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How do I set the Location for Photoshop temp files?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:35:53 GMT

Windows 7, PS 2014...

When using Photoshop, I get files on the system drive that start with Photoshop Temp then a string of numbers. I'd rather not have PS putting these on the SSD. How do I specify where PS will put them? It appears NOT to be the scratch disk since that's set to a different drive. It appears not to be an environment variable since I don't appear to have ANYTHING that points to c:\. I read a number of posts on the Internet that ask this question, but didn't see anything that specified how to move these things.

So, how do I tell PS to dump these where I want?

Files coming from photoshop not showing up in Lightroom

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 07 May 2014 01:07:10 GMT

I suspect I have some setting goofed up, but I looked at preferences, and don't see which one............

In lightroom 5.3, I have some raw (.nef) images. I assign them a keyword. I open the set of images with that keyword (so, they all have the keyword). Go into Develop, fiddle, then do an "edit in", and go to PS CC. Make changes, then do a Save As, and save a .psd back to the same folder......

In the past, MY RECOLLECTION is that the .psd I just saved, would be stacked with the original .NEF, AND would show up in the group with the keyword. With the current settings, everything works fine EXCEPT the .psd doesn't show up in the keyword group. When I get back to Lightroom, still in Develop, there is 'NO PHOTO SELECTED". If I go back to Library it is not visible in the keyword group. If I EXIT from the keyword set, and display all the images, I can now see the .psd AND it has the keyword set, but it doesn't show up in the keyword group until I exit from the group, go back to displaying all the images, then go back INTO the keyword group.

And yes, I have "stack with original" set in the external editor preferences.

Is this normal behavior in 5.3, or do I have something set wrong? 'Cause it's really slowing things down having to constantly go back to library, exit the keyword group, and on and on...

Ideas to speed up creating 1:1 previews?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:50:22 GMT

I typically use Bridge for the initial pass through images to decide what to keep and what to delete.

But, currently I'm on the road so I'm using a laptop with a smaller screen and need to look at close detail, so I thought I'd dump the images into LR 5.5 and create 1:1 previews.

It is NOT pretty...... Laptop is an i5-720 with 8GB of memory, Windows 7 64-bit and there's nothing else running. Camera is an ordinary Nikon D800.

Creating the 1:1 previews is unusably slow. It's created 38 previews in just over 20 minutes... That's LESS THAN 2 previews per MINUTE...

Somebody tell me there's a way to significantly speed this up 'cause at this rate the only way to do this is to start it at bedtime and hope it can do a couple hundred images over night...

I presume there's SOMETHING I'm missing 'cause this is insanely slow. Ideas? (and no, telling me the only way to create them is to let it churn all night isn't useful)

Creative Cloud throwing 205 and A12E5 errors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:40:25 GMT

Well, it's been an "interesting" day...

NOTE: This is NOT a corporate machine. This is NOT an "enterprise" machine. It's a plain, simple, Windows 7 desktop at my house. Do me a favor and DON'T move this to some ghetto where it'll never get viewed.

Back in June, CC application manager puked. Wouldn't update. Spent time trying to figure out the problem. Eventually called support. Ended up with a Level 1 person rummaging around the machine for an hour, then telling me the problem was the Windows Firewall. Shut OFF the firewall and it STILL didn't work.

Escalated and eventually got a Level 2 person the downloaded CCI and did a brute force install. And told me "OK, IT'S ALL FIXED. YOU WON'T HAVE ANY MORE PROBLEMS."

Couple weeks later CC needed to update Photoshop, and of course, it puked again... At which point, NOTHING worked. PS was dead. LR was dead. Application manager didn't even exist. Found a pointer to the kits for everything and did my own installation OUTSIDE CC so I'd have Bridge, LR, and PS. Reopened the case, escalated, and got a DIFFERENT person who wanted to take control of the machine and do whatever. At that point I had actual work to do, and refused.

Fast forward 'til today. All caught up and not doing much...... Called, got a DIFFERENT person that wanted to take control of the machine. Let him... Fiddled for a while. Decided it was THE NETWORK. Yes, those rascally folks at Centurylink did something? Of course, this has worked perfectly from last October to June, so they must have done something in June. To PROVE the assertion we UNPLUGGED the network, tethered a cell phone running 4G LTE, and tried the same thing. Amazingly, the exact same thing happened... Won't download, won't install, kills everything.

So, it appears that its NOT just Centurylink - apparently Verizon doesn't work either........

Once again, he downloaded the same CCI.rar file and did a brute force install. But, this time, he stated that "there are no updates coming soon, so you should be OK for a while." 'Cause CC isn't working. And "It's only happening on a "few" machines." And my personal favorite "we're working on it." When I asked if they've been "working on it since June", I was told that "sometimes these things take a while."

Oh... But, on the bright side, the application that extracts MONEY every month, WORKS PERFECTLY...

Since I just got the big shrug from Adobe, anybody out there got any ideas what's REALLY going on and how to fix it?

Show items from subfolders not working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:02:39 GMT

OK, this HAS to be something I've done............

PC, Windows 7, Bridge CC.

Open folder. It contains folders that have raw files, .dng files, and jpeg files.

Click and select "Show items from subfolders". It tells me there are no items.

I'm pretty sure this USED to work on this machine. It's been doing this for at least a week. I don't have any filters set, or anything else that I know of.

I just tried it on the laptop, also Bridge CC, and it works fine. Do I have some preference or what goofed up?

Building PC, What's the Best CPU now?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:55:52 GMT

I'm going to have to put together a new box sometime soon 'cause between Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC things just keep getting slower........

I've been reading about the various current Intel CPUs and wondered what the best reasonably high-end processor would be? Is the 5820K going to provide

SIGNIFICANTLY better performance than a 4790K?

Likewise, is the DDR4 memory going to provide a SIGNIFICANT improvement in throughput for PS and LR?

Is the difference in the number of PCI Express Lanes (16 for the 4790 vs 28 for the 5820 and 40 for the 5930) significantly useful for PS or LSR or is it just

for using more than 1 graphics card (which I presume I won't need to do for PS and LR)

The 4790 has built-in 4600 graphics processor built-in, but is it MORE THAN adequate for driving two large monitors at full resolution for PS and LR?

