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TOPIC: Photoshop CS4 Extended Trial - Available yet?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/9f54f165b206ffdd?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:07 am
From: Pix.@adobeforums.com

Dear Mr Phosfour dots, if you think you are too smart to reply a stupid question, why don't you skip it all together huh, since your free, voluntary time is so precious.

People are so arrogant in anonymous forums, they are really becoming unbearable.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:40 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

Talk to me when you've been at it for 10 years or so.

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TOPIC: Photoshop CS4 is a disaster
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/e9e63cd766f5577f?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:18 am
From: PECourtejoie@adobeforums.com

Pro Artist, "Latest" is almost meaningless, please state the exact version, maybe also the firmware version of your videocard.
Some other users reported a big bost when updating directX, don't know if it is related.

Please give all info that Adam requests.

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:39 am
From: "John Joslin"

Adam/Chris

Another factor in some aspects of the lag may be file size and number of layers. I know some users use huge files and dozens (or hundreds) of layers.

I know some symptoms of the lag also occur independently of these factors but everything needs to be taken into account.

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 3:37 am
From: Mike_Delivre@adobeforums.com

Not using tablet on my MSI m670.Never had troubles with CS3, but in ver4 met:

1) slow working
2) already mentioned, brush round disappears, leaving small part - no way to define where you're painting >(
3) in PNG "Save for web" dither and color masks disappeared
4) interface got worse and tabs names take more space, and there's no way (tick) to stop menus from hiding some

Btw, InDesign isn't better also ;)
God bless I've tried the trial first. Will be looking for CS3 again.

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 6:24 am
From: "Rick Moore"

No tablet here.
Adam, have you guys not been able to reproduce the lag at Adobe?

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TOPIC: Best way divide a circle
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/9f2e9251238ca9dc?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:24 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

Sure, George, but it's kind of a PITA if you're used to working with Illustrator's vector tools and functions.

(For me, anyway)

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TOPIC: Catastrophic User Interface error in ps11, screenshot included
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/c3a94bcd46a6ab44?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:27 am
From: PECourtejoie@adobeforums.com

Chris, I remember fiddling with themes some time ago, I was just disturbed by the colors of the icons, not by menus readability, but it was pre-CS4. I remember seeing odd stuff on windows with windows classic mode. (drop down menus too white) in CS3. XP theme always seemed more "solid", but not as customisable as Classic (I get smaller windows frames, and less disturbing colors)

Acro, could you go step by step, from the default XP theme, and try to explain when the menu "fails"? There is nothing custom in your install (no Powertoys, windows blinds, etc?)
Can you confirm that you had similar issues with previous versions?
Did you try on another machine, to confim that the bug is not in your windows install?

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TOPIC: Reading Preferences taking forever
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/b2e823fae7ac45ed?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:43 am
From: "John Joslin"

Resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.

<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef4a07f/1>

You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.

This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.

A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.

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TOPIC: Can't read 4GB memory
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/a949a0b68521864b?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:52 am
From: chungmx5@adobeforums.com

My computer is installed 4GB ram, it's running on Windows XP pro SP3(32bit version, My computer properties show 3GB physical memory). However, in the photoshop memory usage(Edit>>preference>>performance) show available RAM is 1678MB only.

What's problem occur? How can I using more memory?

Thanks a lot.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:09 am
From: Mylenium@adobeforums.com

Please check the Microsoft knowledge base on how to set the /3GB switch in your boot.ini. Once done, PS and all other Adobe apps should be able to use up to 3GB on XP.

Mylenium

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TOPIC: can not install Adobe Creative Suite Premium (2003) on Vista!
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/113ad670df2972c7?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:53 am
From: Lenz_Schneider@adobeforums.com

I have buyed a new dell desktop with vista on it and when I tried to install ACSP and after I have entered the serial the installation just stopped. Is that version maybe too old?

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:14 am
From: Mylenium@adobeforums.com

Possible. Anything pre-CS3 has never been officially tested on Vista, so there's no guarantees. Quite likely that it will be stopped by some security mechanisms or the inability to install some of the required services.... Are you at least properly running as administrator? During install, you may also wish to turn of DEP and UAC and allow your system to install unsigned drivers and apps. Maybe that improves matters.

