Migration from Adobe Elements (Win XP) to Aperture 2

I am moving from a Windows XP machine with Adobe Elements 4 to an iMac and Aperture 2.1. I need to move thousands (6000 ??) of images to Aperture 2.1 and hopefully keep my metadata (keywords, tags and ratings) in the process. Both machines are connected to a LAN and I also have a network drive which I use as a backup device and shared storage. The majority of the files are JPEG (95%) with a few Canon RAW images in the mix.
Is there a recommended method of migrating Adobe Elements 4.0 files to Aperture 2.1?

I, too, would like to migrate from Photoshop Elements 4.0 on Windoze XP to Aperture 2.0 on OS X. And I'm hoping there's a way to migrate all 601,012 of my tags to Aperture instead of having to redo them all as Aperture keywords manually.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Or perhaps there's a utility to write Elements' tags as EXIF/IPTC prior to moving the files over and importing them into Aperture?

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I would like to move from a PC to Apple platform and my one concern is that I have thousands of photos catalogued in Photoshop Elements 4.0. Can I migrate all of that information over to Aperture?

I'm not perfectly sure about how aperture stores/reads metadata, but if you use the Write Tags to Files command in PE 4 before bringing the photos to your mac, the tags will show up as metadata keywords. That may be enough (don't use aperture, myself so no way to try it out) but if not, if aperture can read iphoto keywords, you can use this script to make iphoto keywords from the metadata:
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/iphotoiptckeywordimportexportutilities1.0.html

Concept questions (editing jpegs, migrating from Album/Elements)

Hi Lightroom experts,
I have a collection of jpegs which I have been organizing in Adobe Album, and now Elements 5.0. I was pleased to see that Elements 5 could write the metadata (keywords) to the jpegs rather than relying upon a proprietary database. It was clear to me that in Elements the keywords were in a separate database and one had to expressly write the tags to the files.
In Lightroom there is also a separate database (which requires management - like backing it up on a regular basis). What is not clear to me is how to write the metadata/tags to the original jpeg files. Does that happen automatically or must I instruct Lightroom to do so?
Must I export the files in order to write the adjusted metadata? If so, that means I have two copies (original and exported).
Secondly, I have both Photoshop CS2 and Elements 5.0. Lightroom only has an option to Edit In Elements but I want that option to be Edit in Photoshop. It is unclear how to change that configuration.
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Fielding,
I switched from Elements 5 after only a few weeks with it when I saw the great improvements in Lightroom from beta 4 to version 1. Several reasons for my switch. One, Elements only supports a few metadata tags, mostly keywords. I needed more to do what I wanted to do. Many people use collections in Elements for things that aren't in my opinion suitable, like for keeping trip or event pictures together. You can have that information in metadata by choosing an appropriate metadata field and using it. I'm using Job Identifier in Workflow myself. So I find the metadata support far superior in Lightroom. I was also concerned that Elements, being a product for hobbyists, would not be able to handle the large number of images I intend to put into the database. I already had trouble with the elements database ballooning so I was very concerned. I also think it has about the ugliest interface I've seen in a long time. I suppose the latter doesn't matter, but LR is SO beautiful!
I can't help you with how to get photoshop to show up. Did you try Edit/Preferences? If Elements is the first one there, the second one allows you to choose. Which Photoshop do you have? Before I got CS2 I think I did have PS find it for Lightroom.
You can ask Lightroom to write out the metadata but it does not do it in such a way that you can see it in some other applications. When it says it writes it out as XMP it means it. It's in there, but you can only see it with applications that can read XMP as opposed to IPTC etc. When you export, it does write the metadata in the way most products expect it. I've decided not to worry about this though because a) I back up my lightroom database, and b) if I do decide to abandon Lightroom, or it abandons me, I will in any case have to export everything because without exporting you don't have the Develop adjustments either. Then I back up my LR backups and my image repository, usually nightly.
My migration from Elements did not go very well but I was lucky because I'd just started entering stuff in Elements when I abandoned it -- so I didn't lose much. You can do a search of this forum, maybe on the word elements, to see several threads about the problems people have had. If you have everything in Album you might try a transfer from that first and see if it works. You can always toss your LR database if you want to try a different way of loading it. You do not have to move your files to import them into LR.
If you want a catalog, you will need a database so you get reasonable response on queries, which is presumably the reason for wanting a catalog. Both the Elements database and the LR database are standard databases that you can manipulate yourself, should you choose to do so. Elements is Access, LR is SQLite. I did look at the Elements db but haven't done anything with the LR database. I hope I don't have to because LR can export the metadata. Collections are not in metadata so I'm using collections only for things I don't need to keep.

