R_Kelly wrote: Not normally in photoshop elements, but the add-on Elements+ includes an Edit in ACR script to do just that. http://elementsplus.net/help/en/edit-in-acr.htm That's one of my favourites... You don't need any plugin in Elements. Use the File >> duplicate menu (with 'flatten' checked) to create a new file showing only the selected layer, saved as jpeg, tiff or psd on your desktop; then to use the 'File >> Open  in ACR' option to edit in ACR, click on the 'Open in Editor' button and finally drag and drop from the photo bin to the original layered file (with original layer disabled). ... View more

Since you have no organizer backup, you understand that you need also the catalog folder of your old computer. Only that catalog holds the information you are missing, tags etc. So, the first thing is to do a search on the original drive for that catalog folder. If that drive is in good state, you may use it as a another internal or external drive (for instance putting it in a USB external casing). Then you'll have to search for a file named 'catalog.pse11db'. By default it's in a hidden folder; you'll have to set the explorer settings to show hidden files and folders. Once you have found it, the catalog is the whole folder containing this database file; you can copy the folder where you want on your new computer. Then, in the PSE version of your new computer, you'll have to use the catalog manager (menu File >> manage catalogs) to press the 'convert' button. That will create a new folder with the right format. You can open the organizer with the converted catalog by double clicking on the 'catalog.psexxdb' file. All files should be shown as 'missing' or 'disconnected'. You should now try the 'reconnect' function by navigating to your restored master folder. Photoshop Elements (PSE) knowledge base. Please report back on your progress. ... View more

Very detailed description of your problems indeed. To make it short, your solution is to use your backup and from your Elements organizer on your new computer, you do a custom restore to recover your catalog (which contains tags, albums etc) AND your photo files folders at the same time. You simply indicate the new location, drive and master folder. Move Elements Organizer catalog | Elements 6 or later The other advantage of this process is that even if you restore from a newer organizer version, after the restore, the catalog is automatically 'converted' to the new format. Forget the copy you have already done of your media files folders. You would have to 'reconnect' all files even if you also restored the catalog folder. Changing the drive letter or the master folder automaticlly makes all paths stored in the catalog 'disconnected'. After the restore on 'custom' location, both your images files and your catalog folder are on the new destination. You can choose to 'move' the catalog folder to the default location (a 'hidden' folder') on your SSD. Perhaps the best option for speed. ... View more

anton_404 wrote: Windows 10 Moving from one internal drive to another (physical different) physical drive Crash: Photoshop Freezes --> Windows suggests to restart program Folder size: ~1-5GB My computer ist running very stable. I have no hardware related problems. Probably not your case, but I think it may be worth mentioning that moving big folders is a long task without any visual feedback from the organizer; you don't know what is going on, no progress bar... The task manager may even say the process does not respond while it is effectively running. First a simple troubleshooting step: try moving a small folder as a test. Then a workaround. - with the explorer, copy your folder tree to the new drive - rename the master folder to be moved - run the 'reconnect' function and navigate to the new location - if that works, delete the old folder from the original drive. (you can salso try that with a smaller test folder, no risk). ... View more

anton_404 wrote: Hi together, my Photoshop Elements 13 nearly everytime crashes when I move a folder to another drive (using Organizer). Does anyone have this problem too? Is it fixed with newer versions? Best regards Anton Please describe your situation with more details: - your OS version - the kind of other drive (internal, external, formatting, permissions...) - the 'crash': do you get error messages, does Element 'freeze', aborts the process or quits abruptly... - does the process start and abort later? - how big are the folders you are moving? Moving folders to another drive is a very common task and certainly not a version problem. The answer will be in your own hardware and OS setup, I'm afraid... ... View more

