Adobe Photoshop Elements

How to remove Watermarks of some other unwanted elements from a photograph by retaining background content (without distorting photograph || Content Aware Fill in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11)

2013-04-19T08:49:00.000-07:00

After a long time I thought of sharing some tips on this blog and this idea popped up after a dicussio with a friend who just visited Taj Mahal in India. He told that it's almost impossible to capture Taj Mahal Architecture without people in front of time. It's always crowded you can never get rid of people walking in the campus. After the discussion I thought of sharing this tutorial on the simplest way of removing unwanted stuff from a photograph without disturbing it's elements. Let's check out the way to do so.

Before we start our guided tutorial, I would like to share one of the most exciting feature in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 which helps in removing unwanted elements from photograph and fill those areas with appropriate background details - Content Aware Fill. This option in available in Spot Healing Brush in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.

Let's start with one of your photograph. I am doing it with one of my own photograph on www.travellingcamera.com.

1. Go to File Menu and opt for Open option to have your photograph in Editor of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Make sure that your photograph opens up in Expert mode of the Editor. Refer to screenshot below.

2. Select Healing Brush Tool on the left Tools-Panel of Editor in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Please note highlighted region in image below. On selecting Healing Brush tool, we see tool options in the bottom of this wrokspace.

3. In this workspace, select 'Spot healing Brush' with 'Content Aware' checked. Double check that 'Content Aware' is checked, as this option is most important to fill areas with appropriate details sampled from background regions.

4. Decide on size of the brush and start working on areas which you want to remove. If you notice below image, '@ T' is already missing and blank area is already filled with grass. You can't discriminate the filled area with other surroundings. This Content Aware technology works brilliantly in most of the areas of your photograph.

5. Keep working with your brush and unwanted regions of the photograph.

Here is how your unwanted watermark goes away without disturbing background regions.

New Camera Raw Update is available for Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 with great support of new cameras in Market

2013-04-10T02:11:00.000-07:00

Latest Adobe Camera Raw Update for Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 is available now (Adobe Camera Raw 7.4). So if you have bought a new camera recently, get ready to shoot in raw and experoience the amazing power of Adobe Camera Raw as well as Raw technologies shared by different camera manufacturers.

Here is the list of new cameras supported in Adobe Camera Raw 7.4 -

Canon EOS 1D C

Canon ESO 100D (Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7)

Canon EOS 700D (Rebel T5i / Kiss X7i)

Casio Exilim EX-ZR700

Casio Exilim EX-ZR710

Casio Exilim EX-ZR750

Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR

Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR

Fujifilm FinePix SL1000

Fujifilm X100s

Fujifilm X20

Hasselblad H5D-40

Hasselblad H5D-50

Hasselblad Lunar

LEICA M (Typ 240)

Nikon 1 J3

Nikon 1 S1

Nikon D7100

Nikon Coolpix A

Nikon Coolpix P330

Olympus XZ-10

Pentax MX-1

Samsung NX300

Sony Alpha NEX-3N

Sony Alpha SLT-A58

New Camera Support in added in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 through Adobe Camera Raw update 7.4

2013-04-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

Now raw files from following cameras will work with Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 -

Canon EOS 1D C

Canon ESO 100D (Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7)

Canon EOS 700D (Rebel T5i / Kiss X7i)

Casio Exilim EX-ZR700

Casio Exilim EX-ZR710

Casio Exilim EX-ZR750

Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR

Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR

Fujifilm FinePix SL1000

Fujifilm X100s

Fujifilm X20

Hasselblad H5D-40

Hasselblad H5D-50

Hasselblad Lunar

LEICA M (Typ 240)

Nikon 1 J3

Nikon 1 S1

Nikon D7100

Nikon Coolpix A

Nikon Coolpix P330

Olympus XZ-10

Pentax MX-1

Samsung NX300

Sony Alpha NEX-3N

Sony Alpha SLT-A58

These cameras files will start working in 11 version of Photoshop Elements, so if you are having any of these cameras and not using Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, you have following two options -

1. Get 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements OR
2. Only shoot in JPEG (which may not be a good idea of utilizing real power of your camera)

How to update Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 with Adobe Camera Raw 7.4 -

- Go to Help Menu of Organizer or Editor
- Check for Updates
- You will see Adobe Camera Raw 7.4 update
- Apply this update, restart your application and all raw files will start working on your software.

