Re: Rebuilt computer and Lightroom 6

Abambo · ‎Aug 01, 2016

Either you can solve this using your Adobe account or you need to contact adobe directly: Contact Customer Care Phone support may or may not be available, but activation/deactivation support is. I suppose that Adobe can manually deactivate your Licenses of your desktop.

Abambo · ‎Jul 29, 2016

Some discussions don't have a correct answer and for those a voting system could be implemented. If an answer gets a certain number of votes, the question changes to be assumed being answered. Automatically locking old questions would avoid discussing on the same topic on and on. If you would like to revigorate an old discussion, you can simply link to that.

Abambo · ‎Jul 26, 2016

Thanks Rob for pointing this out. Even that it does not concern me at the moment, it may in the future.

Abambo · ‎Jul 26, 2016

In the "Layer" menu you'll find the rasterize command. If you have a smart object, that means (normally) that you want a smart object to be able to keep some editing or filter options available. Rasterizing flattens that layer out and takes away these options. If it is only to remove some background, you can click the "Add layer mask button". That creates a mask picture. This mask picture is a black and white graphic where black means transparency, white opaque and a tone in between a transparency mix. When you have made a selection before adding the mask, Photoshop uses that selection as a starting point. By selecting the mask, you can draw on it with the tools as you would on the picture. So you may use the brush, apply filters etc. Best with this is: It's non destructive. You can revert your picture to any state just by modifying the mask.

Abambo · ‎Jul 26, 2016

They couldn't print it, because of the transparency that was knocked out. We changed the design, which was ok for us. We use spot colours for a reason in relation with our workflow. We use themed colours but use for the last page of our brochures the same address sheets. We replace the spot colours to reflect the brochures colour scheme. With the ink manager I force the final colour to be a CMYK process colour. Works fine for us. The print service provider gets a CMYK document and he does not need to worry about colours.

Abambo · ‎Jul 25, 2016

Well, my print service provider on his professional offset printer and especially his heavy prepress machinery didn't like the output file either.

Abambo · ‎Jul 25, 2016

I know the difference between pixel graphics and vector graphics. EPS does not add to this. A pixel graphics as EPS will not be better then a PNG.They can't invent data. That's a fact. EPS vector is OK, when this is your source. For pixel graphics, save it as tiff to save disk space.

Abambo · ‎Jul 25, 2016

The same InDesign! The circles are spot colours, the yellow one has a transparency. The underlined H is from a png with transparency. These are pictures from the print. On screen, you see a problem with the yellow circle, but not with the PNG. 1. PDF X/3: 2. PDF X/4: It's the output doing the difference! Probing in Acrobat the intersection of the circles (no difference between X/3 and X/4): The difference is, that PDF X4 creates a PDF that is version 1.6 compatible. PDF 1.6 supports transparency natively. To support transparency in prior versions means rasterizing the transparent areas and mixing the colours, which is not possible with spot colours (or they are no more spot colours!). When converting spot colours to process, the graphics are rasterized for X/3, which is how InDesign/PDF handled transparency before PDF 1.6. With spot colours this does not work. - I learned it the hard way!!!

Abambo · ‎Jul 25, 2016

Spot colours do not mix or they are no more spot colours. Spot colours (real ones) are used to be printed in a separate step and not to be mixed before to blend into CMYK.

Abambo · ‎Jul 25, 2016

You're talking about vector graphics against pixel graphics. For Vector graphics you still may use EPS, even that I prefer Illustrator.

Abambo · ‎Jul 25, 2016

philippanmei wrote: Open photoshop and save as .eps file instead of .png format. Thanks No, that's counter productive. I would today no more store pixel graphics as EPS files for a few reasons: PNG and TIFF and JPEG are much better suited for all use you can have with pixel graphics. EPS creates huge files. Not all applications are able to read EPS files correctly. EPS does save an alpha channel (as argued by Willi). In the contrary, I converted years ago all our EPS raster files to TIFF. At the very beginning of computer graphics, 20 years ago, EPS was the choice of the professionals.

Abambo · ‎Jul 24, 2016

Correct, but you will have this problem with any picture with alpha chanel and this is not specific for PNG files. The problem with this is a print technology limitation. Transparency means mixing foreground and background colour and that is not possible with spot colours as they are supossed to be printed on a separate plate. This is rarely used in dayly life printing as it would add to the printing cost and the advantage of spot colours are not always given. If you do not need spot colours, but they are in use in your file for a reason unknown to me, you can convert spot colours to CMYK in Indesign (instead using the RIP for this operation). That will create a pure CMYK PDF file, but the spot colour advantage will stay. Look into this: http://indesignsecrets.com/ink-manager-forget-step-exporting-pdf.php

Abambo · ‎Jul 24, 2016

I do not delete pictures I do not need for the moment. I delete pictures that are out of focus, over/under exposed, blured or otherwise unfitt. Other pictures stay in the database. But I flag my selection and colour code the pictures for one or the other use.

Abambo · ‎Jul 24, 2016

Willi is right! Except that PNG files may be suitable for print, but only on a limited base. We use PNG files sometimes on rendered data i.e. a 3d construction of a machine. Logos or logo like graphics are mostly vector art. The only reason I know of to save them as PNG files is using them in Word. When they are vector art, keep them as that. But I had assumed that you got the logos out of your control from somewhere like scanned print. PNG has been developped years ago to replace the GIF file format for use on web applications. It should mostly be treated as a web file format.

