have photos and videos in various places on my hard drive (due to being unorganized) does the catalog organize them for me if I try importing everything? 3.if the catalog does the organizing and I want to create projects with different groups of pictures does the catalog find them in the various locations on my HD and visually create them in the catalog? Im sure my questions show how Im confused. Thx for any answers 

Hello,I use Elements 15 and now have it on 2 computers, a small one for travel and my main one.I am trying to work out the best way to continually organise things, so I can easily transfer my travel photos to my main PC after I return. I do not use the cloud or want to use external storage for all my photos.  I will not keep a copy of the photos on my small PC.I want all the photos from my small PC to be in my current (and only) catalogue on my main PC.They have been manually tagged and I use facial recognition.  But I do not usually have albums or anything else created at this stage.I also use smart tags, and am aware that once I delete a smart tag from a photo Elements is intelligent enough not to recreate that smart tag for that photo, will I lose all this info and it will start to recreate all the smart tags again once the photos have been moved?  Not so critical but useful to know for next time?I have looked at a number of forum threads and the following seems the w

Laut Photoshop Elements 2026 kann man ein komplett neues Bild  und Hintergrund mit KI generieren.Wo rufen ich die Funktion auf und wie muss ich vorgehen?

A folder has disappeared from my hard drive, but it is still is in my organizer, imported 2 years ago. can I recover the pictures? 

Two months ago I couldn't print from PSE 2024, a tech took hold of my PC and fixed that. This morning I get up to do some editing and my Quick, Guided and Advance modes are missing.   I've looked everywhere and they were there last week before I was bedridden for five days. No one touched my PC. Now they're gone - what's up with that.   Send help to <email address removed>   Please help   CJAYJR    

I have   Photoshop Elements 2024.  For people with perfect vision, it is fine. For older people with poor vision it is impossiable to see anything. I'm talking about the words in the bar at the top of the screen and the words in the drop down menues. The font is too small and I have to use a magnifying  glass to see anything, Yes I do wear glasses but still the size of the type is too small to see. Is there a way to make the words LARGER?

When creating a collage how can I size and move items where I want them?

Hallo,ich habe Photoshop Elements 2024 gekauft und auf zwei Computern installiert. Einer der Comuter ist so kaputt gegangen, dass ich nicht mehr darauf zugreifen und darauf Photoshop Elements nicht mehr deinstallieren bzw. deaktivieren kann.Wenn ich auf meinem Adobe-Konto angemeldet bin, sehe ich beim Reiter "Produkte" die Seriennummer meiner Version.Unter dem Reiter "Aktivierte Geräte" kommt die Meldung "Keine aktivierten Geräte vorhanden". Ich kann somit die Anwendung nicht auf dem defekten Gerät deaktivieren.Auf welche Weise kann ich die Anwendung für das defekte Gerät deaktivieren damit ich sie auf dem Ersatzgerät nun aktivieren kann?

HiI upgraded to Tahoe, and now my 2020 version of Elements won't run.I am trying to see if I can restore to the previous Mac OS, but they seem to make that extremely difficult, to near impossible. I liked the old Elements.  Knew my way around.  Tried the Free Trial of it, but it seems to be very difficult.IE. use to be two columns of buttons down the left.  Now it seems just one, so have lost half or more of the options from what I can see. What is the best solution:  to learn the new Elements 2025 on Tahoe, or try hard to get rid of Tahoe and go back?

I am using Elements 2024.0, Windows 11.  When I click File | Print... Elements crashes.  It does not hang and does not give any error messages.  The print dialog does not appear.  I have rebooted computer and printer, reset the preferences on next launch, etc.  I tried running as administrator.   Another user said that I should update to 2024.3, but can not find it, and when I click Help the Updates... item is grayed out.

I have had Photoshop Elements 2022 for 3 years (and have had multiple older versions).  With the changes in macOS my version is now not usable after only 3 years.  Why would anyone buy a software from Adobe when they will obsolete the software by not maintaining a reasonalbe life of the product?  Adobe is purposely invalidating software to make additional sales.  This is poor customer service and borderline immoral. I have been a long standing Adobe user and I am done.  I will use other software from now on. Adobe should be required to maintain compatibility for at least 5 years or give free updates to newer versions. Such a wast of good customers.    

I have Premiere Elements 2024 and an earlier version that I also use. There has never been a problem until now when I tried to open either version, I received an error message: "Could not initialize Photoshop Elements because the disk is full."I have no idea what this means. I pay for these and I want to use them. What can I do? Please help!

If you go to this URLhttps://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/release-note/update.html  You will only see updates for Elements 2025.  Under all the other versions there are no links to the updates.  A version 2024.3 is shown, but no link to the update file.  It says it is a free update.  I purchased 2024.0 from Adobe less than a year ago.