You are right, I do not need to rotate the originals to archive them. But being put into their natural orientation, they are much more easily sorted and understood. Yes, and the answer is to use the organizer for visual browsing as well as sorting and tagging as explained above. As Photoshop prides itself as being an editor for 16 bit depth images, I assumed that Organiser would be compatible. No, that has always be the case, and Adobe always made clear that such features are reserved to the big brother Photoshop, not Elements. That said, 16-bits support in Elements is more than adequate if you understand when it's useful to do it. FAQ: Why is Photoshop Elements cheaper? What's different about Photoshop? I may have misunderstood the role of Organiser. I thought it would allow me to organise the files in the folder, not just in the Organiser window. The optical density range of the radiographs I mentioned was far greater than the 8 bit depth.  Given the technology available then, and now, it was impossible to view this range directly from a scanned image. But the failure to record the range meant that one could not choose to look at the significant detail at the extremes of that range.  The Epson scanner I currently have access to has only about 12-13 bit depth. The organizer can organise the files in your folders too. For instance in your case you could store your original tiffs on an external drive or network and your 'custom previews' in your main computer. Just note that using the tags, categories, albums, stacks or version sets is much more powerful than struggling with folders/Drives structure. The optical density range of the radiographs I mentioned was far greater than the 8 bit depth.  Given the technology available then, and now, it was impossible to view this range directly from a scanned image. But the failure to record the range meant that one could not choose to look at the significant detail at the extremes of that range.  The Epson scanner I currently have access to has only about 12-13 bit depth. There is a confusion here about bit depth. It does not relate to the tonal 'range', it relates to the number of steps in the same range. To keep it short, let's assume that the tonal range or the scanned image is very short, and that you want a wider, more realistic range; then you'll need enough steps to avoid showing posterization and allow tweaking in the editor. Your scanner provides enough bit depth (DSLRs do work on 12 or 14 bits when shooting raw; 8-bits is the maximum supported by jpeg). Believe me, it the scanner can provide the adequate range in your tiff, you no longer need 16-bits. Remember that printers or displays are limited to 8-bits precision (not range). I suspect that there will be differences in the very heavily inked areas of the objects, where all detail is merged at 8 bit depth. Your technical problem to show a difference is that you are limited by your display or printer. A quick way to judge yourself: create the 'custom preview' jpeg I did suggest: A4 size at 300 ppi, jpeg quality 10. Print and compare with printing the original (or have both printed). Ask other viewers to give an opinion. Remember: 0.5 % of the file size. ... View more

I discovered over 20 years ago that 24 bit files did not provide a good image of reality. I was trying to scan radiographs then.  I have only one opportunity to scan these objects, so I want to preserve the best quality image I can capture as an archive. I am quite sure that you are wrong on this one. Just compare and show me an example of a 16-bits image vs its 8-bits conversion where one can see the difference. The importance in 16-bits editing is the ability to edit heavily your images without risking posterization. If you have good scans to begin with, no worries. But, I understand you want the best theoretical quality for your scans. What puzzles me in your first question is that the problem seems to be the inability of the organizer to rotate your scan file. The scanner imports the the images as portrait, but most need to be rotated to landscape. The only need for rotation in the organizer is not for printing or displaying your huge scan file, it's the inability to produce a rotated thumbnail in the organizer. The original scans are like negatives, they don't need to be rotated when you choose to output them to print. Whatever output is chosen, you need to resize, flatten if needed, and rotate if needed by your output media. You don't know in advance the requirements for that output, so your problem is to manage your original scans to take advantage of the organizer: creating a (rotated) thumbnail and entering all the necessary tags and information of each file. Remember that even without rotating 48-bits tiff files, there are limitations in the size of images to be displayed as thumbnails. Photoshop Elements maximum image size limits It should be easier to make Organiser compatible with Photoshop's ability to manipulate 48 bit files. That's where Adobe does not seem to agree... So, while I understand you want to keep your precious scans as best as technically possible (819 MB !!!); I think you are searching in the wrong direction to take advantage of the organizer. I don't think I can convice you that converting to 8-bits does no harm to your files... What I do know is that the time to scan your files is far for being negligible. The time to open such a big file is not either. The best advice I have seen on forums is to use your scanner software to scan and Elements editor at the same time to manage your catalog while the scanner is running (parallel editing). I'd import in the organizer every scanned file, add all necessary tags etc, open the file in the editor, and create a 'custom thumbnail preview' resized and rotated version in a version set in jpeg format. Remember that an A4 format at 300 ppi quality 10 jpeg will be less than 4 MB... 0.5 % of the size of your original. Not bad for all viewing and current printing requirements, even if it's only for the best use of the organizer. Among other advantages, that solution makes browsing much faster, especially for full screen (F11) and allows displaying thumbnails for file sizes bigger that the maximum listed in the upper link. The original in the version set is always immeidately accessible, even if it is stored on a different folder/drive. ... View more

