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video rendering extreemly slow or just halts

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:29:48 GMT

Being playing with video a bit since I bought a Sony RX100 III. Other than the well known problem with Dolby audio I find that rendering of video clips in Photoshop CC is very hit or miss. Sometimes the clip renders (very slowly if many adjustments have been made) or a rotating disc appears and nothing at all happens, task manager shows some activity but not nearly as mutch as when rendering is happening properly - the program seems to be in an infinite loop. My Windows 8.1 machine is reasonably powerful, if I use DaVinci Resolve Lite (if you think Photoshop has a steep learning curve try Resolve!!!) then even with quite complex edits clips render at around real time (25fps). Something is clearly wrong with the video rendering routine in Photoshop which is a pity as I only want to do the occasional bit of video editing and rendering and certainly don't want to pay for a dedicated video editing tool or invest hours of time learning Resolve (the Lite version is, amazingly, a free download).

Am I missing something? Do others find Photoshop video rendering flakey? Is there a work round for this problem?

imported photos are lost by catalogue after import

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:17:52 GMT

When I import photos into Lightroom from a camera memory card all seems to go well, a new sub folder is created, pre-views built and I can edit the pictures. However if I move on to some other sub folder and then want to go back to my newly imprted sub-folder it does not appear to now exist - it is nowhere to be found in the Lightroom folders directory. The folder does in fact exist and can be seen in Windows explorer. If I now go into Lightroom and import the pictures again at their existing location all is then normal but any edits I did when the pictures were originally imported are lost. I have tried uninstalling and then re-installing Lightroom from CC but this makes no difference. Anyone got any idea what is going on and how I can sort it out?

Lightroom CC, Windows 8.1 (update 1)

Since posting I have answered my own question. It all boils down to my finger trouble sometime in the last few weeks in identifying the right drive for the pictures to be imported to. I blame it on Windows expecting everything to be on one vast C/: drive.

Message was edited by: David Rosser when I realised I was importing to the wrong drive and answered my own question.

selecting browse in bridge in photoshop 2014 launches CC applet, what is happening?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:21:52 GMT

I have updated my system with the new Creative Cloud Application (Lightroom 5.5, Photoshop 2014 and latest Bridge) Now I am getting all sorts of errors.

At first I could use Edit in Photoshop 2014 command in Lightroom and the image would open in Photoshop, however after doing a few edits neither save or save as would work - all I got was a long involved error message. After a bit of investigation I removed Lightroom from the system and re-installed using the CC applet. Now when I try to Edit in Photoshop 2014 Photoshop 2014 opens but the picture I want to edit has not passed accross ata all.

I then had a try at using Bridge. I selected Browse in Bridge from Photoshop 2014 and instead of Bridge I got the Adobe CC Applet pop up offering to update Bridge (which was up to date anyway) and warning me about loosing settings if I did. I updated Bridge and then updates for Lightroom and Photoshop 2014 were offered which I installed. These have not made a blind bit of difference I still can't pass pictures from Lightroom to Photoshop and still can't open Bridge from Photoshop - it's still opening the CC applet.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Dave

Develop settings when importing RAW + jpeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 12:44:26 GMT

When importing NEF files from my D700 I apply the landscape sharpening pre-set and am happy with the results. However on my Fuji X20 I import RAW+jpeg rather than just RAW, in this situation if I use the landscape sharpening pre-set sharpening is applied to the jpeg as well as the RAW resulting in the already sharpened in camera jpeg being grossly over sharpened. If on the other hand I use none for the develop pr-set no sharpening or noise reduction is applied to the jpeg and a minimum amount applied to the RAW file, more or less what I want except I want the higher landscape sharpening applied to the RAW files. Is there anyway to modify the built in pre-sets so that they only get applied to the RAW files when importing RAW+jpeg pairs?

Dave Rosser

You've been signed out.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 12:19:42 GMT

Yesterday the creative cloud app on my win 7 PC was working ok. Today when I started it I was asked to sign in, I filled in e-mail addrerss and password, clicked on sign in, then after a few moments I got the message "You've been signed out", "please sign in to continue"

There seems no way of breaking this loop. Anyone got any ideas on a solution?

Thanks

Dave

Problems launching Bridge from Photoshop and opening files as smart objects in Photoshop from Lightr

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:03:45 GMT

I am running Photoshop CC (up to date as of today) and Lightroom 5.2. I am hitting 2 major problems. In Photoshop if I select File/Browse in Bridge I get the following message

"Could not complete the Browse in Bridge command because Photoshop was unable to find the JavaScript plug-in".

However if I simply launch Bridge as an application it works ok (now I have reset the default application for all the appropriate file extentions to Photoshop CC rather than Photoshop in Bridge preferences) and opens the file in Camera Raw 8.2 in Photoshop when a Raw file is double clicked.

The second problem is associated with opening raw files in Lightroom 5.2, editing and then trying to "photo/edit in/Open as smart object in Photoshop" . In this case Photoshop opens with a blank screen and nothing happens Eventually about a minute later this message appears in Lightroom 5.2

"The file could not be edited because Adobe Photoshop CC could not be launched."

Rather strange message as the first thing that happened was that Photoshop CC opened!!

Same thing happens if try "photo/Edit in/Edit in Adobe Photoshop CC" except that having shut down photoshop I see a message from Lightroom 5.2 saying

Lightoom was unable to prepare the selected file at ..... for editing. It will not be opened.

When I click the OK button on this message low and behold the tif version of the RAW file opens in Photoshop. ready for futher editing with all the Lightroom edits applied.

Can anyone help me in sorting out this problem please

Operating system is Windows 8 64 bit and I am running the 64 bit Adobe applications.

