Adobe Album Starter

Adobe Album Starter has been dicontinued and I still have photos stored in it that I can not get. Therefore, I am trying to find out how I can get those pictures. I do not have an unlock code.
Please help

Hi: the Adobe Photoshop Album Forum is over here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/ps_album_starter
Please repost your question over there.

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This question involves Adobe Album Starter and Elements 8

I have recently purchased Elements 8 and have started to transfer photos from Album Starter to Elements 8.
I was successful with some but there are a great many left with the little red icon in the middle bottom of them.
I am unable to do anything with them: copy, print, duplicate or anything. The message reads that it is not able to connect.
How am I going to get my pictures released from Album Starter. This has been an on going problem with Adobe. Please, please help
me retrieve my photos otherwise I will have to discontinue use of Elements 8 and ask for a refund. These photos are important to
me. Erma Platter

Just as I suspected.
To maybe help clarify, your photos are not "in" Starter Edition", so there is no way to "get them out of there".
Think of it this way:
Imagine your photos are books in a library. The books themselves are actually located on the shelves in the library. But, there's a section of the library with the Index Cards. One index card for every book, with the index cards all nicely organized in drawers so you can find the book your looking for without wandering around the whole library. Each index card has a description of the book, a picture of the book, and most importantly, information as to where the book is stored on the shelves so you can go find it.
So, the books are not "in" the Index Card Drawers.
Now, imagine that after all the index cards had been created, someone goes around the library and moves the books. Maybe, even throws some of them away.
Then, you go to the Index Drawer, find the "book" you are looking for, see that it is located on shelf G54-102, walk over to shelf G54-102, but the book isn't there, because someone moved it without telling the person who maintains the Index Cards.
That book is Disconnected from the Index Card.
Now, let's bring that analogy back to Starter Edition (and Elements)
The Books are your photos
The Shelves are your Hard Disk
The Index Card Drawer is Starter Edition (or Elements)
The Index Cards are the presentation of your photos in Starter Edition (or Elements)
So, just as the Books are not in the Index Card Drawers, your Photos are not in Starter Edition.
What is "in" Starter Edition is simply information about your photo. A small thumbnail (which is what you see in Starter Edition) and most importantly, a reference to where on your hard drive the photo is actually stored.
When you try and do anything with your photo that requires the origional file, Starter Edition goes to fetch the origional file from your hard drive to work with it. If the file is no longer where Starter Edition thinks it is, then Starter Edition tells you it is Disconnected.
At this point you need to tell Starter Edition where the photo was moved to. That's what the Reconnect process is all about. In order to reconnect your photo, you need to know where it was moved. Hopefully, it was simply moved to a different folder, and not deleted.
This Disconnected situation is typically caused by folks using Windows to re-arrainge their hard drive folders and their pictures AFTER having "imported" them into Starter Edition.
If your photos were moved in Windows, you can tell Starter Edition where they were moved to using Reconnect.
If your photos were deleted in Windows, unfortionatalty, they are gone, unless they still happen to be in your Windows Trash.
So.... what to do?
I'd use Starter Edition (or Elements) to get the file name of one of the Disconnected files.
Then, I'd use Windows Search to search for that file name.
Hopefully Windows Search will find your photos, safely stored in some other spot on your hard drive.

I CANNOT REGISTER ADOBE ALBUM STARTER EDITION 3.0

Every time I try to enter my unlock code, I get this message:
"Your unlock code was not activated. Administrator privileges are needed to activate the unlock code on this computer. please log in with a privileged account and try again."
I am running Windows Vista, and as far as I can tell I am in administrative mode.
Help?

Is anyone ever experience the problem to send/ register to adobe product registration?
I just got my new notebook, and this Photoshop Album SE 3.0 have been installed on the program files.
I have been trying to send the product/ register to adobe registration (which they request to make me able to continue using the program), but it keep says "internet send failed".
It's nothing wrong with my internet connection because I have been browsing around all the time, but I never able to send the registration.
Now, I only have 7 times left to be able to use this program without register.
PLEASE HELP ME. I need to be able to use this program everyday... and I am frustated.
Thanks!
I HAVE MAKE A COPY FOR ONE OF THE MASSEGES ABOVE I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM ANY ONE CAN HELP ME

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I'm having trouble with the software.
i can open it but then the program freezes. I am unable to see my photos.
it is not a computer problem as other programs work?
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Thanks Pat, I've tried that to no success (quite a few different ways) even though I can see the file name in the page before the registration page covers it, and the *.jpg brings up over 32000 files, the problem here is that some images I know are also duplicated in the "my digital photos" file but how do I know if they are all there? there are over 4700 photos in the Album starter catalogue.The frustrating thing is I know they are somewhere perhaps safely in the "My digital photos" but what is making me wonder is my new Photoshop Elements 11 keeps reminding me of missing files??

