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ACDSee Forums: Recent Posts http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ ACDSee Forums: Recent Posts en Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:50:16 +0000 Johan H on "File structure disappears" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/file-structure-disappears#post-48693 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:59:22 +0000 Johan H 48693@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I keep all my pictures on an external hard drive that quite quickly goes into sleep mode. When I start ACDSee the "file tree" often has disappeared and I have to begin to build it up again. I have clicked the "save previous session" option so that's not the problem. Is there a way to avoid this? Johan soheeb16 on "Right side of picture as the default Zoom location" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/right-side-of-picture-as-the-default-zoom-location#post-48692 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:53:16 +0000 soheeb16 48692@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Oh wow, I can't believe I didn't try that. I forgot pan-locking existed. Thanks alot, it works perfectly Marcie_H on "Thumbnails not showing / showing intermittently on WIndows 7" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/thumbnails-not-showing-showing-intermittently-on-windows-7#post-48691 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:00:07 +0000 Marcie_H 48691@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I'm running Windows Vista with ACDSee Pro 3 and I was having similar problems. I found a post about deleting the CDX files and it worked for me. Here is a link to the post. <a href="http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/joomla/acdsee-resources/acdsee-photo-manager/common-questions/51-errors/216-recovering-from-crashes-deleting-the-cdx-files" rel="nofollow">http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/joomla/acdsee-resources/acdsee-photo-manager/common-questions/51-errors/216-recovering-from-crashes-deleting-the-cdx-files</a> Good luck. Marcie   Dand on "Live photoshoot with AcDsee?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/live-photoshoot-with-acdsee#post-48690 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:08:09 +0000 Dand 48690@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Well, ACDSee does not offer live import from the camera… But as long as you can get the images (live) from the camera to a folder on your computer (as you shoot them) it is possible to let ACDSee monitor that folder. You do it in Manage mode and set ACDSee to automatically select the latest of the uploaded images (I think that is the default setting in ACDsee). Now the latest thumbnail will be selected as soon as it appears in the folder and it will also be shown in the Preview pane. But I think you will find the Preview too small in the default workspace (the default program layout). So I’d suggest you let the Preview pane float free and resize it to fill the screen. Or if you have a double monitor set up you can place the Preview on the extra screen… And I also suggest you set the Preview pane to hide the histogram and image info if you don’t need it…   And finally save this layout as a new workspace. (If you have the Preview pane filling the screen press Alt+V and then K and then M to get to the “Manage Workspaces” dialogue.) multimic on "Live photoshoot with AcDsee?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/live-photoshoot-with-acdsee#post-48689 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:49:24 +0000 multimic 48689@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hi, I'm a photographer and I use Aperture on Mac. I will probably change for Windows ?$?$? :) Someone know if AcdSee can make a live photoshoot session to see the pics live on the cumputer screen to each pictures snaps? I have this feature on Aperture and I like it. Thanks for your anwser Multimic GNH Photography on "Preview Screen" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/preview-screen#post-48688 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:02:44 +0000 GNH Photography 48688@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ To L_V Bill Thanks Bill, that did it. Gary   kateross on "Canon Rebel T2i RAW support" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/canon-rebel-t2i-raw-support#post-48687 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:57:22 +0000 kateross 48687@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ About 3 months. In addition, congratulations -  <a href="http://www.canont2i.net/" title="canon t2i">canon t2i</a> is a brilliant camera. Zander85 on "save changes feature/new feature suggestion" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/save-changes-featurenew-feature-suggestion#post-48686 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:29:31 +0000 Zander85 48686@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Never mind I figured it out thanks. FeroLopata on "ESC to exit acdsee" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/esc-to-exit-acdsee/page/2#post-48685 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:49:41 +0000 FeroLopata 48685@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-47987">Sava said:</a></cite> Yes, about half of the programs I used were closed by pressing the esc </blockquote>   LV_Bill on "Preview Screen" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/preview-screen#post-48684 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:53:45 +0000 LV_Bill 48684@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Gary -   The Pro3 configuration settings are all found under Tools/Options.  