PSE 12 as editor with Aperture 3.5.1

I am using PSE 12 as an External Editor with Aperture 3.5.1. What Aperture Export Preferences should I set up for External Editor File Format and External Editor Color Space?

I have this question as well. Specifically, what file format, psd 16 bit or 8 bit or tiff? I put 16 bit because I thought that Elements 12 would support it, but was not able to edit a photo without converting it.

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Using Photoshop Elements as external editor with Aperture 3: What are issues with requiring 8-bit image?

While I would do most of my photo edits with Aperture there may be times I would like to do special effects that a PSE might offer with layers. I am considering purchasing PSE 10 and was concerned with having to lose information by saving as an 8-bit image. Can anyone enlighten me of the circumstances when this would be of concern?
Thanks.

Can anyone enlighten me of the circumstances when this would be of concern?
If you had to do high quality printing larger than 8x10.
Before buying PSE trial Pixelmator and try GIMP. Note that GIMP (now v2.6) will have 16-bit per channel with v3.0.
-Allen

PSE 11 Editor with Windows 7 won't start

Running Windows 7 with automatic and frequent updates. Adobe PSE 11 and Lightroom 4.4 64-bin. Lightroom works.
When I start PSE 11 it loads the welcome screen. If I choose Organize, that opens.
If I choose the Photo Editor, the PSE Credits screen flashes rapidly and then a failure message "Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
I read through the forum messages I could find and tried these approaches
Cleared out the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\SICache folder
Temporarily disabled my security software. Microsoft Security Essentials - Real Time Protection - (turned it off)
At the PSE Welcome screen I held down CTRL-ALT-SHIFT and clicked. When prompted I agreed to DELETE the PSE Settings file.
I found the executibles in C:\Program FIles (x86)\Adobe\PSE11, that is
PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe
In the Elements11Organizer Folder
PSE Organizer.exe
PSE11.exe
I set all three executibles to Run as Administrator for all users.
Still no change in the behavior of PSE 11. Editor wont start. See my first paragraph.

An update.
I found my serial number and again downloaded and installed Photoshop Elements 11.
That seems to have solved my problem. From Lightroom 4 I can now right click on a photo and Edit in Photoshop Elements Editor.
Keith B.

Problem Photoshop Elements 10 as ext. editor with Aperture

I use Aperture to manage my Photos und would like use Photoshop Elements 10 as editor.
In Aperture Preferences, Photoshop Elements 10 is setup as ext. editor.
When I choose a photo in Aperture and klick edit in the menue, Photoshop Elements 10 open correct, but no picture ist displayed.
The same problem with iPhoto.
Any help?
Thanks
Urs

Make sure you are linking to the application and not a shortcut.
Hidden fles in Lion:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/909/cpsid_90947.html

Do I need an external raw editor with Aperture?

Sorry for the simple question - I'm an unsophisticated photographer just dipping toes in RAW stuff
Does Aperture have the same functionality as the external RAW editors like Sony Image Data Converter and the various Canon tools etc?
What I am asking is - do I need to install these and use them as external editors or can I achieve mostly the same thing in Aperture on the raw/arw images?
I don't agonise over the detail but I would like to tinker and experiment, but having an extra tool is a bit annoying.
Cheers, Z

