What is your final background going to be? If you just need the items isolated on white, get a small light table, light tent, and learn to use fill cards. ... View more

Create a test folder on your desktop with one file and one folder, put one file inside that subfolder. See if it works there. ... View more

This is a mid-2015 15" model, correct? Not a new one? Check the settings for GPU acceleration, according to this chart OpenCL should be supported: Mac computers that use OpenCL and OpenGL graphics - Apple Support ... View more

Adobe is aware of this issue. Can't say if or when it will be addressed though. ... View more

Unfortunately this happens with Bridge, sometimes even moving away from the folder you are working on will cause Bridge to unload its cache and then not find files. With 90,000 files, you may want to look at a higher-end DAM to manage things. Macs unfortunately have problems with SMB on older Windows servers as well, although Server 2016 has improved things considerably. ... View more

Do you have any filters enabled? A pinned filter would do what you describe. ... View more

i answered in the first reply. This has turned into someone asking if it better to eat using a fork or a knife and you claiming that a fork is always the right answer. You can ignore my point if you have to be “right” but your answer is incomplete. Now let’s quit clogging the dead horse shall we? ... View more

:sigh: Lets not miss my ORIGINAL point which is that its NOT either/or. These are different tools, they do NOT do the same thing, they do NOT have the same usage, and fighting a straw man is not helpful. OP, both ACR and Photoshop have useful tools. Don't let anyone try to distract you by veering off into nonsense arguments. ... View more

ACR does coarse global adjustments. And it’s not recovery, it’s setting the level of a tonal range. The Photoshop effect is different. Not the same thing. It doesn’t work the same way or yield the same results. If you want a coarse global adjustment, you do that in ACR. If you want targeted recovery with more settings to adjust, you use Photoshop. I’m not sure why you are putting words in my mouth and being combative but please stop. You are claiming that I’m “disputing” something which I never said. Oh and you can’t mask a global adjustment that you made before you opened a file in Photoshop, so I’m not sure where that comes from. So, OP... it’s not either or. im not sure why some commenters are posing it as such but you use the programs at different times in the process for different things and you will get different results. ... View more

OP- just take this away. These are different adjustments that do different things. Its not a choice of using one or the other, its picking the right tool for the job. ... View more

You aren't addressing the OP which was asking about the difference. My first reply did just that. ... View more

You guys are missing the point. These are not the same things. The adjustments in ACR are NOT the same as in Photoshop. They do different things. ... View more

Working in ACR doesn’t let you make complex selections or apply an effect to a blended layer. in addition, there may be other editing that you don’t want to redo. even things like dust spotting or stray hair removal are one time only for me. It would be foolish to go back to ACR and start over because I didn’t get a global adjustment correct. One of the most important things you gain with experience is knowing how to avoid costly rework. ... View more

Sorry but I disagree with most of this. Highlight/shadow in Photoshop is more like a filter. In ACR, it absolutely is a tonal range. Move your mouse across the histogram and it shows you what brightness level of the image will be affected. As for applying adjustments early as possible, that’s is NOT a rule. Apply them in the order that you need. Altering shadow level in ACR is global while in Photoshop you can select a particular area to adjust. ... View more

You may find it helpful to look through the information here, especially the section on line and character spacing. Photoshop Help | Photoshop User Guide ... View more

Highlights and shadows in ACR covers a specific tonal band which cannot be adjusted. If you put your cursor in the histogram area and move it across, you'll see what tonal range the adjustments cover. All you can change is the level of that tonal band. In Photoshop, you can use masks, complex selections, you can change the highlight/shadow parameters, you can Fade the effect after you apply it, you can apply it to a single layer (I often use it on a duplicate layer which I blend in.) Other than the name, these are really two different things. ... View more

The current version of Bridge is 8.1, be sure to update if you haven't. There are four ways to export JPEG from Bridge: Image Processor - you need the matching version of Photoshop installed Image Processor Pro - third-party fork of Dr. Brown's original Camera RAW My JPEG Multiexport script - http://lumigraphics.zenfolio.com/img/g112637512-o367026446.dat… ... View more

I'm not sure what you are asking. App Store? AFAIK, Adobe only sells Elements via the Apple App Store (not sure on Windows.) What is the error message you are getting? ... View more

I'm guessing that CS2 use is minimal now. That version is from what, 2006 maybe? A lot of what we reference here isn't available in older versions. ... View more

I'm 54 and I'm not sure where I need to be addressed. Is there any specific issue that you feel needs to be fixed? ... View more

OP, its really easy. No need for all the craziness above Select your path then press Cmd/Ctr-T for transform. Click the left-middle point to show X coordinate, and record that. Now click the opposite right-middle point and again record X. Press esc to exit transform mode. Then press View->New Guide, click Vertical, and type in the first X value. Repeat with the second X value. ... View more

I'm not sure why we are getting different results. AFAIK Adobe has not published details of their JPEG libraries, but one of the big changes from early on with the format is that when saving, a modern compressor looks at blocks on disk and doesn't rewrite those that haven't changed. Not only that, but metadata is in the header of the file. There is no reason to touch the image data. You just write metadata changes at the correct offset and close the file. It would make no sense whatsoever for a library to recompress and rewrite the image blocks if they don't change. ... View more

If you recompress it on save then yes it will be resampled. I tested and there was no change when you save the same file. You can duplicate the file first if you want to retain the original. ... View more

You can test this easily. Create a file and save as JPEG. Change the metadata and Save As. Now drag the Background layer from the new file onto the old one and set blending mode to Difference. To make sure you see variations, add a Levels adjustment layer with the white slider all the way to the left, so black is 0, gamma is 1, and white is 2. Now look at all the pixels. If they are all black, there is no difference between the image data. You can further test by saving at a different quality or using the brush tool set to one pixel to make tiny changes. Even if they can't be seen by the eye, the changes will show up this way. ... View more

You can use Bridge to remove metadata, either manually, with a saved template, or using a script (Extendscript, which is an offshoot of JavaScript.) You could also do this with a script within Photoshop and not have to individually open and resave the file. Note that Photoshop (like most modern JPEG editors) does not recompress unchanged image blocks and so there should be no loss of quality. Finally, you can use a third-party tool that can edit metadata. Exiftool was mentioned and there are lots of other programs available. This is an example Bridge script that would delete the title field. Paste this into a text editor, save as a .jsx file, open Bridge preferences and the Startup Scripts folder, drag the .jsx file in, and relaunch Bridge. ----------------------------------------------------- #target bridge if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ){     FT = MenuElement.create("command", "Delete Title", "at the end of Tools");     } FT.onSelect = function (){     DeleteTitle();     } function DeleteTitle(){      try{          var thumbs = app.document.selections;          if(!thumbs.length) return;          if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined)  ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject("lib:AdobeXMPScript");          for(var a in thumbs){               if(thumbs.hasMetadata){                   var md = thumbs.synchronousMetadata;                   var xmp = new XMPMeta(md.serialize());                   xmp.deleteProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC, "title");                   var updatedPacket = xmp.serialize(XMPConst.SERIALIZE_OMIT_PACKET_WRAPPER | XMPConst.SERIALIZE_USE_COMPACT_FORMAT);                   thumbs.metadata = new Metadata(updatedPacket);                }           }      }      catch(e){      } } ... View more

There are multiple ways to do this but a second action then edit the script to call the one you want is the best bet. ... View more

Actually, actions can have conditionals. See if you can create a master action that checks your files first and then processes them. ... View more