Re: PS Elements 2024 Suddenly Opening Color JPEGs ...

MichelBParis · ‎Mar 18, 2024

Please Note that I only have xmt sidecar files associated with my NEF files. By @Gordon & Susan0D4C Normal, xmp sidecar files are not saved for jpegs edited in ACR, the same data is stored directly into the metadata header of the jpeg format (and other formats). The necessity for raw files to use sidecars is due to the fact that "raw" are never overwritten, which means you have to use a procedural editing: unchanged original with change recipe. So, the usual workflow is to start with the raw editor in non-destructive procedural mode, then, if needed, follow in a pixel editor like Photoshop, Elements or a third party editor. If you re-open in ACR a jpeg/psd/... produced after a first raw stage, the process involves raw > pixel > raw > pixel editor stages in which any special profile may have been "cooked in" in the pixel stage. That is how I suppose you have met your present issues.

MichelBParis · ‎Mar 18, 2024

I am a bit late, but a few tips to take advantage of recent ACR versions (I am on PSE2024 - ACR 16.0.) 1 - If a jpeg (or psd, tiff...) has just been opened in camera raw, next time you open it from the organizer it will open in camera raw. 2 - If you don't want to open it in ACR in the future, you can click on the three dots menu on the vertical right menu bar of the ACR module, click "reset to original" then "Done". Next time it will open in the editor and the ACR edits will be lost. If You simply want to stay in ACR and and start at the original stage, don't click "Done" after "reset to original". 3 - I don't know of a way to open a jpeg, psd.... directly into ACR from the organizer. Workaround: open one or a batch of such jpegs in ACR from the editor. This will be remembered in the organizer. 4 - There is no clear visual way to know in the organizer from a thumbail if it will open in ACR or the editor unless you have created version sets from the original. 5 - Let's say You have edited a file in ACR to be in B & W, it won't show the change, same for other changes like non destructive cropping. Refeshing thumbnail won't work either. 6 - If you open and edit in the full Photoshop ACR or Lightroom, that will work the same as above with all the advanced features. You'll be able to change only what the limited ACR can do afterwards. 7 - There is a huge bug in recent versions of PSE ACR: Even if you set your preferences to "optimize for printing" in the editor color preferences, all your files will be exported in sRGB instead of aRGB, which loses a big advantage of shooting raw. 8 -About conversion to jpeg: the format only supports 8-bits. PSE only supports 16-bit without layers. Internally, ACR works in 16-bits. So You can either set the bottom menu to export in 8-bits or convert later in the editor if you want layers.

MichelBParis · ‎Mar 11, 2024

Hi Bob, You probably did not notice those recent conversatlions: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/organizer-chaos-with-case-insensitive-smb-filesystem/m-p/14457736#M96837 https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/hard-disk-upgrade-using-operating-system-file-copy-and-switching-drive-letters/m-p/14458196#M96848 I am sure that your post will be read by the Elements team, but don't expect they do anything for the following reasons: 1 - many (most) NAS users with Elements already work successfully with NAS as indicated in the faq from John R Ellis with PSE8. 2 - Judging from the very rare posts in this forum, use of NAS with Elements is exceptional. It was never intended from the start, 20 years ago; also it does not fit in the function assigned to PSE by Adobe marketing people which is a simplified version of PS for hobbyists and home users. 3 - Your question as well as those in the above conversations deal about precise issues wich are probably rather network ones than Elements ones. Many years ago, a top Adobe guru explained that support for networks was not guaranteed by Adobe staff. As a result, the best you can expect would be help from present Elements NAS users in this forum: good luck! The problem is not merely technical, it's economical. - very marginal use of NAS - high cost of support people competent not only for Adobe software, but also with any kind of NAS. - and in my opinion, NAS are not competitive with Cloud or external storage. Not only for storage, but also for sharing. To hope for positive help by other users, I suggest to give a detailed description of your problem, OS, versions, hardware...