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Hi -
I'm having a problem with my photo album 3.2 edition. I use this program to crop or contract my pictures for my ebay selling. Most of the pics I take have either a white or black background and the problem I'm having is really noticeable on pics with white backgrounds. When I click on a pic in the ALBUM, that I want to edit/FIX the whole picture takes on a yellowish hue so as I'm fixing it, it looks very strange and then when I'm done editing, it goes back to normal again. I've been using this for a while now and I've never had this problem and cannot figure out what the heck is going on - it's making me nuts. HELPPPPPP!!!!! I tried looking at my preferences to see if the program was setup to automatically correct it when I click on the picture to edit? but that's not even an option so I don't know what else to do and I've searched all around. Any and all info would be appreciated :) Thanks
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Album Starter Edition 3.0 VS Photoshop Element 5.0

Photoshop Element 5.0 on a 30 day trail and I also downloaded Adobe Album Starter Edition 3.0. I did this to see what the difference was between them as I am going to go to an update verizon with Adobe that's like my PhotoDeluxe 4.0. I use PhotoDeluxe 4.0 mostly for editing and printing pictures.What I liked about PhotoDeluxe was the I could print different pictures oh one sheet. I don't know if the other two new programs do this. ( I am sure they do it just I haven't had time to research them.) I would be open to any suggestion or comments about which programs would best suit my needs.
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Jim Lawless @ [email protected]

PSA SE has almost no editing capabilities.
PSE can do everything that PSA SE can do and lots else besides.
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Please post unlock code for Album Starter 3

Hi, I'm writing for my father who will be 70 tomorrow. The only gift he wants is to be able to retrieve the photos he unwittingly transferred to Adobe Album Starter 3. He didn't realize that it was a negative marketing scheme and is now caught in their cross-hairs. No one here wants to use this program ever again. I just need it to get his pics and that's it.
Please, please help. Thank you. CA

Your photos are not locked 'IN' the program; they remain on your hard drive, in your My Pictures folder, or wherever they were before you installed the program. You can uninstall Starter Edition, if you no longer wish to use the program, and no pictures would be removed.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2642810#2642810
-Mark

Downloading album starter 3.2

I had adobe album starter 3.2, which had all of my photos. When my computer crashed the IT guy saved my documents and photos, but How do I download Album Starter 3.2 again, so I can access my photos?

you can dl here: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Adobe-Photoshop-Album-Starter-Edition-Download-26068 .html
(click on external mirror 1 to avoid the junkware)
and, scan for malware/viruses.

How do I import photo's with tags from my old PC (running Album Starter) to Elements 10 on new PC?

I have an old PC running Windows XP and Adobe Album Starter Edition containing around 15,000 photo's. I want to import these photo's with their tags to my new PC running Windows 7 and Elements 10. The two machines are networked.

See these Adobe documents for considerations regarding converting Starter Edition catalogs:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/release-note/photoshop-elements-10-release-notes .html
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/common-catalog-issues-upgrade-elements.html
Ken

A need to get photos of my baby from Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 but I don't have a code so I cannot access in it. Somebody can help me, please?

Two days ago I introduced photos of my baby into my PC and automatically went into the programm Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2. Then they were deleted of my photo camera. Then I wanted to access to the photos in the Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 but I read that since the end of Juny we need a decodification code and that now it is not availabel. So I don't have this code and I need to access to the photos. Please, somebody can help me?. Thank you.

Thank you for your help, Gunjan, but I have already tried to contact adobe tech support and I cannot get a code still now. I just find fixed issues where there is not shown my problem and I cannot find the way to write my question about my need of a code for Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2. Could you or somebody tell me the way to get the code through adobe.
Thank you
Mona05

How to transfer metadata (tags etc) from Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 to A P Elements 8

I have just bought the Adobe Elements 8. I was told that this product was the upgrade product from the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2. Can't find a clear solution in this forum of how to transfer the metadata to the Adobe Elements 8 and continue the indexing with the latest product. Hopefully somebody can help.
Bjorn

If you still have your 3.2 psa catalog in your "My Catalogs" folder, try
downloading PSE5 from here:
http://www.johnrellis.com/photoshop_elements_5.0_trial_version.exe.
PSE5 should be able to find your catalog and you can convert it into PSE5.
If that doesn't work, it may be because you weren't able to run "reconnect
all missing files" in PSA3.2 before attempting the conversion. If all your
photos were still connected, this should work. Then you can open PSE8 and
convert PSE5 into PSE8. Do a "reconnect all missing files" in PSE5 before
you do the conversion. Even though all my files were connected when I
converted PSA2 into PSE5, PSE5 had about 30 unconnected photos.
Good luck!
http://www.johnrellis.com/photoshop_elements_5.0_trial_version.exe

Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition vs. Picasa?

