Hi, alas...no, I will try and do a test file, the real one is 3.1Gb Merlin3 ... View more

Hi,  I have just given that a go, I wasn't aware of it, selecting source (bounce flash pic) and target existing light, result is better but two tests sees a slight yellowyness still to greys etc, and the image in general, so either its impossible else ? Both taken same viewpoint with tripod, one is flash bounced off a white surface, the other existing light in the room. I have others with Q13 cards so more experimenting, if I could use a pipette thing and pick areas to be source and target, that might do it. Such a task is fundamental for me, and I had hoped Pshop did so.   DBenz ... View more

Hi, No I haven't and now I try that and BINGO !   FANTASTIC !   all these years of fiddling about aligning and nudging, and could have done that.   Wish I had thought to ask.   MANY THANKS INDEED. hope others also find this a life changer.   Merlin3 ... View more

Hi, run that script, error 8800 , version of photoshop etc , may not work etc.   and I have only one of each Type Number, I just abutt images with same Type number of object before labelling.   Cheers Merlin3 ... View more

Hi, yes, when I type out the label for the photo that text is then also the label name. Cheers DBenz ... View more

Hi, Thanks for the script, I googled how to use a script, saved it as a .jsx, file> scripts browse to script ran it, entered 39 to search for, and waited, GPU fan increased, waited 2 mins. nothing happened, photoshop had frozen, so end task. relaunch Pshop. try for a word, same problem, third time try *handrail* get syntax error, so unable to get it to work.   DBenz ... View more

This is just nuts, paint can open a jpg via WhatsApp when the most expensive photo editor cannot. If Adobe were to bother to fix this FUNDAMENTAL issue rather than messa bout with tweaks we dont need, they would have it in the next version of Pshop, make us all upgrade and pay more money per month, so its hopeless waiting for Adobe to do this. I am CS6 and refuse to pay per month, I dont have the money to do so anyway, I own my possessions ! never rent anything. and have been sent images via whatsapp which refuse to open, even if called.heic or .tiff none of that works. Adobe will never back fix an issue so I will never get a fix for .CS6 even if they do ever solve this, which they wont. Why wont they,...has anyone asked them ?   Meanwhile the mspaint is the eaasiest fix. unles someone has a plugin for CS6. also could do wiuth one for .webp images, again another pain in the butt.   Merlin ... View more

and a further reply, Jane. I wish folk to test the use of Msoft print to pdf, as I know that ends up with this see through grid, as does PDF24, my normal pdf maker, editor and all round good prog, I also like the sheep character ! I am told by my CAD developer that Msoft print to pdf when chosen in the printer list works well with the CAD prog, so again reason to try it out. yes Adobe also have a pdf maker but the PDF24 worked fine, and Msoft print to pdf they say works fine, so why the see throuigh grid when pdf opened into pshop CS6 or CC and why the grid if Pshop itself prints the pdf ? Merlin3 ... View more

a further Hi, whats up with this forum, I can't find an edit button and my reply has ended up within the last post it seems ? Just to reiterate, I open my pdf's created in CAD for checking all looks ok and my colours are ok especially for my grey lines deliberate half inch grid and that my dimensionsare not too small, when printing a bit of the pdf to my A4 printer, , and I am not needing a pdf from Pshop, but needing to get rid of Pshop adding in this see through grid.   Merlin3 ... View more

Hi, My need is NOT to see a see though grid, and simply flattening the image will cause a white grid to appear, as flatten by default adds in a white background, or show through whatever colour background there is. I dont want a grid of any kind. How do I stop photoshop showing a grid made of no colour ?   In win7 it was without grid. Now with win 10 its with grid, be that CS6 or CC.   I was creating a pdf from my CAD prog, as I have done many times, but as I am now with win10, I see a grid (showing through the chequerboard ) for the first time, and I need that as much as a hole in the head ! Contacting a friend and trying his win10 Pshop CC , making a pdf from within CC, as he doesnt have CAD, he also sees a grid when opening the result back into pshop CC win10.   Its not visible in acrobat reader, so why is Pshop creating a see through grid ? This never happened in win7. Try this yourselves, A3 landscape 200dpi solid colour, PDF24 if you have that, you all will have Msoft print to pdf in the printer options. A3 100% landscape. Vital to know what to disable in Pshop to stop this grid making. Note its not a coloured pixel line, its a series of lines chopped out of the image, its see through !   On my A3 they were ' 1 3/8inch' spacing.   Merlin3 ... View more

