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TOPIC: new member - old user ? about CS3
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/6826106001fea5db?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:29 am
From: Richard_Cavataio@adobeforums.com

I'll go ahead and call, just for the peace of mind. But it did SOMETHING to gain internet access, and I don't think I've registered it yet. And don't worry, that WILL happen. I always register my products. I even registered my bikes when I was a kid, but they got stolen anyway, and the police did nothing. Oh well. It's just one of those many life lessons that teach you a few things...like carry a gun.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:51 am
From: Richard_Cavataio@adobeforums.com

I haven't had much time to actually sit down and look at all the features, but I could have used the vanishing point before Christmas when I was trying to copy, skew, and line up patterns to make Christmas presents for my Christmas cards.

I still haven't figured out what the color replacement brush does, but I'll get it. Something tells me that it would be easier for me to use the same method as usual, by inverting an adjustment layer and coloring in the area I want to color, or hue or saturate.

The filters window is the best feature, so far, but, I haven't really played with it.

I've been looking for tuts (that's not a typo), but I don't have the patience to sit through a video. What ever happened to the simple step by step written tuts that you can skip through the steps you already know?

Any helpful links for written tuts will be helpful to me. Or, a link TO a page of links.

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TOPIC: Screen turns bluish on shutdown Asus ee pc running through an Aspire
5670 monitor
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/c2025da6690b072a?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:36 am
From: Lawrence_Hudetz@adobeforums.com

Geoff asked the question I want to know.

The fact that it turns bluer during shutdown suggests to me that the profile is running during photoshop, but not otherwise. I would look into the driver for the video and see how it is set up. At one time, I had similar problems with a crt, but it turned out I had the video card reconfigured to "help" with adjusting the contrast range. It made no difference in PS but as soon as I came out of PS, the color balance changed. In fact, I had two profiles. By eliminating all intervention by the video card setup (everything set to defaults), the problem went away.

Talk to the fellow doing your recal, which, btw, you can do it yourself and save a bundle.

Also, 2 to 4 week recal cycle isn't a bad idea.

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TOPIC: wanted: tile effect tutorial
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/aac628c07c051e0d?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:43 am
From: Danny_Raphael@adobeforums.com

Google: "trimoon" "impressionist plugin"

This Windows-only plugin can render this effect, including the random darker toned squares. I just did it using a custom preset I created.

If you're interested, download and install the plugin and then send me an e-mail (click my name above). I will reply with the custom setting file (.set) attached.

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TOPIC: PS CS3: "could not complete your request because of a program error"
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/cd6bf9b6a2a4e947?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:47 am
From: Ian_M_Butterfield@adobeforums.com

Hi,
I am using Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP Pro (Upgraded from PS v7.0 a few months ago) on about 10% of my images I'm getting an the error:

"could not complete your request because of a program error"

when trying to save the file after doing changes to it. Oddly enough I do NOT get the error when doing "Save As" even after the recieving the error on a save. Nor do I get the error if I open one of the affected files in PS v7.

I believe from searching on line that the problem is "something to do" with the format of the metadata in the images. I am not sure exactly what, nor am I sure why it only affects about 10% of my images - all of which have been processed, captioned and keyworded the same way. However it is noticable that I cannot open "File info" dialog box in PS CS3 for any image that won't save. The error given is: "Could not complete the File Info command because of a problem with the File Info module"

Oddly, I CAN open the same File Info dialog box in Bridge CS3, I can change metadata via Bridge but then even after doing that the problems still exist when the image is opened in Photoshop.

At the moment, the ONLY work round I have is for each effected image, open it, do a "save as" - to save it under a different name delete the original image and then rename the image back to it's original name to ensure that my DAM can still locate the image.

I am a professional photographer with over 25,000 PSD files. As you can imagine it is impractical to manually open every image to see is affected. Can anyone think on any automated method to locate which images have the problem?

Does anyone have a fix to this problem? The workround above has one MAJOR drawback. Like most/all DAM users I locate and open my images from within my DAM (IMatch in my case). If I use the save-as/delete/rename method while the DAM is open I lose the data records associated with the image in the DAM. (The data is lost when the original image is deleted).

