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TOPIC: Inconsistent Color Prints on Epson R2400
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/7b7ace74f76d4b94?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Mar 20 2009 10:58 pm
From: g_ballard@adobeforums.com

also be sure you have the Epson 2400 selected as the default printer

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 12:27 pm
From: Steve_Hutchcraft@adobeforums.com

Thanks for all the tips!

I did try them all, shaking, cleaning, resetting. All to no avail. I'm going to head out and buy another light magenta and change it out to see if that makes a difference. . . .

Thanks again!

Steve

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TOPIC: Font Management Link
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/8c2c37652e2c0ee2?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 12:26 am
From: randalqueen@adobeforums.com

Thought I would pass this along:

<http://theappleblog.com/2009/03/17/fonts-201-font-management-apps-for-the-mac/>

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TOPIC: Color Picker and ProPhotoRGB - false calculation
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/7f96891614a3d95b?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 1:36 am
From: Mike_Schelhorn@adobeforums.com

This is sort of academic question. When using ProPhotoRGB as working space, Photoshop´s color picker calculates R=0, G=0, B=255 (pure, unprintable blue) and the Lab colorspace is corresponding with L=0,a=90, b=-128. Most confusing is the L-value "0". Zero L(uminance) means black, absolutly black.
I checked other working spaces and none of them behaves like ProPhotoRGB.

Could someone clarify this?

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 11:29 am
From: Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com

Those L*ab readings will change depending on your working CMYK space.

Try converting to different CMYK spaces and see what happens

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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 12:58 pm
From: pfigen

That does sound like a bug to me, although Photoshop has long be inconsistent in how it has dealt with colors spec'd outside the range of L*a*b or that of human vision.

Changing your CMYK space only changes the mix of CMYK in the Color Picker. The L*a*b values stay the same. The OP is concerned with how a ProPhoto 255 blue translates to L*a*b, a conversion that is independent of CMYK altogether. I get those same values when I fill a document with 255 blue and convert to L*a*b. It's clearly not a zero Luminance.

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TOPIC: Upsizing an image
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/7f39dc146cb9b4b8?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 3:22 am
From: Chandi_Devi@adobeforums.com

Hi
I have an image that we want to use as a cover of a book.
The image is a scanned photo. The person who scanned it was a bit brain dead when she did it and scanned it in low res. The biggest size we have for this image is around 800kb @300dpi @ 1.5" x 2.7".
We need to use it for the cover of our Cookbook which is a 7" x 7 1/2 " bleed, or not...also we can use a frame around it.
HELP!
The layout artist says we cannot add pixels in PSCS3 to make it meet the 300dpi 150 line minimum.
As soon as we double it, of course the quality gets diminished.
He said using something "creative" within the PS filters might work. Alien Skin might work, but his trial subscription is finished.

Please, what can you tell me?.
If we could use any other pix for the cover, we would, but so far, not possible.
What would be the biggest size we could go for?
What extra programs or filters can we use to "build-up" this image to usable size?

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

== 2 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 5:24 am
From: "Ed Hannigan"

The obvious question is, can you rescan it?

I haven't done the math (you should think in terms of pixel dimensions, not inches) but I doubt there is any good solution.

Omne poddibility wouod be to vectorize it using <http://vectormagic.com/home>
Some images lend themselves better to vectorizing than others. A vector image can be enlarged infinitely in Illustrator.

== 3 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 5:42 am
From: Buko

Why can't the image be rescanned?

== 4 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 9:41 am
From: Chandi_Devi@adobeforums.com

Oh Sorry.
The Image DISAPPEARED! We can't locate it anywhere.
Of course logically we could rescan, if we had it.
We also cannot find anyone who has a copy of it.
So we are left with this issue.
I will send your suggestion to Jeff and see if he can do something like Vectorize it in Illustrator.
We are hoping for the best.
Any other options?

== 5 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 10:08 am
From: Buko

Reshoot or find a new image.

since you are scanning an image that already existed do you have permission to use it?