Hi, well just looking at Helvetica, and I had at my disposal:- Helvetica Helvetica Italic Helvetica Bold Helvetica Bold Italic Helvetica Light Helvetica Light Italic Helvetica Condensed Helvetica Condensed Italic   thats 8 and the link shows they are from £42.99 each so thats at least £343, or a set of 30 is £439 Consider that I also was using Univers, Futura, Goudy , Cloister Black and a few more, thats going to cost a few thousand pounds, As the rebuild to win10 from win7 retaining case and psu and fans cost 1300 hardware, 400 labour and 900 SSD's leaving me peniless, and this is NOT for paid work, a further £2K is simply impossible, having gone without groceries last week as I have no money for them.  As for the 175 pairs of .pfb and .pfm in my win7 fonts folder, they will remain unreplaced . In fact nothing will get purchased. Somehow I must get hold of Helvetica for free or go over to using Arial. I only ended up using Helvetica as Photoshop has it there in the fonts list from the last file worked on and it uses it again without any prompt for the next file.   Having installed Helvetica-Bold.ttf from a friend/PC support for my PC, he is with windows , I see only an entry called Helvetica True Type in Photoshop, the BOLD option isnt there. I open my pshop file and instead of declaring missing Helvetica Bold it again says 'some text layers might need to be updated' but if I go No and select text instead of showing the wording Helvetica Bold is missing , it now says 'editing or rendering the text layer will cause its layout to change' and in the font drop down its showing TT Helvetica, now why doesnt it just let me at the file, as it appears its used Helvetica TT and not the Type 1 that is also in that list. Is this in fact windows 10 yet again messing about ? If I elect to choose Update as opposed to 'No' when I first open the file, then highlighting the text shows it as TT Helvetica, and no warnings occur about edit and rendering. That I installed Helvetica-Bold TT and the list shows it as Helvetica when I dont have Helvetica TT installed is now baffling and concerning. The font I have on screen is Helvetica Bold yet in Photoshop the Bold style in the window is greyed out. Thus its telling me its not bold when it is, and in the fonts folder it is called Helvetica Bold True Type. I am almost there as such, but bold is greyed out and its a bold font. this us unnerving and wrong.   I feel I am almost there, else.... I will have to alter all the text to Arial when I open something and it says missing fonts. Cloister Black is a favourite and others dont have the characters it gives, so that will remain as Type 1. I am not buying it ! I just cannot justify thousands of pounds on just fonts and going without food and heating when I have things I need and I am unable to afford them, some are urgently wanted, when not buying any fonts for the last 20 years or so. I hate having to spend 3 months of my life doing nothing creative but rebuild PC to win10 and install 130 progs, a number with hundreds of settings, when win7 was fine for actual work.   I hate Msoft. what the heck was wrong with Type 1 fonts, they worked !!!!   Merlin ... View more

just came to say cannot find Helvetica , all I see is folk saying what loks similar. Well thats not what a document needs, it needs same shape etc with different coding.  There will otherwise be fonts impossible to replace.  Where is the edit post button on this forum though, forums always have such. I just searched on Adobe fonts for Helvetica family to get the non Type 1 and they dont have Helvetica, well thats a great start, if someone somewhere has decreed Type 1 Helvetica is history, where is its replacement we are supposed to use, called Helvetica open type or whatever ?   Merlin ... View more