MichelBParis · ‎Mar 10, 2024

I'm running PSE 2022 on a PC and and Laptop. When I import images into PSE on the PC the file name is in the following format: 03 03 24_5759.CR3, when I import images onto the laptop the file names are in this format: 1R9A5778.CR3. How can I change the file name format in the Laptop so it appears like the format in the PC By @Robert35973886crvk When you import by getting files from camera or card reader, you have the option to rename files at import time. That is not an option when importing from files and folders. That option is NEVER checked by default, someone has to change it to define the new template. A number of options in Bridge are available in the organizer for renaming in a more limited way. By the way, the option to rename at import is the most powerful of those available in the organizer (rename, export) or the editor (process multiple files). For users of database management systems like organizer or Lightroom, renaming at import is only a personal choice, so you don't really need it, but if you prefer, no need to resort to Bridge, which incidentally is free for the desktop Creative Cloud users without any subscription. Since I have also a CC subscription, I have set Bridge as my secondary editor. That gives me the choice to "Open in [the full] ACR" from Bridge. Of course that ACR needs the subscription... but I can take advantage of other advanced management options of Bridge for metadata especially.

MichelBParis · ‎Mar 07, 2024

Downloaded Elements today. Trying to do simple edits first. File Save is not working for me. 1. OPEN the photo with the button on the bottom right. 2. I make changes to brighten, etc. the photo. 3. If I go to FILE, all the options are grayed out and I cannot save the edited image. 5. If I click DONE in the lower right it saves a file with a .xmp extension that I cannot open or do anything with it. How do I save my work as a jpeg? o 2 By @Jimg513 The simple and logical solution is to do as Greg and Chris said: once you are happy with your raw edits, you have to click on the "Open" button. The ACR converter has done its job, the result as an internal file is then transferred to the normal editor where you have the usual option to save as or to print as you want. You can open several raw edited images in the editor at the same time. If you press "Done", your raw edits are saved in a tiny xmp file which is a text file recording the settings of your sliders as a "sidecar" file. It contains the "recipe" to manage the raw file afterwards. But that does not open the file in the editor. You can reopen your raw files and now "Open" in the editor, your edits are still saved and available for saving or printing etc. Raw editing is a lossless process, it never changes anything to your original raw. It's a 'parametric' editing saving the recipe, not the result in an image format. The ACR editing process has the huge advantage of managing a whole batch of raw files. If you click "Done", you can use the Organizer to select those raw images and batch "export" them as new files in jpeg or other format.

MichelBParis · ‎Feb 29, 2024

Having the same problem with Elements 2023, only 17k photos no video. Have will it work when I have transfer all of my photos By @keithE 53 Hi Keith, We have seen several examples of problems in the same step of the workflow. In my last full backup (nearly 1TB and 90 000 files) that step lasted a bit longer than usual (a few minutes). So, it's possible that there is a new issue. It will not be long before I try another one on my newly installed laptop. I'll come back with my results. I am on Win 11 and I don't use face recognition which is a factor of slowness in the backup process. Michel

MichelBParis · ‎Feb 29, 2024

Hi Jack, I have no personal experience with a NAS, so I'll judge from a number of discussions on this forum. On one hand, many users had a good experience and on the other, Adobe does not recommend using a NAS, especially for catalog folders. The quoted reason is mainly because of performance issues, which may not be fully true today. Additionally, I can give a link to the old faqs from John R Ellis. https://johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Storing_the_catalog There has been a recent discussion from an advanced user which you can try to join: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/organizer-chaos-with-case-insensitive-smb-filesystem/m-p/14440472#M96660 I believe you should be successful with a NAS. My guess is that Adobe does not want to help with the high number of issues not in their field.