R_Kelly wrote: What operating system are you using? It would be easy to put the Fit Image script into pse 14. It's located in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 12\Presets in my Vista computer, if that may help. (Fit image.jsx) ... View more

takavulla wrote: How to you convert them one by one!! tk Tim Kavulla You open the catalog manager (menu File > Manage catalogs) The 'convert' button displays a list of catalogs of older versions present on the computer. You highlight the catalog to convert and click on the button to convert. It seems that you have a number of catalogs? It's highly recommended to have only one catalog, except if they deal with totally different matters such as as professional and personal. Was the link in my previous post useful? ... View more

Tim, Catalogs do not 'transfer' automatically. They have to be 'converted' to the new organizer catalog format. By default, when installing the new Elements version, you are prompted to convert the currently used catalog. If you miss that opportunity or have several catalogs, you have to convert them from the catalog manager one by one: Common catalog upgrade issues in Elements Organizer ... View more

geoffoote wrote: Thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately the Export solution doesn't really do the same thing. Our members' images sometimes have some odd aspect ratios & the Fit Image command sorted all this out with minimum thought. Wrong, exporting does the same thing. No change of aspect ratio. I wonder why Adobe took it out of 13 & 14. Geoff Probably because it was redundant and less useful in practice. After all, you have two steps to do if you want to keep your original as well as the resized version: copying and resizing; exporting does that in one step; furthermore it works with batches, most  common situation for resizing. Another possible reason: interface coherence: Elements does not use 'Automation tools' for its own needs, only for compatibility with third-party add-ons. How many users had the slightest idea of where the feature was hidden? I also wonder about the choice of dimensions for your club competition. Is there a reason to favour landscape over portrait orientation? The general practice is fair, it only assigns a limit for the bigger dimension. ... View more

That is, of course, if your new computer is running a compatible operating system... Mac El Capitan or Sierra and Windows 10 are not compatible with that old version, so you will most likely not be able to install As a matter of fact, Elements 10 works fine on Windows 10 computers. If you get an error message because of missing Microsoft components, please state the exact message to get a solution. Very important: I suppose you'll want to move or copy your catalogs and media files trees to the new computer; then read: Move Elements Organizer catalog | Elements 6 or later ... View more

If you followed the backup and restore procedure, you should have recovered both your image folders and your catalog. This makes me wonder if you are looking at the restored catalog or at the default (empty) one created when you installed Elements 11 on your new computer. The catalog you are looking at should have the same number of items (bottom line on the left) and the same name. If you look at the menu 'Help >> System Information', what does it say in the section 'current catalog'? If you have several catalogs, each one is a separate folder containing a file named 'catalog.pse11db'. Maybe one of those is the restored catalog; if so it should be bigger than the empty one. You can do a search in your Explorer/Finder to find all 'catalog.pse11db' files. ... View more

The tags are stored in the catalog, not in the file themselves (unless you did 'write metadata to files' before copying your photo library). The correct way to transfer both your photo library (the image folder tree) and your catalog is: Move Elements Organizer catalog | Elements 6 or later ... View more

