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Photoshop Elements 7 Metadata
I have completed a change to my PSE 6 xml file generator. To generate files which match the new Elements 7 format.
As for the PSE6 version it simply creates the xml files for you and you will need to add the file to the correct directory for your version of windows. There are details of this process in an Elements Village Post
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The latest version of Lightroom FTP Sender is available new features include “Abort” button, and a test connection button.
It can be downloaded below. See Initial Release for more information.
BD Sizer
If you need to resize images for the web, and find photoshop or similar overkill. Then BDSizer may be the way to go.
Just start it up and drop your images on. Set the longest edge size and the maximum size in Kb and resize the image and save, or you can drop a bunch to the batch section and do them all at once.
You can get the latest version from http://www.idimager.com/?page=freeware
I like to frame my images and have made a couple of frames in idFramer which people may like.
They all pick up the “Title” field from the image you drop on along with the copyright and add that information to the bottom of the frame. The “smart” frame version makes the background colour a tone extracted from the image. Just download them and save them to the same directory as BDSizer and it will pick them up and list them in the framing drop down list.
Vista and Photoshop Elements 6
As I wrote before we have moved over to Vista on our main system. This meant PSE was a little unstable, so for Christmas PSE 6 turned up, it’s really nice, but Adobe have jet again changed the methods for using additional actions and styles, now in order to get them to appear in manageable lists in PSE you need to create XML files. As I had large numbers of actions from Atomic cupcake, I decided it was easier to write a small program to generate the XML files for Actions and Styles.
It’s a very simple program, just point it at your “backup directory for actions or styles, select all the actions/styles you want and then click the button to create all the XML files.
There is a tick box you can use to put all the actions in one dropdown selection, just tick it and change the description to the name you want.
It does not copy the XML files to the correct directory, as especially on Vista this is very difficult to do as Vista will only let the OS or PSE6 write to the correct directories.
There are good instructions for PSE 6 here http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33090
Download
Just put it in a folder of your choice.