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TOPIC: CS4 and pen pressure problem
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/1869ae0fedaaf3bf?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:03 am
From: David_D.@adobeforums.com

I was having the same issues with my Intuos 3 in CS4 but was able to get it going again.

1.Uninstall Wacom driver and disconnect tablet
2.Reboot
3.Reinstall Wacom driver (6.1.05), reconnect tablet
4.Trash Photoshop preferences by pressing ctrl-alt-shft while
starting Photoshop.

That worked for me, sensitivity is normal and consistent from stroke to stroke. Good Luck

David

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TOPIC: Photoshop CS4 (64bit) - crash at startup
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/51a1c38239221ebb?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:24 am
From: Peter_Lancaster@adobeforums.com

Ok I've spent the last few hours going through ALL my custom fonts and trying to find what was causing the problem.

I'm a guitarist also, and I discovered the culprit to be guitar pros "Guitar Pro 5.ttf" - must be a glyph problem in the font that photoshop couldn't handle (as i said before...no problems with the rest of my CS4)

now the weirdest thing is it only started happening yesterday. both programs have been installed side by side for over a month without issue. what gives?

photoshop SHOULD have a popup whenever this problem occurs (similar to illys missing font dialogue) for font exclusions if they stop it from running.

saying something like:
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"Photoshop CS4 has failed to load "name of font.ttf". Do you want to:
- Add font to exclusion list?
- uninstall the font?

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while I'm on the subject, is there a way to make the CS4 suite point at a font directory other than the default (C:\Windows\Fonts)?

as I don't ever use those fonts in MS office or any other program. with the BONUS of not loading all these fonts at startup.

/end of rant

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TOPIC: Urgent help needed with Photoshop CS3, please
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/62a7006e895a968a?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:27 am
From: Alan Birchard

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:09:38 -0700, Alan Birchard <no.e-mail@dd.ress>
wrote:

>I just finished installing Photoshop CS3 and I can't figure out how to
>"undock" the palettes on the left, right, and top of the screen, and
>also, how to change the palettes' background color from blinding,
>glaring, eye-burning white to a soothing color of my choice.
>
>Please help, and thanks!

Please, can it really be possible that nobody in this large and busy
group can spare a moment to help me with this?
--
Alan Birchard

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TOPIC: Help with scan and resize
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/6b1335170f18a2ac?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:37 am
From: yugin@adobeforums.com

Hello all,
I need a help from you experts or not. I am no guru, but after yesterday I feel kinda stupid. I was asked to do what seemed to be a simple task. I had to scan and resize. Original, physical picture is 1 1/4in X 2in. Scanned image requirements: resolution of at least 150 dpi, 600 X 600 pixels, 24 bit color, and keep it under 240 KB.
I have basic Canon scanner and CS2.
Help please.

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:18 am
From: J_Maloney@adobeforums.com

Scan at 100% size at 600 ppi. Crop the image using the crop tool (holding shift to make a square crop). Then image size and size it to 600 x 600 using bicubic sharper.

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:21 am
From: Don_McCahill@adobeforums.com

Pixel dimensions and resolution are mutually exclusive. Ignore the dpi ... it sounds like you need 600 pixels. If the image 1s 1.25 then you need to scan at 480 ppi resolution to get sufficient data for the image. As you note, you need 24 bit color.

Also ignore the 240 KB at this point. This will be a final output, and you will probably wind up with a much larger Photoshop file. You will use Save for Web later to save to a jpg, png, or gif, which will be able to be under your 240 K.

Clear?
PS> Or what J. said, while I was writing mine.

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:27 am
From: yugin@adobeforums.com

Yes, looks simple enough. Will try it when I get home.
Thanks guys.

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TOPIC: XPS M1530 - Anyone Get OpenGL Acceleration Working?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/5e690debbfac739e?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:43 am
From: DavidMCooper@adobeforums.com

I've got Photoshop CS4 up and running on my laptop, but no matter what video settings/drivers I use, I'm unable to get the harware acceleration working so Photoshop uses the video card to speed up operations. I've got the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with the latest drivers from Dell.

Anyone else get acceleration working with their XPS laptop, or 8600M video card?

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TOPIC: Quality/Smoothness of CS3 images
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/04f882ec1a81cf51?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:40 am
From: PeterK.@adobeforums.com

You'll get the banding if there's not enough steps between the first and second colour. It looks like picking two colours that are very close to each other is making a very stepped grad, and the steps are skipping by 2 RGB values per step instead of by ones. You can try fixing what you have by using a combination of adding noise and gaussian blur, but I think the better thing to try to get more steps in there would be by starting with the greater difference between two colours (very light and very dark) to create your grad , then darken down to the level you want.

