Hi Everyone, Here is a post with details on what is covered in the updates posted last night. Those updates being 13.0.3 and 13.1.1. Those updates don't have any specific changes to address the bug brought up in htis thread. http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2012/12/photoshop-13-0-313-1-1-updates-now-available.html regards, steve ... View more

Hi Adriana, I've been helping mgphoto2 with her issues on another thread. For some reason the 7.3 installer silently failed and wasn't present. Rerunning the installer seems to have worked on one of her machines, so hopefully she's back and running and can edit her 6D files. Enjoy your holiday! steve ... View more

Hi, As far as I know, Bridge only tries to load ACR from 2 locations (Primarily: Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS6\File Formats\ or secondarily: Adobe Bridge CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-Ins). Past issues have been corrected by deleting mulitple plug-ins residing in these directories. Ultimately, one only wants a single plug-in in the Common Files directory so it doesn't conflict and can be shared with Photoshop. (Noel is able to work with multiple plug-ins by renaming them so the .8bi extension is obficated to the loading program. Another way to do this is by addind the '~' character at the front of the name.) ycardoza had a single plug-in but it was still the 7.3 version. We don't know why the 7.2 didn't copy over it earlier, but by renaming and copying in the older 7.2 as 'Camera Raw.8bi' all is working as expected. regards, steve ... View more

Hi Robert, Thanks for replying back. I'll try to reproduce on my end with sample files and sidecar provided by ycardoza. If I need more help, I'll ping this thread. I was able to get ycardoza downgraded to ACR 7.2, as well. Hopefully this will hold for the time being and you both can work with your images as usual. regards, steve ... View more

Hi Robert, Thanks for the offer. I've been a bit buried in other issues and haven't yet been able to parse all the details from this thread (or attempt to reproduce the thumbnail regeneration). Have you tried to downgrade abck to ACR 7.2? Has that made a difference? regards, steve ... View more

Hi Everyone, I've been hepling ycardoza in the background via direct email. Something isn't taking so I'm going to see if I can set up a Connect seesion to take a look at the system setup. You've done a good job of explaining the way to workaround Adobe's lack of downgrading to a lesser minor Camera Raw version with installers. In the past we've had broader problems when just a manual install was provided. Though, this case shows at least one negative of not having an easy way to roll back the plug-in to the previous version. I'm not fully versed on the repercusions of manually switching out plug-ins. I don't think the installer just looks at the name of the plug-in curently installed. Regardless, Adobe would have a hard time supporting the steps outlined in this thread, and Noel rightly states this is a 'do at your own comfort level' task. From the details given so far, somehow the Bridge cache for some specific aspect of camera raw files appears to be getting invalidated after it's generated. I've been away to long from the working end of Bridge caching, but hope to get this sorted out. I'll update this thread as things get figured out. regards, steve ... View more

Hi, I'll contact you directly with some info. There's a few services Adobe provides (CCM free trial, Adobe SendNow) that I can point you to for future consideration. regards, steve ... View more

Can you share one of the files? If so, I'll contact you directly. I'm also seeing if there's a quick way to get back to ACR 7.2 for you. steve ... View more

Could you be running low on disk space? ... View more

Hi, You could certainly try a cache purge for a single directory ( small number of files) to see it it continues to cycle. Does this happen with a particular format or is it across the board JPG, PSD, Camera Raw? steve ... View more

Hi, I'm going to check on this for you. It sounds like something in the caching has become unhitched. Which OS are you using? What version of Bridge do you have installed? Photoshop should be unaffected, except for potential system resource choking, but IIR, Bridge should be generating thumbnails on low priority threads. Have you looked or posted in the Bridge forum? regards, steve ... View more

Hi, Do you have a Creative Cloud membership license or a perpetual license? Also, have you tried going to Help> Updates...? regards, steve ... View more

Hi, Picture Package is not available or compatible with Ps CS6. Take a look at File> Automate> Contact Sheet II... which was reintroduced as a shipping command in Ps CS6. ... View more

OK, I'm not following what problem you're having. You have Ps CS6 installed, what are you trying to change for running in 64-bit mode? thx-steve ... View more

Hi, Only Photoshop CS5 included the option to run in either a 32-bit or 64-bit mode. Are you running Photoshop CS6? regards, steve ... View more

Hi, The ability to change to the Middle Eastern Text compositing engine is new to Ps CS6. MelyElly wrote: I have Photoshop CS 8.0 regards, steve ... View more

Hi, Thanks for the system info. Acer has an updated driver that might help. It still isn't very recent but worth trying. You can find the VGA_AMD_8.741.1.5000_W7x86W7x64 zip here: http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers regards, steve ... View more

Hi, That is you video card driver. Can you launch Ps and then go to Help> System Info.. then copy/paste the text into a reply? I'm not sure what the latest version driver is available for your Acer, but we have problems with the current desktop ATI 12.10 drivers. regards, steve ... View more

Hi, This might be a bit of overkill for your question but here's more information on hardware setup for optimizing Ps CS6 performance: http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/10/how-to-tune-photoshop-cs6-for-peak-performance.html regards, steve ... View more

Per the usual, Jeff is correct. ;-) This was fixed and is included in the 13.0.1 update. If you have a file that still shows that message and you are using 13.0.1, then we'd appreciate a sample file for investigation. regards, steve ... View more

Hi Konrad, Can you post the file for Adobe to look at? If so we can at least look at fixing your file(s) until a fix gets provided. If you can, reply back and I'll work with Jeff Tranberry on getting your contact info. regards, steve ... View more

Hi, Just to add another reference point, you might want to explore Dr. Brown's resource on using Photoshop Extended for lenticular printing here: http://www.russellbrown.com/3D.html. regards, steve ... View more

Hi, The Mac OS X version for 3.1 is still only 32-bit according to their site: FULL compatibility with Adobe Photoshop CS3 - CS5*, including support of the Smart Filters and Video Layers (for PS CS3 - CS5 Extended) options of these hosts! The combination of our Photoshop plugin's power and Smart Filters' flexibility lets you quickly and extremely conveniently edit the obtained result, when necessary. * Mac OS X version of Photoshop CS5 is to be run in the 32-bit mode ONLY. Tom, I don't know of any other full featured solutions to offer for your consideration, sorry. regards, steve ... View more

Thanks Vinod, I stand corrected. What is needed to make sure the file retains the layer data for later Photoshop editing, is to make sure and have the 'Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities' checked on in the Save Adobe PDF dialog. The PDF/X presets will uncheck and make this option inactive, which would explain why Bo's suggestion could still fail (the Layers option gets overridden by a PDF/X preset). regards, steve ... View more

Hi S., There are a few cases where text won't be rasterized, but generally Photoshop only saves out a flat rastered PDF. You can use the File> Scripts> Layer Comps to PDF... as a way to get each layer out to a single, multi-page PDF, but that's not quit the same thing. regards, steve ... View more

Hi, What is the name of your boot drive? regards, steve ... View more