Hi, I still wonder...so how do I find out exactly which font I need to find, the Helvetica Neueu are the only Helvetica fonts in the old PC fonts folder. I need to search all my archives for whatever it wants, so I need to find the coding for that font, (the abbreviated name in other words, such as HLH____.PFM     Davescm.... Type 1 fonts are no longer supported in Photoshop (or other Adobe products) Hi Dave, I am running Photoshop CS6 so how would it know it was not supposed to suport Type 1 ? It accepted the CloisterBlack after I installed it by r/click install to all on the pfm file. It also shows Goudy and others installed that way in the fonts list. CS6 does support Type 1 we can say. However just which Helvetica font files were in use by me the last 20 years ? How do I find out ?   Lumigraphics Helvetica and Helvetica Neue are Apple system fonts. If you had Type 1 fonts on Windows, you would need to replace them with OpenType versions. The font files from the Windows fonts folder are these Helvetica Neue .   Yes, Type 1 fonts will continue to work in previous versions of Creative Cloud apps (including any dot releases or security updates) apart from Photoshop v23 and beyond, which ended support in 2021. Any release from January 2023 and beyond will not support Type 1 fonts. OK for my Photoshop CS6 then.   Operating systems are also currently moving towards ending support for Type 1 fonts. Previous versions of Creative Cloud apps will not be able to support Type 1 fonts once support is ended for the operating system. I am not creative cloud so free of such changes, am I right ?   Many fonts published by Adobe Type in the past (such as Adobe Originals) are available from the Adobe Fonts service for free with your Creative Cloud subscription. Problem 1. I dont do Creative Cloud so that avenue is barred.   You can also update your Adobe-owned desktop fonts to the OpenType format for free by reaching out to our partner Type Network with proof of your original license. Problem 2. I have no proof of licence, havent a clue where al these Type 1 fonts came from, perhaps some were bundled with software ? Problem 3. Perpetual licenses for OpenType format fonts published by Adobe are also available for purchase from Type Network. No way am I purchasing fonts though...skint.   Problem 4. Converting Type 1 fonts to the OpenType format is possible but will produce a sub-optimal result.   So all this talk of changing the fonts is of no use then. I need to open a document and have it auto replace the Type 1 with its new incarnation, but Problems 1,2,3,4 wreck that chance.   Problem 5.  Additionally, converting your files may be prohibited by the font foundry’s End User License Agreement. Please consult the license agreement or contact the foundry directly for more information. So if I do know who the font foundy is, they may disallow conversion anyway.   I had 175 'donks' occur when copying .pfb and .pfm fron win7 fonts folder to win10, no way can I go through all this on that many. For new documents I will have to use 'arial' crummy as it may be for pedigree function. I will have to install OpenType Helvetica family from somewhere and use that in future. As for all the existing work made with Helvetica just what can I do for that ? replace all the text with Helvetica OpenType, or did I read that all fonts are being replaced by an all new system again ?   InDesign has a Find and Replace feature that allows you to locate and replace any missing fonts in your document. but what of problem 4 ? Additionally, the current in-app alerts for Type 1 fonts in InDesign automatically redirects users to the Find/Replace dialogue, showing which Type 1 fonts are in the document and allowing them to select a replacement of their choice. still problem 4 exists. So I have to buy InDesign (got no funds for such, no doubt its cloud subs), then open my .psd file into it, it tells me what fonts need replacing, it then replaces them, so its now doing a Photoshop skills and tools set on a .psd normally dealt with in Pshop, then it saves it as Pshop CS6., will it save as CS6, doubt it. ....but is what its done as good as existed before ?   All in all there are too many issues here, I will continue with Type 1 or if I can replace them with AS GOOD AS, then use those instead. Just what fonts should one acquire to be as gppd as Type 1 for scaling and full font behaviour ? Problem 4 is worrying that what replaces Type 1 is inferior. Purchasing fonts to replace a few hundred Type 1 is not an option here. some folk have many hundreds.   Why CS6 exclaims Helvetica Bold missing when win7 made the file, yet is happy with the install of Type 1 CloisterBlack, and another prog now sees NuptialScript after its install, all this talk of support removed is for latest progs it seems, I NEED TO SOLVE HELVETICA BOLD issue.   perhaps I redo all the docs I open with the new alternative to Helvetica-Bold.   What is that alternative ?   Merlin. ... View more