MichelBParis · ‎Feb 29, 2024

Hi @jackr71654829 The problem with drives letters (as you know) is that they can be changed by Windows if the device you plug in is automatically renamed to a free letter when the disk letter is currently occupied. When Elements and the organizer were introduced about twenty years ago, everybody mainly used CDs as external / removable drives. The catalog had to keep track of the real internal Windows identification which is an internal serial number. You can find it from the DOS prompt Vol X. The database (catalog.pseXXdb) has a special table to identify the disk, it's the volume table in the sqlite database. Each managed file is identified by three data: serial number (primary), then drive letter and disk name. That's while you can't fool the organizer to think the new drive is the old one. So, from the start, Adobe offered another migration tool to another computer, disk / partition or even new master folder: Creating a full backup on an external drive and then a restore to the new location. About workarounds: after duplicating the files folder tree, what I do is to duplicate the catalog folder and I update the volume table with the old internal serial number. Fast if you duplicate before the files folder tree externally. Not for everybody, you need to use an sqlite management tool and beware of several traps in the process. Another workaround without sqlite could be to find the old serial number and assign it to the new drive with a Windows DOS command. I'll come back when I find it again... Here it is, see this doc by expert John R Ellis: https://johnrellis.com/psedbtool/ section Change a Drive’s Volume Serial Number PSE uses the volume serial number as the primary mechanism for identifying drives, and only if it can’t find a drive with the desired number will it use drive letters. If you have two drives with the same number, or if try to assign a new drive letter to a drive that used to be a C drive, it may be necessary to change the volume serial number of a drive. Here’s how to do that: Download the “volumeid.exe” utility from Microsoft and place it in c:\windows\system32. Start a command prompt. In Vista, run the command prompt as administrator by doing Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-clicking Command Prompt, and selecting Run As Administrator. On XP, run the command prompt from an account that is a member of Administrators (note that this won’t work on Vista). Type the following command: volumeid letter: xxxx-xxxx where letter is the drive you want to change, and xxxx-xxxx is the new serial number. You can pick any serial number that’s not used by any of your drives. In the mean time, think about the backup and restore solution.

MichelBParis · ‎Feb 22, 2024

"Somehow, Organizer thinks the same NAS folder(s) is (are) multiple different folders depending on case variations (UPPER, lower, Mixed) of the path." Yes, the organizer MUST recognize case information because the paths recorded in the database must keep that information to retrieve and access the file in the OS (Windows, I don't know about Macs). Once the information has travelled between NAS units with a protocol removing that case information, how do you think the organizer can find the real location on your original drive ? Other similar discussion: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/elements-15-can-not-get-a-connect-to-the-nas/m-p/8854854

MichelBParis · ‎Feb 09, 2024

Indeed, it's merely the cropping which explains the pixel size difference. Your original file is 5472 pixels in width, which provides a fine printing size at 300 ppi for 5472 / 300 = 18.24 inches. That's 912 ppi. If you decide to crop in the pixel editor (you are not cropping in the ACR conversion module of Elements) then to get 300 ppi for a printing size of only 6 inch you only need 300 x 6 = 1800 pixels. With raw files and the ACR converter you have the opportunity to crop non destructively and in batch before sending the result to the pixel editor for resampling (to the printing size). The cropped part is sent to the editor withour any up/downsizing, and the editor sends the result to the printing engine which does the resizing.

MichelBParis · ‎Feb 06, 2024

Sorry, there is no camera raw filter in Elements. Only in the full Photoshop software. I am sure you already know that the version of the ACR converter in Elements is a seriously limited one.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 31, 2024

