Merry Christmas!

For all of those who celebrate Christmas.... Merry Christmas!!! Have a relaxing day.

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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Lightroom 2.2

Just released Lightroom 2.2:

for PC http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4234
for mac http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4233

When upgrading computers..... Lightroom

Just got asked this question this week. So I thought I would answer here as well.

When you change computers and reinstall Lightroom 2 or 1 and then try to open up a catalog you will most likely see ? marks saying that all your files are missing.

Easiest way Make sure when you set up your catalog have all your images in one many folder and have sub folders.... because you can right click the top folder and click on "Find missing folder..." and show it where your folder is and then BAM! Lightroom will find all the images!


*If you don't have one main folder... then you will have to right click each seperate folder and point each folder to the correct location.


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all goes well

So I think about my blog often and that I want to keep up to date with all the new information that I am learning with CS4 and of course Lightroom 2.1. But to no avail.....

Shooting has finally slowed down and I have time to catch up on all my office work, Albums, marketing etc... It was nice to take off a week. I 'm not a overtime kinda of person.

Printing is still going well and my Rock Printing business is doing well (www.rockprinting.com) I continue to print with an Epson but Canon is standing there ground now and I lmost considered buying a canon.

If anyone is interested and living in the Denver area Epson is putting on a workshop:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/PrintAcademy/pa_home.jsp

I think I will give it a whirl.

I just attended the Cs4 workshop put on by NAPP in Denver this last month by Dave Cross... I was disappointed with the information that was taught. I knew about 95% of everything that talked about. I am not an expert at Photoshop but there needs to be a way to separate people that have lots of experience and newbies. I will not attend another if it doesn't change. On a positive note NAPP(National Association of Photoshop Professionals) has been the best organization I ever joined!

A quick photoshop tip:

Use 'layer comps" and "smart objects" when laying out an album. It will save you time (and headaches). "Layer comps" will allow you to save multiple layouts of the same page in that file and go back to each one at anytime. I use to have multiple files with different layouts which ate away at my hard drive space! It is similar to "snapshop" but way better.

"Smart objects" are best thing Adobe has ever done in Photoshop. It allows an image to come into Photoshop and lets you resize it as many times as you want without destroying the image (unlike transform.) I know that when I am laying out a wedding album I transform an image multiple times on a page to figure out the best layout and by the time I find what I like the image has been degraded so much that I have to open up the opriginal image, resize it, and then drag iy back into my layout. With an image as a smart object I can skip that step and save time!

If anyone want to know more or needs help with "smart objects" or "layer comps" please email or call and I would be glad to walk you through it!


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ugh, why do they make it so complicated....

So tonight... I'm a little tired, shot a 10 hour wedding but need to import and back up files before bed.

I open lightroom 1.4 and need to export my images from the engagement session( in main catalog) and create a catalog with their engagement images and of tonights wedding. Easy right?

Not when your tired...

So I goto to the folder I wanted exported> right click>export this folder as catalog

A dialog box opens up. I tell it where I want it and also what I want to name it. But!!! Below that you can check or uncheck 2 boxes, export negative files and include available previews.

Export negative files? What's that mean? I look it up and it tells me:
"“Negative files” refers to the original files that were imported into Lightroom."

HUH? I think I know what that means but wasn't a 100% sure.

So I did some research which took me a minute or 2, but most people said the same thing as adobe. but then I finally understood!

Why didn't they find an easier way to say, "move your original files with catalog"

So If I was trying to export it all onto backup hard drive I would check the box. But if I wanted to keep it in the same place but create a catalog with those images I would uncheck it.

Why make it so complicated?

Color Management in Firefox 3.0

I haven't finished telling my story of my color management woes but I thought I would share this since it was part of my solution.

I wanted to let you know that Firefox 3.0 is now color managed. By default it is turned off. Follow the link below and it will turn color managment on!If you have any questions turning it on please email me(It took me a minute to figure it out myself)

Click here and follow the directions