I might be onto the solution, where in photoshop is the setting that decides what size the embedded thumbnail Photoshop makes is ? Portfolio when one unticks 'extract embedded thumbnail for file' ignores the 125x125px that Photoshop has embedded within the large jpg ! AND WE GET WHATEVER THUMBNAIL SIZE WE HAVE SET IN 'make thumbnail' ! BINGO. So how do I get photoshop to make the embedded thumbnail that iT makes larger than 125x125 ? I would prefer to see 256x256 whetever I view thumbs. Too late for all those already made by Photoshop ! Merlin ... View more

Hi,   Just what is it about Adobe made jpg or tiff that is different to other progs ? They will not thumbnail larger than 125x125. I am running Extensis Portfolio 8.1.1 this is a DAM prog and creates thumbs of images and allocates and embeds keywords etc. I have used it for years and its the only prog I know of that allows creation of custom fields such as TownEtc or Aircraft vital to my needs. I  have thumbnail making in Portfolio set to 256x256. Works fine except for any jpg or tiff saved via Photoshop which appear as 125x125 px. despite display thumbnails setting on 256x256   If I grab a jpg from internet and save it direct to the sync folder and sync the folder that gets thumbed 256x256. I have tested from CC and also CS6, same problem.   I need to see 256px so as to make use of the prog.   Is there any setting in Pshop that might solve this ?   I have thousands of images saved in pshop thus afflicted. NIGHTMARE.   I can open a pshop saved tiff into MSpaint, save it as a .tiff then that thumbnails as 256x256.   However if I do same for a jpg it doesnt 'heal' it.   I remember another issue with Adobe made jpg differing from other progs made jpg, so what is different about Adobe jpg and tif ?   Merlin ... View more

File scripts > image processor got it 🙂   I now have 155 files as .jpg AdobeRGB1998.   Now how do I batch process these in ACR making shadow slider 100% and exposure a tad more, same for all of them ? do the one and choose convert as previous would be it manually, or select all and synch. But would an action do that and behave, or is there another way ?   Given the problems of even converting all to jpg using automate batch, I am worried, is there another way ?   Just what did go wrong with that automate, I need to know, friend tried it and same failure.   Merlin ... View more

Hi, I have in colour settings the 'missing profiles ask when opening' ticked as I do like to gievprofile to my files of AdobeRGB1998. However I have turned that off, now I dont get that promt. I see the action had not recorded that I chose profile AdobeRGB1998. thats why it asked me to allocate a profile. Surely Action should have recorded that step. I record an action and run it and no profile prompt, 155 files get converted. I look at results and they are all .png except the first. WHAT THE HECK ? TRY AGAIN...this time a folder with five .png in, to test.  I did a new action, with that profile tickbox still turned off, I check for 8bit and flatten already ok, go file >ave as, carefully choose .jpg and verify I have done so this time !, and then close the file and stop recording. file automate batch, the action is there, I choose the folder with the 5 png in, and choose the destination folder, and run the batch. oh heck, I have one .jpg and FOUR .png WHAT IS GOING ON ? I am unable to batch convert .png to .jpg !   my .jpg by the way is quality 12, I used to believe in just tiff but the file size would see me another 32 terrabyte storage ! I am not familiar with a script, where in CS6 is this to be found ? I am not into coding at all. surely that batch process should suffice, if it worked.   Merlin ... View more

Hi, Ito convert them all to jpg as mentioned, I did this:- I make a new action, open a .png, it prompts for adobeRGB1998 working space I choose the third option alter profile and select AdobeRGB1998 I then save as .jpg (layers is already background flatten is greyed out, I choose image mode its already 8 bit so no need there,) I save as jpg to a new folder called 'try again' and close file, action ends, I go file automate and action 123 is already chosen, I select destination 'try again' and ok and it opens image on screen and asks me to choose the RGB option, grrrrrr !! I do so and it closes, next one opens, again I have to choose rgb, it closes, I do a few more, check on the folder and there is just one file in there, its taking each .png and saving as the first image. Good job I checked else 150 files all saved as same image, so 1 file in that folder !   so I ended up with one jpg. and it still asks me for rgb working space to be clicked despite recording the selection of AdobeRGB1998 in profile when it appears sayin about working space.   what went wrong ?   Merlin ... View more