Photoshop Elements will not install without Internet Explorer.

[ericmark]

Photoshop Elements will not install without Internet Explorer is there a work around? tried Edge and set to IE but not seen as IE 4 or better so will not install.

 

[Wayners]

Old pc?
Set default browser to edge or chrome. Might be set to IE?
It's trying to register with IE that's now discontinued

 

[ericmark]

I was running Photoshop 5 but my hard drive crashed, and can't find the disc and registration number, I know Rawtherapee should do the same, as should Paint Shop Pro 9, however latter will not load Nikon Raw files, and both I am not good with the controls, also been using Photomatrix Essentials 4 very good but slow, it is likely Photoshop Elements will also not load raw files, so I am using as it stands a few programs to do what before hard drive failed I could do with one.

 

[flameport]

Options:

1 Spend hours and days dicking around with old obsolete unsupported software that last worked on hardware from 20+ years ago, and eventually get some of it partially working some of the time, only for it to fall down and break due to some unrelated update to the OS, camera or something else.

2 Pay for Adobe Lightroom.

 

[Wayners]

Install Gimp. It's free photo editing software very similar to Photoshop.
I prefer free open sources software if available.

 

[Odds]

Install Gimp. It's free photo editing software very similar to Photoshop.
I prefer free open sources software if available.

In what way is it similar to P.shop?

 

[Wayners]

Checkout the comparison on YouTube.
Guess it depends on what you want to do and if you want advanced features. Photoshop is way better for a professional photographer with advanced software knowledge is my understanding. I was able to do everything i wanted to though with gimp

 

[ericmark]

Gimp is 8 bit last time I looked, where Photoshop was 32 bit, and Photoshop linked with bridge and RAW which allowed batch processing, and in the main it is the batch processing where Photoshop shines, I can do most with Rawtherapee, however I had got use to how to used Photoshop, but with Paint shop Pro 9 now loaded, I can get by, but I have a 500 page user guide to wade through to work out how. Also have Photomatrix to help process from RAW to 8 bit, but it is slow, I take a photo and process with Photomatrix, to get the tone mapping, then straighten with Rawtherapee, then use Paint shop to colour correct.

Still not found how to do vignetting, it was so easy in Photoshop RAW.

 

[opps]

The following might help.

Photoshop Elements installation error "requires MS Internet Explorer 4.0"

groups.google.com

You will need to use REGEDIT though, before doing so, back up your registry.

I would look at the final posts by KC4.

 

[opps]

Gimp is 8 bit last time I looked, where Photoshop was 32 bit, and Photoshop linked with bridge and RAW which allowed batch processing, and in the main it is the batch processing where Photoshop shines, I can do most with Rawtherapee, however I had got use to how to used Photoshop, but with Paint shop Pro 9 now loaded, I can get by, but I have a 500 page user guide to wade through to work out how. Also have Photomatrix to help process from RAW to 8 bit, but it is slow, I take a photo and process with Photomatrix, to get the tone mapping, then straighten with Rawtherapee, then use Paint shop to colour correct.

Still not found how to do vignetting, it was so easy in Photoshop RAW.

GIMP is 32 bit (x86), they have a 64 bit version but its classified as "experimental". I very much doubt that it was ever 8 bit. I am still on the last suite of Adobe progs that were "available" via the likes of Pirate Bay.

 

[RandomGrinch]

GIMP is 32 bit (x86), they have a 64 bit version but its classified as "experimental". I very much doubt that it was ever 8 bit. I am still on the last suite of Adobe progs that were "available" via the likes of Pirate Bay.

Although not the clearest, he means the 'colour depth' that GIMP can support - an image with 24 bit colour depth has 8 bits per colour channel - for a total of 16.7 million colours.
32 bit colour has an additional 8 bit alpha channel for transparencies.
I believe gimp now supports up to 16/32 bits per channel.

 

[ericmark]

Since I had Photoshop CS5 I never bothered with Gimp 2.10, Rawtherapee, etc, other than a glance to see what they could do, I used Photomatix as it was free on a mag, and FastStone Photo Resizer so easy to resize a batch for competition, and Hugin to stitch photos together, and Picturestoexe for a presentation.

As an experiment I tried opening a NEF RAW file with Gimp 2.10 and it opened in RawTherapee, I don't know if that what it is considered as working with RAW files? I have classed Gimp and RawTherapee as two different programs.

I am no longer a member of a camera club, I think it was being a member which tied me to Photoshop, as every lecture was based around Photoshop, when it went so you had to pay monthly to use it, I gave up, I don't use it enough to be worth the fee. However I still shoot in RAW, so after a day out I need to convert them to Jpeg to upload onto Facebook etc.

Maybe I need an instruction set on how to use RawTherapee? To batch process into Jpeg.

 

[RandomGrinch]

However I still shoot in RAW, so after a day out I need to convert them to Jpeg to upload onto Facebook etc.

For this sort of basic conversion, have you tried NX Studio - downloadable from Nikon?

Nikon | Download center | NX Studio

 

[ericmark]

Thank you am installing as I write, it does seem to work, I can open in Paint Shop Pro 9 and it seems to be similar to Bridge. It will take some getting use to. Seems up and running again, without need of Photoshop.

 

[ericmark]

I have now had time to evaluate the software, and yes it is very good, as I write I am making videos to display the photos taken with the software, not to pictures to exe standard, but not far below it. Thanks again,