Abambo · ‎Jul 23, 2016

I'm using transparency a lot in our brochures. I never had a problem when I produced the correct output file. I'm exporting as PDF X/4 and do not use the print option from Indesign. Check colour management, this caused some problems with our files. Also, check if the transparency is a 100% in the file. Also, check if your frame has no fill colour. I could look into one of your files, if you send me a png by dropbox or similar.

Abambo · ‎Jul 23, 2016

Tiff files work with transparency. You made an error during the save operation. But this will not solve the original problem.

Abambo · ‎Jul 23, 2016

That's not quite right. PNG files can be used without trouble for print jobs. PSD or Tiff files do offer more options however.

Abambo · ‎Jul 23, 2016

Deleting needs always to be used with precaussion. So, what is your issue here? Everybody has pictures. He does not want to loose.

Abambo · ‎Jul 16, 2016

...and all the examples here are a correct answer to your question. Now which one to choose: I never worked with the burn tool, even that it is the original tool from my earliest Photoshop. Mostly, I use the Level adjustment or the Curves adjustment as a adjustment layer. Best for non-destructive work. Exposure is too new to for me, and I'm used to the 2 above. The brightness/contrast adjustment was not working very good in early versions of PS (legacy!), so I use that one only for special adjustments.

Abambo · ‎Jul 16, 2016

Minimal config, still workable: i5, 8 Gb, Intel graphic card, SSD drive. My Laptop is a 17" ASUS (i7, Nvidia GTX 850m, 16 Gb, 1.5 TB disk). I did add a SSD as system disk and use an External USB3 connected SSD as workdisk. The 17" screen is big engough, but the Laptop is to heavy (sic). Works great when I'm out.

Abambo · ‎Jul 15, 2016

Happy you got a solution. It would be of value to post what the solution was.

Abambo · ‎Jul 14, 2016

None of this applies: The Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool allows you to more precisely remove installation records for Creative Cloud or Creative Suite applications that may have become corrupted or may be causing problems with a new installation. It can be particularly helpful if you have installed prerelease software on your system, and now want to remove it. If you’re having trouble installing Creative Cloud apps, Creative Suite (CS3–CS6) apps, Photoshop Elements, or Adobe Premiere Elements, the Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Cleaner Tool can help. Likewise, if you're unable to connect to Adobe servers, the Cleaner Tool can help by removing entries in your computer's host files that are blocking access to Adobe software and servers. We did set up a clean install, and only installed CC to test command line removal of old installs, because we want to get this as automated as possible and the deployment tool does not allow for removal of the upgrades software. The software has even not been started. When we have those problems on the test system, how can we expect to do a simple and clean uninstall on out production machines. So again the questions: Question: Where do I find the sapCodes and the baseVersion of my software. What could be the issue with that exit error code 135 (unknown (sic) error)? When trying again and stripping base version, I got error code 103.

Abambo · ‎Jul 14, 2016

You find more information on this here: Error 1603: A fatal error occurred during Adobe Creative Suite installation

Abambo · ‎Jul 13, 2016

My experience with older Adobe software and a current win7 system shows that there are some issues installing the software. But there are non running it. My try would be to start the setup procedure in XP compatibility mode. The programs would not run in XP mode. But anyhow that would not pose a problem. My only doubt is, that setup is a very special procedure and may not run under the compatibility mode. Acrobat is anyhow a problem on current Win7 systems. I know that we had big problems installing this on blank systems, but I cannot remind the solution to that. I know also that installing CS5 under a current win7 system had trouble with the upgrades that are out. That has been solved by manually downloading and upgrading the different programs of the suite.

Abambo · ‎Jul 13, 2016

Try installing under XP compatibility mode. there may be some new patches that inhibit the install. I suppose that your Windows is 7 64bits with the latest patches installed.

Abambo · ‎Jul 13, 2016

Well a trial period of about 89 years is effectively not enough to try out the software! 🙂 serious now: did you change the computers clock? Did the purchase happen from an authorized dealer? Not that you purchased a cracked version of the program! I remember very darkly that some cracks simply changed the evaluation periode to something very big.

Abambo · ‎Jul 13, 2016

Please put in a more specific subject, targeted on your problem. This would help you and us enormously!

Abambo · ‎Jul 12, 2016

Recent imports come in a own collection "previous import". You can use here a filter on the JPEG file format. Also, I suppose that your imports go into a folder structure, that allows you to easily select pictures from a specific date. AxlV wrote: It seems very strange to me that LR is unable to deal with this. I don't shoot JPEG at all and do not see use into that. When I need JPEGs I just create them from my RAW files. But that's my workflow...

Abambo · ‎Jul 12, 2016

We set up a test machine, just to look at the uninstall options. We installed … I did try the uninstall option as to prepare uninstalling the upgraded adobe products in an ordered manner. And as I expected, I ran immediately in an error. setup.exe --uninstall=1 --sapCode=PHSP --baseVersion=2015.5 --platform=win64 --deleteUserPreferences=false Exit error 135 My first problem is, that I cannot find the sapCodes for all the CC programs. Second, I made a guess on what the baseVersion should be. Platform also is derived from a win32 reference, found on the Adobe help system. Question: Where do I find the sapCodes and the baseVersion of my software? What could be the issue with that exit error code 135 (unknown (sic) error)? When trying again and stripping base version, I got error code 103. As we say: Avis aux amateurs!

Abambo · ‎Jul 12, 2016

Or you simply delete the JPEGs after the import.

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