Bonjour, j'ai acquis PSE 24 et je voudrais savoir si lors de l'importation de mes photos qui sont sur un disque externe , le catalogue qui se crée déplace-t-il les photos ? Que contient le fichier catalogue ? Et lors d'une sauvegarde du catalogue , sauvegarde-t-on uniquement ce fichier ou l'ensemble des photos aussi ? J'ai plus de 150k de photos, à quelle taille je dois m'attendre pour le fichier catalogue ? merci de m'éclairer sur le fonctionnement et la structure du catalogue jean-marie By @jmvdb01 Un catalogue ne contient aucune photo, de même que le catalogue du musée du Louvre ne contient aucune peinture ou sculpture. Ce catalogue du musée offre à la fois une description détaillée de chaque oeuvre, sa localisation dans le musée et une vignette visuelle. Les différents critères de recherches sont répertoriés par des tables d'index. C'est ce que fait la base de données du catalogue en assurant la cohérence des données et l'aptitude à rechercher suivant des combinaisons logiques de critère. L'aide en ligne sur les catalogues vous en dira plus. Donc, la structure du catalogue reconnait la structure hiésqratchique de votre système d'exploitation, Explorer ou finder, mais c'est à vous de définir la hiérarchie logique, catégories et mots-clés. Il est possible d'utiliser la plupart des commandes de l'explorer/finder, mais aussi de changer la structure logique sans "déplacer, effacer, renommer" les fichiers eux-mêmes sur vos disques. Avant d'aller plus loin dans la structure du catalogue (plusieurs bases de données sqlite) Il faut consider l'essentiel. Pour mon catalogue principal, les tailles de composants pour près de 100.000 photos sont: - la base de donnée principale catalog.pse24 - 563.000 ko - la base visuelle du cache des vignettes thumb5.cache - 1.150.000 ko au total 3.40 gigas pour une bibliothèque de fichiers de près d'un téra octet. Les sauvegardes incorporées couvrent à la fois le répertoire du catalogue et des copies de toutes vos photos.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 31, 2024

I agree with Greg. If you don't find why you are creating duplicates, it's useless to use external tools, you'll continue to produce them. The included tools in PSE may not be the best for finding and eliminating duplicates, but the huge strength of PSE and asset management program based on relational databases is that they are built to prevent duplicating. So, you have to find out what special workflow lets you import (record) the imported files again in the catalog. There is no magical tool to tell you what is wrong in your workflow. What you must know is that the organizer does not consider duplicates by the file names. The main criteria are date_taken and file size in kilobytes. The contents are different. Suppose you have found a list of suspected duplicates. For instance, I have received identical family photos from various family members. They have not been given the same file name, they don't have any date_taken and they have been scanned in different sizes. Visual similaity can find them. But what to do to "delete" duplicates? You'll probably have to select the best copy manually. The organizer lets you stack the candidates together. Then you can decide to keep the best one "on top" of the stack (lossless editing) and to remove the duplicates from the catalog or/and the disk. External tools can't do that. https://johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Find_and_delete

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 31, 2024

I'd like to use photoshop for screenprinting and I thought Elements might be an option as this is all I need it for. I downloaded the software but the 8 bits/ channel option seems to be missing. I can see it, but can't click on it. Is this disabled on the free version? By @karen35155277stlk Nothing is disabled. That only means you are already in 8 bits mode. To be sure, look at the text on the bottom border of the image window. Click on the > sign on the right of the text to open the properties display menu. Choose document profile.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 31, 2024

Hi, can you please tell me what the ACR converter module is? I'm new to Photoshop Elements and am trying to crop several hundred images that are photos of slides that, unfortunately, include the slide frame - which I want to crop out. By @Stephen35138304at9r The ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) is the tool to edit "raw" files from your camera. Raw (unprocessed) files only record the intensity of light on each sensor site before your camera (or an external converter like ACR) creates a coloured photo file in a standard format such as .jpeg, .psd, .tiff... If your camera can save 'raw' files, two important things to know: 1 - they are not standard image files, there is not yet in colors for instance. Each camera records raw files in its own data format. Do a search for "digital negative" to know more about raw editing. 2 - They convert that raw data file into a standard image format, leaving the raw data unchanged. The conversion process includes options to "edit" the resulting conversion to your taste. The changes (the recipe) describe each editing order and store it in a tiny text files (.xmp extension) which is saved alongside your raw file. That kind of workflow is called "parametric" editing. Unchanged original format plus the recipe to get the result you want. This workflow is 'non destructive' and the 'recipe' can be applied to other files or even to a batch of files. If you don't shoot "raw" with your camera, you can use the Adobe ACR module with normal jpeg or other image formats to take advantage of the parametric / non desctructive tools in the ACR module. Normal raw files are detected and open automatically in the builtin ACR module of your Elements software. If you want to use that workflow with jpegs, you have to use the file menu option to open in camera raw. There are many reasons to prefer the ACR editing, including the ability for batch editing (including cropping) To know more about ACR, you can browse the Adobe ACR forum. When you know a bit more, ask here for a detailed workflow.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 29, 2024