You'll have to experiment with this and see if it works, but i believe if you use File>Export as New Files in the Organizer, you can do the same as Fit Image by entering the same numbers in each field such as 1400 x 1400 as shown in the screenshot below in the Custom Size box and that way both landscape and portrait images can be resized in one go. ... not quite. In that case, views in portrait orientation will have 1400 pixels height instead of 1050. That said, it's very frequent that the requirement be to stay to a given pixel dimension in the biggest dimension. Useful tip anyway. ... View more

robertr69 wrote: adobe have asked me to post this again PSE14 organiser wonr open message shows. "Photoshop elements is open but not responding. To open a new instance you must first close the existing photoshop elements process, or restart your computer". And what happens when you reboot your computer and start the organizer from scratch? ... View more

For a single image, the 'Fit image' command is handy. For a batch of files, it's much faster to use the 'export' feature, even with splitting into two batches, portrait and landscape. Anyway, you'll have to resize a copy of your original, which is exactly what the export does in a single step (the custom pixel dimension is 'sticky' in the export dialog).. ... View more

It could be simpler to use the 'Export as new files' command of the organizer. That lets you export big batches of files with the right pixels dimension. The only thing is you may have to export landscape and portrait orientation files separately. The search 'by details' lets you select the orientation: you assign a temporary keyword to your selection and search for that keyword and the desired orientation. ... View more

Yes, I have the same option in PSE12 and I think it's not a third party script. I can't check other versions now, but you can get the same feature (possibly with batch) with a script from Elements+ Fit Size About Elements+ ... View more

When you restore on 'custom' location a new master folder is created for your photo library. It will contain a copy of your pictures original folder tree plus a restored catalog folder as you have found. You also have found the 'default' location for catalogs accessible to all users:  hidden folders in the C:drive by using the Windows explorer. During the process, the photo  library tree and the pse6 catalog (database catalog.pse6db) are restored as explained above; then, when you agree to the conversion, the pse6 catalog folder is renamed with a -1 suffix, and a new catalog folder in the pse13 format is created with the old catalog name; it contains a 'catalog.pse13db' database file. The renamed pse6 catalog is still available for users having still pse6 on the new computer. The new pse13 catalog folder is available to you in the 'custom' location bottom section of the catalog manager. The pse6 and pse13 catalogs can only be opened from the corresponding pse version. - if you did not agree to the conversion at the end of the process, you only have a restored pse6 format catalog; a new empty catalog named 'catalog.pse13db is created, otherwise the organizer could not open. From this empty catalog, you can still stard the conversion by browsing to the new 'custom' location of the restored pse6 catalog. You are in the same situation as above, except you have an empty 'catalog.pse13db' as well as the converted catalog. You can delete it. As mentioned above, the organizer can't work without opening a valid catalog of the right version. It's useful to know that in such cases of corrupted catalogs, you can use the shift key to launch the organizer with a choice of creating a new catalog or repairing the old one. It's also important (and not obvious) that to move or delete a catalog, you should have another catalog opened, even an empty one. In your screenshot, the 'Move' (or 'Delete') button will only work if another catalog, even empty, is highlighted. If a single file is shown, you may have to create an empty one before moving or deleting. In your case, you could probably find an empty one in the all users section above, highlight it to activate it, then go to the custom location to highlight the file to be moved and the 'Move' button would be available. Now, what can you do with catalogs when the organizer is closed? - you can find them from the explorer searching for files named 'catalog.pseXXdb'. Each folder containing such a file is a catalog. The default folder location for all users can be found in the organizer help menu, section 'System Information'; it's a hidden folder location; you should have the explorer set to show hidden folders. - If you double click on such a 'catalog.pseXXdb' file, the organizer should open with the corresponding pse version (if installed) and the selected catalog. - If you duplicate, copy or move the whole catalog folder, even on another drive, it will be 100% useable. It's a way to create a backup of the catalog only without the big photo library. - Since the catalog name is free and only gets -1 suffixes if converted, nothing tells you which pse version they are: you have to look at the database name to find it, or it's good to include the version in the catalog name if you have several pse versions active. ... View more