The 5820 has six cores versus the 4 for the 4790 and is unlocked so it can be overclocked. I don't much care if the thing melts down in 5 years because

it's overclocked instead of lasting 10, but how much speed can I get out of this thing with just an air cooler (I'm not doing water cooling just for Photoshop)...

Thoughts? Any other processors that would be better - WITHOUT costing $600 or more just for a CPU chip.....

Best current CPU for a new PC?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:09:16 GMT

Looks like I'm going to have to put together a new PC soon as Photoshop, and especially Lightroom aren't getting any better on the current one...

Question is whether I go for the 6 core i7-5820K or the 4 core i7-4790. I've asked the same question over in the Photoshop forum, but so far it's just sitting there...

The 5820 uses DDR4 memory, but will it provide SIGNIFICANTLY better throughput for Lightroom?

Same question for the processor... Will the 5820 provide significantly better performance in Lightroom? Speed up those perceptibly doggy operations in Develop?

How do I contact a moderator?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:44:07 GMT

Unfortunately, I can't post normally in this forum (I've been receiving "try again later m5" errors for the last day...

Can someone tell me how to contact a moderator so they can tell me what I've got messed up, or post the question for me?

PS CC Save As Confirm

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 01:41:33 GMT

Fifteen years of using Photoshop. Doing Save As, hitting return twice, and the .psd is updated......

Now, we get CC and suddenly the default on the confirm gets changed to NO?

How do I change this to the behavior we've had for the last decade?

5.6 Installation fails "object already exists"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:17:10 GMT

I'm developing a SIGNIFICANT dislike of the whole Adobe CC thing... At the moment CC on my system is inoperative. Application manager doesn't work, and nothing will install from there.

For the last month I've been installing applications directly, and UNTIL NOW, IT'S WORKED FINE.........

I currently HAD LR 5.5 on the box. I need to go to LR 5.6. I downloaded the file for 5.6 from the ProDesignTools EXACTLY THE WAY I'VE HAD TO DO FOR THE LAST MONTH.

And extracted it EXACTLY the same way I did for LR5.5, which WAS on the system until I tried to install 5.6...

Started the installation, answered the questions, and it starts installing. Then I get a popup that says "OBJECT ALREADY EXISTS"...

In the installation window it SAYS it's "updating component registration"

And, of course, LR 5.5 has been clobbered so now I've got NO Lightroom.......... And NO, 5.5 won't re-install.

Anybody know what's wrong THIS time?

Where do I put Camera Calibration Profiles?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:11:21 GMT

Running LR 4.2 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit. I"m shooting with a Nikon D300.

When I look at an image, in Develop, I have a set of choices for "profiles". These include Embedded, ACR4.3, ACR 4.4, Adobe Standard, Camera D2X mode 1,2,3, Camera Landscape, Camera Standard,

Camera Vivid, and so on..............

Before I go wasting everyone's time with questions about additional profiles, is there any advantage to downloading D300 profiles from the Internet? Are they different/better than the standard ones I've listed above?

Presumig I SHOULD get additional profiles, I downloaded (among others) Matt K's "matts_nikon_profiles.zip", profiles. When expanded, these become a set of .lrtemplate files. Are these camera calibration profiles or something else? In the "Adobe Standard" folder, the files are all .dcp extension.

Anyhow, at this point I'm not even sure I've got what I'm supposed to have, so can y'all recommend a source for additional profiles (again, if there's any advantage to having them), AND tell me EXACTLY where to put the files? So far, in my rummaging, I've found references to putting them in

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.2\Resources\CameraProfiles

and so far, nothing seems to get seen when I put them in either place...

Adding memory to laptop to speed up image stacking?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:23:48 GMT

I've got a Toshiba X505-S870 laptop that's a few years old. I5-720 with 8GB of memory. Windows 7 64-bit with SP1.

Doing photomerge to stack images is very slow. Even though they're jpegs, and there are only 6 or 8 of them (from a D800), it's quite slow. When I check the task manager, it's using all 8 gig of memory.

Actually, in general, with LR5.5 and PS CC 2014 running, it seems to chew up all the 8GB.

I can pretty easily increase the memory to 16GB. Thoughts on whether or not that'll make a significant improvement in performance?

Lightroom and PS CC 2014 not communicating, Photoshop now uninstalled...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:47:37 GMT

I've now exchanged one major problem for another..... PC, Windows 7 Professional with SP1, PS 2014.0.0 (now uninstalled), LR 5.5 ACR 8.5

Until 2 weeks ago, EVERYTHING WORKED FINE. Updates, workflow, etc. The software was there and LR and PS were relatively happy.

At that time, the CC application manager wanted to updated itself (the red CC icon thing). It failed. Threw different errors, but it didn't update. After a call, an hour of having support control the machine the guy decided it was the firewall. It wasn't. Escalated the ticket and finally got a guy that downloaded the CreativeCloudPackager and installed it. He then ASSURED me there would be no more problems and things would work perfectly ever after - all done by chat 'cause he didn't like being on the phone...

Fast forward 2 days...... Lightroom works. Photoshop works. Bridge works. I can open images in ACR and edit in Photoshop.

What I CAN'T do I send an image from lightrom to PSCC for editing....... Nothing happens.

SO, I came into the "community" and found many people with the problem, and the "solution" was to uninstall and reinstall PS CC and the extension manager.... With GREAT trepidation given how well updates have gone, I uninstalled PSCC 2014 and the extension manager.

Application manager figured out the extension manager needed installing. So, tried that. If failed with a -60 error.

Signed out of CC and back in. Now at least it knows PSCC needs installing. Tried THAT... It sits for a while, then throws: The download appears corrupted. Pleast try again after a few minutes. (-60)

At the moment I'm totally screwed. I"ve got images due and NO PHOTOSHOP. And no extension manager, but I presume it's exactly the same problem...

Currently on a "chat" with support (stop laughing)... Total waste of time.

How do I update label names in images?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:36:19 GMT

Over time, I've changed the way I use the star ratings and the labels.

So, if I have an image with a green label that's named X and I change the green label to be Y, HOW do I get the image to have Y and a green label instead of X and a white label?

I can't find a method in the search that looks at the label text in the image, so how do I find all the images with "X" so I can change them to "Y"?

Unable to Update CC Application

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:41:40 GMT

Regular PC, running Windows 7 Professional. Creative Cloud member since last October so I've done MANY updates......

