How To Download Old Versions of Photoshop Elements

Hi Greg,Apologies for the late reply to your own quick reaction to my post, due to a combination of circumstances: an ongoing problem with an elderly cat (20+) who appears near death every day but is still around, an unexpected visit from a second cousin not seen for over ten years and, yesterday, the funeral of my ex-partner in England (I’m French and now live in France). No, I’m not a fantasist even though it sounds like it, as indeed does my story about PS Elements.

There was only one problem: suddenly it saved (or didn’t save) changes to a file not in the Jpeg format, but a different one which I couldn’t open. This started a couple of months ago, around the same time as we were told about the new PSE with a three-year license. It happened several times so, for a while, I made to with the ACDC edit function (normally I only use ACDC as an organiser). The other day I thought I’d have a look at downloading a “new version” of the old PSE 7 in case it might work better, came across the forum and fired off my question without checking my existing PSE 7. This I did after receiving your reply and, much to my astonishment, it worked and it saves normally again. So I’m sorry as I appear to have wasted your time.However, being an old cynic, I’m wondering whether Adobe didn’t mess around with older programmes as it appears other users have been experiencing problems, before realising they were acting against their best interests. Anything’s possible! Anyway, the main thing is that I can use my good old V.7 again so all is well. As an old-school photographer with over 50 years’ experience, I don’t need any automation to tell me how to compose or crop a picture, which I can do, dare I say, with my eyes closed! In fact, I find that automation really gets in the way of what I want to do, including in non-photographic activities. Sadly, all this automation is turning the younger population into dummies, including for writing as they rely entirely on spell checkers. I prefer to use my brain and, please note: I will never buy a programme that’s only available on subscription.

Anyway, thanks for your help and good luck with “apps for dummies”.

Odile