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Post by michelb on Oct 19, 2022 18:48:50 GMT
Just updated to 15. Not seeing any obvious changes to the interface. Pelican image processed with ACR15. Same for me. As already mentionned, PSE2023 comes with ACR 14.4 and if you have a really new camera needing ACR 15 you can 'update' the list of newly supported cameras by using the workaround suggested in Sepiana's resources for ACR. Don't expect to see anything new in the interface of the Elements ACR version. If your raw files are already supported, no need to update.
To summarize my experience with recent Camera Raw versions for Elements:
Pro: A wide range of presets when starting with raws. A pity most users won't notice them...
Negative: - still the awkward new crop solution, which is 'shaky' and slow due to the GPU not beeing used
- New bug which has been unnoticed since a few new versions. If you shoot raw and want to take advantage of the wider aRGB color space provided by your color setting preference (optimize for printing), then, that does no longer work, you open your files only in sRGB. Reported and hopefully fixed in a next version? - lack of detailed tutorials dedicated to PSE Camera Raw users.
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Post by michelb on Aug 28, 2022 18:54:18 GMT
I'll be available tomorrow to concentrate on your issue. I have sent you a PM from the Adobe forum with my real mail. Michel
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Post by michelb on Aug 13, 2022 15:34:29 GMT
Here is a screenshot with the filmstrip on the bottom.
In recent ACR versions you can choose to locate the filmstrip on the bottom or the left side.
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Post by michelb on Aug 13, 2022 15:09:23 GMT
Here is a full page from my Camera Raw inside of PSE 2021. I see no way to open any more files other than the one file I do have opened here. You can't open several raw files from within the ACR plugin. But you can either use the editor with 'Open in ACR' and select several files in the Explorer window, or, You can use the organizer to select (highlight) several raw files and use the usual 'Editor' icon on the bottom, or the memu edit > Edit with Photoshop Elements editor (shorcut Ctrl I).
Good to know: the above ways automatically raw files, but also jpegs/psd which have already been edited in camera raw from the editor.
In practice, I can comfortably open 20 to 50 raws at the same time with my modest hardware config. The more memory available, the larger scratch disks, the better.
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Post by michelb on Aug 13, 2022 6:53:33 GMT
Keep in mind that if you have chosen (highlighted) several files in the filmstrip, your sliders settings modify all those files at the same time.
I do not quite follow this last statement. How can it modify more files than I would have currently loaded into PSE RAW if there is only one photo in the RAW conversion at one time? The film strip acts just like the photobin in the pixel editor. It only shows the files you have chosen to open in camera raw. I often have small batches of raw file opened in ACR at the same time. Very frequently, some of those files need a common set of edits (slider settings). For instance, same white balance and shadow tuning. Or you can highlight all and click 'Auto' to start with an automatic correction. You can apply the same 'profiles' to get the same effect, for instance black and white profiles. You can do batch cropping, which is non destructive. You then highlight another set of pictures or a precise photo for another effect and apply all needed edits in the same session. Of course, don't forget to select all and either click 'Done' or 'Open' to save the 'recipe' to all the files at the end of the batch editing.
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Post by michelb on Aug 12, 2022 16:51:07 GMT
Yes I did do that and I did find Sharpening. Where do I find Masking? What is the best way for me to learn HOW to use RAW on my own?? Have a look at the last screenshot from fotofrank, where you see the sliders for Detail and Sharpening. If you enter a value for sharpening, the options for that command will appear, including masking. Alternatively, click on the triangle on the right of the sharpening slider to display those options. Don't confuse that 'masking' with the masks in the pixel editor, it's a sharpening option for more advance control of sharpness.
Tip: You'll soon find that editing in raw is much easier and faster than the pixel editor. The idea is to use the sliders top to down. First concentrate on the midtones, then on the highlights, the shadows and fine tune whites and blacks.
Keep in mind that if you have chosen (highlighted) several files in the filmstrip, your sliders settings modify all those files at the same time.
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Post by michelb on Aug 7, 2022 7:13:06 GMT
I am looking to free up some space on my C: drive, and found that there are several catalogs, some rather old, so from several previous versions of PSE. Can I just delete them, or should I use the organizer to remove them somehow? Tom, According to the Help file, you can delete them. You do it via Organizer > File > Manage Catalogs. See . . . Delete a catalog. You can also move a catalog folder. Either from the catalog manager or from the explorer. So it's safe to move them as an archive to another available drive.
