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Post by michelb on Jan 1, 2022 17:40:44 GMT
I have no idea of the reason of the error message. The simpler tool to move selectd files elsewhere in an existing or to be created folder is not the move to removable drive, it's the simple File > move (shortcut Ctrl Shift V). The destination can be a folder on any drive, internal or external. By the way, the command 'move to removable drive' works the same with internal drives; it's a legacy feature. When you want to move a whole subfolder elsewhere, on any kind of drive, just use drag and drop within the left folders panel in tree mode.
If you have not already created or chosen a destination folder on the external drive, first test to put a dummy photo file in the destination folder from the explorer. Try importing it as a test of the removable drive. Then you'll be able to see the destination folder in the left folders panel and to drag subfolders to new destinations within the panel. If you don't see the external drive, go to the top of the tree, right click and you get the option to show all folders (and drives).
For moving a big photo library to a new drive or computer, I would rather use the backup and restore process. I am assuming you are on Windows?
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Post by michelb on Jan 1, 2022 15:55:44 GMT
Hi Popcorn, Here is my take on your flower color issue: - Elements and Elements ACR can do the job easily - Flowers colors for blue irises are probably outside of the sRGB color space. - Since you are shooting raw, forget about setting the white balance in the camera and rather trust your grey card.
Just trust the color picker of the enhance > adjust color > remove color cast in the pixel editor called 'white balance (I)' in the ACR dialog and use your neutral grey card as your target.
With raw files in Elements, you choose indirectly the color space from the editor preference, there is no menu for that in the ACR dialog. So, use the menu Edit > Color settings and choose to optimize for print; when you'll click 'Open' in the ACR dialog, you'll open an aRGB color space which is the widest you can choose in Elements.
In ACR, you can fine tune each iris photo in case there has been a temporary change in lighting (clouds...) or you can select a number of shots taken in the same conditions and use the same white balance tool setting. Instead of saving a preset, you can simply open an already correctly edited file, save it (Done) without change in color. Then you open the file or batch of files to which you want the same white balance. Select the icon to use 'previous settings'. In ACR 13 it's on the top right ... under the red eye tool.
Of course, if you have a calibrating device (spyder...) verify the calibration before your editing session.
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Post by michelb on Dec 30, 2021 14:57:42 GMT
Hi Janice, Interesting, Windows users like me often wonder what are those Mac functions like Preview.
No real equivalent in Windows. Of course, when you are browsing a folder in the organizer you are limited to supported file formats (for instance no pure Illustrator/Acrobat pdfs) AND only the files already in the catalog. - so, you can right click on the folder in the left folder panel in tree mode and choose: 'Reveal in explorer'. There you can display the files not yet in the catalog. But no psd, no pdfs... only generic icons.
- I recommend using the free Faststone Image Viewer as your secondary editor. it opens very fast, displays psd with a nice fimstrip. Can be used in a preliminary culling stage. Generally better than the slow to open integrated 'Full view - F11' Organizer view mode. In the organizer just click on the icon on the right of the 'Editor' icon in the bottom bar, and choose 'external editor'.
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Post by michelb on Dec 26, 2021 16:41:06 GMT
And now the second Russian Bride doll:
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Post by michelb on Dec 26, 2021 16:27:38 GMT
My try with a Russian bride doll (Xmas 2019)
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Post by michelb on Dec 21, 2021 21:20:03 GMT
If I understand well, you don't want to use floating windows because they are stacked by default ? You are supposed to resize and move those windows freely to show them side by side. Did you try to click the 'layout' icon on the bottom icons palette? A simple click on 'all columns' may display the files side by side. Then "float all" to exit that layout and back to stacked floating windows.
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Post by michelb on Dec 11, 2021 21:01:36 GMT
Are we allowed a second version?
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Post by michelb on Dec 11, 2021 20:27:02 GMT
PSE 2022 raw, preset artistic 05. In the editor, correct camera distortion, vignette +60 Stoke inside black, 20 pixels.
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Post by michelb on Dec 10, 2021 9:56:42 GMT
Michel, Saving files in version sets seems to be not scriptable. The ScriptListener doesn't record this option to the log. If I append "_edited-1" to the saved copy name (as the "Version Set" option does) the Organizer doesn't see the new file at all. Andrei, Thanks very much for checking. I had no hope for including 'in version set' as an option for the 'save as' command with a batch of files. There might be a risk that some items in the batch are not eligible to be saved as version set.
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Post by michelb on Dec 9, 2021 8:48:42 GMT
I don't want to hijack that discussion but I have the same question"How to save as - all open files" for a different purpose. There may be solutions of the same kind, like the process multiple files solution provided by Sepiana, so here is my own problem.
"How to save all open files in versions sets in the original folder?