Hi everyone..
I have just installed Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 and I'm wondering about a few things. Bear with me here...
1. I use Piccasa strictly as a picture-viewer program. I'm not 100% happy with it, could anybody pursuade me and my curious friend, why I should switch to Album Starter? I would like that.
2. What I DO like about Piccasa is that it just view my pictures and do not copy them into a special piccasa-format. I have several file-formats in my picture-folder and I would like Album Starter to view all of them without changing the original location of the file, nor copy it, taking up a lot of disk-space.
3. Another thing I like about Picasa is that if I have changed, added or removed a picture in the original file-location it updates those changes when I launch the program.
4. I understand that there are several ways to view your photos. But can you also view and navigate your pictures through folders while you are in Album Starter? Because thats one thing I hate about Picasa, it just place all my folders on the side of the page, meaning it takes them out of their original folder and destroys the dept-folder-system I have made.
5. Does Album Starter have a nice search function?
If anyone could take the time to answer these very bad formulated questions, I would be very grateful.
- C.C.

1) PSA SE has better organizing tools [tags/collections] than Picassa. There is also a clear growth path if you want something more powerful [Photoshop Elements Organizer is compatible].
2) With PSA SE you keep your image files anywhere you want.
3) PSA SE has limitations in this area. You are encouraged to move files about from within the program.
4) I'm not sure that you'd prefer PSA SE in this respect. You are really encouraged not to think in terms of folders, as that is not a way to organize a large collection of images [say much more than 100].
5) It has various ways to search - what are you after? Using tagging intelligently means you very rarely need to search. [I have use this technology for 3 years and only used Search a handful of time.]

Tried to use adobe photoshop album starter edition 3.0 today and tell me to register

It tells me to register and i will get an email with a 'unlock' code shortly.
I open the email, it says' adobe photoshop album starter edition is no longer avaiable and that i should go to their website and find something else appropriate! I JUST WANT MY PHOTOS OFF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ALBUM STARTER EDITION that i have already got but it wont let me in at all! i have heaps of photos of my kids as babies and all house and family stuff! WTF! please help if you have a solution. ive had this program over 2 yrs and ALL OF A SUDDEN. out of the blue i cant access it and its tellin me to buy a new version! JUST WANT MY PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP

Starter Edition Answer
Friday, November 27, 2009
8:15 AM
It is a common misconception that Starter Edition 'stores', or copies, your files into it. But the program does not move or copy files at all, rather it scans your system's My Pictures directory, and generates miniature versions of your pictures (called thumbnails) so that you can browse a 'flat' list of thumbnails of your photos, overcoming the inconvenience of having to go into separate folders in Windows Explorer to have to find files.The thumbnails, as well as any tags, and Albums that you create in Starter Edition are all stored in the Photoshop Album catalog file, separate from your pictures, and your pictures remain where you originally copied them to your computer.
If you use Photoshop Album to subsequently download files from a digital camera or scanner, the default location where the program will create those files would be in the My Pictures>Digital Camera Photos folder. But if you do NOT use Photoshop Album Starter edition to download files from your camera, then you will find that folder empty.
The thumbnails in the Starter Edition catalog will exist, even if you decide to move or delete the original photos that were added to the program. This will cause files in the Photoshop Album catalog to become 'disconnected' from the original photos. To reconnect the files, you can use the File>Reconnect Missing files command to see if the program can locate the original files in a new location, and once again re-link the catalog thumbnails to the files they once referenced.
Since Photoshop Album has been discontinued, I recommend that folks find an alternative solution. One alternative that will preserve most of what you've created in Starter Edition is the Photoshop Elements 8 trial. Install that, and it will automatically convert the Photoshop Album catalog to a current format, and the program will not time out, as Starter Edition did. If you want to purchase more Editing power, you can also choose to purchase the full program, but it's not required.
If you are like many who have come to this forum wondering how you can get to your photos, now that the program has become locked or expired, don't worry; your photos have never been moved by Photoshop Album; they remain wherever you intially put them, on your hard drive. To get to them, you can navigate your file system using Windows Explorer. They are typically in your My Documents>My Pictures folder. Here is a handy How-To that you could refer to to find photos on your system, as well as some other tips for how you can use folders to keep your photos organized: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/maintain/filemgmt.mspx
Hope those tips help!
-Mark

After registering on the album starter Edition 3.0, I am getting an error message saying that windows internet explorer cannot find the website, to make sure the path or internet address is correct. when i click ok, it all goes away, adobe and all. Help

I called tech support that switched me to customer care and after over half an hour on the phone, they told me to look it up in the forums. If you have any words of wisdom, I would love to hear them now. I guess I have to get through this registering phase to obtain the unlock code. I am surprised at how faulty this step is. I expected more from Adobe.
Please help!!! Thanks. Lisa

You need to update your starter edition 3.0 to a 3.2 edition. Go to www.adobe.com, click on "Downloads" then "updates", continue to look under "Product updates" and scroll down to "Photoshop Elements". Now you need to download the Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2. This update will automatically remove your 3.0 edition, and your photos will be accessible in the 3.2 edition. Now you can register again. Good Luck!

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