Photo organizer frozen

When I click to open adobe photoshop elements 8 it goes to the "welcome...learn more screen" and you can not click on organize or edit...it is all grey. A few times I was able to get to the organizer early in the day and then if you would try anything it would say that organizer not responding and that little circle/cursor would spin until I shut it down. What should I do?

Yes, that worked. However, I tried putting a shortcut to the same location on my desktop and running Organizer from there....no dice. Wouldn't even try and open PSE. Still this is a workaround I can live with....
Thank you very much!
Kathy

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drjoan827
iPhoto has two principle organisation methods: Events and Albums.
Events are very basic and unsophisticated: they are based solely on date and time. The advantage is that this is automatic. For my money, Events are for folks who don't want to organise their pics.
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This organisational power is the advantage of iPhoto. Along with preserving your original pics, lossless editing, books, calendars, slideshow and the integration throughout the Operating System.
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I guess with Photo Manager Pro, and some others that are similar, it duplicates your photos increasing space used and also makes it difficult to delete a photo from camera roll. All I want to do is put my photos in folders.
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After importing all my photos to Photo Manager Pro, I deleted everything in Camera Roll.
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Note: My photos were originally transferred to Camera Roll using the Camera Connection Kit; no problem deleting them.
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee374/Diavonex/Album%201/b65eedafe0f4f5b1293 4ccfeeb7521bd.jpg
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Import images into Photoshop Elements Photo Organizer from Safari

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Hi Jack
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Relatively new to Macs but have gone in with both feet and replaced all PCs in the house.
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Ideally I would like to set up a photo repository that could be accessed by all Macs in the house. Would Adobe's PS Elements Organizer allow me to set up a central location to store locally photos (say on a time capsule) - when logging into Adobe's PS Elements Organizer on any of the Macs (on the network) it would point to this device so all Photo Organizers on each PC would be the same? And then could these photos be backed up to Adobe's online presence automatically (I realize it comes with 20GB but would have to pay for more)?
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No, PSE won't do that. There are many, many other digital asset management programs you can look into, though. Adobe carousel is a subscription service, so you pay and pay. I think you are going to have to split the time capsule and the cloud, though. In other words, find a program you like for use on the network drive and then set that for backup to an online service.

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Chris
Please take this as a suggestion not as a solution, I don't have aperture and don't know how it works, it seems to me though that organisation is slighty better in iphoto than it appears to be in aperture. Although I agree it's not so good in iphoto, I'm convinced it will get better though.
I've found it a far better experience when my photos are 16:9 and so have duplicated my existing photos and am in the process of creating new albums just for use with tv. This makes an already busy iphoto even busier, if I had aperture I would use iphoto for tv only. At least the albums and the photos within them would display in the order you wanted and you would reduce some of the clutter..

Unzip photos, Organize in Album, Rezip.

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Ok, here is the question. You just import 300 pictures into organizer. Now you create a collection and tag all 300 new photos in the organizer with the collection name. Now when you click on back to all photos your screen is bombarded with any and all photos and the 300 new collection photos. How can you "STACK" the photos while in Collections so when you go back to Organizer there is only one photo visible?

Well, I really hesitate on this one. I think I can tell you how to do what you are asking - but I am concerned that it will have negative implications for your future use of the Organizer. You will not be using the Organizer software the way it was designed to be used and for any software that can cause difficulties.
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I'm looking to go away from some of the free editors and organizers, but finding the solution that is best for me is challenging. For a basic photo / video editor and organization what product would statisfy my needs? I have probably a few thousand photos but also need a way to categorize and organzie them. Any suggestions and direction would be appreciated.
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Hi,
Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor is now available on Mac App Store to download. It is Editor only and does not have Organizer similar to PSE 10 Editor on Mac App Store.
Some key points are here - http://blogs.adobe.com/pselements/adobe-photoshop-elements-11-editor-available-on-mac-app- store/
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Here's my concern - utilizing aperture to organize my projects and albums, departing from managing the file structure (which is getting impossible to keep up with) I have to assume that Apple and Aperture will always be around.
What if in the future I want to switch to Light Room, or go back to windows? I have nearly 35,000 photo's now, and I imagine I'll have more in 50 years but I have no idea if Aperture will still be around in 50 years and If I stop paying attention to my file structure, I'll lose all the organization behind my masters.
Aren't any of you concerned about the distant future? Apple could pull the plug on Aperture; somebody else could come out with somethign better; etc.

Jbrenner wrote:
If I stop paying attention to my file structure, I'll lose all the organization behind my masters.
Aren't any of you concerned about the distant future? Apple could pull the plug on Aperture; somebody else could come out with somethign better; etc.
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If you have a Referenced library then you are responsible for the storage, backup and structure of those images.

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I have thousands of pictures in my library but they are not very well organized, especially my old photos taken with old digital cameras. Some of these pictures have the wrong date stamp so it is not easy to make smart albums to organize by date. I'm thinking it maybe easier to make folders by country since I travel a lot and have many photos from different places.
The problem I'm having is that when I make Folders at the top level then move my projects to these folders, my photos do not show up under the project when I click on on the project, I can only see my photos if my folder is selected, why is that?
My second related question; is there a good work flow on how to best re-organize old photos, I just bought a new external hard drive (4TB) and would like to consolidate all my photos to a managed library with the same folder structure on the HD.

