Tuesday, November 25, 2008

adobe.photoshop.macintosh - 25 new messages in 5 topics - digest

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Today's topics:

* CS4 :: Compelling Reasons to Upgrade (or Not) - 21 messages, 6 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/a9b65f2a7b32f3cc?hl=en
* can't check "Open Using Rosetta" - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/0ae7d25584b41f27?hl=en
* Commercial software to make replacing sky easier? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/3dfda7545dd168bd?hl=en
* Saving Large files 2+GB ? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/4ba1ad982db3d1fd?hl=en
* customize warp transformation - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/ebbca1504d491f9b?hl=en

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TOPIC: CS4 :: Compelling Reasons to Upgrade (or Not)
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/a9b65f2a7b32f3cc?hl=en
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== 1 of 21 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 20 2008 10:04 am
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


Addendum: If Adobe was to provide the kind of discounting that brick-and-mortar
retailers across the US are making available…


Where can one get these discounts. We are fixing up a room for client meetings. Unfortunately I'm not seeing big discounts with the supplies I've been purchasing.


== 2 of 21 ==
Date: Sat, Nov 22 2008 8:48 am
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


Only if you have prefs set up that way. Uncheck the "Require the Command
key ..." under the Label preferences.


I went over and over the preferences and never saw that. Thank you Phil.

The keyboard shortcuts I have most trouble with when bouncing between
LR and Bridge is "R" and "N'. (In LR, R brings up the cropping tool and
N brings up spotting tools - in Bridge, it's C and B ) Not a huge deal
but I wish there was a little more coherence.


I wish there was more coherence too. It always baffles me when upgrade after upgrade comes out with more and more elaborate features, which granted are often very wonderful, but leaving so many of us continually just hoping for the simple changes that would help with day to day workflow.


== 3 of 21 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 24 2008 11:17 am
From: Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com


The Opera issue has been discussed an awful lot lately in the Bridge forum. I would have thought you knew about it already.


== 4 of 21 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 21 2008 10:53 am
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


I just realized I had not assigned my Scratch Drive to PSCS4. That may also help to improve performance.


== 5 of 21 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 21 2008 9:47 pm
From: Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com


choose Help > Improvement Program Options


There's no such thing in my setup.

[EDIT: For good reason. :) I'm still using Acrobat 7.0.9. This silliness does not apply if you just have Photoshop 11 stand alone.]

From the link provided above:

Which products support the Adobe Product Improvement Program?

The Acrobat 9 product line is the first set of Adobe products to support
this new program. However, Adobe expects to include support for this program
in future versions of additional products.

== 6 of 21 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 24 2008 6:23 pm
From: Cindy@adobeforums.com


Follow-up:

Linda, sorry to disappoint but IE finds things that Opera does not. I am having more problems with things that work on every browser except IE 7. Viewing on that latest version is a must.

My PC is located across the room. :( I did not start having problems until IE 7 came out and thanks to a customer who kept seeing things that I didn't I had to get a PC (I got it for free since I refuse to actually buy a PC) that would boot the latest versions of IE. No way around it.


== 7 of 21 ==
Date: Sat, Nov 22 2008 5:52 pm
From: Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com


BTW the job ticket concept is really great could work with or without version cue.

You create a ticket an tell the application the current project is going in the ticket and all associated files from any application adobe or not. It then places any item you use in the ticket unless you say no. I t never moves anything to a location it remains where it is unless you tell it to collect the ticket in one new location.

Someone on the Bridge teams seems to think this is competing with what the bridge does.

when it is only a link.

Imagine telling the welcome screen to show the ticket it brings the bridge as a side panel to the front of the open applications frame and everything in the ticket is displayed, folders files links fonts etc. Regardless of where they physically reside. They could be on ten different disks and twenty folders.

The welcome screen is where you want this but someone got frightened and doesn't want it to compete with the bridge.

It would have been great. Too bad.


== 8 of 21 ==
Date: Sun, Nov 23 2008 1:46 am
From: Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com


macman they can work together though lightroom I agree is in this respect more powerful then PS.

Lightroom is still about managing and processing images.

If you also do design work in conjunction with photography as she does then you have to go to PS and that would often mean using the Bridge to get you back to where you were they are not the same thing as people seem to think.

And i think but am not sure that Linda users lightroom more then photoshop these days.

Which makes sense.


== 9 of 21 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 24 2008 3:49 pm
From: Cindy@adobeforums.com


Ok, here is the dumb question: why does Bridge need it?

I don't suppose it matters. :)


== 10 of 21 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 20 2008 12:59 pm
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


The whole computer went bonkers. I finally had to turn it off with the button.

Added note: All this happened after installing the entire suite today. I did run permissions. Will probably do some more utilities.

The slowdown almost seemed as if someone were accessing my computer.


== 11 of 21 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 21 2008 7:00 am
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


Run DiskWarrior after installing the CS4 Suite because it is a massive
and complex installation.


Hi Ann,

I ran DW this morning and it seemed to fix some things. I'll let you know how it goes.

Maybe I'm a little paranoid, but at times my computer feel sluggish overall, as if it were being shared. I checked file sharing and it's turned off. But this reminds me of the days when I had to use a shared server.

