At Photoshop World Keynote today, Adobe made a big announcement – a Photographer’s Creative Cloud bundle at a great price! Beginning today, customers who own Photoshop CS3 or higher are eligible for a special Creative Cloud membership offer that includes all of the following for just $9.99/month: Photoshop CC Lightroom 5 20 GB of online… Click to continue
What happens if I’m still using an older version of ACR and Photoshop?
Yesterday David asked the question… “If I am using CS4 (PS4) and I upgrade to LR3, if I choose “EDIT WITH PS” will I get a warning message regarding ACR versions (6 vs 5)? I assume that PS4 does not support ACR 6 and will thus not maintain ACR mods from LR3 if I edit… Click to continue
ACR 5.7 and LR 2.7… and LR3, CS4, CS5 and how they all fit together
There’s still considerable confusion about the recent Lightroom 2.7 and ACR 5.7 updates and their compatibility with Lightroom 3. To complicate it further, although LR 2.7’s basic processing matches the ACR 5.7 release, on this occasion ACR 5.7 offers additional features for LR3 compatibility. For a start, there’s a difference between a demosaic and a… Click to continue
Why can’t CS2 save as jpeg when local adjustments were used in Lightroom?
Edit a file in Lightroom using the new local adjustments – the gradient tool or adjustment brush – and then open that file in Photoshop CS2 via Edit in Photoshop or Export…. and if you try to save it as a jpeg, Photoshop will complain with an error message which says “Could not complete your… Click to continue
How do I change the primary External Editor from Photoshop CS4 back to CS3?
Lightroom automatically chooses its own primary External Editor, based on registry entries on Windows and preference files on Mac. It’ll generally default to the newest version of Photoshop, and if it can’t find Photoshop, it’ll use Photoshop Elements instead. There’s an old TechNote which explains further: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401629 However, what if you want to use an… Click to continue
Why do my photos look different in Photoshop?
Excerpt from Adobe Lightroom 2 – The Missing FAQ Usually a mismatch in colors is due to either incorrect color profile settings or a corrupted monitor profile. For example, a ProPhoto RGB photo mistakenly rendered as sRGB will display as desaturated and flat. This is a ProPhoto RGB photo correctly displayed as ProPhoto RGB: This… Click to continue
Lightroom 2.2 Compatibility with CS3
There’s some confusion over a dialog box which has reared its head again in Lightroom 2.2. It appears when you try to edit a raw file in CS3 rather than CS4, and warns that you need ACR 5.2 for complete compatibility. Are Adobe saying that you have to upgrade to CS4 in order to use… Click to continue