I'm notlooking for Elements to organize my photos in any way. By @arthurm73874765 There is no such thing as a program that thinks for you. You may be happy with the Explorer or Finder offered by your operating system; happy with the default choices they provide to choose where you "store" your images and organize them in folders hierarchies. You may want to take advantage of a free set of organizing tools which let you "be the boss " and specify your preferences. Basically, the key functions are to browse and display the images in your computer better than the default OS Explorer/Finder. The killer advantage is for me the speed and ease to retrieve images from a catalog of some hundred thousand images, based on a combination of criteria and categories/keywords I have documented. I absolutely need to group my images in albums, version sets, stacks... The backup function is a bit original as it can restore both the image files and the catalog. What makes people think the organizer will decide about organization is that there are also optional automatic tools (most of which I don't use myself). - people recognition - geotagging - search for visual similarity - automatic tagging based on visual analysis.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 29, 2024

When I choose to sort by Newest, I don't see my images in the correct sequence Rather bizarrely, if I choose to sort by Oldest it appears to be in the correct sequence. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Using Sort by Name also shows the correct sequence (like by Oldest) - all the images have come from the same sdxc card from the same camera (ie; the file name are in an unbroken sequential sequence). I also checked the date/time stamp of the images and they are accurate. I see images from the morning of 24-Jan-24 being shown before the evening of 24-Jan-24 when using sort by Newest. Weird! Hopefully it's a bug that can be corrected soon..... 🤞 By @Steve33320792wq70 Nothing new, that's in your preferences. You can choose strictly "new" or first, newest day (recent dates) and oldest in each day (usual chronological order) The default choice is the preferred one by most users.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 22, 2024

Problem solved! Michel was partly right, but so was I. It turns out that the difference was that I was running Microsoft's .NET 3, and it looks like you need .NET 4 in your VB.NET application, which has more tags. So I spent a lot of time searching the Internet for a tool to get lots of picture tags. Turns out that apparently the best picture tag software tool out there is called ExifTool, since it can read a wide variety of tags, like EXIF and IPTC. Importantly, it comes with a standalone executable version AND a DLL version that can be included into .NET applications - like Microsoft's VB.NET. Check out ExifTool.org for details on it. Then one person (Curtis) on their forum at exiftool .Net wrapper (written in vb.net) created a way to easily run this tool from within VB.NET. So I downloaded the EXE and the DLL and inserted the DLL into my VB.NET app, then did testing. Confusingly, the tag I'm looking for, Adobe's Descriiption Writer, seems to go by several names. The spec at IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2023.1 confirms the tag name I was looking for. But, the ExifToolIO routine I downloaded doesn't know it by this name. Instead, it's called Writer-Editor, and is retrieved by the following routine call: ExifToolIO.Cmd("-Writer-Editor") (users familiar with this routine will note that you can drop the tag class prefix that goes between the dash and Writer-Editor, simplifying the call). So there you have it. In summary, the tag Adobe calls Description Writer can be read from within a VB.NET program using a utility that has both an EXE and DLL, and the tag is called Writer-Editor. By @don-peters I am glad you have found your way to automate the description writer tag. I still wonder how useful that tag is if it's only to write that tag, which is available directly in the organizer (IPTC) and the PSE editor (file info) I seem to remember that you can assign a template for your own tags (mainly descriptions and copyright) when you import files. I'll have to do some search and tests...

