I've been using the Photoshop Elements Organizer for a long time with the 2022 version being the one I currently use.  I've had occassional problems with this version that have taken a bit of work to resolve in the catalog.  I thought maybe if I upgraded to the 2025 version those problems might have been fixed.  I did install the 2025 version but found that some "minor" changes had been made to the UI.  After some discussion about this with someone in the know, I learned that the font had been changed.  The consequence of this change is that the display of these lists uses about 50% more vertical space than in the 2022 version.  The extra space is between successive entries.  Since I have a very complex file structure with many folders and subfolders (about 1000), in the 2025 version I'm forced to do a lot more scrolling that I had to do in the 2022 version.  The same is true for selection of keyword tags.  I have decided to stay using the 2022 version.  I would like to see the ability for the user to either specify the font to be used or some other option to make these lists more compressed. ... View more

I'm primarily a Photoshop (Beta) and ACR user but for many years I've used the Photoshop Elements Organizer to catalog my large image collection.  For the last 3 years I've used the Organizer 2022 version.  It has mostly worked well, suits my needs and has a nice, compact screen layout.  Its UI is intuitive.  Once in a while it has some quirks that screw up a few entiries in the catalog, which take a trial and error approach to resolve, but so far I've had success restoring items.  I thought that if I upgraded to PSE 2025 maybe those problems would go away and that maybe performance would improve a little.   Unfortunately it seems that I was wrong, unless I've totally missed something that should be obvious.  The UI has taken a step backwards, maybe a decade or more.  The use of display real estate is terrible.  What used to be nice, compact displays of the folder lists and tags now uses twice as much space per entry as they did in the 2022 version.  The thumbnail displays look clumbsy.  Since my collection of image is large (a bit over 90K) this UI forces me to do a lot more scrolling than I had to do in the 2022 version.    Another thing that bugs me is that it appears PSE 2025 wants to automatically sync my catalog to the Adobe Cloud.  I'm not sure that I want to do that since my catalog is rather large.  I would prefer to back up the catalog to another drive on my system.  I did not see any place in the Preferences to suppress this.  The Auto Sync portion of Preferences seems to be focussed on syncing media, which is also something that I don't need to do.  My media storage is around 4 TB now.   Fortunately I have not taken an unrecoverable path.  Unless I discover how to get back to what I enjoyed with the 2022 version I guess I'll just chalk this up to a bad purchase and remove the installation.  I doubt that I'll get an offer from Adobe to have my purchase refunded.  All of this suggest that I should start seriously looking for another way to catalog my images.  Maybe this will force me to use Lightroom, another program I don't like.  Boohoo.  A good product ruined just to be able to say that new features and improvements have been added. ... View more

I've been using the Photoshop Elements Organizer for over 20 years as my image cataloging tool.  Once the product stabalized it's done almost everything I needed.   In my editing workflow I'm using Bridge for accessing and Photoshop 26.1 for my editing.  I've never really liked Lightroom but yesterday I though I would take another look to see if it would be suitable for my cataloging needs.  The first thing I did was import the Organizer's catalog.  That took quite a long time, but it eventually completed.  However, Lightroom complained about some of the images and gave me a list of 96 files that it said were "either unavailable or damaged."  In the list were a couple tif files and the rest were psd files.  I've checked several of the files it reported and I was able to see their thumbnails with the Elements Organizer, and able to access them with Bridge and Photoshop.  Bridge does provide a thumbnail graphic for these images.  Lightroom seemes to know the file is present on my drive since it provides a placeholder graphic for these images, but it does not show the actual image thumbnail.  For a couple of the images I opened them in Photoshop, made a trivial change and replaced the original copy with the modified one.  Afterwards Lightroom still did not show the actual image thumbnail.   Does anyone have an explanation? ... View more

Here is an image to which I want to make some localized adjustments.  I thought I would use the Select Color Range tool to isolate the dark green trees along a ridge at the base of Mt. Ranier.  I'm eventually making this into a B&W unage and want to be able to control the density of some specific areas.   Here's an enlargement of the area I want to select from, only selecting the dark green trees.     In the end, when I applied the Select Color Range tool to the dark green trees I didn't get what I expected.  I started with Fuzziness set to 0 and Range set to 0 thinking this would provide the greates limitation on pixels selection.  I first used the left eye dropper to select an initial color, then I used the middle eyedropper to add more of the dark green trees to the selection.  What seemed odd was that the first selection with the middle eyedropper appeared as a square.  Each time I added a little more from an adjoining area the square had another rectangle added to it keeping it a square.  As I moved closer to the edge of the dark greek trees, instead of selecting only the dark green trees, it added another rectangular area to the side that included the trees and other parts of the image which were not dark green.  I had expected to get an irregular shape that was mostly the dark green trees and from there I could adjust the Fuzziness and Range values upward to get the most useful selection.  I didn't seem to work that way.    Here's a closeup of the selected area.     Here is the mask that was added to a Brightness/Contrast layer as a result of this selection with the Fuzziness set to 0 and Range set to 0.       I've used this approach on other images and it seemed to work as expected on some and not on others. What am I missing in this siuation?  ... View more