Default Quickfix in PSE8

Hi all. Is there a way to default to the Quick fix option in PSE8? In PSE7 I could just right click and choose quick fix. Now there is just a "Edit with Photoshop Elements" which defaults to the full editor. Is there a keyboard shortcut?
Jason.

In Organizer keep the Fix tab open and then select a photo or Ctrl click to select a number of random photos then click on quick fix, full edit or guided edit.

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I do not have good vision and am colorblind. The choice between "dark" and "light" user interface in the PSElements8 Preferences is still not high-contrast enough for my vision: I can't see the menu names and the buttons all fade into the background, even on the "light" setting.
Is there a way to set the toolbar buttons and user interface to monochrome (Black on White) like they were in PS6 and PS7?
Who decided that dark and colored interfaces were user-friendly? Put on your sunglasses and try to use PSE8, and you'll "see" my problem.
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How to reset to default setting pse8?

how to reset to default setting pse8?

Please follow these steps for both editor and organzier to reset them to their defaults.
Close Elements.
Launch the Photoshop Elements Welcome Screen and hold down ctrl + alt + shift as you click Editor or Organizer.
Continue to hold the keys until you see a message box asking if you want to delete Photoshop Elements settings file; click Yes. Elements will open with default preferences.

How to set default preset for Save for Web

Following the demise of my laptop, I have installed PSE8 (Windows) on my new one.
On my old machine, the default preset for Save for Web was JPEG High
On the new installation, the default is GIF and you have to manually scroll through the presets every time to apply the JPEG High preset.
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That faq from John R Ellis has not been updated, but may be useful:
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Can I move photos within Organizer (PSE8) ?

Some of the photos from the same date are out of order. They were loaded from my sim card but have moved their order for some reason.
I also scan in photos and change the date to the event date but want to rearrage the order. MUST they be scanned correctly--this is hard to do when scanning at different times.

PSE8 by default places photos in the order of Date (Newest First). You can change that order to Date (Oldest First) by using the dropdown placed adjacent to the "Organize" pane.
Also, within a date the photo clicked at 8:00 am will be shown before the photo clicked at 10:00 am. You can change that order too that is you can show 10:00 am image before 8:00 am by using the preferences.
Goto Edit --> Preferences --> General --> In Display Options --> Date (Newest First), choose second option (Show Newest First within each day).
If you want to rearrange your images in a random order than create an album of all the media. Selec the album and start dragging the images as per your thought arrangement.
Happy Arranging!!!
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Can Folder View be Set to Show Hierarchy by Default?

I am working in PSE8 Organizer. When I open the Folder Location view I always have to "drill down" from the C drive in the hierarchy to the folder I want to see. Is there a way to set the Folder Location view to open and show by default the hierarchy so I can go directly to the folder I want?

I wish it worked exactly the way you described, but by playing around with it I discovered that I need to open the folder location view first and then click on an image and suddenly the folder list popped open and showed me which folder contained the image. Thanks so much for the clue!!

PSE 8 always uses landscape as printer orientation by default?

Windows 7x64.
I have a number of multi-page docs created in PSE. No matter what printer I select, and despite them being in a standard portrait size/orientation, the print options ALWAYS default to landscape. I've checked the actual printer under "printers and devices", and the actual settings there are portrait.
This is worse because I must actually use the print options dialog box to move manually through EACH PAGE of the document to be printed, and set the printer options to "portrait" on every page. If I fail to do even one page, the entire document is printed landscape, cutting of page contents.
The preview shows each page is indeed landscape until I do this procedure, at which time it flips the page to portrait, one at a time.
Doesn't matter what printer is used.
Also, once printed, if I immediate open the print dialog again, same printer and everything, once again it has landscape.
There seems to be no memory whatsoever for orientation (other settings, like resolution, are maintained during the run on PSE, but are always lost when PSE is closed). Again, in particular, orientation for every page, individually, on each print attempt, is always set to landscape, no matter that the document is not in that orientation.
Is there even a way to specify document orientation? Is there something PSE does to attempt to determine orientation that might be wrong? Can I make PSE remember printer settings, or at least use the system defaults for the printer?