Let's start with two 'basic' facts with Elements catalogs: - 1 - It's generally a bad idea to divide your library into several catalogs instead of keeping a single one. Your situation is typical of the problem: it requires 13 conversions and does not help for speed significantly in general. If you decide to merge the files afterwards, you'll have big problems: Photoshop Elements 6/7/8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - 2 - When you restore a catalog on 'custom' destination, the picture files are restored in that location; same for your catalog folder. At the end of the restore process, you are asked to 'convert' the catalog to the new format. When that is done, you can use the menu File >> manage catalogs to select the present catalog and click the 'Move' button to move the folder (catalog) to the default destination on your C: drive. That might solve your problem. The general idea is to locate the catalog folder in each 'custom' restore location. Do a search for a 'catalog.pse13db' file. The folder it is situated in is the catalog folder. With the organizer shut, double clicking on that database file should open the organizer with the catalog. ... View more

There has already been a number of good answers to the question of curves and curves adjustment layers in this discussion. I'd like to sumarize them: - there are many free add-ons to do that. I'd recommend Elements+ (very cheap and tons of other useful scripts at the same time). - Color curves integrated in Elements: It's another way; it's really the best way to understand what curves do - it does not teach the math behind the digital feature, it educates your eyes to the visual effect of curves. It's a pity no one finds it hidden in the color enhancements, which is pure nonsense (it does not work on channels). It's not an ajustment curve layer. - Using the black and white gradient map adjustment layer in luminosity mode: my own way, even if I have the required add-ons. Same exact effect with a different command interface. It's an adjustment layer. A single adjustment layer can convert to black and white or sepia in the same step. Available in 16-bits as a filter. One known author has also made the remark that today, curves are no longer used on most pictures, like years ago. Purists stongly disagreed. They were wrong: I practically no longer use them. I do work in the ACR module (jpeg as well as raw), and I can have the same, or even better edits or enhancements by using the sliders in the basic tab. Like the gradient map solution, the adjustments use curves behind the scene, but the interface is different, with a direct visual feedback like the 'color curves' in Elements. The ACR module is 100% 16-bits and wide color gamut. That does not mean that using curves in the academic way is wrong, but in my opinion, it would be an error to reinstate the curves adjustment layer in Elements. A questionable tool to educate newcomers to editing; with the drawback of making them use tutorials written for the full Photoshop. ... View more

AmyNVV wrote: I have APE 6 on my old computer hard drive and APE 13 on my new computer. I have 14 catalogs (one for each year starting in 2002). I have Back Ups of all my catalogs but have never had to move them until now. I have my Back Ups on Externals drives. These are the steps I've taken: 1. Open APE 6 on old computer and back Up catalog(s) from version 6 to external drive 2. Open version 13; Restore version 6 back up into version 13 saving back up in new location 3. Make back up of new catalog in version 13 4. Close program 5. Open program and no files are in the catalog? What did I do wrong? What am I missing? In short the images disappear after restoring a catalog from a previous version into a new Adobe Photoshop Elements version program. I've also just toggled between one catalog and another and then back again and the images in the catalog that I thought I'd restored are no longer there. I can't find anything in the forums on this. Has anyone else had this problem? The Organizer has two different methods to deal with older catalogs: 1 - The backup and restore process you are using. The result of the restore is to put a copy of your picture files library (the picures folders) as well as the catalog in the destination folder/drive you have chosen as a restore destination. If the restore process detects that the old catalog was in an older version, it will prompt you to convert the catalog to the new format. That does not replace your old catalog, that creates a new catalog with the same name. A catalog is the folder containing the database - catalog.pse6db or catalog.pse13db - and associated files. It seems you are seeing the new empty catalog created with PSE13. Do a search for the database files (catalog.pse6db or catalog.pse13db) from your Explorer or Finder and use the organizer catalog manager to navigate to the real catalog folder. 2 - If your picture files are still in the same computer and you have two different Elements versions, you don't backup and restore, you simply use the 'convert catalog' option of the catalog manager. In your case, what is the destination of your different restored backups? Each restore restores ALL your pictures as well as the catalogs each time, creating duplicate libraries. ... View more