Yesterday afternoon my laptop wanted me to update some of the Adobe CC applications, so I opened the CC app and IT wanted to install an update. It started downloading then failed with an error 50, and told me to contact customer support.

SO, I went to the desktop and opened the Creative Cloud application. It ALSO wanted to update itself. And did the same thing the laptop did. Said there was a problem and to contact customer support. When I hit RETRY, it hung for a while at 2%, then failed with an error 205.

This morning I called Adobe and the person there took over control of my desktop (an uncomfortable process) and spent an hour checking things. It appears that the CC application won't update, and neither will the Adobe Application Manager. He finally found some information that says I need to go INTO THE WINDOWS FIREWALL and whitelist a bunch of host/port combinations...

WHERE/WHEN did this happen (or perhaps, WTF has Adobe done NOW?)? I've NEVER needed to ANY of this in the past. And how many OTHER normal, non-technical, CC users are having this problem? I saw a couple topics asking about this, but I presume they're enterprise installations, NOT simple home systems... If I DO have to do this, does someone have a basic, idiot-proof process that spells out in human-understandable language the exact process of doing this?

The following host/port combinations may need to be whitelisted when logging in with an Adobe ID to download, install, and package applications using the Creative Cloud Packager.

Address	Ports
ccmdls.adobe.com		443
ims-na1.adobelogin.com	80	443
ims-prod06.adobelogin.com		443
na1r.services.adobe.com	80	443
prod-rel-ffc-ccm.oobesaas.adobe.com		443
prod-rel-ffc.oobesaas.adobe.com		443
lm.licenses.adobe.com	80	443
ccmdl.adobe.com	80
swupmf.adobe.com	80
swupdl.adobe.com	80

Batch Processing HDR

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:17:15 GMT

I've got to be making this unnecessarily hard... Bridge CC, PSCC, LR5.x

I've got a bunch of HDR sets, I want to process them into 32-bit files that LR will read (which as near as I can tell, means tiff). I want to do them in large bunches, not one at a time.

I"ve got Nik HDR Efex Pro, which doesn't appear to do batch.

I've got Photomatix 4.2, which does batch but doesn't appear to save 32-bit tiffs in batch.

HOW do I batch a bunch of sets and process them? I"ve seen a script, but isn't there some built-in way of using batch processing or Image processing or SOMETHING more efficient?

More "flexible" watermarking?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:07:54 GMT

I do portraits of show animals. Which means I want to "sign" my images with a small signature in different spots depending on the particular image. In LR5, I can place a watermark on an image, but I haven't been able to figure out how to adjust it without creating a NEW watermark. After doing this enough times, I end up with a couple dozen water marks that all have the same content, but are in very slightly different places. And, of course, I haven't come up with a way of naming them so I can find exactly which one sits in exactly which spot...

Is there any way to make the positioning of the watermark more flexible, so I can just move it where I want, then export the image WITHOUT having to create a new watermark every time?

Yes, I can VERY easily do this in Photoshop by just dropping a signature with a transparent-background layer on the image, but it seems silly to have to go into Photoshop JUST to put a signature watermark on an image...

Ideas?

How Reset Workflow options in ACR?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 07 May 2014 17:07:39 GMT

I looked up workflow, but didn't find any discussions, and I can find items online that tell me how to SET workflow, but so far, I can't find anything that tells me how to RESET workflow.......

I don't want it to do ANYTHING. I don't want it to set Adobe RGB or bit depth, or resize or ANYTHING. I want it to leave whatever I open exactly the way it came in. When I press "Open Image",

I want it to go to Photoshop exactly the way it came in to ACR... Currently, if I open a jpg that was exported in sRGB, when it gets to Photoshop, it's 16 bit and Adobe RGB because that's what the

workflow says.....

So, how do I make workflow completely go away and not screw with anything in my image?

CAN I store calibration profiles with the catalog?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:24:27 GMT

I see discussions of presets with catalogs, and where profiles are stored, but nothing for storing profiles with catalogs...

I have multiple catalogs. For some catalogs, for example the "cat show" catalog, I have have calibration profiles created with a x-rite colorchecker, that are ONLY used for specific shootings at a specific cat show. They have NO usefullness in my "general" catalog. Is it possible, and reasonably simple (I don't want to be writing lua or doing anything wacky), to store specific-use calibration profiles WITH the catalog for which they're used?

Incorporating Active D-lighting in Lightroom or Bridge?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:11:03 GMT

I would like to have the capability of using the Nikon 800 Active D-Lighting when I want it.

My organizing and basic (gross) adjustments happen in Lightroom 5.3. Lightroom, and as near as I can find, NO Adobe products (Lightroom, Bridge, Photoshop) can read the ADL information from a Nikon D800 .NEF, so apparently I have to go outside my normal workflow to incorporate the ADL data.

I'm looking for the simplest and most efficient way to get from a NEF that has information Adobe won't read to some kind of raw file (a .dng?) WITH the ADL data. So far, the only path I've found is to open the images in View NX2 and convert them to 16-bit tiff files because View NX2 doesn't have any "convert to dng" that I can find.

Then, I have to open the tiff files in Bridge (or LR), shove them into ACR, and save them as .dng files. Aside from being clumsy, the .dng files are HUGE... a 48MB .NEF becomes a 42MB (approximately) .dng file. BUT, if I go through View NX2 and generate .tiff files, the tiff conversion to .dng generates a file between 110 and 120MB - almost THREE TIMES larger than a .dng created directly from the .nef.

Is there a reasonable way of getting a source file into Bridge orLightroom that incorporates the data in the Nikon .NEF?

ACR with 32-bit tiffs?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:55:01 GMT

I ran a set of HDR images through Merge to HDR Pro. Saved the result as a 32-bit tiff. Back to Bridge 6.0.1.6 where I can see the tiff.

I now want to do the RAW processing on the HDR file in ACR. I have no "Open in camera RAW".

I can open .NEF, .jpg, and other tiffs. Does ACR not support 32-bit tif files? And if it is supported, what do I need to do so I CAN get into ACR with a 32-bit tif?