All the Best !!!

2013-03-07T21:39:00.001-08:00

I want to upgrade my older PSE version to current PSE version. How?

If you own any older PSE version, then instead of buying a full version, you can upgrade to current version (as upgrade will be less expensive than buying Full version). For upgrading, you can visit: http://tinyurl.com/9pgrhte.

For example, I have PSE4 installed on my system. Now I want to have the current PSE version (which currently is PSE11). If I am going to buy a full version, it will cost me $99.99 as shown below (snapshots taken from link mentioned above and may subject to change)

Instead if I do a upgrade it will just cost me $79.99 as shown below:

Please leave your comments if you have any queries.

Cheers!!

How to use Low Key Guided Edit in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 || New Guided in 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements - LOW KEY

2012-10-22T05:23:00.002-07:00

Latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements (11.0) has come up with some of the amazing Guided-Edits and one of them is 'LOW-KEY' effect. Above image is giving you some sense of Low-Key effect although results vary from one photograph depending upon the lighting spectrum in the photograph. Let's check out the workflow to achieve this and understand how it works on your photographs.

Open a photograph in Editor of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Go to File Menu and open your photograph in Editor workspace.

Click on highlighted button which Guided Edit. This is the workspace to locate Low-Key effect and I personally like the concept of Guided edits.

Scroll down a bit and you will be able to locate 'LOW KEY' under Photo Effects category of Guided Edits. Click on Low Key on right side and it will open up the possibilities of making your photographs beautiful.

Now simply click on the colorful dial or B&W(Black and White). It will make some of the photographs perfect and if not, there few more controls in the bottom to make the results better. For my photograph, the result shown below is default one and I haven't tried other two controls. But definitely they are extremely useful.

How to manually Tag People Faces in 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements || Face Tagging in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11

2012-10-07T05:23:00.000-07:00

Today we saw this query on Adobe Forums. One of the user figured out that people recognition faces and photographs are shown in People Room but what about photographs where faces are not detected automatically and if users want to tag them with a particular People Face?

Of course there is a simple solution for it. Manual People Face Tagging is also allowed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Here are two ways of doing it.

1. Double click on your photograph.
2. Now you see an option to 'Mark Face' > Click on it and proceed with your workflow.

What if you want to apply People Face Tag to multiple Photographs at same time?

1. Go to Media Room
2. On right side Panel, locate your People Keyword Tags
3. Simple drag n drop the tag you want to apply to multiple photographs in the middle of Element Organizer 11.

Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 is available for Adobe Photosop Elements 11

2012-10-06T10:16:00.000-07:00

Latest Adobe Camera Raw Update 7.2 is only available for 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

How to update Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 - go to Help Menu and check for updates and install.

If you have other version of Adobe Photoshop Elements - Use DNG convertor to use photographs shpt with latest cameras which have support in Adobe Camera Raw 7.2 only.

Check out - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/extend.html to have better understanding

First attempt at COMIC Filter in 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements || Becoming a fan of Comic Filter in PSE11

2012-09-27T23:10:00.002-07:00

Not able to see People Tags in Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 || How to see People Tags in Elements Organizer 11

2012-09-26T05:03:00.000-07:00

Since many of the things have changed in 11th version of Adobe Photoshop Elements. I just saw an option to hide or show People Tags in Organizer 11. Now People Tags are separately shown in Tags Panel of Elements Organizer 11. With that an option is provided under View Menu, through which you can hide or show them. For better understanding check out the screen shared below.

How New Version of Adobe Photoshop Elements Look Like - Some Visual Screenshots of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 || Elements Organizer PART1

2012-09-25T07:31:00.000-07:00

Making things easy and providing more convenient access to different things is probably, one of the main idea of 11th version apart from some cool features in it. Here we are going to give you some top level glimpses about the changes in main interface of Elements Organizer. And next post would run you through the similar stuff in Editor. Let's check out these screenshots and understand the kind of changes we have in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.

This is how Elements Organizer 11 looks like Quite clean, more options in one screen and friendlier. Now Organizer has tried to make the whole organizing system more convenient with further fragmentation of woorkflows in terms of separate rooms. It's very well like our houses, where different types of rooms are used for different purposes and aligned well with the architecture. Also all details are kept in mind like - what all should be part of a particular room, which set of rooms are more related etc. Anyways, Elements Organizer 11 has four types of main rooms called - MEDIA, PEOPLE, PLACES, EVENTS. Here we are not going to discuss these in details but names are quite intuitive to make you some solid guesses around the same.

