Picture from EMail

[Gilda_Rhodes@cox.net]

My daughter emailed an old picture to me. When I opened it, in the email, Photoshop opened automatically and put it in the organizer and when I try to run a photo review, which includes this pic, it does the old "looking for photo" prompt. What should I have done to avoid this? I like using the organizer but I still, from time to time, have trouble with this "reconnect" problem.

Thanks.

gilda

[CarolLHB]

Sorry Gilda, I'm a Mac user so ...no organizer. I'm sure someone will be along real soonto answer your question:)

[jwhitten]

Gilda,

I am pretty sure from what you wrote that Organizer is trying to find the photo in a temp directory. What you want to do is save the file from your e-mail, then open it from your hard drive. When you open an image in e-mail, the image is a temp file that gets deleted.

Joe

[TonyW]

Gilda: I have my PSE3 set up so that when you open an image file (as in an email attachment) it opens in Editor rather than Organizer. That way it forces you to save it, if you want to keep it, in a permanent location and gives you the choice of putting it in Organizer or not. I find this way works well for me (particular since I get a lot of email images that I really don't want to keep around ;) ).

Tony

[Gilda_Rhodes@cox.net]

Thanks so much Joe and Tony - it was a temporary file - I went back to the email and saved it in "my pictures". Everything is fine now. Tony, I will look into changing setting so that the Editor opens up as you suggested. So great to have help that gets you over the tough spots. I have so much to learn but am having a great time!!

[Pauline]

Gilda, you might prefer to just save the pictures that you want to my pictures and have the organizer look for new pictures in that location. If you chose elements to open every time time you have some kind of picture in your e-mail it gets pretty annoying. Mine was first set up that way and even some little gif attached to an e-mail would open up the editor. It was a big pain and slow process.

I don't always want to save pictures that are e-mailed to me so it's safer to pick the ones I want to save, and right click and chose save. Otherwise, all those joke pictures etc., would end up in my organizer!

[Gilda_Rhodes@cox.net]

Paulinie: That's an excellent point. I will see if I can figure out how to set it up that way.

Thanks.

gilda

[Pauline]

I just have pictures from e-mail open in the regular viewer that comes with XP. Wish I could tell you how I set it up but someone helped me way back when and I don't remember. It's probably something to do with preferences? :confused:

[TonyW]

That makes sense Pauline - what I'd really like is to be able to right click and select what to open it with. I can do that in Windows Explorer but I can't do it in Outlook Express that I use as my email program. I just get one option which is open and because I have jpg files associated with PSE3 editor that's what opens. Maybe it's time for another email program that would let me select what program to open attached files with. Be interested to hear what others are doing.

[Pauline]

Tony, that would be an excellent idea. Opening everything in elements is way to slow, and unless you are planning on doing something with the picture at the time, what is the point?

There is a way to set it up so that your jpg are recognized by elements, but everything is opened with your regular windows viewer. I think Mike probably is the one that helped me do it, and he doesn't seem to be around right now. I'm really not good at giving advice on that kind of stuff!

[TonyW]

I think I've got it :) . I now have email images opening in Window Picture and Fax viewer but if I then click on the edit icon or hit Ctrl-E it closes and opens the image file in PSE3 Editor - or I can right click on it and open it with other image editors that I have like Painter Essentials, Irfanview, MS Office Picture Manager. I think I might like this set up better. Thanks Pauline :)

Tony

[Pauline]

Your welcome Tony. Makes like much easier. Especially if you get a lot of useless pictures sent to you through e-mail.

[willpresley]

Method 1: Go to Editor choose File File Association and uncheck JPG that will stop PSE from opening every time you get a JPEG file.

Method 2: Locate a JPEG file and Right Click (Windows) and choose open with and then select the program you want to open JPEGs with and click on the ALWAYS OPEN WITH and this will tell windows what program to use when such a file is selected.