Tried that (remember, I have PSE8, and the post you referred to is PSE11).
Anyway, started app, used ctrl-alt-shift, held down while clicking organize. Waited for organizer to start. Then started PSE, loaded last file, clicked on print.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd....
Preview is still in landscape mode.
So nope, no benefit. In fact, I can open the print dialog, change to portrait (and the preview does change), close it, reopen it immediate... landscape again.
So, I figured out that in addition to PSE 8, I still also had PSE 7 installed. I'd assumed that installing 8 would upgrade, or uninstall, the prior version, but both are there. So I uninstalled 7.
I noticed that the 7.0 settings directory, well hidden under AppData, still existed, and had several DAT and a settings file, which I moved elsewhere, with no change.
So I did find wher 8.0 keeps its preferences:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\8.0\Editor
File is Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Prefs.psp
This is an encoded file, so it can't be directly edited. I renamed the extension so the program wouldn't find it, and fired up the editor. Predictably, a new prefs file was created, and was smaller than the original (166KB vs 176KB). So one would guess this contains default settings.
I then tried the same print experiment. Sadly, absolutely every symptom was identical.
So here's what I think is really happening. This has nothing to do with settings or printers. I think PSE tries to guess the orientation from the size of the page/image/whatever. I created these pages from scanned images, and they are not EXACTLY a standard size. They are clearly portrait (size is 8.25" by 10.667" - very, very close to the 8.5 x 11 standard page size, and very, very obviously portrait).
To test the theory, I resized the first page of the 6 page document to exactly 8.5 x 11 inches. (But note: the proportions I had were identical to the proportions of 8.5 x 11). But no joy - still portrait when printing. I verified the printers themselves had system defaults for portrait, which they did.
Now my theory was that the print orientation had been set when I created the document at not-quite-exactly 8.5x11.

Default Action/Effect in an Action Set in PSE5

I have a Photoshop action set that contains a "main" action that performs some functionality and calls a bunch of "sub" actions. The main action is listed first in the set and is automatically picked up as the default action and executes successfully when installed into PSE6, PSE7 & PSE8 and also works as expected in a German version of PSE5 but in an English version of PSE5, somehow the second action (ie a "sub" action) is being executed rather than the first. Is there any way of configuring the default action or forcing PSE5 to recognize the first action as the action to run? If not, does anyone know what algorithm PSE uses to determine the action to run? The action being run isn't first (or last) alphabetically nor positioned first (or last) in the action set. Any thoughts/assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for the response. I think I confused things by bringing up the German version... The action was created in a standard English version of PS CS2 then adjusted and resaved in a standard English version of PS7. It was then packaged and tested in English (and non-English) versions of CS3, CS4, CS5, PSE6, PSE7 & PSE8 without any issues. It was also tested in a German version of PSE5 and worked without any concerns but when tested in 2 different standard English versions of PSE5, it appears that the second action in the action set is the one that is being recognized and run, rather than the first action in the set. The first action is named as "Make Patterned Papers" and the other 20 or so actions are named as "code -- (reference number)" in a lame attempt to slightly obscure the functionality from the PS users. The first "code -- (reference number)" action listed after the "Make Patterned Papers" is the one that is being picked up by PSE5 as the action to run. The actions are not listed in alpha/numeric order and the action that is being picked up by PSE5 is not the first alphabetically either. I tried copying all of the actions to a new action set and using this instead, but had the same result.

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How can I change my Editor default back to Elements 8? (changed when I loaded trial Elements 11.)

How can I change my Editor default back to Elements 8? When I downloaded a trial version of Elements 11, my default changed to version 11. I use Adobe Lightroom, and when I switch over to Elements using "Edit In", it automatically open Elements 11 now.

In Lightroom Library prefs link to the PSE8 editor app, usually found on the Mac in support files. This example is for PSE10.

Printing Problems PSE8

Prints are horrible. Dark/colors are way off. I have tried every setting and combinations of settings in Pse 8...nothing works. I tried different print profiles on my computer, no improvement.
Using an IMac OS 10.6.2, Canon Pro 9000 and PSE 8 with Bridge CS4.
Within print, I am able to access the print dialog box where I am able to select the type of paper, source and quality (under Quality and Media). Under Color options I am able to select sample type (std., landscape, portrait etc.)...But the rest of the menu/screen is not available. i.e. the color mode section, and the brightness section.
If I use the software supplied by Canon, outside of PSE 8...."easy photo print" or "easy photo print ex" my prints are 1000% better. I have access to all of the print dialog sections. However, these programs "see" .jpg's...not .psd or .cr2 files.
I downloaded the free trial of Aperture, and the few files I imported print great. Nearly dead on with no adjustments. Access to all of the printer profiles (for specialty paper) access to all of the print dialog boxes/sections(Quality & Media as well as Color Options).
I like PSE 8 and would prefer to print through it, rather than open a secondary program for printing purposes. Nor do I want to "learn" and buy Aperture 3, since I am comfortable with PSE.
I Previously used PSE on a "windows" platform and never had any problems with my prints. I purchased PSE 8 when I bought the IMac.
Is there a fix/patch/download that will allow me to print using PSE 8?
If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them.