Replacing Data Drive - 7200 HD or 5400 SSHD

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:08:44 GMT

Laptop is i5-720, 8gb of memory, Windows 7

On my laptop, I need to replace the current data drive with a larger one. In GENERAL, for the way Lightroom does things, am I better with a 7200 rpm standard drive or a 5400 rpm hybrid? I can find reviews for gaming, and a few references in here to people having hybrid drives, but I haven't seen anything that says:

"for doing x, a hybridg works well. for doing y, not so much".....

If the hybrid was 7200 rpm, I'd presume there's no question, but it's the slower 5400 rpm. So, for Lightroom, for the browsing and basic edits, and, if possible, for light/medium Photoshop, is there a significant advantage one way or the other?

Smart Object - How do I keep ACR from changing workflow options?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:06:00 GMT

Open image in Photoshop as a Smart Object from Lightroom.

Double-click to change the RAW characteristics.

When I return to Photoshop, my image has been changed... Color space is changed, bit depth is changed, size is changed........

I believe I know WHAT is doing it - the Workflow Options in ACR are set. HOW DO I TURN THEM OFF?

I can't find a reset, and I can't get it to stop messing with the image. I've SPECIFICALLY UNCLICKED the "Resize to Fit", but

it STILL takes my 2600x3300 pixel image and returns it as 1824x2321 pixels.......

Where and how do I reset this thing?

How do I find undesired keywords or metadata?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:47:39 GMT

Just today, I did a search in Lightroom.

I put "stream" in the text search and told it to find any searchable field.

I got a bunch of stream images. But I ALSO got birds and other stuff.

So, I went looking for WHY I'm getting things that (in theory) SHOULDN'T have anything to do with "stream"...

I isolated it to filename - no birds. Copyname, nothing. Title, caption, nothing.

Keywords - raccoons, birds, dragonflies and on and on..... Searchable metdata, same thing. So, I searched through the metadata and keywords, and I can't find ANYTHING that looks anything like "stream".......

Can anyone tell my what would cause the text search to return all this stuff in "keywords", and is there something I can download that'll let me search all the metadata and whatever to see WHERE it's finding "stream" in an image of a purple finch that doesn't have anything like "stream" in there?

I've downloaded and tried PhotoME, and it doesn't find ANYTHING even remotely like "stream" ANYWHERE in the jpeg, or the .dng files. The closest it gets is "str" and brings up "strength"...

What am I missing?

Dropdowns from Context Menus all on left?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:29:43 GMT

This is small, but very odd, and I figure there's some setting I missed in LR 5.2.

On an image in Develop, right click to bring up the context menu. In the past, when I moved down to "Edit", the flyout menu appeared on the right.

It does this in pretty much ALL the software I use. Unless I'm against the right edge of the screen/window, the flyout comes out the right side.

In 5.2 (and possibly earlier V5 versions), ALL my flyouts come out on the left side no matter where the context menu is...

Did this change? Or is there a setting to control this? 'Cause everything else, including Photoshop, still seems to use the behavior that's been there in the past...

LR 5.2 CC Won't Print

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:05:42 GMT

i7 920, SSD for O/S and programs, 24GB of DDR3 memory, bunch of hard drives.

The ONLY new hardware is the SSD (2 weeks) and the memory, up from 12GB.

LR 5.2 CC got upgraded from 5.2RC yesterday.

I have SOMETHING bizarrely screwed up in the Print module...

I haven't tried this on all sizes, but this morning I needed to print a 5.7 on the Epson 3880. I can say I printed previously in 5.2 RC with no problems.

Woke up the printer, ran a nozzle check, which worked fine, then set up for the 5x7. Did the page setup, same as always, except it's for a 5x7. Told it to do a print preview, same as always.

Went into the Print module, same as always, did all the normal stuff. Hit "Printer" and the popup displays, again as always, and I hit "OK".

It hangs doing "Preparing Print Job" It churns about 25% busy but I never see any progress...

So, I killed that, and checked my preferences. Everything APPEARS to be fine. Shut down Lightroom and restarted.

In Library, I selected my single image to print. Went into Print module. It sat for approximately 60 seconds with the progress bar indicating "Collecting Information". Finally finished.

Then, instead of displaying my selected image on the template, it used the first image in the catalog. I had to select another image, then reselect the image I wanted to print.

Continued through the process and hit "Printer", which displayed the printer popup.

This time I looked carefully, and the one difference I can see is that on the popup, where it says "Print Range", it shows 1 to 34453 (which is the number of images in this catalog). It starts with "All" selected, and even if I clear the numbers, it STILL hangs with "Preparing Print Job". The "Selected" radio button is grayed out and I can't use it.

Also, at the top of the screen it says:

Page: 5155 of 34453

Paper 127 x 178 (5 x 7 in)

Printer: Epson Stylus Pro 3880

which I don't recall ever seeing before. Doesn't it usually say "Page: 1 of 1"?

I have no idea what I've got goofed up, but it APPEARS that every time I go into Print, it's grabbing every image in the catalog and it's DETERMINED to print them all... What have I done THIS TIME?

Where place cache and catalog with SSD

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:07:50 GMT

LR 5.2 RC, Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. 24GB of memory on its way.

I just installed an SSD for my O/S applications and such. For Photoshop, I know what (hopefully) should go there.

I looked in here and found some discussions about putting cache and catalog on the SSD but previews on a separate HD.

Other than eventually wearing out the SSD, is there any reason NOT to put my heavily used catalogs and previews on the SSD with the LR cache? I can keep the stuff I rarely have to mess with on a separate HD, and of course, the images aren't moving, but it seems like previews would LIKE to be on the SSD...

Thoughts? Issues that would make it a bad idea?

Way to change Brightness and/or Color of Rotation grid in Develop

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:18:01 GMT

I suspect the answer is no, 'cause so much of Lightroom is still locked, but

The whte grid when rotating an image in the crop tool is virtually invisible in images with light colors...

Yes, I know you can shove the exposure down several stops so it's more visible, but that's a pretty repugnant workaround...

It sure would be nice to be able to set the brightness and color of that grid... Is there a way or is it still locked by Lightroom?

Optimizing Performance in PSCC

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:14:33 GMT

I went to CC from CS6 last week. This is the first time I've needed to do much real editing, and I'm hitting some major performance issues with CC.

Box is Windows 7, i920 processor, 12GB of DDR3 memory, ATI 5770 video, 4 internal 1 TB, 7200 rpm drives, and 2 external 2TB drives for backups.