Aperture is a generic third party raw converter, like Lightroom, Aftershot, DxO, Capture 1, and several others.
Canon DPP, Sony IDC, etc are specific converters for their own brand of cameras only. As such they offers features that make use of manufacturer knowledge about the raw, the sensors, the lenses, the camera settings and so forth.
The third party solutions like Aperture compete pretty well in terms of the basic raw conversion, but only have limited access to some of the camera specifics, so can't fully compete when it comes to some of the cameras advanced processing options (for example diffraction compensation offered in some recent cameras)
Where third party solutions compete is in their ability to support raw from multiple brands of camera and by providing a much larger set of additional features.
Aperture provides excellent features to support the entire workflow process from initial capture to final publishing.
Its raw conversions are generally excellent in terms of the detail/noise balance. Colour and tone is usually a bit neutral or flat and needs adjusting to taste to make them pop, but the use of presets can make this fast and semi-automatic (contrast this with Lightroom which applies a profile that gives a much punchier default conversion). However, specific results will usually vary by camera; Canon, Sony and Olympus and Fuji conversions are usually well regarded, while Nikon users seem to be the most vocal about apertures flat conversions.
The use of in camera settings (tricks) designed to extend dynamic range can impact the raw processing. Where Aperture can read and understand the settings (like Fuji's DRx00% settings) it does a good job, but I see occasional issues reported from Nikon users about issues when using its ADL feature.
So whether you will need an additional raw tool will ultimately be down to what cameras and lenses you use and you own impressions of what you think of Apertures conversions for that equipment.
Unfortunately, there is no longer a demo version for you to try for yourself, although I've seen some comments here about purchasing and then asking for a refund if you are not happy, but I doubt that is official policy but perhaps contact App store support and ask.
When I bought the wrong Bourne movie in iTunes, at first I thought they'd given me the wrong one and complained. Then I realised it was my mistake so told them to forget the complaint. They emailed back saying they had refunded my purchase as it wasn't what I intended to buy. I've had several other dealings along related lines and I have to say I've never been on the wrong end of one their decisions, they have always played very fair with me.
Andy

External editor with Aperture 3.6

I've upgraded from PSE10 to PSE13.
I used Aperture>preferences>Export and updated External Photo Editor to PSE13.
Selected the 5 photos I wanted to export and hey presto nothing happened.
I've seem to remember that, actually, it's not as easy as it seems but I can't remember if I have to point to another file within PSE13 in the External Photo Editor.
Would some kind soul please confirm my thoughts and tell me which file it should be.
Why can't simple things be simple?

OK - so when you now open your Aperture>Preferences>Export you should see in the 'choose' drop down menu PSE13 as a new choice. Select that option and then try to export just one image as a test at the TIFF 16 bit setting. Good luck.

Trouble with PSE12 as External Editor in Aperture 3.3

I previously used Photoshop Elements 6 (PSE6) as my external editor in Aperture 3.3 with no problem. After having installed PSE12 and set it as the external editor in Aperture, something is amiss. When I choose a photo for external editing in PAS12, PSE12 launches but the photo never opens in PSE12. Has anyone else experienced this? Am I missing something? Should I just stick with PSE6? Thanks.....

Have you selected the PSE application or the PSE folder in the settings for the external editor? When you are setting the external editor, make sure you dive into the PS Elements Support folder, where the application is hidden.
See Barbara Brundage's article:
http://barbarabrundage.com/2011/10/05/adobe-hide-and-seek-setting-pse-10-as-exte rnal-editor/

PSE 10 as external editor for Aperture 3 - 8-bit TIFF and what color space?

Hi all,
I'm taking the plunge and trying PSE 10 as my external editor for Aperture 3. I understand that I need to export as 8-bit TIFF files (not 16) because PSE can't do certain things with 16-bit files. Is that right? Should I specify a color space in Aperture or leave it as "no profile selected"? (I don't know much about color spaces; I'm not a pro.) I print on an Epson RX580 Stylus Photo printer, if that matters.
I'll be grateful for any help and advice. Thanks.

Can I suggest you buy Philip Andrews book, Advanced Photoshop Elements 10. he explains colour spaces and much much more very clearly and exactly what can be done with 16 bit files and what you then have to change to 8 bit to accomplish. He's written basic and advanced guides for Elements since day one. Usually available from Amazon for under £20.

Issue with PSE 9 Editor

Running PSE 9 on a new iMAc with 8 Gig memory, 1 TB hard drive. When trying to save an edited file, the Editor consistently becomes unresponsive when I try to close the saved file requiring that I force Editor to close. Not only with not Editor close the saved file but the Editor cannot be closed normally.

