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boondocks211
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March 13, 2021
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How to bypass the Welcome Screen in PSE 2021 on Mac

  • March 13, 2021
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The PSE 2021 folder contains another folder labeled "Support Files." In it you will find Adobe Photoshop Editor. Drag that to your Dock, or double-click it, and you're in business. Thanks, Adobe, for making it simple to avoid the Welcome Screen. – Grandpa Grammar.

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Greg_S.
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Greg_S.Community Expert
Community Expert
June 1, 2021

@JohnF21, another possibility for your slow startup is that the Organizer is analyzing your media for face recognition and smart tags etc.  In theory, the media analysis only takes place when nothing else is happening on your machine.  But as Yoggi Barra said: In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.  In practice there is.  So if the media analysis is chugging away before you launch the Editor, there can be a delay.  The fact that you were able to launch quickly after rebooting could mean that the media analyis had not yet started before you launched the program.

JohnF21
JohnF21
Participating Frequently
June 3, 2021

If that were the case, I would have expected to see disk and CPU usage. As I noted above, there was no appreciably CPU, Disk, or network usage when this was occuring. I will keep that in mind though and make sure organizer is disabled, I have my own processes for organizing my media and don't need any help. 🙂

JohnF21
JohnF21
Participating Frequently
May 30, 2021

I found mine here -- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2021\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe.  But thanks for the idea that got me looking!
Now if I could just figure out how to make it not take forever to load ....

Walter_H
Walter_H
Legend
May 30, 2021

Hi John,

 

I have PSE 2020. When I drag and drop a photo on the Editor shortcut on my desktop, it takes at the most 3 seconds to load with the photo. How long is yours taking?

 

--Walter in Davie, FL
JohnF21
JohnF21
Participating Frequently
May 31, 2021

Hi John,

 

Obviously you shouldn't have to be waiting 5 minutes for the Photoshop Elements Editor to open! 🙂

 

On the loading screen does it get stuck on the Starting-up plugins... part?

 

If so, go to Help > System Info... then scroll down towards the bottom of the information presented in the dialog box until you get to the section called Plug-ins that failed to load. Take a note of the plug-in(s) that failed to load and uninstall them from your system. That should solve your start-up issue.


Well .. that was odd. We had a momentary power outage so my computer shut down.  When it came back up, Photoshop Elements Editor started up in just 3-4 seconds.  I just installed it a few days ago  as I just built a new computer and decided that I got my money's worth of the 11 year old version I already had. So maybe it just needed a restart??

 

I dunno...I guess next time it's slow I'll just reboot. 🙂

 

 

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