I am unable to send pictures from Adobe elements 6 via e-mail anymore. Using windows 7 and Windows L

Old PC died. Bought new PC, installed my Adobe Elements 6 but now I am unable to send photos by email from Adobe Elements 6 via email anymore. Using win7 and Windows Live email. I have tried uninstalling the program and re-installing. Please help.

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Which of the Versions from Adobe elements has a gradations curve tool. PSE 10, 12, 13 or which one ?

Dear community,
which of the Versions from Adobe elements has a gradations curve tool. PSE 10, 12, 13 or which one ?
Your comment will be appreciated.
Regards
Hermann

~bridge_mastero~ a écrit:
Yeah right ,
gradients tools are present in all these version
and curves are not present in any of these officially .
Curves are present with their own interface.
One big problem is that you'll never find them logically where they are : under the menu 'Enhance/color correstion', it's the 'adjust color curves' option.
Add to that problem the fact that this kind of adjustment is not about colours (no R,G,B channels) and you'll see why it is missed by everybody.
The interface is meant to help beginners understand how curves work : you choose the effect you want and you see the curve being drawn. Excellent for pedagogy but users of the traditionnal curves manipulations don't understand the new way.
If you want the old curves interface, you can add many free or affordable add-ons like Elements+. The most powerful and free one is the smartcurve plugin for Windows 32 bits.
Other ideas:
- if you don't use curves for colour correction, you can use the gradient tool adjustment layer (black to white) in luminosity mode. That's how you deal with curves in adjustment layers. Note that using gradient maps instead of curves is only a graphical way to determine the inflexion points. Same parameters, different inferface.
- Using curves intensively was the way to edit ten years ago. Now, you can use the ACR basic tag to achieve quickly much better tone and colour correction, that way you won't need curves most of the time.

Migration from "Adobe Photoshop Album Decouverte" to "Adobe Photoshop Elements 12"

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Is it possible to migrate all the data I have in Adobe Photoshop Album Decouverte and import it in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 ?
Thank you for your advice !
Marc

Finally I could solve the problem.
I tried to import the Backup.tly in Photoshop Elements, but without success. Even there an Error appeared. The conversion tool also still got this failure at a progress of 15% conversion... So I searched a reason for the failure in google and found this helpful article from Adobe. It says that you should look for the corrupt images in the log file. So did I, and I found the error causing picture on the old computer and deleted it. After that I opened Photoshop Album, clicked on "File > Reconnect all missing files" and deleted this picture from the catalog.
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Hello all...tried searching the forums for advice on migrating my PS Elements 6.0 (WIN) library to LR (MAC). No success. Hoping that someone here can offer advice on how to successfully make the move. My PS Elements library is fully organized into albums, lots of keyword too.
Any advice on how t make this the move with as little pain as possible will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Buy 2.0 when it comes out. 1.x came out before Elements 6 and so doesn't support migration. 2.0 will, but only on Windows. So you'll need to migrate it on Windows then move it to mac.

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I'm a bit slow on implementation. So far I have good news and bad news. But bottom line, I need some additional help.
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I am now stymied with the bad news and hoping for more guidance: I just got my new MacBook last week, with my data files transfered over from my Windows PC. Unfortunately, the migration to PE 12 MAC (installed for me with the disc from the boxed version) did not make the transition smoothly. All of my tags came in under "Imported Keyword Tags," with the hierarchical structure totally flattened, and they cannot be dragged-and-dropped into a renewed structure into People, Places, and Events tags, as appropriate. Also, all of my Albums have disappeared.
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Upgrading from Adobe Elements 6 to 8

I recently updated to iPhoto 9 and have ordered Adobe Elements 8.
iPhoto 9 still works with Elements 6 as my external editor.
Do I have to do anything special before installing Adobe Elements 8 or will iPhoto still know I want Adobe Elements as my external editor.
I hope this makes sense.

You don't have to do anything special before installing PSE 8 but there are some subtle changes to preferences when using it with iPhoto.
Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
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If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
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luck there.
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Migrating from Adobe Output Pak to NW04+

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