Mylenium

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 12:47 pm
From: Bob Levine

What version of the suite do you have? CS or CS2? And what version of
Vista? What are the system specs?

Bob

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TOPIC: Photoshop CS4 file saving problem...
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/24a7e110d3230473?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:07 am
From: Allen_W@adobeforums.com

this is bad since people who aren't aware of this have a false sense of saving their file and it may end up taking up extra hard drive space when users resave it to the proper location

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 2:45 am
From: "John Joslin"

The lesser of two evils?

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 3:34 am
From: Allen_W@adobeforums.com

i liked it back when the default file name was 'untitled.xxx', lets us save a quick file when we want to rename it later

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TOPIC: CS4: Image blurry at arbitrary zoom levels
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/c9202e579633504b?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 1:25 am
From: CR_Henderson@adobeforums.com

CR Henderson:nVidia 9800 GTX+ with 178.24 drivers

Just updated to latest beta drivers, 180.43, same problem.

If you haven't already you should submit a bug report to <http://www.adobe.com/go/wish>

Heard back from Adobe. Someone is looking into the problem. I pointed him to this thread.

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TOPIC: Message - Can't open a Scratch File & Photoshop CS4 Won't load
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/7cb0eb95416740c5?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 2:47 am
From: Freeagent@adobeforums.com

Lots of people seem to have problems with RAID 5. Is that the one you're assigning as scratch? What about the other raptor?

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TOPIC: CS4 lag. What graphic card will it take?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/4eea63c573b83340?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 2:55 am
From: Freeagent@adobeforums.com

Dave,

they weren't mine

Completely irrelevant. The context was perfect, the timing perfect. That takes the twisted mind of a true Artiste. I don't care where they came from. Give us more!

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TOPIC: Photoshop wont install
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/4d5f8d45715581a9?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 5:02 am
From: dave_milbut@adobeforums.com

Using the new CS3Clean Script
<http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402767&sliceId=2>

make sure to read and execute the full article before running the clean script!

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TOPIC: Completely remove all traces of Photoshop CS3 Extended
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/e1e42469cf92e367?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 5:36 am
From: Martyn_Burton@adobeforums.com

Thank you, i will try this.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 6:18 am
From: dave_milbut@adobeforums.com

and i can't emphasize enough, READ THOSE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST!!! :)

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TOPIC: "blend if" inside groups (or smart objects)
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/a2c3da84d19cfb71?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 6:02 am
From: Mark_J_Peterson@adobeforums.com

Hi. I think, I've spotted some interesting things.

This is where I started off:

Then I took this paper texture:

Now, I resized it to fit the background notepad and made several identical copies of the texture layer, their only difference being different values for "blend if underlying layer", so that the texture smoothly ends with the underlying notepad on each side (as there are luminosity differences both on the notepad and the notepad's background).

That looks fine for "normal blending" (don't worry about the messy bottom, it will be cropped when everything's done). But I actually need the texture to be multiplied with the background layer. Obviously setting each layer to multiply isn't going to cut it because they would multiply each other, too. So I need to either put all the layers into a smart object (option 1) or – option 2, which I'll resort to here – put all layers into a group set to multiply, since this way all of the layers in the group are put together first and the composite group is then treated as a single image and blended with the rest of the image, using multiply.

But look at the – unexpected – results:

... whereas I rather expected the result to look like this (I only roughly masked the edges for demonstration purposes):

To me it seems, as if putting the group would nullify the "blend if underlying layer" settings for each layer. Besides, the same happens if I use a smart object instead of the group (option 1). I don't see why this should happen at all.

So my questions: Is this behaviour deliberate? And if so, can somebody explain ? And can somebody suggest a solution to get to the last screenshot (without masking manually obviously) ?

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TOPIC: One for the Books!
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/browse_thread/thread/b8470a35ca998d24?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Nov 7 2008 6:14 am
From: Lawrence_Hudetz@adobeforums.com

The drive is a dedicated drive, so it is wiped clean at each PS exit. I could understand a drive problem if i was seeing that the drive actually was used during Smart sharpen, but it wasn't.

I'm not complaining, mind you, but I want to know why, so as to be able to go back to this condition should it revert to the slower one.

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