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:46 am
From: J_Maloney@adobeforums.com

What's your working color space?

== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:49 am
From: Samus_Aran@adobeforums.com

I also thought the same thing peter, but I disproved this by manually making a gradient with the same exact start and end colors.

The gradient turned out perfectly smooth.

And I need my "gradients" to be very precise for the work I do, so using brighter/darker colors initially then changing them isn't really an option, changing gradient colors manually causes quality problems as well.

== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 7:55 am
From: Samus_Aran@adobeforums.com

Hmm, that's odd..

I was about to give you my color information, J Maloney (starting and ending color) and used the gradient tool again to test, and I'm not getting the low quality gradients anymore.

Honestly I'm not sure why, but it seems it's fixed itself somehow.

Thanks for the help everyone but it looks like this is 'solved' for now.

== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:07 am
From: J_Maloney@adobeforums.com

If it happens again, you might try resetting the gradient tool:
<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b51428>

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TOPIC: Easiest way to remove background from an image
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/a75bed2cafce4a27?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:41 am
From: Buko

yeah but I always work on a dupe layer so I always have the original image.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 9:16 am
From: John_Mensinger@adobeforums.com

yeah but I always work on a dupe layer so I always have the original image.

Point taken, but masking does still hold some advantages in that a mask's edges can be tuned and refined now, later, or any time using levels, blurs, brushes, etc.

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TOPIC: Problems with Photomerge in CS4
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/67e6a9bbebe994f3?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:43 am
From: topcat098@adobeforums.com

Oh dear, spoke to soon. Its back to the way it was before. Something is obviously interfering with it but I have no way of telling what.
Remember I'm 32bit.

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TOPIC: Adobe Gamma question
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/c4ab02e3c89be79b?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:54 am
From: Elise_Wormuth@adobeforums.com

I'm doing an online course at lynda.com on Photoshop CS4, and in one part they ask you to get into Adobe Gamma to do color calibration. I can't find it . . . ?? If I go into the control panel, there's no folder for Adobe Gamma. My son suggested looking at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Control Panels\, but when I get to Common Files, there's no folder in there called Control Panels.

I'm running Windows XP on an HP Pavilion Media Center computer. Any ideas?? Thanks.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 9:00 am
From: "John Joslin"

Adobe Gamma was discontinued with CS3. So unless you have CS2 still installed you're out of luck.

Are you sure that's a CS4 tutorial? They don't usually make mistakes like that!

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TOPIC: CS4 / Vista64 / HD4870 Flickering
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/f37abbad1a490ad2?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:52 am
From: David_E_Crawford@adobeforums.com

jcates,

It will just ignor it.

I was reading on the net this morning and found a artical that stated that the next 8.12 ati driver set due in December will focus mostly on the 4800 series.

No mention of opengl driver updates. We shall see.

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TOPIC: unleash Liquify plugin
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/169aee3c8ac8f938?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 8:58 am
From: "Fred"

> Hi,
>
> It was my obsession to unleash Liquify plugin.
> And finally I did it!
>
> I have asked so many times Adobe to do it - but they didn't even
> answer my e-mails.
>
> Have fun - and Liquify with no limits!
>
> RetouchOne
> http://www.retouchone.com/Liquify/LiquifyMac.zip
> http://www.retouchone.com/Liquify/LiquifyPC.zip
> ---------------------------
> How to:
> - just overwrite your oryginal plugin in Photoshop > Plug - Ins >
> Filters
> [always it is good to backup]
>
> Liquify.plugin <- Mac file
> Liquify.8BF <- PC file
>
> tested on CS3 and CS4 both Mac and PC

Works perfectly fine on CS4 PC. Thank you very much!
Fred

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 9:38 am
From: "KatWoman"

"HaHaHaHa" <info@retouchone.com> wrote in message
news:31f1817a-7426-4ea8-847d-922f934a13fd@41g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
>
>>
>> well if you don't tell us, how do we know its any better?
>
>
> Now you can use 5000px brush size instead of standard 600px.

OK that is a good reason
I saved it in case I ever need such
thanks for sharing freely

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TOPIC: CS4 GPU Acceleration and Intel X3100
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/c835a433ca595cc0?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 9:17 am
From: Anastasiy_Safari@adobeforums.com

Are there any news?

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TOPIC: COLOR issues
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/674ce81e176d509b?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 9:35 am
From: Seattle_User@adobeforums.com

Thanks all for the input. Glenn, I had run through all of your suggestions previously with no luck - pretty much the same output. The two additional odd factors I forgot to mention are:

1) These prints are especially muddy/warm on laserjet color printers, but they look much closer to reality when printed on inkjet printers.

