I've got some photos that I want to edit in PSE 10 but when I select a photo and right click to select “Edit with Photoshop Elements 10.app” PSE 10 opens but the photo never opens in PSE 10. Aperture does create a .psd version of the image but it's not making it into PSE 10. Any ideas on how to make it work?
You might look at your preferences in Aperture and see what your export file type is. I use PSE 9 and it will only work freely with Aperture if you export as an 8-bit PSD. However, I’ve not had an image not make it to PSE, I just either could not edit it (16-bit) or reimport back to Aperture (Tiff).
Thanks Jim. I checked prefs in Aperture and my ‘External Editor file type’ is set to PSD (8-bit). The process worked fine with PSE 9 but now that I’m using PSE 10 it doesn’t work. I uninstalled PSE 9 after installing 10. The only difference I can see is that with PSE 9 I could set a path for PSE 9 editor directly in Aperture, but with PSE 10 I can only select PSE 10.app which brings up the opening dialog to select either Organizer or Edit, and I have to select Edit to continue opening PSE 10. Not sure how that might affect it but it’s the only difference I see…
Mike
Mike,
I’m not sure I follow on the difference between the two setups. You said “with PSE 9 I could set a path for PSE 9 editor directly in Aperture, but with PSE 10 I can only select PSE 10.app which brings up the opening dialog to select either Organizer or Edit, and I have to select Edit to continue opening PSE 10.”.
Starting in Aperture’s preferences, how is it different in PSE9 vs 10 when you select one or the other as the external editor? [screenshot]
The dialog that’s popping up seems to be the real problem though. I’m guessing that somewhere in PSE 10 there’s a preference for how it handles files on open. What happens if you drag a photo from the desktop onto the PSE10 icon? That should replicate the function that happens from Aperture; see if you can get the settings to allow you to do that and actually just open the file, and I’d wager that will solve the problem.
Also, I don’t think it’s related, but this was an earlier discussion on problem using PS Elements 9
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So I got it to work. When selecting your external editor you want to enter the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 folder, then go to the Support folder where you’ll select Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor.app. Doing this I was able to open a photo as a PSD 8-bit in Photoshop Elements 10. Hope that works!
Iain,
So there are two apps for PSE 10? An app and an editor?
-Joseph
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So, when you open PSE10 regularly (not through Aperture) you’re given a welcome screen asking if you want to organize or edit. So, I guess there are 2 apps, an editor and an organizer. I don’t use PSE10 much, so I just noticed there’s a settings menu that asks how you want PSE10 to open in the future, normal splash page, editor, or organizer. I tried setting it to editor, and having Aperture’s external editor be the Photoshop Elements 10.app, but the selected photo didn’t arrive into PSE10.
Iain,
That’s interesting and a great tip. So yeah it sounds like two apps plus a launch app.
If you don’t mind, would you write that up as a tip on User Tips? Send me the screenshots and I’ll include them. Take them as window screenshots (command-shift-4 then spacebar) and I can scale and fix the shadows as needed.
If you can’t no worries, but that’d be a good tip to have
cheers
-Joseph
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Sure I can do that Joseph. Regarding 8-bit/16-bit PSDs I was able to export to PSE10 in either format, from an RW2 file, and when I save the file in PSE10, and not change any of the default file name or path information it updated the version created in Aperture.
Thanks!
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I’m glad you posted this. I just had the same problem and your solution worked for me. The odd thing is, in the PSE 10 settings you can have the program open straight to the editor and bypass the organizer and the splash screen. However, this doesn’t fix the problem. I had already tried that but wasn’t aware of the separate editor app. Linking straight to the editor as mentioned above seems to be the only solution.