Import photos from Photoshop Elements or Photoshop Album 2.0 (Windows)
Lightroom detects if your
computer has a Photoshop Elements or Photoshop Album 2.0 catalog,
and can import photos and data from the catalogs. This feature is
not available on Mac OS.
In the Library module, choose File >
Import From Elements. If prompted, click OK to continue importing.
Choose any of the following from the Select The Catalog
To Import menu:
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Imports photos from the current Photoshop Elements catalog. (Skip
step 3.)
Custom Location
Imports photos from a backed-up catalog.
If you chose Custom Location, click Choose, navigate
to the backed-up catalog you want, and click Open.
In the Import Photos dialog box, select the photos and
import options, and then click Import.
For more information on importing photos from Photoshop Elements
or Photoshop Album, see www.adobe.com/go/kb400736.
It doesn't appear that catalogs from PSE6 can be imported into LR. Are we better off importing PSE5 catalog or simply importing all photos (with tags and collections written to photos) into a new LR catalog?
Appreciate advice, comments.
Anita Dennis
said on
Oct 11, 2007
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11:10 AM :
That's correct. You can't import a PSE 6 catalog into Lightroom. For more info, see http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400736.
No screen name
said on
Dec 18, 2007
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11:58 AM :
Yes, but that comment was added at around the time Lightroom was first introduced. I would think that Adobe is working on a solution to support compatibility across its newest product range. I would expect that PE6 will eventually be supported. The question is when? Any news?
dtristram
said on
Feb 8, 2008
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4:27 PM :
I made some progress on moving from PSE 6 on a PC to LR 1.3 on a Mac a couple weeks ago.
First make sure you have no tags with the same name anywhere in the hierarchy. If you do, rename them by adding "in <parent-category>" or some such. Then I exported the PSE 6 tags as an XML file. I used emacs and did regular expression replacement to remove the XML element names and unrelated tags. I was able to keep the hierarchy as a tab-indented list.
Use PSE 6 to burn all the uniquely named tags into your image files. Now is also a good time to rename or reorganize your image folders on disk if you want.
So, import the tab-indented list into LR. Then import the images into LR. Then if you had to uniqify any of your tags, you can now go through the LR tags and get rid of the "in <parent-category>" suffixes you may have added.
Now the metadata in the files on disk is a little different from that in the LR catalog. I guess it would make sense to use LR to burn the tags into the files again, but I haven't done that part yet.
One more gotcha is to make sure you don't have a tag with a comma in it, othewise LR will make two new tags at the top level for the two halves of your comma separated tag name. Vertical bar might be a problem too.
This process worked pretty well for me. Somehow a bunch of files that I had imported from another person's collection had the wrong capture time, so about 160 images appeared in the same day's folder. But out of the 12K or so photos that's the only problem I've found so far.
Mike NNNN
said on
Feb 22, 2008
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5:40 PM :
I'm trying to bring my Elements 6.0 keywords into Lightroom. I don't see an option to export keywords to XML like the suggestion from a user with a Mac. I guess my best bet is to do a full backup of the library. Uninstall 6.0 and reinstall Elements 5.0.
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No screen name said on Oct 11, 2007 at 10:57 AM :