CS6 worked well, no lag when cloning or brushing or such. Even when I had 3 or 4 images open it didn't APPEAR to lag significantly.

With CC, I had 3 12 megapixel images open this morning, and I ran into huge (4+ second) lags when cloning, using the brush, moving from the clone

to the navigator, things like that. I have Photoshop set at the high end of memory usage - recommended 7882 MB, I'm at 7961.

My other settings haven't changed. Still 6 levels, 1024 tile size, 100 history states... This is exactly the same as in CS6.

My normal workflow is LR5 and PS open, which again is EXACTLY the way I did it with CS6. Currently, with these two open, I'm using about 9.1GB just

for these two products, but performance in CC is degraded from what it was in CS6.

Once I closed the three images, I did an edit/purge/all in the hope the CC would give back all the memory it sucked up, but it hasn't released anything.

Is there a way to get it to release memory without shutting down?

And, is there a document somewhere specific to optimizing performance in CC?

And, (yup, it's a three-fer), do I just need to pull out the 12GB and stuff in 24GB of memory?

PS CC Image Size Looks Different

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:08:20 GMT

This may be in here somewhere, but I didn't see it....

I very recently switched from CS6 to CC.

I edited an image, made a selection, blurred the selection, did my normal processing, then sent it back to LR5.

In LR5 I cropped and exported to 1280 px on the longest side. Image looked as edited...

Later I got to thinking about sharpening and decided to try cropping and resizing in CC so I could sharpen just the areas that were sharp.

Cropped the image as desired, then did image/image size and cropped to 1280 px. The area I blurred is DRASTICALLY different - much blurrier.

Went back in history and did a stamp visible, then repeated the crop and resize. Image now looks as it should.

Tried it with the "scale styles" turned ON and OFF. No difference. In theory I've inserted both images.....

This appears to be very different behavior than I've seen in previous versions. What do I have set wrong?

Installed (maybe) Extension, can't see it

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:14:56 GMT

Windows 7, 64-bit, Photoshop CS6.

I downloaded Mike Wickam's com.Configurator, which should provide a different tool panel for Photoshop CS6.

I ran the Extension Manager and installed the extension. The instructions say to restart Photoshop, then go to

Windows/Extensions "All Tools CS6" to make the panel button available. Click the "All Tools" button to open

the panel.

I don't HAVE an "All tools CS6" anything in Extensions. All that's there is Kuler and Mini Bridge. What do I

need to do to get this thing to show up?

"Save As" not saving

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:58:05 GMT

Windows 7, I-920 processor, 12GB ddr3 memory, ATI 5770 video, multiple, 1 TB, 7200 rpm drives for images and backups. CS6 13.0.1 X64

I've had this periodically ever since going to CS6, but it's rare and seemingly random. I'm editing, I open a Nikon D300 .dng from Lightroom as a Smart object. Add layers, do fiddling, do a Save As. Works fine... Repeat several times. Works fine every time...

EXCEPT when it doesn't....... Open the file exactly the way every other one gets opened. Create layers, make changes, etc. Do a "Save As".... And it never gets off "0% saved".

No error, no popup, no nothing. It just sits there.

Nothing in the event log for application or system. No controller problems, no disk problems, no nothing problems.

I let the thing sit for 10 minutes in the HOPE that everything would get written to the recovery by the auto-save, then finally crashed Photoshop.

Re-opened. No recovery.

I can redo what I did, but if this is intermittently going to happen, does anyone have a way to either force Photoshop to stop trying to save so I can try again, force it to write everything with the auto-save, or force it to spit out some kind of error so I have a clue what's going on?

Sudden slowdown in CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:59:44 GMT

I'll apologize in advance 'cause this is really nebulous..........

Windows 7; I-920 processor; 12GB DDR3 memory; 2, Graphics: Ati 5770; 1TB 7200 rpm drives for images; 2, 1TB 7200 rpm internal drives for backups and cache.

I have my catalog on a separate spindle in it's own partition. Same for cache, separate spindle, partition of it's own, on a disk only used for backup, so nothing else is touching it.

CS6 has always worked fine for me. I'm editing Nikon D300 images as .dng files, generally loading them from Lightroom, so my usual workload is whatever's in background, Outlook, Lightroom 4.4, and Photoshop cs6. As far as I KNOW, nothing has changed in quite some time. CS6 is 13.0.1 X64, and I believe it's been that way for a while.

A couple weeks ago, I noticed that selecting a layer was "slow", or seemingly much slower than it had been. For example, my usual workflow has a layer for cloning, a layer for dodging, one for burning, an adjustment layer for curves and an adjustment layer for hue/sat. If I'm on Layer 0, and click on the Clone layer, it takes approximately 2 seconds to switch. Clicking on the hue/sat layer takes approximately the same 2 seconds. Previously, I know I never noticed the time to change layers, so I suspect it was

Changing tools, likewise, is significantly slower than it was previously.

In case it is/was something systemic, I checked the event logs, but I'm not throwing any errors in either the application section OR the system section.

I thought it might be a virus, so in addition to my daily run of Microsoft Security Essentials, I went to the online version of Trend Micro and had that do a full scan. It found only a couple registry errors that weren't actually errors, just artifacts.

I went through running services and turned off anything I didn't need, and went online and shut down any I didn't want running while testing.

So far, NOTHING has made any difference.

The only thing I'm seeing, and I've always had this, Photoshop uses a LOT of memory. At the moment, with one D300, dng file open, CS6 is using 7.75 GB of memory, an d Lightroom is using 1.8 GB. And, I believe if I GAVE Photoshop more memory it would use it.

At present, my preferences for performance are set at:

Available RAM: 10987 MB

Ideal: 6043-7911

PS Use: 8140

History and cache are

Tall and Thin

Default

Big and Flat

History States are 90 - this is down from 150, which I'd always used in the past

Cache levels: 6 - down from 8

Cache Tile Size: 1024K

Drawing Mode: Advanced (I've tried both normal and advanced, and it doesn't APPEAR to affect anytyhing)

Use Graphics Process is checked

30-bit display is checked.

Finally, in an effort to determine if I'm REALLY seeing a problem or just crazy, I went to my laptop, an i-720, 8GB system with a much less capable video card and images, catalog, and cache all on the same spindle, opened a file and played.......