Welcome to the Forum. I, too, tend to move a bit and my library is arranged by Continent>Country>Project. I would be happy to chat with you about organizing your library; my e-mail is always on.
That said, I can't help you with your first question. As I mentioned, in AP3, my top, (blue) folder is Continent (eg., Africa), under that I have Countries (also blue folders)(eg, Djibouti, Cameroon), and finally, under each country come the Projects. I use the roll-of-film metaphor, so each of my Projects is basically a camera unload. Thus they are titled things like 20100704 - 4 July Party or 20091103 - Boale Falls. (The embedded date is probably just an archaic artifact as Aperture does dates automagically.)
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On your larger question of overall organization, you need to grab a few Zen-of-Aperture issues. Once you get that, it is stupidly easy to do whatever you want and even change your mind. Rob Boyer ( http://photo.rwboyer.com/ )and Bob Rockefeller ( http://www.bobrockefeller.com/ ) have lots of tactical information on their websites, but you have to decide on your strategy.
On external drives: The Aperture Library has grossly three elements - previews/thumbs/versions, masters, and the indices that hold them together. You want the previews and versions on your fastest, largest drive as these are written and rewritten constantly. Normally, this will be your internal drive. (But on a MacPro, it could be a second internal drive.) Your masters, however are used much less. Kevin Doyle has provided evidence on this forum that they don't even have to be on a very fast drive. So basically, if you have lots of fast disk space, keep Aperture on your fastest internal drive. If not, look into moving your masters (which generally make up about 2/3 of your Library) onto an external drive as "Referenced Masters."
If you use a Managed library, Aperture will arrange them neatly by date of import. Remember - there is absolutely no relationship between the way your images are arranged on disk and the way they appear in Aperture. For those of us who use Managed Libraries, this is fine.
If you use a Referenced library, then your masters are whereever you left them. Again, there is no need to clean them up, Aperture will remember where you put them even if you can't. (Just don't move 'em without telling Aperture.)
If, however, you are a neat freaque, or plan to access your masters directly with other programs, then you probably DO want to organize them. Rob Boyer has a neat post on his website in which he proposes that one of the best ways to do this is, in fact, to import them into Aperture as managed, organize to your heart's content, and then, "relocate" back out on disk as "referenced." You paid for Aperture, let it help you.
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Photo Organization

I am trying to organize all the pictures on my Macbook Pro. I have tons of them as well as duplicate upon duplicate. I got two questions would really love help on.
1) What is the best software to use to help get rid of the duplicates or do I just need to go through them all by hand/mouse? I have tried various programs online that say they will remove the dups, but I always find photos it has missed. Currently, I have a program I found via the app store on my desktop called Photos Duplicate Cleaner. It seems to be pretty good. Just wondering if there are any better options out there?
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If anyone could help me that would be awesome!

Trackx,
I do not know if you found the answers you were looking for in another forum, however, I believe the answers to your two questions are as follows:
1) I really like dupeGuru Standard edition for finding ALL of my duplicate files, including photos, on my Mac.
In addition to the Standard edition, there is one specific for finding duplicate pictures (PE) and another specifically for finding duplicate Music files. I've had the best luck with the Standard edition, although it could be interesting to use a feature in the Picture edition that lets you scan for duplicates based on EXIF data.
All three editions are free to download and use (the developer says he doesn't want any money), are opensource and the dupeGuru website has lots of information on how they work and all the ways you can customize your scans. It's actually pretty straightforward though if you just want to jump in and start finding duplicates. Another thing I like is that it doesn't AUTOMATICALLY do anything with the duplicates it finds and lets me check each one out before I decide if I want to delete it or not.
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2) When sorting photos by date the Date Created can mean different things; it can mean EITHER the date it was uploaded to my computer OR the date the photo was taken and I think it depends on the input source (what you used to take the picture).
To figure it out, do this:
Once you get the photos on to your Mac, check the EXIF data by opening the image and getting the info on it (Apple "i"). It gives additional date time information on the picture such as "Date Time Digitized" and "Date Time Original".
For example, I used bluetooth file transfer to get photos off a non "smart phone" (a Samsung flip phone) and the Date Created is the date I transferred it on to my Mac. However, I notice that if I took a photo with my iPhone and got it on my Mac with Image Capture, the Date Created value is the date that it was taken, not the date that I put it on my Mac. The date I uploaded it to my Mac becomes the value under "Date Modified" (at least until I change / modify the file, that is).
From all that I figure if the Date Time Original in the photo's EXIF data matches "Date Created" in File Manager, then the original file is already a digital image and the Date Created field gets populated by the information found in the file's EXIF data.
If however you notice that the Date Time Original timestamp in the photo's EXIF data is different from Date Created in File Manager, then the Date Created is most likely the date that it was uploaded to your computer, not the date that it was actually taken.
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