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 22, 2024

I can't reproduce your problem either, the process keeps the transparency when converting to png. My suggestion : Try a two-steps workflow: 1- batch resizing the pngs to tiff or psd (which support transparency) while resizing 2- batch converting the resized tiffs to png.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 22, 2024

Bonjour et merci pour avoir tenter de me dépanner. Mais après avoir vérifier les paramètres et tout mis "bien", j'ai malheureusement le même message "300ppp"... Alors je n'ai peut-être pas bien suivi les étapes, car je ne suis pas à l'aise du tout avec l'anglais (traduction indisponnible)... En tous cas, MERCI même si je n'ai toujours pas résolu mon souci. By @Tity13 Il est possible que l'option de langue quand vous utilisez le traducteur en ligne n'apparaisse pas pour l'anglais qui est caché dans une colone à gauche quand vous utilisez un écran trop petit ; c'est le cas quand j'utilise mon smartphone...

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 12, 2024

Il n'y a quasiment aucun fabricant d'APN qui utilise nativement le format DNG. Tous refusent donc d'embarquer ce format et il doit y avoir une raison : meilleure performance de leur propres formats, volonté de ne pas être tributaire d'Adobe etc... Adobe n'étant pas une oeuvre de bienfaisance loin s'en faut (DNG est-il open source ?), on peut déplorer l'absence d'un format universel (et j'en suis) mais on le comprend aisément aussi. Quand Adobe a laissé au bord de la route les utilisateurs de Lightroom en leur imposant l'abonnement obligatoire, il y a de quoi comprendre qu'il ne faut surtout pas leur confier l'exclusivité d'un format RAW ! By @defaultm9afw09ea7ij Comme vous, j'ai cessé d'utiliser (plutôt de tester) Lightroom mais j'aurais sûrement pu continuer à l'utiliser des années sans changer de matériel ou système d'exploitation par la conversion en DNG. Faites la recherche sur ce format DNG et voyez quels fabricants l'utilisent. Les pricipaux veulent faire croire qu'ils ont un avantage en qualité mais leurs solutions sont peu ou pas utilisées. Pour simplier ce n'est pas un logiciel 'open source' mais un logiciel propriétaire (copyright) offert gratuitement au public et aux concurrents. Il existe d'autres fournisseurs de convertisseurs, à vous de comparer.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 12, 2024

La question originale garde tout son sens puisque tous les fichiers CR3 n'ont pas de compatibilité avec la version PSE mentionnée. Il aura fallu attendre la version suivante pour qu'ils soient nativement supportés par Adobe. Heureusement, un autre intervenant ne s'est pas contenté de me dire qu'il y avait une solution, il me l'a indiqué lui ! By @defaultm9afw09ea7ij Je suis heureux que vous ayez trouvé réponse à votre question. Avez-vous eu la curiosité de rechercher combien de formats raw Canon avec extension CR3 sont couverts sans besoin de mise à jour par les dernières versions dans PSE ? Bien évidemment, les formats de fichiers raw des modèles Canon sortis après la version courante de PSE ne sont pas encore couverts. D'où ma mise au point sur le sens de la question originale. Je n'ai pas répété les solutions déjà données dans cette même discussion et une centaine d'autres dans ce forum. Je pense que la question qui se pose réellement serait plutôt: "Pourquoi les fichiers raw Canon de mon tout nouvel appareils (extension .CR3) ne sont-ils pas reconnus et comment résoudre le problème ?" Ce qui appelle d'autres questions qui impliquent un minimum de connaissances sur l'édition des formats "raw" et les formules de licences logicielles permanentes (PSE) ou par abonnement (Creative Cloud, Photoshop, Lightroom...) Je suis sûr que j'ai déjà répondu à plus d'une centaine de questions de ce genre.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 12, 2024

In Elements 15 there was a displaying bug when you were in floating documents mode (an option in your display preferences). If I remember well the workaround was to click the layour button on the bottom and to switch to another layout choice (or to change the preference).