2) Files that did not originate from 3D applications print fine to the laserjet printers out of Photoshop.

So, is it possible that Photoshop treats images exported from 3D applications differently than others?

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TOPIC: Photoshop CS4 impressions: many problems
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/09c363a4111fa878?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 10:02 am
From: Steve_Bingham@adobeforums.com

Well, with the help from Abobe on the phone, we were able to pin point my problems to a need to upgrade my video driver - which I did. Everything WORKS FINE NOW.

Now for the missing Index. In CS3 I was simply able to hit the Help pull down menu, and go to a sortable alphabetical Index. This almost always solved my problems. Now it seems this wonderful feature is gone, and replaced with a 700 page non-sortable PDF file that you are free to print - all 704 pages of it. I had already discovered your link above - but, again, it has NO INDEX (that I can find). Try searching for something specific and it soon becomes very tiresome!

We we have a CS3 style Help sometime in the future?

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TOPIC: Photoshop CS4 - new report, old problems
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/0de2ff27b8372650?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Nov 26 2008 10:14 am
From: Pickman@adobeforums.com

Hi there,

although i have posted many of the following problems in another thread, i will recall them here, because the other thread has gone slighty off-topic.

I have been "using" Photoshop CS4 that came as part of my Production Suite Premium Package für as long as it is out now and i have to say, that for me it is the worst release ever.

I work with Photoshop since Version 3 and every new release has had it's flaws that were fixed after a while. So i really hope this might also be the case with CS4.

So here are my System Specs again:

Intel Dualcore E8600
NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GX2 (Driver: 180.48)
MSI P35 Neo-2 Motherboard (Bios: 1.90)
3 GB RAM
Wacom Intuos 3 A4 (Driver: pro610-5)
Windows XP (Service Pack 3)

The System is brandnew, the Windows-Installation is fresh, before the CS4 Suite there has not been another Adobe-Programm on the machine.

While I am quiet happy with the other programs (Illustrator, Flash, After Effects..eben Bridge is starting to become useful), Photoshop CS4 shows several glitches and problems on my system. These are:

- If activated, the GPU-OpenGL setting deactivates randomly. There's no obvious reason for this, just in the middle of work, the rotate canvas-tool is no longer available, zooming is no longer smooth. While the box in the preferences is still checked for OpenGL and my graphics-card is recognized correctly, OpenGL features just stop working. After I close and restart Photoshop everything is normal again, until the next time settings are deactivated.

I am so far not able to trace the reason for this behaviour, seems to happen quiet random.

- No "marching ants". In the same matter, the "marching ants" of selections sometimes disappear. While this is not a big problem I think i should note it here for reasons of being accurate.

- Brushtool stops working. I have this quiet a lot. While I paint, the Brush suddenly stops working completely. It produces neither strokes nor blotches anymore. In some cases hefty drawing can result in some strange straight lines but the brushtool can only be revived by restarting Photoshop.

- Crashes. I truly honestly haven't had a crash with CS2 and CS3 ONCE. With CS4 crashes seem to be quiet normal at this point. The application simply freezes, mostly while using the transformationtool. Killing it via the windows taskmanager is the only option.

- Slow redraw. All the above mentioned problems did occur with OpenGL enabled AND disabled. It really makes no difference. So deactivating this new thing doesn't convert Photoshop back into something useful, but into a slower version of CS3. Redraw of images is considerably slower on CS4 without OpenGL, than it was on CS3, although it gets better after some time working with it. Moving a maximized Image around feels very strange, because the buildup of the tiles is somehow slow and sluggish.

While these are the really bad things about the new version (on my system that is, I heard from Mac-Users who are quiet happy with PS CS4 and keep telling me how fast it is on a Mac.....) there are other things, that i don't understand. I recon, photoshop cs4 is first of all a mac-product and the PC-Version is somehow adapted or converted.

Proof of this for me is the new window behaviour. Windows steeling focus and blocking sight on palettes is new for a long time PC-User like me. I also don't understand, why maximizing an image does fill the complete screen thus exterminating any palettes and menus is of any use? In former versions, the window was maximized INSIDE the application. But so be it, i could live with that if the other things were functional.

Today the annoyances were so great, that i consider reverting back to Photoshop CS3.

My question is: Is there a way to safely install Photoshoo CS3 parallel to my CS4 Suite? Or do I have to deinstall anything first? How will the additional installation of CS3 affect File-assosiations?

I really would like to like Photo

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