jerryrock

I do not believe it is as easy as installing a cross platform upgrade and entering the old

number. Adobe requires you to fill out and fax a Letter of Software Destruction that certifies

that you agree to destroy your old version of the software. Once that is received, they will

issue the new software license.

I went through this process 2 years ago when I moved from PC to MAC.

"Put the film directly on the glass using a wet mount scanning. This is the best way to scan

for ultimate quality reguardless of film format."

This is not true of the Epson Perfection 700/750 series scanners. They utilize 2 separate

scanning lenses. The high resolution lens is only used when a negative/slide holder is placed

on the scanner.

Wet mounting 35mm film is counterproductive.

James,

Part of the problem is your hardware. Aperture utilizes the GPU and memory of your video

card saving on CPU processing resources. The MacBook has an integrated video card with

shared system memory, not the optimal configuration for Aperture. The stalling and slow

response time you are experiencing is a direct result of a lack of an independent video

card with dedicated memory.

The other part could result from the fact that Aperture has been optimized to run with

Leopard and certain features are not available in Tiger (example - extended tethering &

RAW support).

"I know a graphic artist and most of her work is TIFF because that is what is supported with

the printing industry programs."

The printing industry has changed with the technology and now supports the use of PDF files

with embedded PSD, TIFF or Jpeg files.

Everyone is taking this out of context. You have to read the rest of the terms:

"?Publicly accessible? areas of the Services are those areas of the Adobe network of

properties that are intended by Adobe to be available to the general public. However,

publicly accessible areas of the Services do not include Services intended for private

communication or areas off the Adobe network of properties such as portions of World

Wide Web sites that are accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served

by Adobe."

If you post in a public area, you are giving away your rights.

This is not stating that your stored images are property of Adobe. Adobe is giving you 2

gigs of on-line storage space and image editing capability for free.

Yes you are correct about the control panel settings. Printer specific color profiles are

created for paper types and can be found on the Epson website.

"I guess I'm just a little bitter after a raft of problems with this thing including accidently

ejecting the Windows partitioned hard drive which is extremely easy to do on a Mac."

The Mac OS "just works" make the switch. You can transfer your Photoshop License with a

cross platform transfer, you pay only the postage for the new disks.

You should not be making any adjustments to the monitor prior to hardware calibration.

LCD monitors do not have RGB adjustments only backlighting control. The monitor and your

video card should be set to factory default to prepare for calibration.

You can adjust Bridge settings for quick thumbnails, high quality thumbnails or convert to

high quality thumbnails when previewed. You can also increase Bridge cache size and

compact the cache to increase performance.

Adjusting these settings should speed up your workflow.

Another feature of .mac is one click web posting from applications like iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb

and Aperture. It can substitute for a FTP server if you need to transfer very large files.

RAW files always pass through the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in prior to opening in

Photoshop CS3. Photoshop alone cannot process camera raw files.

The iPhoto library is proprietary and the photos it contains can only be opened in iPhoto (or

Aperture). What you can do is export the photos to another folder and then point DPP to

that folder to open them.

There is also the official training workbook from Adobe Systems <b>Adobe Photoshop CS3

Classroom in a Book</b> that takes you through a series of lessons that teach you the

basics and tools of the program. It comes with a cd containing the lesson files as well as

video segments by Russ Brown.

When you agree to a cross platform upgrade, you must sign a "letter of destruction"

(agreeing to destroy your current version) and fax it to Adobe.

Image files do not differ between platforms and there is no "conversion" required.

For clarification, ACR 4.3.1 is not a standalone program. It is a Photoshop plug-in. Another

point to note is that Lightroom and ACR share the same raw processing engine.

I tried the new NIK Viveza plug-in to adjust color and contrast on 2 different areas of the

image.

Aperture lists that it will always work with a "wide gamut" colorspace.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302827

iPhoto 08, Aperture 2 and Canon's DPP are all Mac compatible programs that support RAW

format.

OSX Leopard also supports RAW format.

The first step to troubleshooting Photoshop is to reset the preferences:

Resetting Preferences at Launch Time

If you would like to reset all of your Photoshop preferences, simultaneously hold down the

Control+Alt+Shift (Windows), Command+Option+Shift (Mac) keys as you launch the

application.

The Lens correction filter works with 8 or 16 bit images, but is not available for grayscale,

bitmapped or indexed color files.

Joey,

You can download their printer icc profiles and place them in Library/Colorsync/Profiles.

In Photoshop CS3 open your image select Edit/Convert to Profile and scroll down to the

profile you just installed. Save your TIFF file with the embedded profile and upload to the

printer's FTP site.

The sRGB colorspace is fine for web but just too narrow for quality prints.

Here is a link to a great article on calibrating the MacPro with or without LED backlighting:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-8741-9027