In new Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, now Folders are shown in two mode and works far better than earlier versions. by default you see all the folders from which you have imported the files into organizer and we can also switch to hierarchical mode which is what we used to see in old versions.

Media Room shares almost all the functionality what we used to have in old Organizer (Image-well)...

Full Screen View...

Top bar of Elements Organizer 11 to switch between one room to another.

People room is more about organizing the photographs according to the face information available.

This was more of a quick glimpse through screenshots and would come with detailed information about new offerings in Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.

11st version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is available on Adobe.com now !

2012-09-24T23:36:00.001-07:00

Much awaited version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is available to try & buy now. Just check out https://www.adobe.com/in/products/photoshop-elements.html for more details. We have just downloaded the trial and will be sharing a detailed highlights soon !

Is Welcome Screen in PSE, not so welcoming for you? || Not able to fully launch Photoshop Elements Editor or Organizer

2012-09-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

Sometimes progress-bar keeps going without launching Organizer or Editor from Welcome Screen of Adobe Photoshop Elements. And this becomes very irritating. Here is a quick way to access Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor & Organizer.

Bypass the Welcome Screen by creating Desktop shortcuts for the Organizer & Editor and then restart your computer.

The Editor's executable is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 10\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe"

The Organizer's executable is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe"

Why do I prefer Watermarking individual Photographs as compared to watermarking in a batch?

2012-09-07T03:44:00.002-07:00

There was time, when I was a huge fan of Process Multiple Files Dialog in Editor which offers resizing & watermarking of multiple photographs in one click. At that time, I used to put my watermark in left-bottom of the photographs. Then I saw some of my photographs being used on some of the websites, without permission and on top of that they cropped the photographs to get rid of watermark in the bottom. It was quite easy to remove it from bottom.

Next quick thought was to watermark in the center, but it was destroying my photographs. I wanted to place these watermarks more strategically without impacting photo visuals.

Since subjects are differently places in each photograph, so btach processing for watermarking doesn't make sense in this case. Thereon I started watermarking my photograph with a Brush, which is quite flexible in many senses. Different transparencies of watermark, various sizes etc can be managed very easily. Here are some of the samples -

There was an error opening up the Backup/Synchronization Preferences. Please close Preferences and try again. || Errors in sharing album to photoshop.com

2012-08-16T05:40:00.002-07:00

Recently we saw problem in loading of Backup/Sync Preferences in Adobe Photoshop Elements. One of the users is getting following message on attempt of launching Backup/Sync preferences through CTRL+K or Edit Menu. - 'There was an error opening up the Backup/Synchronization Preferences. Please close Preferences and try again.'

This error was always encountered irrespective of Catalogs of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

So let me share the process that happens on launching Preferences, especially Backup/Sync Preferences. On launch, preferences dialog tries to fetch albums in Catalog and on Photoshop.com. Most of the times this error occurs in case Elements Organizer fails to fetch albums from Photoshop.com. There can be various reason for this, so typical process of narrowing it down is -

1. Try the same steps in fresh catalog. Ideally you should be able to see the problem there as well. If not, then it's something we need to work out together.

2. If above step creates problem in fresh Catalog as well, then check if you are able to load all albums on www.photoshop.com? I mean, go to Photoshop.com account and see if you are able to see all your albums there.

3. If you are facing problems with PSE as well as Photoshop.com, then there can be some case of corruption in Albums.xml or some other malfunction. This is something you may want to raise with Adobe, but before that try steps mentioned at - http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/incorrect-account-information-photoshop-photoshop.html

Is it logical to restrict movement of a TAG and TAG-Group together, while both of them can be moved individually?

2012-08-06T09:20:00.001-07:00

I use Keyword Tags in Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements and they are very useful for me from organizing and SEO point of view. Slowly Tag heirarchy in my catalog increased and thought of regrouping my Tags. During this, I came across this weird behavior - I was able to move single Tag and Single Tag-Group, but when tried to move one Tag & Tag-group together, it was not allowed.

Let me explain with example -

TGs are Tag-Groups...

Ts are Tags...

