Installing Photoshop Elements 5

[Guest]

My computer came with Elements 2. I purchased Elements 5 and have an
installation question. I have a Sony Vaio Media Center Edition. My C Drive
has 13.9 GB with 2.23 GB free. My D Drive has 166 Gb with 166 GB free. My
plan is to install on the D drive since it has so much free space. Right now
I do not do much of any video editing. I will not be actually storing a huge
amount of pictures on my Ddrive. Is this a good plan? Now all my pictures
are in MY Pictures. Please tell me if this is a really bad idea. Thank you

 

[DatabaseBen]

you really should balance out
your partitions. Your c drive should
have more free space than just 2 gig's.
and you have no choice but to store
your pics on the d drive.

then, also, elements uses scratchdisks and
1 pic that is a work in progress can
actually generate a file as much as
80 gigs.... So you really need to configure
elements with the locations of the files or
your c drive will crash...

a partition manager will help you with
reallocating your disk space. I use acronis
disk director. Partition magic is not recommended.

if partition managers are not in your budget then
you need to consider installing (or reinstalling) software
to the d drive, modify your temp directories in
enviroment to the d drive, and set any other
folders to the d drive (or your c drive will crash).

finally, you can download "tweakui for NT" and
change the default folders to the d drive from
the c drive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply.
I'm a home user and not a professional. I'm not sure what you mean by
balancing out my partitions--I'm not experienced enough to repartition hard
drives (we bought our first computer 5 yrs ago and all my kids were grown and
gone so not much help)
I've been using PE 2 and so far have had no problems. I'm learning to use
Elements but have a long way to go . Are you saying it's okay just to go
ahead and install PE 5 on D Drive? Most of my photographs are on cd's and I
bring them in to work on them.
I Maybe I can get rid of some pre-installed programs that i don't use. (I
don't know how D has 166 total and 166 free when a lot of video programs are
there)

 

[DatabaseBen]

well, if the amounts you provided
were accurate, then i don't beleive
that your pc may be working at
its peak performance.

a partition manager is used
to transfer empty space from one
partition into another. so with
a partition manager, the program
can take any amount you want from
d and input it into the c. For example
you can move 50 gigs from the d drive and
add it to your c drive, making the c drive
much larger.

but as mentioned earlier, if partitioning
isn't something you want to consider, then
i highy recommend to begin installing your
softwares onto the d drive.

Virtually all software gives you the option
where to install the softwares. Do do so
requires the use of "custom" installation instead of the
default installation options that the program offers.
When you select the custom option, simply
replace the drive letter of c to d.

For example when PE5 says that
it will install to c:\program files\pe, simply
change the c to d so it reads d:\program files\pe

you can begin doing this with new softwares and
for other softwares if you are going to reinstall them.
however, if you choose to reinstall the software be
sure to uninstall them first and delete the folder as well.

the other thing that can help is to move
your internet temporary files folder from
the c drive to the d drive. this can be done
via internet options.

Basically, there is much more to go with
changing the way windows uses the c drive
for the default location. Is it no wonder
why there is virtually no usage by windows
of the d drive?

I guess since you have been running a-ok
till now, maybe there is nothing to worry about.
But i think you might see the logic within the
concern.

Some food for thought i suppose this
may be...

 

[Guest]

The figures are accurate--I double checked to make sure.
Thank you for a clear explanation. I know that the D drive is so big and
empty in order to assure that there will be plenty of room for video
editing. So far I have used only Click to DVD to transfer video from a
camera to a DVD and the files are temporary.. I have Adobe Premier LE but
have not even begun to try to learn that one! My thinking is that since I
won't be storing any video long-term on my computer and I will not be editing
video (presuming I do get into that0 and using Elements 5 at theSAME Time, I
should not have a problem. If this is wrong-thinking, PLEASE tell me. Sonic
Stage is on there but I,m not sure what you do with that.
Thanks for explaining how exactly to make a program install on D instead of
C. I have not used the "Custom Install" before.
Thanks again.

 

[DatabaseBen]

sure...
I would suggest to uninstall sonic stage and
reinstall it to the d drive as well. Then in
both of your programs, double check
the options within them to ensure that
the do not use any of your c drive for
storing files, making scratch disks or
creating temporary folders. If they do
then change them to the d drive.

another thing you can do is to create
a special folder on the d drive and
move all your pictures, videos, music
and documents from the c drive.

in addition to the partitioning software
i mentioned, it might be helpful to use
one of those fancy softwares that
tune up the computer.

A program like
systemmechanic was designed with a
multitude of options for cleaning up
and tuning up pc's.

For example,
you may have lots of unusuable and
unneeded files taking up space on
the c drive. Systemmechanic can
search for all the various types of
"trash" files and delete them, thus
giving you back some more space.

there are other options that you
can run through as well.

it's my firm guess that if you start
making videos/movies with sonic
and begin making pictures with
elements, you will use "a lot" of
space, and i mean a lot! So c drive
is not where you want these programs
to use as a palette for working with
images. Although walmart can
reprint a high quality picture from
elements with a file size of 200k, it
is not uncommon for elements to
make a working copy at a size of 80 gigs.

