It sounds like you accidentally created a new catalog. Go to File > Open Recent, and see if your original catalog is listed there. You didn't answer to Per's request. This is however the most plausible cause. Second possibility: You are working on a Windows PC and your catalog is stored on an external disk. Windows has the habit to change drive letters when the former drive letter is used by some other disk. This is very annoying and makes the catalog disappear. You need to open the catalog using the file->open menu in Lightroom (or double click the LR catalog file). ... View more

Typically, the value ranges from -100 to +100 depending on the picture. I individually set the clarity for each picture and it depends really on what is the subject. People: use subtle adjustments. - romantic views use negative values however. Nature: A tree gets more contrasted with clarity added. I love to show the structure of the bark. Technology/Architecture: Use higher values for highly contrasted pictures. ... View more

Questions you should try to answer to target the cause of the missing pictures: Did you use LR on the PC? Where they included in the database there? What are the file names of the missing files? May there be a naming problem? Are the files accessible from the Mac? (Try tools that read data) Are the files true image data files? (if RAW read them with the camera provided software, if JPEG, read them with a standard image previewer). What is the error message you get, when you try importing the images to the Lightroom database? -  You may post the error message here. ... View more

Photoshop and Lightroom (at the same version level) share the same raw file development engine. There can be no differences except if the parameters are different. ... View more

Did you upgrade your OSX in the meantime? Apple does not well run older software on newer OSX systems! ... View more

Jim_Simon wrote: wmv is the windows native video form. Maybe, but...it's just not a good option any more. Use MP4/H.264 from now on. Could you please motivate your findings? ... View more

Yes, that's trying to get an output, but it does not tell me about sequence 9 and error 6. ... View more

wmv is the windows native video form. The mp4 convert worked, but in the meantime I have also extracted the audio and replaced it, as the error message suggests that there may be a problem with audio encoding. So now I'm again trying to convert the sequence to wmv and as a second trial, I'm converting the mp4 file to wmv. I will post the results of those manipulations. ... View more

You can use the "Browse" button and then navigate to the place, where Premiere Pro is installed. That should normally be this path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 Be sure to tick the "Always use..." ! As you see, I still have the association and it works fine for me. I just tested it. You need however to save your old projects under a new name. And new projects won't open (probably) with the old software. ... View more

Encore from CS6 is the latest of this software. I suppose that Adobe thinks, that DVDs and BlueRays are no more state of the art and that content moves to all digital. I for myself I am creating only digital content to run from a hard disk or a stick. No DVDs for the last 5 years. Encore my be "old", but it is still the software to use if you are on Adobe Cloud. however if you want to invest a small amount of cash into a authoring software, here you go: The Best DVD Authoring Software of 2016 | Top Ten Reviews ... View more

Thanks Sahil, Point 3 - Disable startup scripts. did the job. I disabled all startup scripts except those for 2017 programs. Bridge runs now like an hourglass. ... View more

t.w54303370 wrote: Thanks! I need to get some SD cards for backup, I only record to CF at the moment and I'm always paranoid I'll erase them by accident. My camera is a 5DM3. Records at the same time the pictures on both (CF and SD) cards. I would however have prefered to be able to use double CF cards. t.w54303370 wrote: I had needed to reuse my cards before I could export the entire catalogs, so as a backup I just imported the photos (as new, from the cards) to my desktop disk, and am now trying to copy the LR settings over from laptop to desktop without copying the images all over again. You can export part of your catalog as a new catalog and import that one into an existing catalog on a second machine. I find it easier to use an external disk for mobile working and importing that catalog onto my desktop catalog. My backup is a third disk on a NAS (actually it's a RAID, so I have additional protection). You can never be to paranoid if you handle data security and backups. 🙂 My current night mare would be a crypting virus. Therefore I disconnect the NAS after the backup (which is quite impractical). ... View more

My guess would have been working with size, as DPR files are quite a lot bigger then standard RAW files. You can still go and rename them on-card, before importing. ... View more

I use an external hard-disk (USB3), where I store the catalog and the image files. That works fine, and I can edit the files on the computer at my discretion (I'm using 3 stations, as I have my own private worksation, my laptop and my work workstation). Do not forget, however to backup your image files and the catalog at regular intervals. I do that, each time I connect my HD to my workstation. My workflow is as follows: Mobile: 1TB of work disk Desktop: 6TB of picture disk Backup: NAS with 18TB space. When I'm on the road, I import my pictures from the CF card to my mobile work disk. I do my edits there. When I'm at home, I connect the mobile disk to my desktop and import that as a catalog to my desktop (File->Import from an other catalog). Then I backup my desktop to the NAS. After that, I only delete the files on my CF/SD card (my main camera is a EOS 5DM3 and I record always on both cards). ... View more

franklins81112604 wrote: Others I want to keep only as JPGs.  In the light of available disk space, I wouldn't do that. I keep all my RAW files, except those that I want to delete, because they are out of focus or similar. ... View more