TG-A

- TGAA

- T-AAA

- T-AAAA

- TGAA1

- T-AAA1

- T-AAAA1

- T-AAAAA1

- T-A2

- T-A3

TG-B

Now if I want to move Tag T-A2 under TG-B, I can do it and same for Tag-Group TGAA. But I select Tag T-A2 and TGAA, movement is not allowed under TG-B.

I really got frustrated as it doesn't sound logical to me and I had lot of Tags to handle. Do you think, it makes sense for any reason you can think of?

How do you nuse Keyword Tags in Adobe Photoshop Elements || Efficient use of Keyword Tags to increase your visibility on Internet

2012-08-04T10:21:00.000-07:00

Keyword Tags in Adobe Photoshop Elements have been used as organizing metaphor for a long time and slowly some of the users have identified the power of Keywords.

Appropriate keywords in JPEGs can be very useful for Photographers to increase their visibily on web. JPEGs can have these Keywords as Metadata and major search Engines like Google work well indentifying right images for search. And majorly these searches depend upon these keywords. E.g.- If we search for New York Photographs on Google, results will show photographs which have right keywords associated.

Now point is to understand the way to write these Keywords into the JPEGs. So here is a simple process -

1. Attach appropriate Keywords Tags to your Photograph.
2. Select this Photograph and Write Metedata through File Menu option.
3. Now export these photographs.

How to check if Keywords are added to exported JEPGs or not? - Import these JPEGs to a temporary catalog and then if it throws a dialog for importing Keyword-Tags then it shows that Keywords are there in JPEGs.

Now if we use such photographs on our Blogs or Websites, chances will increase for these to come in search results on Google.

Is 'Building Preview' in Album sharing irritating for you?

2012-07-11T07:04:00.000-07:00

Today I realized that Album sharing by trying various gallery-templates in Elements Organizer can be very irritating, especially when you have multiple photographs in an Album. Because every time, we apply a template it takes lot of time to build preview and time increases with number of photographs/files you have.

On discussing with one of my other PSE friend, I got to know about a simple workflow which can save lot of time.

1. Pick 3-5 of main photographs from your Album and go to Album Creation workflow.

2. Experiment with various templates you have and decide on a final template.

3. Now add more photographs to your album and share it.

So if we look at this process, it will save lot of time while experimenting with sharing templates in Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer.

Not able to locate your Custom-Bursh in Adobe Photoshop Elements?

2012-07-06T07:54:00.000-07:00

I have a Photo-blog and long time back I had created a a brush to watermark my photographs before I put them online. Few days back that brush gone away from Adobe Photoshop Elements. I was wondering the reason for the same and the best guess I could make was - custom-brushes are swiped on loading new burshes which are downloaded from free online websites.

So best way to keep custom-brushes is to save them after creation. In Brush selection dialog, there is an option to shape any of the brush. So whenever you create a new custom-brush, please save it explicitly. So that in future, it can be reloaded again after some problems with custom-brushes in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

"Define Brush" option under Edit Menu is always disabled in Adobe Photoshop Elements

2012-07-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Sometimes 'Define Brush' option under Edit menu of Editor (Adobe Photoshop Elements) remain disabled and at times, very irritating.

Here is one of the main reasons for state being disabled - If any side of the image is more than 2500 pixels. So simple solution is to resize image to reduce each side (Width and Height) less than 2500 pixels.

There is one another similar incident through which your defined brushes get lost. This happens when you load any new brush. So best way to avoid it is to save the Brush after you define them.

How to add Stars or Sparkles in a Photograph using Adobe Photoshop Elements !

2012-06-26T03:16:00.000-07:00

As we know that in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements, there are multiple ways of doing one thing and it depends upon an individual to follow a particular path. So today we are trying to share one of the easiest way of adding Sparkles or Stars in your photographs.

It's quite simple -

1. Go to the location mentioned below and download the kind of Sparkles you like.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?searchfield=skip+star+sparkle+brushes&search_exchange=&num=25&startnum=1&event=search&sort=0&interim_dummy_tmpfield=&Submit

2. Now put your downloaded *.abr file at %appdata%\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\10.0\Presets\Brushes

3. Go to Editor workspace and load this new Brush.

(Add them to Brushes of Adobe Photoshop Elements)

3. After loading these brushes, you will see various shapes of Sparkles/Stars, which can be selected and applied to your photographs.