Even on the laptop, although intensive operations are slower, I have easily sub-second response time to changing tools and switching from layer to layer. Again, either operation is virtually instantaneous. Which tells me there's SOMETHING going on with my desktop.

So, are there settings I should look at changing or even just experiment with? Something systemic I should look at? Blow it all away and re-install (an UGLY option)... Thoughts?

How content-aware fill with smart objects

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:07:39 GMT

I've done a (hopefully) fairly exhaustive search, and don't see anything on how to use these things together...

Open an image as a smart object. Add a layer for cloning and healing. Maybe add a curves adjustment layer and/or a hue/sat adjustment layer. Adjust things as needed.

Decide you want to extend the background on one side. Increase the canvas on that side. Select the chunk of canvas. What process should be used to employ the content-aware fill for that new piece of canvas? I don't seem to be able to have the smart object layer selected. If I have another layer selected the fill fails saying there aren't enough opaque (?) pixels.

Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, who knows what when?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 02 May 2013 02:25:15 GMT

Sorry for the bizarre title, but I"m not sure exactly how the whole connection between everybody with Smart Objects is supposed to work... Is this a Photoshop thing, a Bridge thing, or a Lightroom thing?

I have a RAW image in Lightrom... I make adjustments. I open it in Photoshop as a Smart Object. Add layers, fiddle, do normal Photoshop stuff.

Then I realize I goofed on the original RAW in Lightroom and had sharpened it BEFORE I went into Photoshop.

So, I open the RAW back up from Photoshop, which of course, opens in Bridge, NOT Lightroom, and fix the sharpening. Then back to Photoshop where I finish fiddling and save the .psd file.

EXCEPT, as near as I can tell, I now have a RAW file in Lightroom that doesn't know changes have been made.

And, since I haven't written the metadata to the RAW file on disk, I have a file in Lightroom that doesn't match what's on disk, a .psd file that doesn't match the RAW file that's in Lightroom,

and changes made in Bridge that don't seem to be anywhere...

How do I make sure the RAW file in Lightroom stays up-to-date with what's being used as the starting image in Photoshop? And how do I get Lightroom updated with whatever changes got made in Bridge?

Installed (maybe) Extension, can't see it

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:18:58 GMT

I know there's supposed to be a forum for the Extension Manager, but responses over there appear to be incredibly slow (read that as non-existent)...

Windows 7, 64-bit, Photoshop CS6.

I downloaded Mike Wickam's com.Configurator, which should provide a different tool panel for Photoshop CS6.

I ran the Extension Manager and installed the extension. The instructions say to restart Photoshop, then go to

Windows/Extensions "All Tools CS6" to make the panel button available. Click the "All Tools" button to open

the panel.

I don't HAVE an "All tools CS6" anything in Extensions. All that's there is Kuler and Mini Bridge. What do I

need to do to get this thing to show up?

Converted raw (or .dng) will not open in ACR?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:39:02 GMT

OK, now that I've gotten sort-of over the hurdle of synching all the pieces associated with a smart object, I've hit the NEXT hurdle (SOs appear to be the usual double-edged sword - kinda handy in a way but rife with pitfalls and hurdles)...

I open a .NEF in Bridge, go into ACR and open the file as a Smart Object in Photoshop. Double-click the layer icon and I'm back in ACR, just like all the demos and seminars I've watched. But, take the SAME .NEF in Bridge and open it as a standard image in Photoshop, then CONVERT it to a smart object, double-click the layer icon and all I get is a .psd and NOT jump into ACR. It does exactly the same thing with a .dng file And from Lightroom OR ACR...

I found an entry from a discussion (not in here, I couldn't find anything about this in here) about CS3 (yes 3), where a user had this problem and was told it's because the original image was opened as a rasterized image, NOT as a Smart Object from ACR... Which isn't making sense to me 'cause who cares what it was way back when, it's NOW a Smart Object and should be treated like one no matter HOW it got there...

Is there some preference or setting or something I need to change in Photoshop so this will work as expected is is there really some restriction about exactly HOW the Smart Object got created? And if so, is there some paragraph is big, bold letters in the documentation that makes it really clear to the uninformed that you MUST open it as a Smart Object or it won't work?

And yes, I KNOW that in ACR I can set it so it defaults to opening as a Smart Object, but like many other PS users I normally use Lightroom and I haven't seen any such default. Which means it's REALLY easy to forget to go down to the Open as Smart Object and instead just hit Open in Photoshop...

How do I do equivalent of File/Place in Photoshop

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:31:08 GMT

This was asked way back in 2009, and at that time the answer was no, not in V2... We're now at the end of V4 and pushing V5. So, how do I do the equivalent of the File/Place in Bridge?

Copy/Replay/Redo History on another layer?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:38:32 GMT

Photoshop CS6 13.0.1

I suspect the answer to this is no, but it's sure be handy for those of use that periodically mess up our workflow...

I generally use layers in Photoshop for cloning and healing. Unfortunately, every so often, I jump into PS and forget to create the layers before I race off and start cleaning up. I may go 50 steps of cloning or healing before I remember I'm on the background layer instead of the clone/heal layer........ Which causes me to utter profanities under my breath.

SO, is there any way for me to do a bunch of cloning, then realize I forgot my layers, CREATE the layers, then grab the previous history steps, undo them from the background layer and redo them on my clone/heal layer?

A companion question: Is there any reason history in Photoshop can't be made persistent like it is in Lightroom? It would sometimes be useful to end a session, go back into PS later on the .psd file and be able to have the previous history. It'd be REALLY nice if this was combined with the previous question...

Duplicate/phantom folders in Bridge

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:11:51 GMT

I'm having a little trouble believing this is a Bridge problem, but its the only place these show up, so...

Windows 7, 64-bit, CS6 13.0.1, LR4, Bridge 5.0.2.4

I do my organizing in Lightroom 4. And recently, I've reorganized some files in folders, and RENAMED folders in Lightroom. If you use Lightroom you're probably aware of how bothersome it is to resync everything, so it's easier just to do the fiddling and renaming there.

BUT, I still use Bridge for a variety of things.