I have some new information to share based on some help I received from a Datacolor technical engineer (makers of the Spyder3 color management system) that has resulted in prints that I would consider a very close match to the screen images in Photoshop Elements 8 Mac using Color Handling = Photoshop Elements Manages Colors and not Printer Manages Colors (although that option also yields good prints and was the only was I was able to get decent print prior to this info from Datacolor).
I'm using a Canon i9900, Snow Leopard, Spyder 3 Studio - my monitor is calibrated using the Spyder3Elite (I don't think this matters so long as you're using some kind of calibration). Also I'm using a custom profile I created using the Spyder3Print Studio for the type of paper I'm using. In all previous attempts using Color Handling = Photoshop Elements Manages Colors under PSE8 yielded photos that were very different from the colors I saw on screen and it appears that the 'fix' came down to the profile I created: specifically the settings I used in the Canon driver, for printing the color targets for the custom paper were not correct. After reprinting the targets using the suggestions the Datacolor rep suggested and re-measuring, re-creating the ICC profile for that paper, I was able to print from PSE8 with decent results employing the new profile. The tech mentioned that Canon drivers do not have an 'off' setting for color management, so when I printed the original targets, it was employing a profile already (when creating targets for measurement you cannot use a profile
These are the settings in PSE8 that I'm using that are specific to the equipment I've noted above (this may not apply to Epson drivers etc):
Under Print - More Options - Color Management:
- Color Management = Photoshop Elements Manages Colors
- Printer Profile = the profile that matches the paper/Media setting
- Rendering Intent = Saturation (recommended for the Spyder3Print system but your setting may vary)
Once you hit 'Print' then the dialog for the printer driver comes up:
- Under Color Matching - you should find that it's greyed out but preselected to 'Colorsync' (if you selected Color Management = Photoshop Elements Manages Colors in PSE 8 Color Management)
- Under Quality and Media - set the media type to be the same as that set for the creation of the ICC profile. In my case = Photo Paper Plus Glossy
I don't adjust any of the other printer settings.
The last part of this has to do with the ColorSync Utility.
Under Devices - Printers - Canon i9900 - I've set all the listed profiles Current Profiles = Set to Factory (the default)
For printing the profile targets, the Datacolor tech mentioned my original profile had a gamut that was way too small for the printer and paper combination I was using. This was likely due to the fact that I printed the targets with an active printer profile vs no profile. Since the current Canon drivers don't have an 'off' setting the tech suggested that within the Spyder3Print application, when printing the targets use the following (his own words follow):
" in the Color Matching pane:
Color Matching- ColorSync
ColorSync- Other Profiles
Other Profiles- Generic RGB
What Generic RGB does is act like a pass through so that the driver uses the Printer Profile you selected or no profile at all, like in the case of printing the measurement charts in Spyder3PrintSR. So with these settings the Canon driver essentially acts like color management is turned off."
If you have a Canon printer and you're creating your own profiles I would try the above to see if you get similar results. Let me know if you have any questions about what I've written.

E-mail options PSE8 & Windows 7

I'm new to PSE (I have PSE8) and Windows 7.
I am trying to send ("share") photos via email.
I appears that there are only 2 choices: 1) Adobe mail 2) Windows Mail.
I use Thunderbird for email and of course, that is where my address book is.
I can use the Adobe method but I have to manually enter the "to" email address.
The Windows Mail method fails saying I need to set a default in the Control Panel.
I cannot figure out what they want. Thunderbird is my default mail program.
Is that a way to get PSE8 to interface to Thunderbird (or an email program of choice)?
TIA
DFCD8

