How to Serialize Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements using Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) Tool

Serialize Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements with a serial number using the Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) tool.

Applicable products

  • Photoshop Elements Version 2022 Win and Mac
  • Premiere Elements Version 2022 Win and Mac
  • Photoshop Elements Version 2021 Win and Mac
  • Premiere Elements Version 2021 Win and Mac
  • Photoshop Elements Version 2020 Mac (macOS 10.15 and above)
  • Premiere Elements Version 2020 Mac (macOS 10.15 and above)

Steps

Follow the steps below to serialize Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements with a different serial number using the APTEE tool (Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition):

  1. Download the APTEE tool:

    Windows

    Download the zip file and extract the Adobe_Provisioning_Toolkit_10_0_ALL.exe file.

    Mac

    Download the zip file and extract the Adobe_Provisioning_Toolkit_10_0_ALL.dmg file.

  2. Copy the file dispatchable.xml from the below locations:

    Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements 2021

    Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements 2020

    Win : <InstallLocation>\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2021\CustomHook\dispatchtable.xml

    Mac: <InstallLocation>/Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021/Support Files/AMT/CustomHook/dispatchtable.xml

    Mac: <InstallLocation>/Adobe Elements 2020/Organizer.app/Contents/Required/dispatchtable.xml

  3. Place dispatchable.xml in parallel to adobe_prtk as in the screenshot.

    PRTK tool on Windows

    For Mac, extract the contents of the downloaded PRTK folder and copy the adobe_prtk application in a separate folder. Place the XML file in the same folder.

    PRTK tool on macOS

  4. Open the Command Prompt (Win) or Terminal (Mac) as Administrator, and navigate to the location of the PRTK tool.

  5. Run the following command with administrative privileges in Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Mac):

    Win: adobe_prtk.exe --tool=Serialize --leid=<LEID> --serial=<Serial Number> --regsuppress=ss

    PRTK tool on Windows

    macOS:  Sudo adobe_prtk.exe --tool=Serialize --leid=<LEID> --serial=<Serial Number> --regsuppress=ss

    PRTK tool on macOS

  6. This will serialize the product and will not ask for Sign-in on the launch of Editors, and on looking into the Help menu, the user ID will be displayed as xyz@adobe.com.

Note:

The return code for this command may be 0 or 29. Return Code 0 indicates license activated successfully.

Applicable products

  • Photoshop Elements Version 2020 Win
  • Premiere Elements Version 2020 Win
  • Photoshop Elements Version 2020 Mac (macOS Version 10.14 and below)
  • Premiere Elements Version 2020 Mac (macOS Version 10.14 and below)

Steps

Follow the steps below to serialize Elements with a different serial number using the APTEE tool (Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition):

  1. Download the APTEE tool:

    Windows

    Download the zip file and extract the Adobe_Provisioning_Toolkit_10_0_ALL.exe file.

    Mac

    Download the zip file and extract the Adobe_Provisioning_Toolkit_10_0_ALL.dmg file.

  2. Open the Command Prompt (Win) or Terminal (Mac) as Administrator, and navigate to the location of the PRTK tool.

  3. Run the following command with administrative privileges in Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Mac):

    Win: adobe_prtk.exe --tool=Serialize --leid=<LEID> --serial=<Serial Number> --regsuppress=ss

    PRTK tool on Windows

    macOS:  Sudo adobe_prtk.exe --tool=Serialize --leid=<LEID> --serial=<Serial Number> --regsuppress=ss

    PRTK tool on macOS

  4. This will serialize the product and will not ask for sign-in on the launch of Editors, and on looking into the Help menu, the user ID will be displayed as xyz@adobe.com.

Note:

The return code for this command may be 0 or 29. Return Code 0 indicates license activated successfully.

Elements licensing identifiers (LEIDs)

Product

macOS LEIDS

Windows LEIDS

Photoshop Elements 2020

V7{}PhotoshopElements-2020-Mac-GM

V7{}PhotoshopElements-2020-Win-GM

Premiere Elements 2020

V7{}PremiereElements-2020-Mac-GM

V7{}PremiereElements-2020-Win-GM

Photoshop Elements 2021

V7{}PhotoshopElements-2021-Mac-GM

V7{}PhotoshopElements-2021-Win-GM

Premiere Elements 2021

V7{}PremiereElements-2021-Mac-GM

V7{}PremiereElements-2021-Win-GM

Photoshop Elements 2022

V7{}PhotoshopElements-2022-Mac-GM

V7{}PhotoshopElements-2022-Win-GM

Premiere Elements 2022

V7{}PremiereElements-2022-Mac-GM

V7{}PremiereElements-2022-Win-GM

 

For more information, see Licensing identifiers (LEID).

How to Suppress EULA after serializing the applications using the above-mentioned steps.

The above steps will serialize the product and will not ask for Sign-in or a Serial Number on launch of Editor, but if a user launch Elements organizer, then EULA will be displayed.

In case admin has accepted the end-user license agreement (EULA) on behalf of his organization so that end users do not have to perform that task, please use following command to suppress end-user license agreement (EULA) in EO after serializing the products using the above Commands.

Command:

Windows: “adobe_prtk --tool=EULA --leid=<LEID for EO> --eulasuppress

Mac: “Sudo adobe_prtk --tool=EULA --leid=<LEID for EO> --eulasuppress

Product

macOS LEID

Windows LEID

Elements Organizer 2020

V7{}ElementsOrganizer-2020-Mac-GM

V7{}ElementsOrganizer-2020-Win-GM

Elements Organizer 2021

V7{}ElementsOrganizer-2021-Mac-GM

V7{}ElementsOrganizer-2021-Win-GM

Elements Organizer 2022

V7{}ElementsOrganizer-2022-Mac-GM

V7{}ElementsOrganizer-2022-Win-GM

For more information, see Licensing identifiers (LEID).

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