Comments on: Elemental Plugin

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:21:53 +0000

@Lynne, Elemental is a plugin for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It helps users in that program open photos for editing in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Instructions for installing it are included on this page but the highlights are you can unzip the file to any permanent location on your hard drive, open Lightroom's File -> Plug-In Manager menu item, and use the Add button to install the plugin from the location you unzipped it to. When unzipping make sure you enable the "use folders" or similar option because the unzipping process creates the correctly named directory necessary for installation to succeed. Hope that helps.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:04:16 +0000

@Mike, Have you ever upgraded your version of Adobe Camera Raw? It is likely you are using an older version and this could be the cause of this issue. Please go to the Adobe Camera Raw Download Page for Macintosh and download a Camera Raw update and follow the instructions at the bottom of the download page for installing for Photoshop Elements 6. Camera Raw 5.5 is the last version that provides instructions for installing with PSE 6 so later versions may work, but there are no guarantees.

To the best of my knowledge you need at least Camera Raw 5.7 to successfully render all of the latest develop settings available in Lightroom 3 but this is not documented as being supported by PSE 6. If you are up for it I’d suggest downloading both Camera Raw 5.5 and 5.7, trying 5.7 and if that doesn’t work falling back to 5.5.

Please let me know if you still have any issues after shutting down PSE, upgrading Camera Raw using Adobe’s instructions and then trying again.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:26:30 +0000

I have Lightroom 3 and Elements 6 on an imac. I tried to use the Merge feature and when it got to elements it said Error 8000: Cannot open the file because the open options are incorrect. What can I do to resolve this problem. Thank you

By: Lynne

Lynne — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:57:02 +0000

i’m a mac 10.6, PSE 8 user. i need some help downloading your photomerge panorama fix for PSE8. i’ve downloaded your ELR file, but i’m not sure where to put it…applications/inside PSE8???
Copy the zip file where you want the plugin to permanently reside, then unzip the file. where and how?

any help appreciated.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:53:57 +0000

@Paul, My first reaction was to make sure you had saved the metadata for the file but you’d thought of that already. What file type are you using? If its DNG RAW then the .xmp files probably aren’t being used so this could still be a problem.

Next question is have you upgraded the Camera Raw plugin used by Elements? PSE 6 is getting a little long in the tooth and I’m pretty sure its original Camera Raw version didn’t support LR2’s develop settings. I’d suggest upgrading to Camera Raw 5.6 (instructions here) and try again.

Please let me know how it goes.

By: Paul Waldo

Paul Waldo — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:31:39 +0000

Hi Matt, excited to have just found your plugin! Maybe I’m not understanding how the plugin should work, but it does not seem to work quite properly.

I’m running Mac OSX 10.6.3, 20091224.5 of the Elemental plugin, PSE 6 and LR 2.7.

I select a heavily developed image in LR, and use “Open in Photoshop Elements”. The image does indeed open in Elements, but it is the original image, not the developed one I see in LR. I have made sure I saved the metadata, and verified that I have an XMP file of the same base name in the same dir as my RAW.

I’m hoping to get this working; I have a hankering to buy you a beer!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:33:07 +0000

@Sue, I haven’t received any reports like that previously, and think it would be rather difficult for Elemental to be the culprit. That plugin doesn’t contain anything operating system specific and I can’t see how a “software is incompatible with mac” message could be generated by Lightroom or OSX regarding the plugin. Its likely to be something else on the system. Sorry I can’t give you any more advice than that right now. Don’t have access to a Mac myself so wouldn’t really know where to start debugging the problem.

By: Sue Block

Sue Block — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:27:09 +0000

Has there been any issues with the plug-in and Max OSX version 10.6.3

My computer has gone haywire 2 days after installing the plug-in – not sure whether Elemental is the culprit as yet.

Message i received a error message on my mac

that some software is incompatible with mac -and am trying to sus out which software. Elemental is the only receive download.

thanks

Sue

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:42:56 +0000

@Tom, Last time I checked it worked with both but please let me know if you find any issues (I’m not anticipating any). The plugin hasn’t been updated yet to take advantage of any version specific features though.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:01:42 +0000

Matt -

Are you anticipating that your plug-in will wotk the LR3 beta and Elements 8?