Photoshop Elements question.

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Is there any reason to hold onto PS E1 when you have PS E2?

It seems to me that PS E2 is a complete superset of PS E1. What am I
missing?

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Les wrote:
> My son received Photoshop Elements 1 with one of his cameras, and we
> installed it on his computer.
> Later, when he purchased another camera, he received Photoshop
> Elements
> 2. Since he liked some features of each version, we installed
> Photoshop Elements 2 without removing version 1.
> The problem, however, is that these versions appear to share some
> common files/folders, i.e., they cannot be opened simultaneously and
> independently.
> How can he install Photoshop Elements versions 1 and 2 on the same
> computer, such that they are entirely independent installations (i.e.,
> he can simultaneously open and perform operations on separate files
> with both versions, with no file sharing, and without the versions
> being aware of each other)?
> Thanks for any help you can provide.

I doubt if you can totally eliminate some sharing. They likely use some
DLL files that are common to both. As for data files you should be able to
change the defaults to either.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

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Have you tried to installed Elements 1 to one folder, while installing
Elements 2 to a completely different folder (without both being part of
the same master folder, bu merely coexisting on the harddrive)? Often,
'shared' files have to literally be the same file, whereas two files
with same name but in two different folders are two files not shared at
all, allowing each program to have its own file for use.

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wilt wrote:
> Have you tried to installed Elements 1 to one folder, while installing
> Elements 2 to a completely different folder (without both being part of
> the same master folder, bu merely coexisting on the harddrive)? Often,
> 'shared' files have to literally be the same file, whereas two files
> with same name but in two different folders are two files not shared at
> all, allowing each program to have its own file for use.

I installed each into its own separate folder, but both folders were in
a single folder labelled Photoshop, which was only a holding folder for
organizational purposes, and had no files in it. But it appears that
the installation also places files in some other location (and perhaps
also modifies the registry, as mentioned in another post), that end up
being shared by each version.

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Les wrote:
> wilt wrote:
>
>>Have you tried to installed Elements 1 to one folder, while installing
>>Elements 2 to a completely different folder (without both being part of
>>the same master folder, bu merely coexisting on the harddrive)? Often,
>>'shared' files have to literally be the same file, whereas two files
>>with same name but in two different folders are two files not shared at
>>all, allowing each program to have its own file for use.
>
>
> I installed each into its own separate folder, but both folders were in
> a single folder labelled Photoshop, which was only a holding folder for
> organizational purposes, and had no files in it. But it appears that
> the installation also places files in some other location (and perhaps
> also modifies the registry, as mentioned in another post), that end up
> being shared by each version.
>
My advice would be to get PS Elements III, dump the other two, and get
used to one version. Will save agony over the longer term.

--
John McWilliams