Instalilng Actions in Photoshop Elements 7 and higher

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Installing actions in PSE7,8 and 9

Photoshop Elements 7,8 & 9

Installing actions in PSE 7 and higher | Effects Palette

* Download and save the action files . * Click on the folder

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Installing actions in PSE 7,8 and 9

* PSE 7 and higher Effects Palette (for Elements 7 of higher you can install the actions 2 way Effects Palette and Action Player. I will go over the Action Player installation later on. ) * You will see 3 types of files one ending in the .ATN suffix and one ending in .PNG and one ending in .XML * Select all the files and copy them into the Photo Effects folder following this path:

WINDOWS 7 – for PSE 8 and 9

■ Start Menu/Computer/C Drive/Program Data (NOT THE SAME AS PROGRAM FILES)/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/8.0 (9.0 for PSE 9 )/Photo Creations/Photo Effects ■ Make sure Program Data is not hidden. To check go to Start and put “folder options” in the “search proms and files”. Go and click the VIEW tab in the Folder Options dialog box. Click SHOW HIDDEN FILES, FOLDERS, DRIVES WINDOWS XP PSE 7, 8 and 9

■ Start Menu/ My Computer/C Drive/Documents and Settings/All users/ Application Data /Adobe/Photoshop Elements/7.0 (Choose your version here 7.0, 8.0 or 9.0 ■

If you don’t see Application Data make sure it’s not hidden. Go to Start/Control Panel/Classic View/Folder Options/View - select Show Hidden Files and Folders

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Installing actions in PSE 7, 8 and 9

WINDOWS VISTA for PSE 7, 8 and 9

■ Start Menu/Computer/C Drive/Program Data (NOT THE SAME AS PROGRAM FILES)/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/7.0 ( Choose your version 7.0 8.0 or 9.0)/Photo Creations/Photo Effects ■ Make sure Program Data is not hidden. To check go to Start and put “folder options” in the “search proms and files”. Go and click the VIEW tab in the Folder Options dialog box. Click SHOW HIDDEN FILES, FOLDERS, DRIVES

MAC

■ System Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/9.0/Photo Creations/Photo Effects ■ There are two libraries on Macs make sure you go to the the one from your hard drive System Library ■ Now go back to System Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/ 9.0 / Locale/ en_US ■ Rename the Mediadatabase.db3 to MediadatabaseOLD.db3 ■ Close Elements and restart it. If it’s taking a while to restart you know you install the actions correct since Elements will take a while to rebuild a new database with the new actions.

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Installing actions in PSE 7,8 and 9

Installing actions in PSE 7 and higher | Action Player * Download and save the action files . * Click on the folder PSE 7 and higher Action Player * Select the ATN file and copy it to the following path: WINDOWS 7

■ Start Menu/Computer/OS (C:)/ProgramData/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/9.0/Locale/En_US/Workflow Panels/Actions WINDOWS Vista ■ Start Menu/Computer/OS (C:)/ProgramData/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/9.0/Locale/En_US/Workflow Panels/Action WINDOWS XP ■ Start Menu/My Computer/Local Disk (C:)/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/9.0/Locale/En_US/Workflow Panels/Actions MAC ■ Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/9.0/Locale/en_US/Workflow Panels/Actions

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Installing actions in PSE 7, 8 and 9

Once installation is complete go to the Guided Edit menu and choose Action

Plater.

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Installing actions in PSE 7,8 and 9

For more detailed instruction on Photoshop Elements go to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/7.0_W in/index.html

Oh So Posh Actions

Installing actions in PSE 7, 8 and 9