I followed the directions in the video and dragged the photoshop elements icon into the picture viewer toolbar. It created a button. When I click on that button PS Elements opens but the current picture is NOT displayed. The picture file name is being included properly in the command. This is the command that is generated:
You might need an extra argument for some programs, assuming they let you send files to them at all.
Try:
@async:"Photoshop Elements 13.0.exe" -open {filepath}
I am not sure if that will work with Elements 13, though.
If it adds itself to the Open With menu, or has something else in the context menus for files to open them in it, then it may be possible to adapt that into a button instead.
I opened a command prompt and ran the command and it opened PSE and the picture was displayed. I created a new button and specified an MSDOS command and then entered the command I had used in the command window (but used {filepath} instead of the actual file name) and that also worked. But doing it that way leaves a blank command window on the screen while PSE is open.
No, going back to the function (@async) that is created when running it by dragging the PSE desktop icon to the picture viewer toolbar fails in the same way it did initially - PSE loads but no picture.
Sorry I may be confused; but wasn't it established that the -open switch is also needed?
If I've got it wrong and MSDOS mode is the only one that seemingly works, you can hide the DOS prompt by adding @runmode:hide to the top of the command.
If you double-click on a PSE file (I don't even know what format these are - does it use normal .psd files?) does it open in PSE automatically? If so then the registry settings for that filetype will probably show the command format needed.
What's the full/exact command that worked in DOS mode but didn't in normal mode? Did you use exactly the same one?
It could be it wants {file} and not {filepath} and/or that it wants the current directory to be set to where the file is and not the PSE program folder.
{file} is not working either.
Starting in an custom directory instead of the program folder also makes no difference.
I'm also curious what Drac144's command looks like because I can't get it even working with a normal filename.
The following line only opens PSE and not the file.
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14\WelcomeScreen\Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.0.exe" landscape.psd
I installed a trial of PSE to see what's going on, and 1.4 GB later (good thing they didn't call this "Photoshop Light" or you could sue them for misleading advertising) it seems like the program to run is:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe
At least, that's the program it sets up .psd files to open with. So the following function should work (and does for me):
@async:"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe" {filepath}
This works for me as well. Note that it is NOT what is created when dragging the icon to the picture viewer header. That creates the path and EXE name shown in a previous post. Using MSDOS mode, the path and EXE file name created by the drag/drop work. That made me think the problem was in Dopus so I did not look for another option. Apparently Jon had much more faith in Dopus so he looked for a different solution.
Jon, thanks for going the extra step (or, considering the size of the PSE program, the extra mile (kilometer?)) to figure out what the problem was.
If you install PSE you really get two programs: the editor and the organizer. When you start via the start menu shortcut ("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14\WelcomeScreen\Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.0.exe") you first get a dialog where you can choose which program to start: The editor of the organizer. (When Premiere Elements is also installed that's an third option). You can set a default if you want or everytime choose from the two (or three) options.
Adobe Photoshop Elements in the Welcome screen directory is some kind of stub from which the right program is opened. When you double click a psd file PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe is opened and that's the one needed for the button.
I think for PSE13 it works in a similar way.
Yes, you are correct about the operation. I have my default set to go directly to the editor when opening PSE from the desktop icon but the icon DOES call the "main" program first which then calls the editor. And, yes, Leo, I am sure that MSDOS mode works with the parameters I included earlier. Again, that was calling the "main" program NOT going directly to the editor which was Jon's solution. In Jon's initial response to my post he said the command created by the drag/drop should work unless PSE was "weird". I guess the answer is that PSE is weird.