I appreciate the help, I found out how to change paper type and it seems to work great. The remaining question, when I've finished editing an image and attempt to "Save" or "Save As" the system shows a box "Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 quit unexpectedly". If I go to "Reopen" it reopens the PSE at the organizer level and hasn't saved the image. Also at this level, "Save" is grayed out and unavailable. I sure appreciate someone that seems to know a lot more than the "Techs" at Adobe.Don
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:40:38 -0600
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Subject: Issue with PSE 9 Editor
The second thing, opening the print dialog box does not open the same one as Windows, and allows no selection of paper type.
That is just a difference between macs and windows. On a mac, you choose the paper and print quality in the OS X system print window that opens after you click the Print button in the PSE window:
http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/64219/ScreenSnapz.jpg
If you only have the little stub window, click the triangle to the right of the printer's name to expand the dialog box to see all the menus.
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Using (Parallels) PS as an external editor for Aperture

I am new to the Mac so perhaps this has already been addressed. If so, I apologize.
I am using Aperture for my photo editing and have been using PhotoShop CS5, through Parallels, as an external editor. Much to my surprise this works reasonably well most of the time although sometimes I run into a very puzzling situation.
Typically I use CS5 to take care of lens distortion since Aperture does not have that functionality built-in. I adjust an image and, if it needs perspective adjustment, I call CS5, through Parallels, convert the object into a Smart Object, Transform the object using the Distort functionality, flatten the image and save it to return to Aperture. Most of the time this works just fine. However sometimes I end up with an image that Aperture tells me it cannot open and, when I try to open it with PS again, it also fails. Sometimes the newly adjusted image just never shows up in Aperture and it is as though it dispappered into the ether.
I have tried Save and I have tried Save As using the same location specified by PS. Save normally works but sometimes fails as described above and Save As always seems to fail. Can anyone tell me what is going on here?
One more note. When the attempt to adjust the photo in CS5 fails I have tried again and again and it always seems to fail for those images. I have no idea why this should be but repeated attempts fail. I have success about 60% of the time and the rest of the time either I get an image that cannot be opened or an image that just disappers. I am using CS5 under Parallels because Adobe will not give me a license for the Mac version unless I upgrade and I would rather not pay the $200 and I don't want to end up in CC.
There are really two issues here. First, why is CS5 occasionally failing and, second, is there a good replacement for CS5 that will work with Aperture to do Perspective Adjustments. I have the trial of PTLens but CS5 is much more flexible in how it allows me to distort an image since not all my image distortions from UWA lenses are symetrical and PTLens only handles symetrical distortion.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Agreeing with 99jon, and adding that in my opinion, the only logical use of the two programs is to use the Lightroom Library Module (not the PSE Organizer) as the tool for organizing your photos, and the Lightroom Develop module as your primary editor, and the PHotoshop Elements Editor as the supplemental editor for the situation where you need more power editing than Lightroom provides.
Why? Because Lightroom is designed so that it can relatively seemlessly send photos to PSE for extra editing and receive the edited photo back from PSE.
There is no relatively seemless way to have the PSE Organizer send photos to Lightroom and receive the edited photo in return. You will do a lot of extra work to make this work. I am also very skeptical about this statement, I don't think it opens your photos in the Lightroom Develop Module, but I admit I haven't tried it: "I figured out how to configure Elements to call Lightroom to edit a picture directly. (Edit-> Preferences->Editing) WIth that setting, I can now use lightroom on my photos."

Why does Raw image open in PSE 11 Editor as jpeg instead of as RAW image?

For several years I have been managing my photos in iphoto and using PSE as an external editor for editing images. I currently use PSE 11 on an iMac with OS X Lion (version 10.7.5). My iPhoto Library is divided into a number of sub-libraries via iPhoto Library Manager. I have unexpectedly encountered a problem attempting to edit a RAW image (in this case a .NEF image from a Nikon D200) in a sub-library containing images shot in 2007. When I right click on the image and select Edit in External Editor the image opens in PSE 11 Editor, but it opens as a jpeg and not as an .NEF image. This is in spite of the fact that in iPhoto/Preferences/Advanced/RAW Photos I have checked "Use RAW when using external editor."
As an alternative approach I tried dragging and dropping the RAW image into the PSE 11 Editor icon in the Dock, but I got the same result.
I can't recall having this problem previously and would appreciate knowing what might be the source of the problem along with a suggested fix.

I took a clue from both of your responses. I exported a copy of the original RAW file to my desktop. Then I went to PSE Editor and clicked File/Open and selected the RAW file on the desktop. This automatically changed the Format setting to Camera Raw. I then clicked Open and lo and behold my RAW file opens in Camera Raw!
I’m now where I want to be to edit this image in Camera RAW, but I never before had to go around the horn like this to get there! This is very similar to the procedure I follow when I edit jpegs in Camera Raw.
I’m happy to report that this workaround did the job, but I have no idea why it was necessary in this instance. Hopefully this issue will be confined to this one particular iPhoto sub-library!