Recently in Bridge (within the last couple days is the first time I've seen it), I'm getting sort-of duplicate folders in bridge. My image structure looks like

IMG_024_20070331 - so it's the 24th folder of images, and the date of the LAST image is 3/31/2007

If I reorganize and move files, I may rename the folder IMG_024_20070413 so it's STILL the 24th folder and the last image is now from 4/13/2007

Its a simple system and it makes it easy to find things when I'm searching 'cause I usually know the date or approximate date...

BUT, even though Windows Explorer KNOWS there's only 1 folder - IMG_024_20070413, as does Lightroom, xplorer2, and as near as I can tell, every other piece of software on the system,

Bridge, still shows IMG_024_20070331 as well as IMG_024_20070413...

I have a half dozen of these folders where Bridge is still showing the old folder as well as the renamed one...........

I've compacted cache. I've FLUSHED cache. I've rebooted and completely DELETED the entire fold structure on the partition that holds nothing BUT cache.

I've shutdown and restarted Bridge and pretty much everything else I can think of.

Is there somewhere that Bridge keeps additional information I need to delete? Is there something I need to refresh? And I've been renaming these folders intermittently for the last couple months. WHY is it only showing up now and only with the last few folders? The update checker SAYS I'm current at 5.0.2.4, but I don't know when it got updated...

What am I missing?

CS6 hanging during image save

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:16:13 GMT

Windows 7, 64-bit, PS CS6 13.0.1

OK, I KNOW there's gotta be a discussion of this, but I can't find it in here, so.........

VERY intermittently, when I do a save (or possible a save as), on a .psd file, Photoshop hangs. As in "0%" progress. It's happened probably 3 or 4 times in the past year. I DO have the "Save in Background" thing turned on.

This time, just to see if it was doing anything interesting, I opened the Task Manager and went into the Resource Monitor. Yes, PS is using the normal 7 - 10 GB of memory (today, since I only have one image open, it's only using 7GB or so), and there's nothing else going on. I have LR4 open, but the resource monitor says Photoshop isn't writing to any disk - or reading. If I just sit there and don't touch anything, the system goes quiet and NOTHING's happening...

SO, I went to lunch and left it sitting at "0%", just in case it'd wake up. Hour and a half later, it's STILL sitting there.

I went out and found a workaround, so it's no longer a big problem, but is there SOMETHING I should change or set or NOT do that'll prevent PS from doing this? It doesn't crash, it's not hung (I can open and close and edit and do whatever, but THAT image is stuck). Anyhow, I do a "Duplicate" and save the duplicate image, and that appears to work fine.

So, anything I should be doing differently?

When Does a Change in Lightroom show up in my Photoshop Smart Object?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:25:45 GMT

Windows 7, 64-bit, LR4.3, Photoshop 13.?

I edit an image in Lightroom. Open it as a smart object in Photoshop. Do my processing there (half a dozen layers for adjustments).

Go back to Lightroom and make a change.

I don't see the change in Photoshop. So, for fun I shove Temp all the way to 50,000 just in case I was missing it.

Still don't see the change... I don't have ANY pixel-bearing layers other than my initial smart object. I even turned OFF all the other layers.

I have auto-update open documents turned on in Preferences...

When do the changes from Lightroom show up in Photoshop? It there something I have to do in Lightroom?

Trying to figure out Layer Comps

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:50:52 GMT

I recently found out about Layer Comps, and I'm trying to use them. Does anyone have a pointer to documentation that'll tell me what they can and CAN'T do?

Here's my situation... Normal image, go into PS from LR and do my "normal" editing. When I'm done I have my have dozen layers. I do a Merge Visible, then

realize I want a Layer Comp of the image without the Merge Visible. So, I create one with the Merge Visible layer turned off.

Then, I go back and turn on that layer, then do a free Transform and shorten the image so it'll fit an 11x14 the way I want... It started 4288 pixels high and I shortened it about 3-400 pixels.

Create ANOTHER Layer Comp.

Then, I look at it and decide I'd like a black & white version so I put a B&W layer on the image. Adjust and when I'm done, create a third layer comp.....

Looking at the image I realize I'm gong to need a small version for the website, so I turn off the b&w layer, crop again to 1024x768 and create a final layer comp.....

But, once I think about it, I realize I should do my crop to 1024x768 from the image PRIOR to the shortening to fit the 11x14, so I go back and activate the first layer comp I

created, that SHOULD just have my original, basic layers... Which is appears to, BUT the image is shortened. It appears that my cropping or using the Free Transform

to alter the image IS NOT undone when I go back to the earlier Layer Comp...

All the stuff I've read so far just tells me how to create one, copy it, and delete it. But I haven't found the information the enables me to use the Layer Comp to move back in time

so I can crop in multiple shapes and things like that... Am I expecting something from the Layer Comp that it can't do, or am I doing something incorrectly?

I'll keep playing to see if I stumble on the answer, but I figured I'd ask the experts in here.

Snapshots, Care and Feeding

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:24:59 GMT

LR 4.3, Windows 7

I've started using Snapshots as a convenient way to capture in-process images. But, I can't find a couple things I'm sure HAVE to be in here somewhere...

1. The "generate virtual copies from all the snapshots of this image" button

2. The "export all the snapshots to jpgs or tiffs or whatever" button

How do I do Photoshop batch (running an action) from Lightroom?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:58:36 GMT

Images going up on the website get watermarked. The watermark is 3D, diagonal watermark that run across the entire image and is composed of the image content so it's just slightly visible and doesn't interfere with viewing. It gets implemented via a Photoshop action.

In Bridge, this is trivial. Just select the images, and tell Photoshop to batch process them, running the action that does the watermarking.

How do I do this in Lightroom?

Can't find my Photoshop preferences file

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:32:16 GMT

I KNOW this is stupid, but on Windows 7, 64-bit, with all the stuff turned on to show me hidden files and system files and everything, Photoshop CS6 (13.0.1?), and Lightroom 4.3

I'm trying to follow the advice that everything I do in Photoshop should be backed up somewhere other than as part of Photoshop, I periodically move all the stuff in

the Users/<me>/AppData/Roaming/Adobe... folders to a backup drive... And, by and large, I can find and figure out what stuff is.

But, I can't find my preferences file. I went to the Adobe help, and it says:

General settings

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp (32-bit version)

Adobe Photoshop X64 CS6 Prefs.psp (64-bit version)

Users/[user name]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6 Settings

I don't have ANYTHING called "Prefs.psp" in the Users stuff. As near as I can tell, I don't have anything called Prefs.psp ANYWHERE on the disk..