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Post by michelb on Aug 7, 2022 6:56:10 GMT
Usually, the recommended way in Adobe forums when nothing else works, is to use the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool, even if it is not mentioned that it also works for Elements.
The question comes from time to time in the Photoshop Elements forum and you can get help from advanced PSE users who have used the process themselves. I would post there to get guidance:
or there:
I'll try to find one of those discussions.
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Post by michelb on Jul 3, 2022 14:26:47 GMT
Interesting video (especially as I have a Fuji but not the medium format one that Kevin has!). One thing that has changed since that video is that Lightroom CC (and Photoshop ACR) moved the profiles from the bottom of the panels to the top and added a bunch more including some really excellent B&W ones and not just the camera profiles that Kevin used. These have become my preferred way to go for B&W conversions. There is a new video from Matt Kloskowski that does a good job of explaining the difference between presets and profiles in LR and has a section on the B&W ones. You can see it hereTony Very interesting link for LR and Photoshop ACR users about the power of the many and rich choice of profiles available in the recent ACR version. Look at the 'profile' line just under 'Edit' and over 'Basic'. The icon on the right reveals the choice of profiles discussed by Matt Kloskowski. I think that it's even more important to play with black and white profiles for Elements only users. To translate Matt's explanations from LR to PSE ACR, the main thing is to keep in mind that you have no 'preset' management in PSE ACR. However, you can take advantage of the 'last used' settings to recover the settings of a previously edited image. So, it's up to you to save and organize your own library of effects with the organizer so that you can retrieve a specific file with the desired effect, apply any slight change to save the settings as the last edited one. This would deserve a distinct tutorial, but what is important is to concentrate on B&W with the wide choice of profiles.
There is a situation where you don't care about ultimate B&W conversions with many layers and dodge and burn: it's if you want to produce an homogenous version of a relatively big batch of files. In that case, I open the batch in ACR, apply the 'auto' setting to all and click 'Done'. Now the selected items in the organizer will automatically open in ACR whether they are raws or jpegs. I select all and try the various B&W profiles on a test item. Then, I use the 'Save' butoon (older versions) or the 'convert and save...' icon on top right (recent versions) to save the files as independent DNG files. You can even choose the 'lossy' option to get much smaller DNGs.
The organizer can batch export those DNGs to your preferred file formats, jpeg, psd, tiff, png... The batch processes are very fast, you don't overwrite your originals nor your best color version. And the most important is that all files are converted in the same style and look.
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Post by michelb on Jul 1, 2022 7:29:20 GMT
but, in a few of the photos that I have imported into Organizer, there is symbol that I do not recognize and can't find a reference to what it means. It's that little circle with a line through it in the upper left hand corner of the photo. Hi cjt, I also use the Organizer but I have never seen that icon on my images. I paid a visit to Adobe Community Support and found this report. See the explanation by michelb , our in-house Organizer guru. What is meaning of icon (circle with slash) on thumbnail?I'm not sure this will apply to your situation. I'm sending a PM to Michel bringing this thread to his attention. Hang in there!
Hi, the "Non match" icon only appears when the three following criteria are present: - when you display the result of a search (it's a property of the search criteria, not of the file itself)
- .AND. when the thumbnail shown is in a stack or a version set - .AND. when the precise item does not meet the search criteria while other items in the stack or version set do meet them.
Examples:
1 - Your original is in colours, one of your 'versions' of the version set has been converted to black and white. You assign the keyword "B&W" to the
version only. A search for "B&W" will return both, the original having the 'Non match' icon.
2 - You have a picture of two persons A and B. You create two versions by cropping each person and assigning persons keywords to A and B but none to the original. A search for A or a search for B will also return the original with the Non-match icon.
3 - A search by visual similarity groups several files of different origins in a single stack: chances are they won't have the same keywords. However all members of the stack will be displayed with or without the Non-match icon.
A word about the Organizer vs Bridge. The organizer is based on a catalog and its principle is very similar to Lightroom. Associated with the ACR module, it can both organize with a catalog and provide a non-destructive parametric editing. Bridge is a super browser without a database. It works from the information stored in the media files themselves with the help of a powerful cache system. The full Photoshop users may use only Lightroom, but they like to use Bridge when they are working with other Adobe softwares.
For the typical requirements of most PSE users, the organizer is generally by far the best tool.
No comparison for speed of searches, automatic searches and organizing features. Well integrated with the editor. Good backups...