External Editor in Aperture

I mistakenly selected using Lightroom as an external editor in Aperture. When I go back to preferences, I can't seem to make the Edit With field blank.
Or in other words, how can I change it such that I always edit with Aperture?

Just tried with my one, Go-to Aperture > Preferences > then when box comes up select Export, it says chose external image editor then all i done was to actually select Aperture itself. It works on my one Michael. Again dont leave it blank make sure you select itself. Hope this works

Can't print from PS or PSE but can from Aperture and Pages

I suddenly am unable to print photos from my iMac running 10.6.6 with Photoshop CS5 or PSE 9 to my Epson SP 2400 (FireWire on the iMac) or 3880 (either connected to my MacPro and addressed through WiFi, or connected to the iMac thru USB). Everything seems to go normally until I press Print, then nothing happens. When I select Preview or PDF instead of Print, I get a blank page. I THINK the problem may have begun only after I updated from 10.6.5, but I'm not certain, and it could have begun only after I upgraded to PSE 9 but again I'm not certain. Prior to making any changes, printing worked normally with PS CS5 and PSE 8 under 10.6.5. Drivers are up-to-date.
Printing a text-only document from Pages on the iMac to a WiFi-connected laser printer works fine.
Printing a text-only document from PSE 9 or on the iMac to a WiFi-connected laser printer, curiously, also works fine.
Printing a photo from PSE 8 on my MacBook Pro updated to 10.6.6, thru WiFi, to the 3880 on the MacPro, works fine.
Printing from Aperture on the iMac to the 2400 thru USB works fine.
Printing from Aperture on the MacPro to the 3880 thru USB works fine.
Printing from Aperture on the iMac thru WiFi to the 3880 on the MacPro works fine.
As I write this, I'm recognizing for the first time that the problem seems to be in printing a photo either with PSE 9, or with PSE 9 installed on the same computer from which I'm trying to print with CS5. Rather than not post this until I've done some experimentation (like installing PSE 9 on the MacBook), I'll go ahead and post first and hope to hear from the Voice of Experience.
Anyone?
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Re the driver affecting pdf printing, the answer is no. The print to pdf uses internal processes and is not impacted by the vendors driver. So given that Rosetta was no help and Word is also failing, then it suggest that the core printing system is at fault. Although the ability to CS2 to print is a 'curve-ball'. The CS2 suite does things differently when it comes to printing but it still eventually uses the core printing system to get the file to the printer.
So, some things to try....
1. Install the 10.4.9 Combo update. If you did the sequential update from 10.4.8 to 10.4.9, then this update can fill missing holes.
2. Get Fixamac's Printer Setup Repair utility to see if it can identify any issues.
3. Get Gutenprint 5.0.0 and try adding a printer using one of these drivers.

PSE 12 EDITOR CRASHES

The PSE editor keeps crashing. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Concerning the PSE-12 Editor, I find that this crashes after editing 10 to 20 JPEGs of ~20 Mpixels (not tried raw files yet). I have used at least three earlier versions of the editor on the same machine and in the same circumstances and none of them ever crashed (unlike the Organizer).
The crash either leaves a trace in the Event Log, just blocks, so one needs to kill the process with the Task Manager, or says that it has a lack of memory. These are the symptoms of a classic memory leak.
After getting advice from Adobe, I switch off all start-up processes with MSCONFIG, but the Editor still crashed (after 25 files this time).
Does anyone else have this problem? I would be very surprised if I am the only one...
David M.

PSE 8 editor not responding

After I edit a photo with PSE 8 Editor and try and save the edit, Editor goes white (not reponding) for several seconds then finally completes the edit. What is causing this delay?
Thanks,
Phil

In PSE editor under Edit->Preferences: check Performance settings:
*taking the cursor/mouse on each option words will display the description of that option:
Modify the default settings as per your needs:
1) Set the total % PSE can use of available RAM.
2) reduce the number of history states (Undo states)
3) Under scratch disks area in case you have more than 1 drive do check so it can use memory
from more than 1 drives of your machine.
After making this changes close PSE and launch again.
I am sure performance should improve. Let me know if you have any comments.
-Garry

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