Thanks for the answer, Adobe Email only.
Yes I have experienced the "window behind" etc.
I have typed email addresses and the Adobe mail sends it fine.
Since Adobe Email is what I have then getting all my contacts from
my Thunderbird Address Book into PSE Contacts becomes the problem.
In the PSE contacts "Add" window it has two import options 1) vcard files 2) windows mail
If I can import my contacts with one of these I could live with it.
But now the problem seems to be that Thunderbird will not export contacts in "vcard" or "windows mail" format.
It will do LDIF, comma separated or tab delimited.
I don't know what "windows mail" is. I will try to find out.
Then I guess I have to figure out how to import my thunderbird contacts into Windows Mail,
so I can then import that into PSE contacts.
Thanks for listening.
DFCD8

Why do my images look good in PSE8, darker & more saturated in browsers, etc.?

I've been creating some images using PSE8. The images look good, bright in PSE8. But the files, when saved as jpgs or as tifs appear darker and have more intense color when viewed through web browsers and Windows Picture & FAX Viewer. (the total effect is, the images look different, worse.) The same images on the same computer viewed on the same monitor look different in PSE8 and when viewed through other programs. This is not a printing problem, per se. The files print as they appear on the browsers etc. when I print them through PSE8. This is a problem that happens consistently with many different images.
It seems as if PSE8 is interpreting the files uniformly differently than these other programs. HELP!!!

I don't know what the eRGB profile is -- where did you find it? Usually there is a profile with the name "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" or something very similar. If your Windows is insisting on a default profile for your display, that's the one to set it to.
Your issue almost certainly is caused by a defective color profile. PSE 8 is a "color managed" program, which means that it uses the color profile associated with your display to reproduce colors more accurately on the screen. If the color profile is defective, and you adjust a photo in the Editor to look right, then the adjusted photo won't reproduce accurately when you view it through a non-color-managed program (Windows viewer, browsers) or on another system with a proper color profile.
So to fix this issue, you need to either remove the profile entirely (not sure why Windows XP won't let you do that) or associate "sRGB" to the display.

PSE8 - Get Pics - 2,000

I have downloaded pics to the computer(s). Have more than 2,000 on this computer - from this one, old ones and different cameras. Not all are photos, some are census pages, courthouse or library shots, etc. for genealogy. Most are just loose on my computer (not in PSE). If I now say Get Pics - how will that be handled? Some of them will have the same names -such as defaults DSC00001, -002, etc. and other cameras probably used the same numbering system, so in addition to duplicates, triplicates and more of the same pics, some will be different pics. Some have been renamed from the default.
I just searched for DSC00001 and got 26, 7 of them appear to be different based on file sz and a small icon lower left. Is there a way to see larger thumbnails in a search without opening each file to compare? Maybe it isn't as bad as I thought, apparently a lot of them have been renamed.
With Get Pics, will PSE differentiate between same default numbered names with different dates the pics were taken, or different cameras? (Frequently I wanted the last few off the camera and just downloaded again) I know; I'm trying to clean up my mess and do better - starting now! .
Can I break them up in segments to make it smaller, therefore more manageable, For example, can I tell PSE to Get Pics DSC00001 and it will be limited just to that number?
?What to do?

Thanks. Since it's going to be a humongous task I have a current big task I better finish before I start. It's reassuring that duplicates, and more, will be considered separate pictures. Do you know if an upgrade to PSE10 before I start would ease the pain any?
From: MichelBParis <[email protected]>
To: HenriLucy <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 1:02 PM
Subject: PSE8 - Get Pics - 2,000
Re: PSE8 - Get Pics - 2,000 created by MichelBParis in Photoshop Elements - View the full discussion
First, the Organizer will not consider files as duplicates only because they have the same file name. I cannot tell you exactly which criteria it uses for that, but as you have seen, it can rename them if necessary.
When you 'get files', the organizer registers the files in its catalog (database) with their properties stored in the exif of the files : date taken or digitized, camera make and model etc.
Once they are in the catalog, use the 'find' menu to retrieve them by camera, date or other metadata.
For instance, you can find them by file name like DSC00001 by camera X on a given month.
Have a look both at the 'find' menu and the properties dialog (Alt Enter), this will give you an idea.
If you have organized a folder structure which is meaningful for you, you can select folders and assign a custom keyword to their contents : genealogy, travel, family events... This will help you manage your files even with duplicate file names.
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