DougChoz wrote: Link has no information about deactivating Element Products. I think you mean this link: Learn to activate or deactivate Adobe applications It's very informative but it does not cover the way you activate/deactivate in Elements versions since PSE13. Instead of using the menu Help > Activate, you use the meny Help > sign out [your user id]. Exactly the same process with different words . ... View more

haipt.ict wrote: Excuse me. I have the problem. I don't see Extract tab in my Asset. Thanks you for your help ! You are probably in another software like Photosop CC: Elements has not 'Assets' management (you are posting in the Elements forum). ... View more

Since I've been layering my watermark sign on a picture I've PhotoshoppEd, it automatically saves into the elements organizer and not into my destination folder on the desktop. The organizer does not store picture files. Its database stores links to the physical location of your files on your drive, where you put them yourself. When you 'save as' a file, you can specify the location. To avoid that extra step, you can use the preferences in the Edit menu to specify the default location. So it seems that there is nothing changed either with Elements 9 itself nor Windows: it looks like a simple change in the preferences. On the desktop it is saved as a psd type of file. before Windows 10 I was able to go into the organizer and export the file as a jpeg to my desktop, FB etc for quick and easy access . A layered file (with the waterwark layer) can't be saved in the jpeg format which does not support layers. You have to flatten the file or it will be saved as .psd by default. In more recent Elements versions, if you specify the jpeg format in the 'save as' dialog, flattening will be made automatically. I don't see why you can't use the export function of the organizer to specify the jpeg format, that has worked for all organizer versions. Now I can't even view the image, export, or do anything to it . It shows that the image ( a white broken rectangle) is in the middle of editing ( not so) and the whole screen is completely different to me than before where options and functions are . There, you are probably seeing a real changed introduced in Windows 10: it no longer provides codecs to show psd files in the Windows explorer, only generic icons. Anyway, you should see the thumbnails normally in the organizer. 'Broken' icons in the organizer can mean 'corrupt' files or very big files which can't have a thumbnail but can be opened. ... View more

Those are three different issues. There are many posts like yours about people having upgraded to Windows 10 from PSE9; so no one can say that 'PSE9 is not compatible with Windows 10'. I have also been able to reinstall versions 6 and 10 without major problems. Upgrading to Windows 10 often meets problems with missing components or DLLs (with all kinds of softwares including Adobe), but they can generally be solved. - 1 - Joanne.Araiza wrote: My biggest problems right now are the organizer is completely changed around Did you also upgrade to a more recent version than PSE9? The interface has been completely changed in PSE11. - 2 - Joanne.Araiza wrote: ... and I'm unable to export anything as JPEG That a totally different issue; you need to give more details about your workflow. - 3 - Joanne.Araiza wrote: also my printer won't print with beautiful accuracy as before. Nobody can help you with so little information about your problem and your printer. ... View more

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norman.sanders wrote: I have to ask: If you are going from dng directly into jpg without editing, why shoot raw at all? The op does not say the files are not edited. - Situation # 1 : new camera with raw format unsupported by the relatively old software: Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, Elements, and batch conversion to DNG from DNGconverter. All files are edited. - Situation # 2 : the camera saves raws in DNG. All files are edited. - Situation # 3 : jpegs are converted to DNG from Lightroom, Photoshop or Elements. Yes, there are good reasons for that. One is that the editing process is the same as with raws, so that Elements Organizer can open jjpeg files directly in ACR, something it can't do unless the files are opened and saved from the editor. All files are edited. That also tells that using DNG does not always mean shooting raw... By the way, no problem to convert DNG to jpeg in Elements editor (convert multiple files) or organizer (export). I suppose Bridge would be another option as well as several excellent and free third parties editors. ... View more