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 10, 2024

I'm scanning in lots of family photos and then cleaning them up with my Adobe Photoshop elements app. All photos are stored in JPEG format, hence include EXIF tag information. I read these tags with an app I wrote to display photos the way I want them. When I clean these photos up, I always include the Adobe EXIF tag called Description Writer. Via an Internet search, I can get the hex code for almost every EXIF tag, but I'm unable to find the hex code for the tag Description Writer. That's in spite of multiple Internet searches, and speaking with seveal agents at Adobe. Does anyone have a clue as to what the code for this tag is, so that I can read it with an EXIF reader? By @don-peters That description writer tag is not an exif data. It's present and available if you open the IPTC section in the information panel of the organizer. I suppose it records the name of the software you are running to tag your images. Totally unnecessary if you use the available features from the organizer. Sorry, the left arrow should point two lines up... over IPTC status.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 09, 2024

Bonjour, Oui, c'est compliqué car il n'y a absolument aucune affirmation chez Adobe. Merci quand même By @Anthoula23979405z5sp Le problème n'est pas dans une absence de réponse, il est dans le refus des utilisateurs de lire les nombreuses réponses exactes sur ce forum et de comprendre que la question originale n'a pas de sens. Il n'y a pas un format raw CR3, il y en a autant que d'appareils Canon produisant des fichiers photos avec une extension .CR3 . Certains fabricants d'appareil photos refusent d'utiliser le format raw ouvert et normalisé dit "DNG" et insistent pour utiliser un format propriétaire unique et spécifique pour chaque nouvelle mouture de leurs appareils. D'autres sont plus logiques en offrant nativement le format raw universel DNG, accessible à tous même avec les anciennes versions des logiciels (Adobe ou concurrents). La conséquence est qu'il y a en réalité de très nombreux formats avec l'extension CR3 ou tout autre format concurrent (Nikon et autres). Voir ce qui a été expliqué à ce sujet. Il faut donc un nouveau module de convertisseur raw à chaque fois. Sous réserve du temps nécessaire à la programmation et la diffusion, Cette conversion est offerte régulièrement par les programmes Adobe en abonnement, comme Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge... mais seulement dans une version annuelle ultérieure pour Elements. Une mise à jour gratuite peut être proposée certaines années. Sans nouveau convertisseur, tout le monde, y compris les concurrents, peut utiliser le convertisseur gratuit "dngconverter" qui permet de convertir tout fichier propriétaire en fichier universel DNG (un vrai format, pas une famille de formats). Pour compliquer l'offre par Adobe, une modification a été offerte récemment (un correctif) permettant aux utilisateurs de PSE de récupérer les nouveaux modèles propriétaires. Là, c'est plus compliqué, il faut suivre exactement la procédure. Voir les nombreuses informations disponibles dans la présente discussion et de très nombreuses d'autres.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 08, 2024

Anthoula23, Yes photoshop elements 2024 can save any camera raw canon cr3 it is able to open as a jpeg after one opens the cr3 file into the photoshop elements editor by pressing Open in the camera raw dialog, then using File>Save As. By @Jeff Arola Just beware of a trap: the jpeg format does NOT support 16-bits depth, so either check in the drop-down menu on the middle of the bottom line in the camera raw dialog that only 8-bits is selected. If the file opens in 16-bits in the editor space, just convert it to 8-bits >>> menu Image > mode.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 08, 2024

Bonjour, Y a t il un moyen de sauvegarder le tri des photos qu'on fait manuellement sur Adobe Bridge? En effet, à chaque fois que je trie manuellement mes photos sur Adobe Bridge, en les classant par couleur et sujet par exemple, une fois fermé Adobe Bridge, jquand je réouvre, je ne retrouve pas mon tri manuel et toutes les photos sont de nouveau désorganisées. Je n'ai pas trouvé le moyen de sauvegarder ce tri manuel qui m'est très utile pour composer un projet de livre. Merci de votre aide By @entomologiste Je crois que c'est possible suivant cette discussion dans le forum dédié à Bridge. https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/can-i-backup-the-manual-sorting-order-of-a-folder-in-bridge/m-p/10384243#M13168 Comme la majorité des utilisateurs d'Elements utilisent l'organiseur qui est beaucoup plus performant pour créer des 'albums' (= collections) et les trier manuellement, je vous conseille de poster votre question dans ce forum, même en français. Si vous voulez tenter d'utiliser l'organiseur pour cette opération, bienvenue dans ce forum...