I wonder if there is a way to turn off the feature that allows Adobe to receive feedback from my software. Can't remember what it was called, but when I installed the software there was a notice about it in the agreement.


== 12 of 21 ==
Date: Sat, Nov 22 2008 6:10 pm
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


I didn't realize it was like a job ticket. That does sound handy. I don't get the issue of competing with Bridge either.


== 13 of 21 ==
Date: Sat, Nov 22 2008 8:32 pm
From: Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com


LRK,

Since you mention trying a bunch of stuff, have you by any chance run Preferential Treatment? It's free, fast, uncomplicated and perfectly safe. Just checks all your user and system preference files.


== 14 of 21 ==
Date: Sat, Nov 22 2008 10:09 am
From: Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com


Re Caches:

If those folders are empty, use "Easyfind" (downloadable) to do a system-wide search for an Invisible file called "BridgeStore" .

That should indicate the location of your Bridge Cache files

Apples' Search won't reveal it unless you set Cocktail to show invisible files.


== 15 of 21 ==
Date: Sun, Nov 23 2008 8:53 pm
From: Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com


Did you ever give Preferential Treatment a chance?

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22790>


== 16 of 21 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 19 2008 7:53 am
From: DYP@adobeforums.com


I am finding the Zoom behavior/bug to be quite annoying and causing more time to be used to complete most projects. I think I am going to sit this one out or at least until this is fixed.


== 17 of 21 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 18 2008 1:41 pm
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


One thing that would be nice is if when you choose "Load Files Into Stack" you can make it to where each file become a separate Smart Object automatically. I know you can automatically have the "Stack" become a SO, but not each file as it's imported.


== 18 of 21 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 19 2008 2:44 am
From: Wade_Zimmerman@adobeforums.com


Everyone really does care and spent the time tryibng to convince you to do so for a very good reason, they care!

Congratulations!

I think the rpinting will work for you as well.

And if you saw the two really beautiful and young Japanes women I justturned down so i could answer your post, you would know exactly how much I really, realy, really care.

BTW Japan is surprising friendly and a fairly easy place to get around.

Even without speaking the language. It is great that they are so visual and have photos on their menus. Also not as expensive as we are led to believe. Long flight but that is not as bad as we are lead to believe as well.

Enjoy CS 4 you will 6thank yourself for upgrading.


== 19 of 21 ==
Date: Thurs, Nov 20 2008 12:46 pm
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


There are issues with PSCS4. After working with the Free Transform tools for a while on a clients product image, I started seeing a huge slow down, then finally the SBB of death. It seems to have affected the overall performance of my G5. Matter of fact, I forced quit PSCS4 while it was in Save for Web, and it won't go away.


== 20 of 21 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 19 2008 8:38 am
From: LRK@adobeforums.com


The only gotcha I've found is that if you use two monitors and slide any
part of an image window onto the secondary screen (regardless of cursor
location), the title bar can go up under the main screen's menu bar. Not
a huge deal but somewhat annoying.


It happened to me too Phil.


== 21 of 21 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 19 2008 12:04 am
From: Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com


After having read through Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed (Paperback) by Ben Willmore <http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-CS4-Up-Speed/dp/0321580052/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225605789&sr=8-6> at least twice in its entirety and played around with the trial version, I'm on the verge of upgrading. I just need to go through two more steps, a series of printing tests and investigating ACR 5.2, which I expect to be released any day now.

Not that I presume to believe that anyone cares about whether I upgrade or not. This post is really just to report that the Willmore book exceeded my expectations. Best $17 purchase I've made all year. :) Highly recommended.

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TOPIC: can't check "Open Using Rosetta"
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/0ae7d25584b41f27?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 25 2008 8:59 am
From: Buko


Pam, instead of all that opening and closing photoshop just to scan, you should really consider using the scanners stand alone application to scan.

As you have discovered Photoshop has no ability to scan by itself. It needs a plugin to access the scanner software. For me and many others it seems silly and a waste of resources to tie up a $1000 application to use it as a scanner UI.

Another benefit of using the scanner software as a stand alone is you can keep working in Photoshop while you are scanning.

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TOPIC: Commercial software to make replacing sky easier?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/3dfda7545dd168bd?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 25 2008 9:05 am
From: J_Maloney@adobeforums.com


Is it by any chance called Tequila?


That's the "whatever you do, don't sit down" release. A classic.

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TOPIC: Saving Large files 2+GB ?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/4ba1ad982db3d1fd?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 25 2008 9:13 am
From: Paul_Cutler@adobeforums.com


It's very easy to save a .psd that is over 2 gigs - unfortunately you can't ever open it again. Buko's advice is spot on. When I see a file even getting close to 2 gigs I go to .psb.

pbc

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TOPIC: customize warp transformation
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/ebbca1504d491f9b?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Nov 25 2008 10:00 am
From: Kim_Brun@adobeforums.com


FYI - Over a year ago I suggested that the warp tool's grid be increased to a larger number of squares. This was suggested in the "feature request" thread. Didn't get it. Too bad.


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