Using Elements 12 on two computers and sharing one catalog.

I want to put my photoshop elements 12 onto my laptop as well as my PC. I would like to know how to be able to share my photos back and forth between the two programs. I also use the Topaz plug in's on the PC and will also install them on the laptop. Let me know how I can do this.

What I suggest is to have the picture files on the external hard drive as well as the catalog folder.
The picture files are no longer on your desktop nor on your laptop, they are on the external drive.
The catalog folder is no longer in the default location on your desktop, it has been moved to the same external drive.
You have PSE installed on your two computers (you are allowed two computers with your Elements license).
When you plug-in the the external drive to any of your computers, the organizer finds the catalog on the external drive and all your picture files.
You can edit and add images to your catalog from any of your computers, the other one will find them when the external drive is plugged in.
How to do this? I suppose you have your picture files on your desktop and also the catalog folder in its default location in the desktop.
You have two external drives; one for backup, the other to hold the pictures and the catalog folder.
The first step is to do a full backup on the backup drive.
Then you do a restore to the second external drive. That will put the pictures and the catalog folder in that drive.
Now, to tell each of your organizers in desktop and laptop where the catalog is, the simplest solution is to plug the external drive to a computer. From the explorer/finder, you locate the catalog folder which holds the database : catalog.pse13db. You double click that file, which will open the organizer in the new catalog. Do the same with the second computer.
As I said in my previous post, it is necessary that the external drive has the same drive letter when plugged in in either computer.

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