Do I get to pick where this file gets put? Could I have put it somewhere ELSE? Or, is it actually named something else?

I wouldn't be much concerned about his, but my latest stupid human trick (we won't go into that please) has convinced me I should do a better job of making sure I can restore Photoshop and Lightroom in the event of a "small error in judgement"

Tinting shadows with Gradient Editor

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:40:25 GMT

I recently saw a presentation that spoke of tinting shadows on an image by converting to black and white, then

creating a gradient map layer. From there you went into the Gradient Editor and place the cursor directly beneath

the gray scale, and starting from the black end, move it toward the white end until the arrow cursor changes to a

finger pointer. You then use the value in Location...

Unfortunately, every time I do this my cursor is ALWAYS a pointing finger. I can put in color stops, but I don't

believe that was what the technique used... I've tried using alt, ctrl, and/or shift in all the combinations I can

think of, but no matter what I do, I always get the pointing finger instead of the arrow cursor.

Does anyone know what I need to do differently to get the Gradient Editor to show an arrow cursor until I reach

whatever point I should be at when it changes to a pointing finger? And what IS that point? Does it represent

the darkest black in the image, or what?

Extremely slow import and no auto-update?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:34:07 GMT

I'm using LR 4.3 on Windows 7, 64-bit. It seems to work pretty well in Library and Develop and such, so I don't think there's a performance issue...

I have no idea what setting I"ve goofed up, but when I do a synchronize on a folder (may be 500 files or as few as 20), new files don't show up to be imported. I can look at the folder and SEE the file. It's there. But, it's NOT in the library grid. Synchronize does NOT see the file. If I do an import (separate from Synchronize), the file usually shows up. The file I can't see in the library shows up in the list with a checkmark, so it KNOWS it's not been imported. At that point, I can go ahead and tell LR to add them and it's fine.

ALSO, when I add a keyword to a new file, it doesn't show up when I open the files for that keyword. For example, I take a .dng file edit it, then finish in Photoshop. Saving the file in Photoshop gets it back to LR. I can see it in the files in Develop. I can see it in the Library grid. But it ISN'T in the keyword set. Even if I ADD the keyword AGAIN, it STILL doesn't show up in the files for that keyword. If I shut down Lightroom and restart it, THEN the file shows up in the keyword set. Is there some "auto-update" setting I've messed up? Something else? This isn't another bizarre video driver thing is it?

Changes lost after editing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:08:29 GMT

Lightroom 4.3, Windows 7, 64-bit...

Yesterday, I opened a catalog and edited a couple hundred images. I applied a preset at import, made a variety of changes, cropped, applied color labels, and the Pick flag. When I was done, last evening, I closed down Lightroom normally, as I do every day.

I did NOT write all my changes to the files on disk, which I normally do at the end of editing, but not ALWAYS...

This morning, I started Lightroom, opened the same catalog, and NONE of my changes from yesterday were preserved. Nothing crashed, nothing closed abnormally, NOTHING unusual happened before, during, or after yesterday's editing. I closed Lightroom and rebooted the system. Reopened, no difference.

I went to the catalog partition and looked in the previews folders. There are MANY previews/files that show changes from yesterday, but in Lightroom I have NONE of what was done... White balance is back to "as shot", ALL the basic, detail, and other changes in develop aren't present, no Pick flags, no color labels, no NOTHING... In the preview files, there are only 45 files changed with today's date (I haven't touched anything, yet), but there are 1104 files changed yesterday, so there are changes in there, but they're NOT showing up in Lightroom.

Does anyone have any ideas what happened, and how I can get the changes to show in LR again?

I'm going to have to go back through and redo all the changes because I don't have time to wait, but is there some way to FORCE Lightroom to read the catalog and previews and put the changes back? Or some other way to recover the changes (I'm presuming the changes actually ARE in the previews)...

Changing a background on a long haired cat

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:17:45 GMT

I have an image of a long-haired cat on a burgundy background. My client (I kid you not) would like me to change the background to dark blue......

I fiddled with several methods but couldn't get the fine, long hairs that are in front of the background to look right.

Eventually, I decided to try the selection/refine edge process...

I put a blue background under the layer with the cat on the burgundy background.

I selected the cat, staying INSIDE the edge so none of the burgundy was selected.

I went into Refine Edge and adjusted the radius until I had most of the edge fur selected. This was about 75 pixels.

I tried Smart Radius, but it didn't seem to make the fur selection any smarter... So, I currently have it off.

I then got the Refine Radius Tool and started doing a little selecting to get the fur right. This is where I hit the problem......

As I select around an ear, for example, I can see the burgundy background show up. When I release the selection, the burgundy disappears and is replaced by the blue. GREAT. BUT, instead of staying OUTSIDE the ear, the inner part of the ear ALSO gets turned blue. The same thing happens all along the edge of the cat - sometimes I get a pretty good selection, other times the blue permeates the area I was selecting. It's not 100%, but it's not ZERO percent either... This MAY not be a huge problem in some spots, but it's a BIG problem, for example, in the ears.

So, I get done selecting, and I have blue around the cat.

I click Decontaminate Colors to get rid of the blue and/or the burgundy from all around the cat. It works in places - along sides and such where the fur is shorter. But, the ears are still blue as are some of the longer tail fur.

I ran the amount between 50% and 100%, and although the decontaminate gets better, it never gets really good.

Do and Output to a new layer with a mask, figuring I'll just clean up some of the problem areas on the mask. Doesn't work. I can open the mask. I can see that instead of having a white cat outline, I have a PARTIAL white cat outline but the face, ears, and some areas are shades of gray.

So, on the image layer, I take a white brush at 100% and try to clean up the mask, painting over the ears to have the fur and ear detail come back, but it just comes in as mush. NO detail.

Am I using the wrong tool? Magic wand is nowhere NEAR detailed enough to give me a really good selection. Replace color leaves me with a blue background but burgundy edges.

If I'm using the right tool, am I just expecting too much from the tool? 'Cause whatever I'm getting, it's sort-of working, but not well enough for what I need.

Thoughts? And no, telling the client we have to reshoot isn't an option!