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 08, 2024

@Eileen339448229pa4 As you have found out, the problematic factors are to restore an old media folders hierarchy to a different new one. - On your old computer, the default hierarchy was based on a description of the location of each file. Microsoft offers a default folder hierarchy for pictures. C: > Users > [Your name] > Pictures followed by your own folder hierarchies of subfolders. (Older Win users remember that at some time, "Pictures" was "My Pictures". That had the same result as changing the user name). So, When you try to restore, the organizer automatically has to recreate the old (empty) folders hierarchy before filling it with media files copies and updating the new catalog with that new path description. . You'll find under your target new custom master folder a hierarchy starting with > Users > [Your name] > Pictures. Everything will be restored with the first folders level, old user name and Pictures totally empty. There will be no missing files (the empty folders were created before the copy and the updating of the new catalog.) You say : " Restore Original Folder Structure worked except halfway down the path it created an extra user folder and another folder with the wrong username, sending my pictures to a location that doesn’t exist, preventing them from reaching new Pictures directory. " I have never got missing files with that procedure for the above reasons and it's possible in the organizer to delete the superfluous empty folder steps for more clarity. So, my personal advice is to forget the default Explorer default of 'Pictures' and to create your own master folder just under the root of your chosen drive (internal or external) as the custom destination folder. Just create a very small test catalog that way to see how it works. The restore process will also place the restored catalog folder under your new master folder. That way, if you choose an external drive as you destination, you'll be able to plug in alternatively your external disk to different computers with the same PSE version, and you'll have nothing to do to update the catalog in between. Only be sure both catalogs recognize the external drive with the same letter. Note that Lightroom experts also recommend to store the LR catalogs on 'custom' location and not under 'users'. Edited: I did not see Greg's excellent answer while I was writing. Just note that the solution to create a new catalog does not save the face recognition data and other data while the above procedure does keep everything.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 07, 2024

Hi Walter, Indeed, an incremental backup procedure creates a new "backup folder" for each increment as well as in the full backup folder made before the increments. So, you end up with many "backup folders" which you have to specify in the correct order when you do the incremental restore. That means you should never specify an existing backup folder path; you can delete previous backups yourself before stawerting the process. As the incremental backup restore has to start with a full one, followed by incremental ones from most recent to oldest, it is necessary to follow the prompts of the dialogs in the process. By the way, it's important to name your backup folders so that you may find the right order yourself. Clearly, in your situation I would start again with a full backup. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-caExplorertalog-photoshop.html Note that if your library (the media file trees) is in the default Explorer "User/Your name" location, you may have problems if your name haws changed in the new computer. This will create additional (empty) folder steps under your new user name to recreate the older folder hierarchy. About other ways to transfer catalog and media to a new drive, see that recent discussion: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/new-computer/td-p/14337434 If you use an external software to backup the media file tree only, and the catalog folder separately, the catalog will remember the original location, so that all files will be seen as 'missing" or "disconnected". Using the reconnect option in PSE does not work in practice, so only fiddling with the Sqlite database of the catalog would enable you to make the catalog point to the correct "volume = disk" name.

MichelBParis · ‎Jan 06, 2024

Hi @fader5 I'll start with your second question: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html For your first one, I don't have NAS drives and don't need them, so I'll leave NAS experts help you. That said, you should consider using a very small SSD external USB dri.ve (let's say with 2 TB) to store both your media files and your catalog using the catalog transfer described above. The big advantage is that the external drive is plugged in to a different computer with the same PSE version, you have nothing to do beside switching the drive to the other computer. The drive is so small you can keep it easily in your laptop bag, and it will work just as if you had increased your internal memory. It's also possible to use the catalog manager to move the transfered catalog folder back to the default location on your C: drive if you don't switch computers. Theoretically, that may be speedier, but I have never noticed it. Alternatively, you can use the folders panel in tree mode to move a folder with all its subfolders trees to the external drive to spare internal disk space. About NAS: They are ideal to store PSE backups, but you may have performance loss and it's not recommended or even possible to store catalog folders there.

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