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Answer» Hi all, ... I purchased "Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 plus Photoshop Album 2.0" back in like, 2004 for $130 from Best BUY when I bought my XP machine new. At that time, our phones weren't capable of taking decent photos, if at all. Lol. So, I bought a digital camera with a memory card. As the memory card would fill up, I'd d/load the photos in to Adobe Photoshop Album completely ignorant to the fact that Adobe uses their own extension for stored photos. FAST forward 15 years, now I have a Win 10 machine and thousands of photos I can only view one at a time clicking on its DATE code. No page of 25 to 50 small pictures to pick from. My question here is this, is there a program to possibly convert these photos to .jpg or, something similar? I don't feel like paying nearly $200 for a current version of Photoshop, if it is even available just to find out it won't convert them anyway. The good news is this, I still have the XP machine, it booted up last time I set it up and all the photos were in tact on there. I did also, put them all on a flash drive to try and view them on a Win10 machine out at my daughters place. Well, that didn't work! What file FORMAT are the files in Photoshop Album 2.0? Will the program install on Windows 10, perhaps in a compatibility mode? If so, maybe it gives the option of exporting the album files as jpegs. If the program won't install on W.10, ANOTHER approach might be to install it on your XP computer (if it still works) and see if it has that option.
Irfanview has a function for converting a batch of files from one format to another, so this might be another avenue to explore. It is capable of opening .PSA, .PSD and many other file formats.
Irfanview Home Page
Irfanview file formats
If you are able to convert the files by one of the above ways, It would then be possible to look at the thumbnails of photos in Windows 10's File Explorer or view them as original photos in the W.10 photo viewer.
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