And this is one pic, just imagine what
it would entail making a movie...

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. Is Sonic Stage a video editing program? Do I need it
+ Click to DVD + Adobe Premier LE? (which I'd like to learn someday) ! Seems
like overkill
..
These are on D Drive : 1)Click to DVd (empty) 2) Image (empty) 3)
Photo Server--Folders-Data 4.09 mb (some files ending .tmp--guess I can
delete them??) 4) Record TV (empty) 5) Sonic Stage (empty) 6.
Sonic Stage mastering Stage--Folders (empty) 7) temp-dvd (empty)
8) video (empty) and 9)something newly appeared which I have NO idea
what it is or where it came from: adadc31746e8dbf33 Files
msxm14-KB927978-enu.log Details: 276kb Modified Nov 18, 2006 2:01 p.m,--I
opened it and it is text-maybe in notepad or something.
I've read about System Mechanic--P.C. World or somewhere.
I'd like to learn about video editing but probably will only put video from
a camera onto a DVD with some simple editing.

Am I right in thinking that a huge picture file won't be a problem unless I
have it there on the drive all unflattened and then try to work with video/
Please tell me exactly what Sonic Stage and SS Mastering are? This computer
came with a huge amount of things. I learned on Windows ME so this XP is
really nice but I'm thinking a lot of these programs are duplicating one
another and maybe can go.
Thanks.

 

[DatabaseBen]

ok,
firstly you can
download systemmechanic
free for 30 days. And i
think if you choose to buy
it from a store, there is
a rebate.

secondly, i had
assumed that you may
need a partition manager.
But remember that winxp pro
version has one already. Also,
i assumed you had only one
hard drive. But you may actually
have 2 physical drives, in which case
a partition manager would be
helpful.

photoshop elements is a really
good program for taking an image
(or creating one) and transforming
it into something masterfull.

For
example you can take a single
frame shot with your camcorder
and remove the ugly buildings or
background and replace it with
a forest or a bush of flowers.

Or you can scan in a picture
via a scanner and transform
it as well. For example you
can take a family photo and
splitting all the members into
an individual pic/portrait.

Another could be repairing
antique photos that have been
crumpled or scratched. Or simply
taking an expensive portrait but
of poor quality and making into
something much better.

But these are ony a couple of
examples. I use the original
elements and i upload my
pic's to walmart photo center.

I do not have
any experience with the new
version of elements. However
if it works with video/movies,
then it is likely that some tools described
above would be applied to each
frame in the movie or certain sections.

In regards to sonic I have no experience
with it. What concerns me somewhat
is that Sony has been caught red handed
with making it's software into spyware.
But i have no foundation to prove Sonic
is another covert program. And the
tool may prove to be useful and maybe
even required. However, windows
may already be able to handle the
file that your camcorder.

Keeping in mind that microsoft
has done an excellent job of
accomadating a multitude of
scenerios required by millions
of different computer configurations.

Go to microsoft.com and query
from there "movie maker". I
am sure there will be a virtual
library on video editing and you
will eventually find many sites
on being creative.... Windows
media player and direct x may
also be helpful downloads that
are continously updated and improved
upon by microsoft.

The listing of folders seem
to be ok. Click to dvd may simply
be a dvd writing function that windows
can probably due already. But the
question is if that program is used to
convert the file because windows can't
read the type. But i couldn't tell you from
here. Keep in mind that in addition to
microsoft.com being a resource, so is
your sony website where sonic is
described in detail.

Sounds like your going to have
lots of fun...

 

[databaseben]

this might be helpful for you

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128018-c,digitalcameras/article.html

 

[Guest]

Hi,
I went to Circuit City today on my way home and bought 512 mb more memory.
I took in the paper about everything on my Vaio (printout from Sony) and
stuff I printed about hardware, software, properties, etc. which I had found
on my computer and printed out (several pages worth). The man I usually talk
to (and has been SO helpful in the past )was off but one of the "Firedogs"
there helped me. He looked at everything I had, said to put it on the D
drive when asked where to install it, and said it should work fine. He talked
about a lot of other things too and was a big help. One thing about Circuit
City (well, ours anyway), they always take the time to talk and when you find
the ones who really know a lot, you can learn so much and solve a lot of
problems.

Thanks for the help you have given--as always, I've learned more from
problems I have! I've found a lot of good help (a big help is
photoshopelementsuser.com and their newsletter-Adobe website) and am making a
lot of progress learning to use Elements. I'm looking forward to playing
with Elements 5 when I get it installed. Thanks again.
Mason Wells

 

[Guest]

And thanks for the links!!

this might be helpful for you

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128018-c,digitalcameras/article.html

 

[DatabaseBen]

sure... ,
anytime.

And thanks for the links!!