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I am so frustrated with Photoshop Elements 11 right now. I've been using PSE for many years but it does this annoying thing periodically. All of a sudden I go to open a picture of a card (an ordinary jpg) and it won't open. This has happened to me twice before and the fix was always holding down Ctrl-Alt-Shift as you open the software and it fixes the issue. Well not tonight. I've done it at least four times and I still can't open the pic. It's so frustrating and I'm about ready to break up with PSE and find new photo editing software.
So I've got two questions: if you use PSE and have had this happen how did you fix it? And, what photo editing software do you use, and does it support adding a watermark?
Thanks in advance for your help
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well, I have not had that happen to me but, I switched to Lightroom when I had PSE8... (because, you can do everything in lightroom that you would do in PSE but, add the watermark)
so, I have not updated PSE and I after export of the edited photo in Lightroom then open the photo in PSE to drop and drag the watermark on)
Lightroom does has the possibility of using just plain text in a few places to watermark on export but, I have not figured out a way to layer on the fancy ones I had made for me. I'd guess if it can be done there is probably a tutorial out there for it somewhere but, I am fairly lazy and since I "know" without thinking how to just drop and drag it in PSE I have been doing that and until I upgrade computers again I probably will just continue with that one. :mrgreen:
Just for card photos? I used Picasa, which is free and very user-friendly! And you can add your watermark easily.
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Picassa is good for doing cards in bulk too. You can do a whole collection of cards at the same time with watermark and/or resize your cards for the internet all at the same time. Its free and very easy to use.
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I use GIMP because it was free, I can easily use the automatic settings to make my photos look better without knowing "how" (LOL) and yes, you can add a watermark. Although, I have yet to figure out who to add mine on my Mac without typing it out every single time, ugh! But I could easily do it on my laptop!
For those of you using Picasa and GIMP can you layer a watermark image over your card photo or are just adding text over your image?
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I am in love! I downloaded PhotoPad (as the website indicated it was for touching up photos) and I love it! It does everything that PSE does. Thank you so much for providing the link!!
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I use Pic Monkey - free (with optional premiums to buy), easy to use and fun. Lots of options and watermarking is easy breezy.
Just to crop and alter brightness, contrast, saturation, straighten photos, etc., I use Windows Live Photo Gallery editor. It comes up automatically with every photo I open on my laptop.
You don't say how old the computer is . I have had versions of PSE as old as 2 without crashing issues until now. Finally upgraded to PSE 9and running smoothly with a few minor stall issues. Love this program. If I could recommend a phenomenal class that got me going it's ed.to.go.com by Beverly Schultz. A 10 year old could easily read and follow it. Thinking of taking it again as a refresher.
My computer is only a couple of years old. I'm running Windows 8 64-bit and upgraded to PSE 11 when I got it. I just find it frustrating when software has random performance issues. I go for months using it with everything working fine, then suddenly something like this happens. And since it's happened to me twice I figure it's time to move on. And I've got to say that I've been using PhotoPad for a couple of days now, and I'm just as happy with it as I was with PSE (when it was working, that is). The interface is very similar to PSE so the learning curve is practically non-existent.
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I have a watermark that is already made up and I don't know how to get it on my card photo. Believe it or not, I did it yesterday but I can't for the life of me figure out how I did it. I know it was easy, but I have really bad chemo brain and just don't remember how to do it. Please help, if you can...Thanks
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