Why? - I always keep my originals unedited and create version sets for my edited versions (a key feature of the organizer). - For a fast and efficient workflow, I batch edit both my raws and jpegs in ACR. After editing up to 50 files in ACR, I 'open' in the editor and continue the editing. As a result, I want to save each edited file, 95% in jpeg, 5% in psd/tiff. Then I can use the 'process multiple files' or the 'Save all' script in Elements+.
- The problem is to batch save in a version set. After all editing, I have to close and do a save as version set for each file.
- In a number of cases, I want to work in two separate batches, one without any editing in the editor, but creating a full res jpeg version set of the raw edits. Then another batch editing in the editor for the files needing additional tweaks to the raw edits. That way, 80% of my photos are easy to browse in the organizer, they are ready to print, they show as top of version set in albums etc. The other 20% would need a further editing session from the raw or jpeg original.
That does not require much time compared with the editing time, but it's repetitive and annoying.
A possible solution would be to use one of the two above solutions; then to run the automatic similarity stacking feature to replace the version set feature. That may be worthwile for big batches, but I don't see the advantage of speed for normal batches.
There is also an alternative workflow involving the "Export" as new files of the organizer. You only process your batch in ACR and finish by clicking 'Done'. The raw edits are saved in xmp or metadata header and you can use the Export function to export in your preferred format and size (and rename...) The results are NOT saved in the catalog, you have to import them. You may want to stack them with the original as required above.
So, I am open to any advice or solution for this problem.
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Post by michelb on Dec 4, 2021 18:57:12 GMT
Sandy, since we can't have a look at your mystery file, maybe you could try another workflow. My suggestion is to save your original psd as pdf, forgetting the default 'save as' Photoshop pdf format and instead, using the PRINT option to 'print' as a true pdf file. When you print, you specify a virtual pdf printer like 'print to pdf' in Windows.
Which pdf size? Then you can open that pdf in the Elements editor; you start with the usual conversion from printing format to photo format by specifying the pixels dimensions. You now can save the result as jpeg at quality 10. Wich jpeg size?
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Post by michelb on Dec 3, 2021 19:47:33 GMT
Thank you for weighing in. I have been looking at various forums and can see that this problem has happened before and it was a known glitch in PSE - the post was from several years ago. I don't know what has been recently updated, whether my Mac updated or an auto update in PSE. I'm tempted to delete PSE and download again, not sure if I can do this. I have also ready where there may be megadata in a file that causes this. I am tending to think that there is something in the file because the file I used in previous years seems to save as a jpg fine. Hoping to get more input and hoping to have more time to figure this out! Thanks again! I don't believe at all it was a glitch in PSE. We get many very simillar posts regularly which nearly always result in the user having used wrong units. However I believe that it is still a real mystery linked to the jpeg format and the metadata section. I agree with all those who suspect the metadata header to be a likely explanation. There are indeed a number of programs to delete that metadata overweight (based on exiftool), including 'Save for web'. It would be easy to open and save the same jpeg from different simple editors. Saving to a png file would lose the metadata, and saving that again to jpeg should give a 'normal' jpeg size. I have to check if Bridge can do that.
What could be saved in the metadata header with that huge size? Color profiles? Clipping paths (yes, jpeg can store them even if it can't save layers)? Really, I don't have a clue. What is true is that the compression algorithms don't work well with some textures and noise in general. Using maximum quality jpeg often produce bigger sizes than the original?
Edit: I just checked with Bridge: you can replace metadata fields a bit like exiftool, so, deleting the unwanted sections should be easy. I also noticed that one possible reason was having embedded audio/video files in the jpeg format. Remember that you can use Bridge for free with Elements.
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Post by michelb on Nov 28, 2021 19:29:33 GMT
I could not resist. Amazon France Black Friday offer: €38.99. No installation problem except a message stating that my hardware config here, away from Paris, did not meet the system requirements to enable face recognition. Not a problem for me because I never use it, but I was asked to send a mail to get helped on that matter. Perhaps because of an AMD processor and not an Intel one? By the way, on my Paris machine, use of the GPU was disabled on PSE2022 (not compatible); here it stays enabled.
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Post by michelb on Nov 24, 2021 14:53:04 GMT
It would be easy to add any kind of tag to all your mp3s ?
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Post by michelb on Nov 24, 2021 14:51:18 GMT
Nothing has changed when you drag a photo from the photo bin to your canvas. The 'preview' of the placed image (a smart layer) will fit in the canvas if the size in pixels of the dragged jpeg is bigger than the size of the canvas. If it's smaller, it will show centered and smaller in the canvas. Today, most jpegs from cameras or even phones are bigger than the 3600 x 3600 pixels of standard canvases for 12" x 12" prints. So most of them are already filling the canvas, while smaller ones show centered and smaller. This is useful to remind you that the dragged image has an inferior resolution than the canvas. You can enlarge, but it's best to check the quality.
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