update images....

So I knew about this feature but had forgotten....

If you are working in Lightroom, export the file, set up the post-processing to open in Photoshop it will open up in Photoshop. Which is great! Especially when I am working on an album.

But what happens when you are working on an image and realize you wanted to make a few more changes in Lightroom?

Without closing the file in Photoshop, you can go into Lightroom make additional changes and export again. What happens then amazed me the first time, I thought Photoshop would crash or open 2 files that were the same, but instead it told me that the image had been updated and if I wanted to update the current file with the changes.

This is really helpful if I have multiple files open , for example, realize I had the wrong color temp and need to change them all. It seems to make my workflow smoother and I seem to screw up less.


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Photoshop and memory with 64 bit....

I now own Vista 64 bit (It is what it is, so don't give me to much of a hard time.) I bought 64bit because I have Lightroom 2.0 and wanted to take advantage of the memory increase.

BUT what about Photoshop CS3? I have 8 gigs of memory and CS3 can't use it all! Very sad....... but there is one change in your CS3 preferences I would recomend making: Maximize your memory usage....

In CS3 goto:
edit>preferences>performance...>

Move the slider in the Memory Usage box to 100%. You have the memory, use it... It will max out at 3255 MB. At least it will be better then it was, because before I had 2 gigs and could only allocate 70%, if I did more it would bring my system to a halt.

My other experience(at least with weddings) I can have Lightroom, Bridge, and Photoshop(with 10+ files open) and still never touch the scratch disk when I have my memory usage at a 100%...

My belief unless File sizes become sooooo big. Scratch disks on PCs are the thing of the past especially with Photoshop CS4 taking advantage of the 64bit Operating Systems memory increase.


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