Various Date/Time Tags used in Elements Organizer.

Elements Organizer is very much rich in feature set. While organising your media, dates play a key role. Given this background, Elements Organizer provides numerous date/time fields. But it seems that some users are not clear about their exact definitions and role they play in organizing.

Downloading Photoshop Elements - Latest and Older versions.

The latest Photoshop Elements (PSE) version can be downloaded from official Adobe website which may look something like:

As shown in above snapshot, there are two ways/links available to download PSE. Following are recommended steps:

1. Please select the correct platfrom from flyout shown.
2. Primary download link: Click on 'download' button shown adjacent to flyout. This will start PSE download using Akamai Download Manager.
3. Secondary/Alternate link: If you face any issues with Akamai download manager (Primary download link) then please click on 'Secondary/Alternate link' as shown in snapshot.

If you are facing any issues while downloading the build using above steps OR if you want to download older versions, click here. This will take to an official page of Adobe (so don't worry about virus and all) from where you can download any PSE version as per your requirement.

Note:
Above steps will be helpful for downloading trial build.
But if you have purchased PSE from any other source except adobe.com (like from Amazon or any other retail store) and have lost access to build (but you still have the serial number with you) then no issues. Please download the trial build using above steps and then serialize it with your serial number.


Please comment below if you face any issues while downloading.

How to correct hourglass (generic) thumbnail in Elements Organizer??

In Elements Organizer, when you import media, after sometime the media thumbnails appear correctly. The time lag between importing media and getting thumbnails generated varies depending upon - number of media, file size, file resolution, file location (whether on internal drive or CD/DVD or on network).

But sometimes even after leaving Organizer idle for sometime, Organizer keeps on showing generic thumbnails. There can be two possibilities here:

• The thumbnails are not available for those particular media (like audio, some video formats or image with higher resolution).

• There appears to be some issue with thumbnail database in Organizer.

For first case, we can't do anything but if this is the second case (say for a JPEG of 2 MB having resolution 1024x768 thumbnail is not shown) then there is a workaround to resolve this. Please try following steps:

1. In Elements Organizer, click on 'Help->System Info'. Under 'Current Catalog', the catalog location is mentioned adjacent to 'Catalog Location' field as shown below:

2. Quit Organizer. In the catalog folder, you will see a file named 'thumb.5.cache' as shown below:

Rename 'thumb.5.cache' to say 'thumb.5_old.cache'. Relaunch Organizer.

Now Organizer will start generating thumbnails for all the media in your catalog. This process will take time so please be patient. Once Organizer is finished generating thumbnails, your issue (showing generic thumbnails for some media) will be resolved. 

Please comment if your issue is not resolved.

PSE Disc box demystified

PSE Disc box demystified!!

Logging in Elements Organizer

Logging in Elements Organizer

Requirement page

Requirement page

PSE Editor is not launching (Mac)

PSE Editor is not launching (Mac)

This issue can appear in various manifestations like-

- Elements Editor splash screen freezes at launch.

- Elements Editor splash screen appears and then goes away.

- Nothing happens on clicking 'Editor' tab in welcome screen.

- Organizer/Editor launches fine but hangs just after launch.

PSE Editor is not launching (Windows)

PSE Editor is not launching (Windows)

This issue can appear in various manifestations like-

- Elements Editor splash screen freezes at launch.

- Elements Editor splash screen appears and then goes away.

- Nothing happens on clicking 'Editor' tab in welcome screen.

- Elements Editor launches fine but hangs just after launch.

How to fix catalog conversion failure issues?

How to fix catalog conversion failure issues?

The troubleshooting steps mentioned in this blog will work fine for:
- Catalogs created in Adobe Photoshop Elements v5 or older.
- Catalogs created in any version of Adobe Photoshop Album.
- Converting catalogs in Photoshop Elements 7 or newer versions.

- Catalog conversion is done on Windows (this workaround is not valid for Mac).

How to improve PSE's performance?

How to improve PSE's performance?