How to get Canvas type Texture in Adobe Photoshop Elements

2012-06-25T08:30:00.003-07:00

This is one of the recent query we noticed on Adobe Forums and thought of sharing a step by step guideline to get Canvas Texture in your photographs.

In Adobe Photoshop Elements, there are different types of textures we can add and whole process is quite easy. Let's check out these simple steps to get Canvas-texture on your Photographs...

1. Just grab the photograph which you want to texturize with Canvas effect. Go to File Menu and Open your photograph in Editor workspace of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Your workspace should look like following -

2. Now go to Filter Menu and under 'Texture' Menu, select 'Texturize' sub-menu. So just have a look at image below to know the flow of clicks you have to follow.

3. Following dialog will be shown to you.

4. In above dialog, select 'Canvas' option on left dropdown. Now you have three options to play with. So just experiment with 'Scaling', 'Relief' and 'Light'. Changes in 'Light' adds wonderful impact to the kind of texture we get in final photograph. Scaling and relief impact overall styling & flow of this texture, including scale. So just experiment and get the one which suites you.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 - Lasso Tool Begins and then Quits

2012-06-18T07:48:00.002-07:00

Today we are going to share something which is picked from Adobe Forums and solution has worked. It 's about the situation when your Lasso Tool starts creating problems.

Here application quits on the usage of Lasso tool. So if this happens with you, just follow step mentioned below -

After opening a photograph in Editor workspace, click on the highlighted area in above image. It's area where image size is mentioned. Keep your mouse in clicked form for 10 seconds and Editor will go in 'Not Responding' state. Now leave it and try to use Lasso Tool. Not sure if this will also work on Win-XP or not, because Not-Responding state is more frequent on Vista & Win7 as compared to Win-XP.

Not able to launch Organizer after installing Adobe Photoshop Elements

2012-06-06T23:44:00.000-07:00

Welcome to this this blog on Adobe Photoshop Elements and following article can be helpful to you, if you are not able to launch Organizer after installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements on your computer. This can be helpful, so try steps mentioned below -

(Below mentioned steps are for version 9 of Adobe Photoshop Elements, but can be tried for other versions by replacing version number in paths mentioned below)

Win:

1. Navigate to location 'C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\9.0 and delete/rename the 9.0 folder.

2: Go to 'C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs‘ folder and rename the Catalogs folder.

3: Launch EO. It will throw ‘No catalog found’ error. Create a new catalog and click on ‘OK’. Now EO launches with first launch scenario.

MAC:

1: Go to /users/labuser/library/application support/adobe/elements organizer and rename or delete ’9.0’ folder.

2. Rename or delete the ‘catalog’ folder.

3: Launch EO.

Is Adobe Photoshop Elements crashing on launch/Start-up || Organizer is crashing on launch/start-up || Editor is crashing on launch/start-up

2012-06-05T19:45:00.000-07:00

For Crash problem for Organizer :

A. Launch the catalog manager dialog box before launching organizer.

For this follow the steps-

1. Click on 'Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0' icon on desktop.

2. Hold the 'shift' key from your keyboard and click on 'organizer' tab in welcome screen.

3. Catalog manager dialog box will be launched. Create a new catalog. Probably Organizer will be launched.

4. If so, click 'catalog' under 'file menu' Select your catalog (with which organizer was crashing) and click on 'repair' button. Click on 're index visual similarity data' and click on 'ok' button. After this click on 'optimize' button.

5. Select the catalog and click on 'open' button.

B. If crash continues then you have to create a new catalog.

For Crash problem for Editor:

Delete Preferences: Try to launch Editor and keep pressing - ‘Ctrl+Alt+Shift’. It will show an option to delete preferences and then try to relaunch again.

Why do we get 'sweatPea error' in Adobe Photoshop Elements

2012-06-05T04:37:00.001-07:00

This error occurs when there are some issues with Plugins on the system. When EO is launching it tries to fetch the plugins from two locations (for win7):

1. C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\Plug-Ins

2. C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements 10

*** Version in above paths will change to PSE version installed on your computer.

As told already that this error occurs when there are some issues with Plugins. The issues can be-

1. Plugins are not present at their recommended locations.

2. Some plugins may be missing (may be removed by anti-virus or similar softwares).

3. Plugins gets corrupted.

To avoid getting this error message-

>> Uninstall PSE. Now close any anti-virus (or similar software) and re-install PSE.