Golden rules for Lightroom: Do not change directory or filenames (important to your Lightroom database) outside of Lightroom. Lightroom does not physically put the files inside of its database, but uses only references. However, in the databases are stored your edits (only the parameters, no edited files). This means that when you apply a exposure of +1, Lightroom stares "Exposure +1" in the database. When you export your files, LR reads the original file, applies the edits accordingly and saves an edited file in the format you specified at the location you specified. This means, that when you move your original files or change the directory path to the file, without LR knowing about that, you will be in trouble. The file will still be shown thanks to a preview, and you may still apply parameters to it, but the connection to the original file is broken. LR shows that by a "!" in the image icon. Fortunately LR has tools to repair this (update folder location, synchronize folder). Suspected doubles are not imported again to avoid multiple problems with duplicates (which one is the current one?). If you want duplicating files for applying other datasets, do not copy the file (physically) but create a virtual copy, meaning simply to apply a second dataset to the same physical image file. ... View more

Look here: How to set Lightroom preferences In the Lightroom preferences you will find "Print Templates", where I suppose to find my user defines set-ups. ... View more

Happy that your problem has been solved. ... View more

White Balance does not induce noise, or you have a lot of noise in the eye picture. That's strange if not impossible for a ISO100 picture with no development going on. Development parameters can be applied as main parameters or via a filter (graduated, brush, radial). I'm sure that there are some parameter adjustments like "Shadows" or "Exposure" applied. As stated before, the pictures are out of focus and at least for the eye picture, I would also assume some camera shaking or subject movement due to too long exposure times. That can't be easily corrected, even that Photoshop has now a tool to enhance such pictures. ... View more

You can also use Image->canvas size in Photoshop. You could even automate the process of creating images for the frame, if you have a bunch of images to treat. ... View more

The eye picture seams to be too noisy for a ISO 100 picture. So I suppose that there was some processing going on, like adding exposure. Stroke effects will be visible, if the size of the tip is very fine or the tip is very hard. It also depends on the parameters your changing. Adding a lot of exposure will obviously show all the areas, where the brush passed over in a different shape/colour. ... View more

The current algorithm in Photoshop for blowing up pictures is the best I have seen since the early PS versions. And yes, creating a bigger artwork may be a good idea, but this is about colours and inkjet printing. We are not talking about offset printing here. The only current reason, I my have to use CMYK is, when I need a clean black in offset. ... View more

This is a calibration problem. Your screen displays colours not only in an other system (RGB) as your printer (CMYK+other colours if it is a photo printer), but even if you work in the same system, like having 2 screens of the same make and model, you may have differences in colour and lightness. The solution to this is calibration. You (using a a calibration program and some special hardware) measure the colours reproduced and adapt some tables, that are used to translate the colours from one media to an other. This is complex and even pros are not always doing a good job here. To complicate the situation for prints, calibration is paper and ink dependant. If you are in a controlled environment, ie it's your screen and printer, then you can try to adapt the pictures in a way, that the print is looking correct. To be clear: this is absolutely an amateurish behaviour and should be replaced as soon as possible with a calibrated workflow. Anyhow, consumer printers are optimized for sRGB colour space and RGB printing. The printer and driver are using all the necessary measures to convert such an image to a correct paper image. You still need to select the correct paper and type for the print job! And if you are using a paper that is not listed by the printer driver, you need to load the correct colour tables for that paper, when they exist. In this case you only need to provide a good RGB image. If you are taking your design to an outside printer service, you absolutely need to make sure that you meet the correct and required parameters. Probably, by adapting your image to your printer using the correct paper parameters and the sRGB colour space, an outside print will not differ much. I still recommend doing a test print. At the end, it will be cheaper then to shredder all the prints. A test print may be a picture with stripes of different brightnesses. In the good old times a similar system was used to find out the correct parameters for classic photo developing. Also, a serious service provider will give some guidance on how to prepare the picture and will check if it is correct. ... View more

Contact Adobe Customer Service via chat or phone. This is a licensing issue that can't be solved by the users. ... View more

Rusti Alex wrote: Checked - Lightroom is up to date. You should still post a version number. It is not that difficult you know! You message will be obsolete and in a few month, nobody will be able to evaluate the problem and see if the problem is of concern to him. ... View more