To get rid of the pop-up previews, go to the File List Section and uncheck all the Pop-up options (lower right corner).  FYI, ACDSee's approach has always been to configure new software with all features turned on.  You can use the Tools/Options settings to configure Pro3 to look and operate any way you want.  Good luck. GNH Photography on "Preview Screen" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/preview-screen#post-48683 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:08:32 +0000 GNH Photography 48683@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Very new to ACDSEE Pro 3, in fact just downloaded the trial yesterday. First thing I noticed is when I am viewing my photos in manage mode, when I place the curser over the photo this magnified view pops up, which I find annoying. How can I turn this feature off. Thanks Gary N Helfrich Dand on "problems importing raw in windows 7" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/problems-importing-raw-in-windows-7#post-48682 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:57:29 +0000 Dand 48682@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ One possible explanation is that the “View by” settings is set to import only JPEG and not RAW and the dialogue set to “View selected”. 1. First ensure that the dialogue box is set to “View all”. 2. Then chose “View by: File Type” and ensure that both JPEG and RAW format are checked. Hope this help. rmp on "Canon 1dmark4 RAW support" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/canon-1dmark4-raw-support#post-48681 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:59:29 +0000 rmp 48681@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I just bought a Mk4 and am very disappointed to find there is no RAW support for the camera.  It's been out since Oct/Nov '09, that's 5 months or so.  Should be more than enough time considering this is meant to be pro software and the IV is a pro camera.   So what do I do in the meantime...at least Lightroom supports it, but I can't manage my image files with LR.  Come on!   itye on "problems importing raw in windows 7" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/problems-importing-raw-in-windows-7#post-48680 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:02:27 +0000 itye 48680@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ hi, I try to import RAW pictures from my canon 350d camera into ACDSEE pro 3 in windows 7 OS, it shows me only my jpg photos and not the RAW. When importing through windows i get ALL my files imported. I have installed the newest updates of ACDSEE, does anyone know what is the problem? ittay Zander85 on "save changes feature/new feature suggestion" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/save-changes-featurenew-feature-suggestion#post-48679 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:58:39 +0000 Zander85 48679@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I am sorry I am really newb. Would you mind telling me how to set photoshop as the default step by step because when I right click on the image and click edit I am editing in photo manager and instead I would like it to go to photoshop. Thank you. Dand on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions/page/2#post-48678 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:56:14 +0000 Dand 48678@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Ah, I see what you mean. You can’t do it on RAW files. I always export to TIFF first then I do the Resize. That’s why I spend so much time advocating for a new and more comprehensive Batch Export tool.   It could be built around the existing Export dialog but should be improved and meade accessible as a Batch command. I want better control of the output result: <ol> <li>Control of 24/48 bit output.</li> <li>Improved color profile management. There should also be a “Preserve color profile” option added.</li> <li>The sizing options are limited and strange. Instead it should work like in the Batch Resize tool (with “Preserve original aspect ratio” and everything there)…</li> <li>Destination option should also include “Place in source folder” and “Create and place in subfolder”.</li> <li>File naming should also offer a suffix setting.</li> <li>In the case a file already exist the option overwrite should be added.</li> </ol> And all these settings should of cause be saveable in the presets. I don’t think this would be a hard thing to do. All this are already available in other tools so all the technique are already developed and available for the developers. They only need to stich it all together in one nice little batch tool. The only two or three things that they would have to work a little more on is: <ol> <li>The “Preserve color profile” option. This one is already accessible in the file save/export module in batch edit. But it does not work for color profiles set in the develop settings. But I guess it wouldn’t be too hard to fix that.</li> <li>I don’t know if they have a suffix option in any module or dialog yet. But that wouldn’t much of a problem to fix.</li> <li>I haven’t found any option to control 24/48 bit output but as ACDSee already can create both (Batch Convert File Format and Export creates 48 bit TIFF and Batch Edit saves 24 bit TIFF) that can’t be too hard to fix either.