Windows 8 Start-Up Do I need to run all the Creative Cloud Tasks

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:15:17 GMT

Creative Cloud has set up 5 start up processes with High impact on start-up time. (Adobe CEF helper etc.). Are these really necccessary when I am not running CC applications? Will they start anyway when I boot a CC application if I disable them at start-up?

Smug-Mug link lost upgrading from 4 to 5 - Solved

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:36:52 GMT

After upgrading from 4 to 5 I have lost the link between images in my Lightroom database and the images on my Smug-Mug web account, i.e. changes made in Lightroom can no longer be updated on Smug-Mug by re-publishing. Anyone know if the link can be re-established?

I have now spotted the way to do this:-

open Lightroom Publishing Manager/SmugMug

Under SmugMug settings make sure Sync Photos is ticked and then click on Sync Now

Uneven Printing with B9180 Printer

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:19:42 GMT

When I print from Lightroom 4.3 to my HP B9180 printer on my Windows 8 machine the first pass of the print head initialy lays down less ink than subsequent passes so that I have an uneven band at the edge of the picture starting very light and eventualy blending in to the tonality of the rest of the picture. If I print the same picture from Photoshop CS6 to the same printer on the same paper etc. the print is perfect with no lighter band. Can anyone explain what is going on here and what to do about it? Before anyone asks I prefer to print in Lightroom as it includes print sharpening as standard while in Photoshop you have an extra stage of setting print sharpening separately to match paper, printer, size etc. all of which is done for you automatically in Lightroom.

Further to the above the comment about Photoshop is incorrect, the problem is present in Photoshop CS6 as well.

Photoshop Keeps Changing To Photoshop Extended

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:23:44 GMT

I have a subscription too the basic version of Photoshop. However when I open Photoshop I get Photoshop Extended, if I then de-activate, boot again and go through the authentication procedure it then correctly starts as Photoshop. However if I change anything in preferences the next time I start Photoshop it launches Photoshop Extended - whats going on, I don't need the Extended functions and don't whant any risk of having to pay for them.

Cannot start CS6 Bridge on Windows 8 Machine.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:53:16 GMT

I am running Photoshop CS6 (Creative Cloud subscription) on a Windows 8 machine. While Photoshop itself starts perfectly OK when I click on the Bridge ikon I get a revolving little circle for a few seconds, then nothing. The same happens when I try to start it from within Photoshop. Mini Bridge says it can't start without full bridge running. Anyone have any Idea how to get Bridge to run. The only clue I can give to what could be the problem is that I had CS2 running on the machine prior to installing CS6 and I wonder if there is still some detritus from that installation hanging around. By the way I have searched the forum and tried most of the cures suggested in the past for similar problems on earlier versions of Photoshop. It is a anoyance rather than a game stopper for me as I manage my phot library using Lightroom but I would like to sort the problem out.

Dual Display Improvements required.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:29:58 GMT

I have a dual display setup, one 24" wide gammut monitor and an old 19" Sony display that struggles to achieve sRGB. Lightroom has never been ideal for a setup like this. What I would like to do is have all the tool panels displayed on the 19" monitor with just the picture I am working on on the 24" display and be able to use things like the adjustment brush directly on the image on the 24" monitor. I can't do this I have to work on the small image on the 19" monitor and then see the result on the large monitor - a far from ideal situation. The only tool that works on the secondary display (the 24" display in my case is the loop tool). It can't be that difficult to achieve, I can do exactly what I want in Capture One Pro 6, but then Capture One manages to make use of OpenCL something else lightroom apparently can't.

Colour Management in Lightroom 3 Print Module

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:27:49 GMT

I have never been entirely happy with the Lightroom print module but have recently noticed some quite marked colour inconsistencies when printing. I use a HP B9180 printer and always use application manages colour (and have learnt to set the printer driver up outside Lightroom in the Windows 7 control panel to avoid it reverting to one of HPs built in printer setup options). I also print using QImage Pro which I have set up as an external editor, test images sent to QImage always print as expected but the same images printed on Lightrooms 3 have a Magenta cast. I have always assumed that lightroom kept the image in its internal ProPhotoRGB working space in the print module and used the specific printer/paper ICC profile to convert directly from ProPhotoRGB to printer/paper specific "instructions" (QImage certainly does this as sending it the image file in aRGB or ProPhotoRGB gives exactly the same result). However I have been looking at the printer template file and amongst it found the following

printingFileProfile = "sRGB",

printingFileResolution = 300,

printingProfile = "C:\\Windows\\system32\\spool\\drivers\\color\\HP PSPro B9100-Advanced Photo Glossy.icc"

printingresolution = 300,

renderingIntent = "Perceptual",

Can I take it from this snippit that when the print module is selected a copy of the image is rendered in the sRGB colour space scaled to 300dpi and it is this file that is used when printing (important to know even if you select managed by printer under colour management as the B9180 driver gives you a choice of aRGB and sRGB as well as managed by application under the colour management tab)?

Does anyone know what precicely is happening here?

Is this the root cause of the inconsistent colours?

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on a PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6700, 8 Gig of DDR2 RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS graphics card.

I have the most up to date drivers for the B9180.

Rendering: Larger Preview.... Stalls in Library Module.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:13:02 GMT

I am running Lightroom 2.4 on a Windows Vista system. I have found recently that when I use the library module and attempt to zoom in on a picture in that module the full size picture on screen reverts to a highly pixalated view (presumably the embeded low res jpeg from the Nikon RAW file) and I get the message "Rendering: Larger Preview..." and nothing at all happens. If I then select the develop module the picture renders correctly, if following this I select the library module again all used to be well but now I get the message "Rendering:Develop..." and again nothing happening.

Has anyone encountered this problem and discovered a solution?