Comments on: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 NOT Compatible with Leopard

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:31:31 +0000

I own a new MacBook Pro Lion – version 10.73 and am unable to use my photoshop elements 2.0.
I need to know which PSE version to use?
P.S. It will not work with PSE 10 on my canon printer.

By: Simone Renee

Simone Renee — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:09:39 +0000

Wow! Thanks for all the comments!
Lee- I am definitely going to try that out ASAP. I hadn’t been able to find any fixes before.
Fernando- It does seem to be the thing these days for developers to upgrade programs with horribly stupid “user friendly” interfaces. Hopefully though, it won’t be completely unbearable.
If Lee’s fix doesnt work out for me I’ll just do the upgrade.
Thanks again!

Simone Renee

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:22:57 +0000

Adobe just announced the new photoshop elements 6 for mac that is Universal binary! New for $90 bucks and upgrade for $70 USD. It was about time for that! I just bought a new iMac and I used the 30 days trial versions of CS2 and 3 until they expired… I kept the image ready CS2 and that’s what I’ve been using for the last month ! It’s just horrible.

My only concern with PE6 is that it seems that it evolved into a horrible “(stupid) user friendly” interfase.

ciao

By: John Davis

John Davis — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:54:00 +0000

I’ve had no problems with PE 4 on Leopard. Mind you, I don’t do very complicated things with it. But it does what I ask it to.

Yours sincerely,

John Davis

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:51:36 +0000

As a long time Mac user, it sounds to me like a corrupted plist file. Go to Library/Preferences and delete the .plist file listed for Photoshop Elements. (It should be something like com.adobe.Elements.plist. Log out and back in then try the application. In some cases, its not a bad file but a conflict with another preference file.

To troubleshoot, you can rename your current Preferences folder…I like to rename the old one something like Preferences2 so it’s next to the new one. Restart and a new folder will be created. If the application now works, you can drag from the old folder to the new one, a few preferences at a time, then logout and back in trying the app each time until the problem comes back. When it does, the problem will be in one of those you last dragged in.

Do some trouble shooting…I’m bett’n that since it worked at first, it’ll work again. Heck, I once had to do this with my entire home Library when Mail stopped working, to finally determine that my Aspell Dictionary was the problem….updated it and Mail came right back in line.

Same thing goes for kboggs…you have a bad file in your primary user’s account.

By: kboggs

kboggs — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:42:47 +0000

I’ve had problems with it. In fact it refuses to launch on my Leopard system. However, I have figured out that it is specific to my primary user account. When I switch to another it seems to run without issues. I’ve tried uninstalling and eliminating some obvious conflicting suspects but I just haven’t had time to figure out what the issue is in my primary account.

By: Zim Boum

Zim Boum — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:52:28 +0000

No problem here, either. I use it on a Al 24 in Imac intel.

By: AJK

AJK — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:46:54 +0000

I’ve been using PE 4.0 on 10.5.1 for a quite a while now and haven’t experienced any problems. I’m using it on the latest MacBook which came with Leopard so there was no upgrade from Tiger if that makes a difference.

By: swissfondue

swissfondue — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:54 +0000

I though so too. Reinstalling PSE 4 on my 10.5.1 installation resolved any problems I had. PSE4 works fine now.