Photoshop Elements 7 help

[Ollie]

Hi all.
Just upgraded to PS Elements 7 from PS Elements 4.

This may be a bit long winded so I apologise in advance.

When I download my photos into elements via my card reader they go straight into the organiser view which is fine. Once they are downloaded I view each photo in full screen view at 100% size to check for sharpness etc. Any that don't come up to scratch are deleted.

Question is when I decide a photo is good enough to warrant editing and I switch back to the organiser view to edit the photo, the photo that I was looking at in full screen view is not the one that is selected in the organiser view.

What's the problem you may think, just select the one you want in the organiser view and edit it. Not so simple because I may have anywhere up to a dozen photos that look exactly the same in the thumbnail view of the organiser, enlarging the thumbnail view doesn't necessarily help either.

I can get round this by viewing the properties of the photo in full screen view and remembering the file number and then selecting the file for editing in the organiser view.

I cant find any way of going to the full editor directly from the full screen view. I can go to auto smart fix from full screen view which does open the editor but at the same time it applies the auto smart fix that I don't want and I then have to undo the auto smart fix.

In PS Elements 4 when you viewed a photo in full screen and then closed full screen view the photo that you were looking at in full screen view was automatically selected in the organiser view and then all you had to do was open the editor and edit it.

Maybe I'm being stupid and missing something obvious, it's not a big problem just an annoyance really
Thanks
Roger

[glsammy]

It's of no help to you at all Roger, but Photoshop CS2 has a similar annoyance. No doubt there's an obvious fix I've been too thick to find.
One simple thing I wish it would do was to remember where you upload your images from. The moment you save an image to a different folder it automatically looks in that folder for your next image. So every time you have to go right back to the beginning to find the next image. Do that a few dozen times a session and it drives me bonkers!

[Ollie]

Thanks for replying Graham.

Apart from the little glitch mentioned I'm well pleased with PS Elements 7. It runs much faster than my old PS Elements 4.

Guess I will stick to remering the file number in full screen view unless anyone comes up with something I can't see
Roger

[big bill]

Hello Roger know what you mean like Graham the same happens in CS3 you cannot click on the image so that it opens automaticaly in the work area,what I do is I have the folder open to view the images I also have CS3 work area open and once I see the image that I want to work on I drag it onto the work area ,were it opens up ready to do any editing.
Hope this helps but there must be an easier way just like Graham says havent found it yet

[Ollie]

Originally Posted by big bill

Hello Roger know what you mean like Graham the same happens in CS3 you cannot click on the image so that it opens automaticaly in the work area,what I do is I have the folder open to view the images I also have CS3 work area open and once I see the image that I want to work on I drag it onto the work area ,were it opens up ready to do any editing.
Hope this helps but there must be an easier way just like Graham says havent found it yet

Nice one Bill.

Maybe not quite the same as you meant but your reply prompted me to do a bit of fishing as regards dragging and dropping.

If I select a file in the organiser that I want to edit and then switch to the editor window and have the project bin open at the very bottom of the editor window the file shows up as a thumbnail in the project bin. (hadn't looked at the project bin previously) I can then drag the file from the project bin into the main editing window. Problem solved.

Thanks Bill
Roger

[Tormentil]

Originally Posted by big bill

...... in CS3 you cannot click on the image so that it opens automaticaly in the work area....

You can if you use Bridge as your viewer when using either CS2 or 3.

Even Lightrrom will let you open an image in an editing programme of your choice.

[big bill]

Hello Tormentil I must be doing something wrong then have tried it in CS3 and left clicking on an image ,it will not open automaticaly in the workspace from Bridge,you can right cclick and open it in camera raw then open into the normal worksp[ace from there but not a direct link from Bridge to PS workspace.
What am I doing wrong then? hgelp if you have the answer in CS no problem CS2 & CS3 will not work from the Bridge

[Tormentil]

My mistake, you're right Bill, in Bridge(CS3) it opens Camera RAW first. but just click on "open image" and it should then open in CS3.

When I used CS2 it always opened from Bridge, but in those days I only shot in jpeg.

You can go to "Preferences" in CS3 and untick the thumbnail prefs for jpeg & tiff files.....



I think, this will work in CS2 too.