Any help would be appreciated. This is becoming a MAJOR problem for me.
Thanks,
Ian M Butterfield
www.imb.biz

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:50 am
From: Bob Levine

Search for psicon.dll and rename it to psicon.dll.old.

Bob

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:46 am
From: Ian_M_Butterfield@adobeforums.com

Bob,
Thanks for the suggestion. Renaming psicon.dll didn't make any difference at all. I even tried rebooting the machine afterwards to ensure the dll was still registered in memory.

Anyone got any other suggestions....?

Thanks,
Ian.

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TOPIC: Screen capture to poster
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/6717373eb13d5038?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:49 am
From: "John Joslin"

Even the Snipping tool (which is pretty good) is missing the capture of fly-out menus (which tend to fly back in).

I use SnagIt from <http://www.techsmith.com/> for the tricky bits.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:55 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

And OS X native screengrabs omit cursors. I have a GIF file with them all assembled, ready for copy/pasting when need be.

It comes in handy.
<http://home.comcast.net/~phoz/bbs/PSicons.gif>

But it DOES grab flyouts:
<http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1OG8TEFlS0OcSIsmNSkKu44t5MHG>

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TOPIC: To know some new things
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/42b17ed97038c357?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 6:59 am
From: Sarah_Lam@adobeforums.com

That is a really useful utility.

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TOPIC: Font in File Info dialog
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/d3784ebf86777bf3?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:10 am
From: Kevin_Ebi@adobeforums.com

Here's a screenshot:

<http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=11lr7U0XFQWvUJNwnOxLWlckO9U20>

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TOPIC: Scale an image to actual size?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/e92a8b1d7fc60eae?hl=en
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== 1 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:11 am
From: Nigel_Mercier@adobeforums.com

I often use the Crop Tool to get part of an image to print at actual size.
For example, Crop: Width 7cm @ Resolution 600 pixels/inch (same as my
printer), then select a known width of 7cm then crop and print.

I figure there must be a way without actually cropping the image, perhaps by selecting the known dimension.

I could do the math myself, but I figure Photoshop CS4 can do it for me.

Any suggestions?

== 2 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:47 am
From: "John Joslin"

What sort of printer is requiring 600ppi?

== 3 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:56 am
From: Bob Levine

If your printer is 600 dpi you can save those images as 150 ppi and be
fine. You're confusing printer resolution (DPI) with image resolution (PPI).

Bob

== 4 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 8:40 am
From: Nigel_Mercier@adobeforums.com

Perhaps I didn't explain properly.

I have an image which is an arbitrary number of pixels wide. In the image is an object of know size, say a coin. I wish to print this image at 600dpi (no, I'm not confused) such that the coin comes out life-size, and the rest of the image is at this same scale.

Any clearer?

== 5 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 8:47 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

<http://www.scantips.com>

Bookmark it first, then scroll down and start reading at *Start

This isn't the lazy answer, it's the smart answer that will pay off the best for you in the long run.

== 6 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 8:49 am
From: "John Joslin"

Nope. It sounds as if you haven't grasped the relationship between pixel dimensions, linear dimensions and resolution.

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TOPIC: batch saving RAW files
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/db87a073db1b35d1?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:21 am
From: Richard_R._Chalmers@adobeforums.com

Nevermind. I figured it out. Thanks....

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TOPIC: Issues with text boxes in CS4
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/8b4646ae60eda7ae?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:25 am
From: Rachel_Lehman@adobeforums.com

I've been experiencing a problem in PhotoShop CS4 in Vista where a text box will suddenly become much larger than it needs to be. Usually the text box will keep the original width I created it at, but will become extremely tall and the bottom will extend several inches below the actual image area.

This makes editing and moving text annoyingly difficult. It seems to happen after a text layer is copied/duplicated or moved to another document.
The document I'm working with was originally a Fireworks document, but it seems to happen even with text that was originally created in PhotoShop.

I haven't been able to find any other info on this, has anyone else seen this?

Thanks.