But Bridge is interesting together with the organizer (it is free!) for other reasons, especially if you want more features for working with metadata. The trouble will only happen if you forget that you can't delete, rename or move files with Bridge without disconnecting files in the catalogs... (note that it's the same within the organizer if you have several items in two different catalogs. What you do in one catalog will be ignored in the other). Of course, Bridge will be useful if you are using other Adobe softwares like Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat... And don't forget that the organizer can organize your files as well with the full Photoshop as an external editor. I have even tested setting Bridge as the external editor. As I have a subscription, I can take advantage of Bridge to use the full ACR module instead of the limited one in Elements.
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Post by michelb on May 3, 2022 13:18:54 GMT
How can I Sequence photos in such a way they can be exported to somebody else. Currently I used Adobe Bridge which allows me to sequence photos, using drag & drop, but I cannot export them!! I am looking at alternatives:- Irfan View & Fast Stone Image Viewer Can anyhone help me please? The general solution is to use a programme which allows sorting freely your images by drag and drop: that's what the organizer offers when you have selected an album. In your sort menu choice, select 'album order'. The second part is to use the 'export as new files' menu using the option to rename with a starting text string followed by a sort order number. I have not Bridge installed as I am away from home now, but I suppose it can be done in the same way.
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Post by michelb on Apr 1, 2022 15:46:00 GMT
Although there are a lot of them, I have only seen the black and white ones over here, Michel. Can't understand why, as we are just a few miles from France. To be fair, the steel blue parts are not always easy to see depending on the light.
About the legend of magpies being thieves for brght objects as inspired by the Rossini opera (La pie voleuse / La gazza ladra), scientist say that it's totally false. But... my wife can testify that a young magpie brought up by her parents after falling from the nest has lived free around the family, and showed the same attraction for bright objects like rings and bright things which it stored together. And it's also true that cats are not welcome at all to climb on trees !
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Post by michelb on Mar 31, 2022 19:28:42 GMT
Margaret Thanks. Learn something every day. I did not know there are magpies in the UK. Your magpie is a different species than ours but looks very similar. Neat tufted duck. Clive Very common here in Europe: la pie bavarde.
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Post by michelb on Mar 28, 2022 20:29:27 GMT
Often on this site, when I hi-lite some text, wishing to copy/paste it, I will get an entirely different right-click menu that I only ever see here. I am not saying I couldn't get the weird right-click menu somewhere else, just that here is the only place that I ever see it; and, it will show up in nine of ten tries. There is no "Copy" option in this weird menu; however, there is an option "Cast"; does anyone know what "Cast" is or does ? I made several attempts at getting a screen-shot; however, in every instance, as soon as I tried, the right-click menu would immediately vanquish into thin air and could not be captured. For whatever it's worth, most of the options in many right-click menus make no sense to me. Buckskin,
According to the test I have just been carrying, I may have an explanation, but I can't be sure because my Windows OS is in French. Since you don't get the word 'cast' regularly by right clicking on a text selection, I supposed the text had to be 'special', that is not plain text, but be a link or similar. For instance, if I highlight and right click the title of your present thread, or one of the links at the bottom of this forum displayed on my Firefox, I do get a contextual menu with one of the options being 'envoyer à un appareil'. This can be translated 'cast to a device' or 'send and publish' in another device. The result of the 'cast' menu is a list of my existing computers and smartphones using the same Firefox browser. If I open my smartphone with Firefox, I get a notification that a new tab has been opened showing the content of the link.
Someone may have a more technical description of 'casting', but that seems to be what you are seeing yourself.
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Post by michelb on Mar 17, 2022 15:56:04 GMT
What's new with the Creative Cloud desktop app in PSE2022? - No official (or even NDA) technical explanations, so what do we see now, especially in the Adobe PSE user to user forum? - Saving to the Cloud in PSE2021 was an 'experimental' feature for some users only. It still works but has not been offered again with PSE2022. - The CC desktop app is always installed now except for Mac or Win store versions. - The general consensus is that the app does not cause noticeable slowing down, on the contrary, it seems to be the main solution to many installation and updating issues. - I suspect that the CC desktop app is necessary to replace old and obsolete application managers. The 'Save to the Cloud' was probably a marketing attempt to make that background task look as a new feature. Not very convincing if you don't have other subscription apps.
I also have a free LR and PS subscription from Adobe as an advantage for helping in the user to user forums. I am still partial to using PSE with its trio of apps: editor, organizer and PSE ACR. So, I appreciate being able to use Bridge and the full ACR version. I have not even installed PS and LR. For me, Save to the Cloud is a good reason to keep PSE2021 together with PSE2022.
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