Please refer to this blog, if:

- Elements Organizer is taking a long time to launch.

- Elements Organizer is taking long time to execute simple operations.

- How to Repair/Optimize catalog in Elements Organizer.

- If Editor is taking a long time to launch or to open any images.

Error U41M1C212 while updating Adobe Products

Error U41M1C212 while updating Adobe Products

"Organizer stopped working" on using Photo mail in Elements Organizer

"Organizer stopped working" on using Photo mail in Elements Organizer

Watch folder (Windows only feature of PSE)

Watch folder (Windows only feature of PSE)

Please refer to this blog if -
1. You want Elements Organizer to import media automatically from some pre-defined folders whenever new media is added to them.
2. Just after launching Organizer, an 'Updating' dialog is shown (which sometimes remains for long) with NO Cancel button.

PSE Organizer is not launching (Mac)

PSE Organizer is not launching (Mac)

This issue can appear in various manifestations like-

- Elements Organizer splash screen freezes at launch.

- Elements Organizer splash screen appears and then goes away.

- Nothing happens on clicking 'Organizer' tab in welcome screen.

- Organizer launches fine but hangs just after launch.

How to deactivate PSE?

How to deactivate PSE?

All posts available on this blog

All posts available on this blog:

Following is a comprehensive list of all posts available on this blog. I will keep on updating this page with new posts. If you would like a post explaining some feature/trouble-shooting a feature in PSE, just leave your comments in comment section on this page.

How to change default application associated with a media?

How to change default application associated with a media?

Based on the nature of media, Operating system usually associate some default application for all files. For example by default all images are set to open in Windows Photo Viewer on Windows. Now even if we install some other Photo viewer app, the default application associated with the images may remain same.

This blog shows how to change the default application associated with any image. Lets say on my machine images are set to open in 'Windows Photo viewer'.

Unable to install PSE on Windows. Setup.exe says "This version of Photoshop Elements requires MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher to be installed". How to resolve?

Unable to install PSE on Windows. Setup.exe says "This version of Photoshop Elements requires MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher to be installed". How to resolve?

How do I Reconnect Missing files in Organizer?

How do I Reconnect Missing files in Organizer?

This problem can appear in various manifestations like:

- Yellow icon/badge is shown on top left corner of images.
- Elements Organizer shows 'Searching files' dialog in some workflows.
- Reconnect missing files dialog is shown while initiating some workflows.

Photoshop Elements (PSE) knowledge base

Photoshop Elements (PSE) knowledge base

Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 11 software helps you edit pictures with powerful, easy-to-use options and share them via print, the web, Facebook, and more.* Live in the moment knowing you can easily turn your everyday snapshots into sensational photos.

As with other software/applications, you might get into some issue or you might want to achieve something but you don't know how. There are numerous forums wherein you can post your queries. Other forum members (which includes some members from Adobe) may answer your questions. 

The overall process is smooth but not a real time. Most of the times you want to accomplish something with application and then you launch the application. Consider the situation that when you launched the application  and what you see is, the application is not launching/crashing at startup. Alternatively you are not able to accomplish what you want to achieve due to some defects. As a next step, you post this question on some fourms. The overall process of getting your query resolved might take a large time. And it might be possible that either your leave the task or you switch the application.

The motivation behind creating this blog is to resolve your queries in real-time. This blog is basically a knowledge repository where you can find a number of tricks/hacks which you need to do if you are stuck in a situation.  If you are stuck in a situation, then as first point of contact, you can visit this blog and search for your issue. As with other repositories, this blog will evolve with time. So ff you are unable to find your query listed here, you can add a comment on this blog. I will try to answer your query ASAP and will add the same to this KB. 

This KB is aimed for PSE11 on Win Vista and later 64 bit machines versions and Mac. If you are using a previous PSE version, these tips will work fine.

Please leave your comments if you have any queries. I will get back to you as soon as possible. Any feedback on improving the quality/content of the blog is highly appreciated.

Cheers!!