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TOPIC: DCS EPS problem
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/4b3a3b5e0be2e2bc?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:38 am
From: "Iain Robinson"

Hi all

We have been asked to convert a series of RGB images into a black plus blue spot image and I immediately thought that a multichannel file was the way to go. I got a sample file and created a multichannel image easily enough, saved it as a DCS 2 composite file and when I drop it into ID or QXP the file is hi-res black + spot blue. Knowing what a PITA DCS files are I suggested that we get the file tested by the typesetter. They use the 3B2 typesetting system and when they import the EPS and create a PDF all that comes out is the 72dpi RGB preview.

Any idea what I can do to get a hi-res 2col file out of 3B2? I had a demo of DCS Merger kicking around from when we used to use DCS files here and I've made a file using that for them to try but wondered if there was anyone here who had first-hand experience of such things who could suggest something I could do just using Photoshop (CS3).

Using duotones won't do as I need total control over what part of the image appears in what colour (it is a series of brain scans with blobs overlayed, which are to be in the spot blue.

Any help gratefully recieved.
Iain

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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:55 am
From: Bob Levine

What is the ultimate use of these files? If they're going to be used in
a modern (read that as InDesign based) then just save the files as PSD
and be done with it.

Bob

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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 8:06 am
From: "Iain Robinson"

Hi Bob

Unfortunately, they will be imported into the 3B2 typesetting system and exported out as PDF files for us to print. Such typesetting systems don't support fancy stuff like, for example, alpha channels (to my knowledge, I'm sure someone will prove me wrong!) that ID or QXP will handle in their stride. Maybe they can't do DCS files either, but I was hoping someone might suggest an alternative way to save my file that might work.

Incidentally, after first making the multichannel file I saved it as a PSD and tried placing it in ID - it complained that "The file uses an unsupported colour space. Only RGB, CMYK, LAB, greyscale, indexed and bitmap formats are supported by the Photoshop filter". A DCS EPS places and outputs okay.

Iain

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 8:29 am
From: PeterK.@adobeforums.com

When you save, try setting the DCS to "single file, no composite." Some output devices get confused by the included low resolution preview and output that instead of the high resolution image itself. Not including the "composite" preview will leave the output device with nothing but the full resolution file to interpret.

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TOPIC: 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium compatibilty?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/ed633c85dcfff6bd?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 7:41 am
From: Raymond_Kirsteins@adobeforums.com

PAT:
7.0.1 is the upgrade to 7.0. Install 7.0 then if you are registered, download update to 7.0.1. In my case I had to copy Photoshop 6 files to the HD to install my 7.0 uograde and then upgrade 7.0 to 7.0.1.

Remember Windows Vista compatability site and Adobe system requirements say that only CS3 and CS4 will run on vista and ONLY CS4 will run on 64 bit vista. Guess I'm lucky and PS 7 will run on my system which is Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

Try it and see if it will work for you.

Just a tip: If the software won't load at all from the CD or download then you are SOL. If software will go through the entire installation and then at the last second fail because it's windows vista 64 you can keep trying to get it running and it just might work.

Just for kicks take a look at your C:/ drive and find 2 folders: PROGRAM FILES has programs installed which run on and in 64 bit mode. Then look for another folder called PROGRAM FILES x86, open it and see which programs are installed in compatability mode (x 32 bit)meaning they will run on your x64 system but not in 64 bit mode, only 32 bit. It may interest you to see which programs claim to be 64 bit compatable and which ones actually are.

Raymond

Beware of experts who will tell you all about running x64 and they don't actually have it. They just like to be experts.

Write back if you have trouble finding your favorite programs from XP or 32 bit to run on 64 bit vista and I can share what I've found or try visiting www.start64.com. They list 64 bit vista software and drivers. I've never tried anything from them yet, so beware.....

Let us know what hardware you had to replace because of the move to 64 bit or vista. My record so far is a new card reader and new printer, no vista or 64 bit drivers.

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TOPIC: Is it possible to change the CS4 background color?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.windows/t/bc4f16301d3235ee?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 8:36 am
From: "Phos±four dots"

R192/G192/B192 has been "the" de facto standard (on a properly calibrated monitor) for the apron-area gray for as long as I can remember (back over more than 10 years). I know the difference is negligible, but nonetheless, 192 has been the agreed upon setting.

I'm still using PS CS2, and I'm on a Mac. What you're talking about it irrelevant to me.

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