== 6 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 10:17 am
From: Chandi_Devi@adobeforums.com

Yes, it's MINE!
I shot it.
I shot it for this Cookbook, and gave the negs to the editor, who gave them to the cook.... for use in the book. But unfortunately, she cannot find them, she says.
I have a copy of the photo, but it is locked away in a trunk in a storage compartment in America, and I am in India, so it won't help.
THis photo was chosen by our Teacher as the cover photo of the book, so we are trying to do the best we can to use it, that's why the scramble.

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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 10:20 am
From: Chandi_Devi@adobeforums.com

Can't reshoot.
Our teacher passed-on 12 years ago. So that idea is out.

== 8 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 12:06 pm
From: Buko

Never ever give your original negs to anyone. only give dupes. but I guess you learned that already.

It would be best to reshoot as digital.

== 9 of 9 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 12:12 pm
From: Allen_Wicks@adobeforums.com

Best may be to apply one of the artistic filters because you just do not have enough image info for the size cover photo you want as a true photographic image.

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TOPIC: Photoshop cs4 crashing on saving
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/0ab039b0cae86e34?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 6:03 am
From: Mark_Reynolds@adobeforums.com

I had a period when this problem was happening working on 1.5 to 2 gig files. I eventually found that changing the Photoshop Performance settings seemed to affect it, making the problem slightly better. Also make sure you have enough free space.

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TOPIC: Layers doc. has flattened itself
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/dbf165155f70913f?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 6:11 am
From: Mike_Ornellas@adobeforums.com

Converting to a different Color Space may always flatten by default unless you use the Edit menu/Convert … method and turn off the Check Box

It should read, converting to a different color MODE may flatten your file if the layer contents are not transferable between spaces.

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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 11:05 am
From: Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com

Correct!

An incorrect use of "Color Space" instead of Mode by me!

I always use the Edit/Convert Profile when changing Color Mode (because of the greater choices that it offers) and it is well worth it to attach a keyboard shortcut to that menu item.

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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 11:46 am
From: Mike_Ornellas@adobeforums.com

color = colour.

same shit.

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TOPIC: Where is Contact Sheet II in CS4?
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/a53097bb62e288c6?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 6:16 am
From: Richard.B.Mann@adobeforums.com

Photoshop -- File --- Automate -- Shows PICTURE PACKAGE
But when try to open I get a message "Can not find any layout files in Preset: LayoutI.
Have also tried to load into Bridge with no luck.
All as instructions.
If you have had success can you let me have your instruction in both cases

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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 10:57 am
From: Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com

But did you install the Layouts in your Preset folder?

You will find that you have two Preset folders: one in the Applications/Photoshop folder;
and another one in your User/Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/Adobe PhotoshopCS4/Presets/.

You need to install the PP Layouts in a folder called "Layouts" in the former location.

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TOPIC: PS CS4 File-New defaults to 32x32px 1-bit
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/d0e33261798d3d2b?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 8:13 am
From: Samuli_S.@adobeforums.com

Thanks for your responses!

I did purge the clipboard and that helped - in my 10 years of Photoshop use I've used the purge menu maybe 10 times so it's a good time to learn.

I think the problem is that I didn't know there could be multiple itemson the clipboard, that can be accessed separately, at any given time. I mean that I could copy and paste images inside PS all I wanted but every time I launched PS and did CMD-N there would be the mysterious 32x32 clipboard preset again. So there must have been an icon or something stuck in the clipboard for some reason.

But problem solved, new things learned! Thank you!

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 10:49 am
From: Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com

Great!

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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 11:21 am
From: Samuli_S.@adobeforums.com

By the way, I found out what is causing this. If I use Finder to Copy-Paste any file with CMD-C and CMD-V instead of dragging, it causes PS to think there is an icon in the clipboard. Not nice, but at least I know what is causing it.

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TOPIC: Options for saving tiffs
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.macintosh/t/41b674857511cff6?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Mar 21 2009 10:45 am
From: Jon_Levy@adobeforums.com

Ramon.
Are recommending using the none checkbox in the image compression for my tif master and archive files as a standard practice, as opposed to Chris' advise to use ZIP for both image and layer compression? Could this be explained.
Thanks again
Jonathan

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