</li> </ol> William Porter Photography on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions/page/2#post-48677 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:08:02 +0000 William Porter Photography 48677@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I can't make this work either in Manage OR in View, Dand. For example, I'm in Manage, with an image selected—or a couple of images selected (I've tried it both ways). I go to Tools > Batch > and the submenu pops out, but "Resize" is grayed out/inactive. Same thing in View mode. And the Cntl-R shortcut doesn't work for me either. Very frustrating. What am I doing wrong? Does not seem to me that this should be this hard.   Will   [attachment=0] Jay H. on "A plea to the ACDSee 12 Development Team" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/a-plea-to-the-acdsee-12-development-team#post-48676 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:05:58 +0000 Jay H. 48676@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ As an update to this topic, here's something else that's currently broken in ACDSee for me (and probably others): ACDSee doesn't see my Canon SD750 so I can't import photos from it directly into ACDSee.  I have tried both as a Device and as a Drive, it appears in neither and, as I've stated above, WIA is a non-starter with ACDSee.  The camera is autodetected by Windows and is correctly shown as a Canon SD750  under Win 7's Devices view.  Any other application works just fine with this device.  This is consistent with not seeing my mobile device.  In fact, I don't know of a single device I own that ACDSee actually will detect/see.  Since I'm using Windows 7 on my primary computer now, reporting these kinds of things to support will only trigger the unsupported OS response.  We need a way to reach the developers so that they can look into these things. thazooo on "Process Mode Startup Edits (defaults)" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/process-mode-startup-edits-defaults#post-48675 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:50:15 +0000 thazooo 48675@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ As Dand mentioned in his post re: Color Profile, I have similar situation with over saturated Images once Pro 3 finishes opening the Raw file. I have Color Management turned ON. Once the RAW file is completely loaded, I go to Color Profile under the Develop Tab, check 'Use working space color profile', and then choose which profile to use (RGB in my case). This eliminates a lot of the Saturation. What ever is left, I created a preset to eliminate. Sure would be nice if Pro 3 let folks set their own starting parameters and loaded them at start up rather than doing this Pre-Set routine. Dana Davmurimd on "RAW processing pane in Pro 2.5" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/raw-processing-pane-in-pro-25#post-48674 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:52:36 +0000 Davmurimd 48674@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ The monitor is 1600 x 1200 so that should be OK. I have made a JPEG of the screen shot. I am not quite sure how to post it, but I will follow the link from the second icon from the right in the reply box and hope it works. David [attachment=0] Dand on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions#post-48673 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:49:25 +0000 Dand 48673@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-48672">Dand said:</a></cite> <blockquote> <cite><a href="#post-48670">William Porter Photography said:</a></cite> <blockquote> <cite><a href="#post-48627">Dand said:</a></cite> Yep. Can’t agree more… I can do just that in the Batch Resize by setting size in pixels both height  and width to the same value and checking Preserve original aspect ratio and Fit within to Width and height. I usually do it this way in options I set either Remove/replace original files or send the resized images to a specified folder. </blockquote>   Dand, After trying to follow your suggestion here, I realized I don't understand exactly what you are referring to. I assume you are in Manage or View mode, and are going to Tools > Modify > Batch Edit... Is that right? I think it must be. But when I open that dialog and click Resize in the Operations list on the left and "Resize by Pixel Dimensions" at the top, I am unable to specify both a height and a width. It's one or the other but not both. How are you able to specify both? Will </blockquote> Yes, I’m in Manage mode. But no I don’t batch edit I go directly to Tools > Batch > Resize (or use the shortcut Ctrl+R)…   Attached Image:<img src="../bb-plugins/acd-attachments/phpThumb.php?src=/attachments/2010/03/20100320064353_batch_resize.jpg&w=640&h=640&q=85" /> </blockquote> And, It works in View mode too. There you have to right click to get access to the Batch menu… Or just – simply - use the shortcut Ctrl+R. Dand on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions#post-48672 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:44:18 +0000 Dand 48672@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-48670">William Porter Photography said:</a></cite> <blockquote> <cite><a href="#post-48627">Dand said:</a></cite> Yep. Can’t agree more… I can do just that in the Batch Resize by setting size in pixels both height  and width to the same value and checking Preserve original aspect ratio and Fit within to Width and height. I usually do it this way in options I set either Remove/replace original files or send the resized images to a specified folder. </blockquote>   Dand, After trying to follow your suggestion here, I realized I don't understand exactly what you are referring to. I assume you are in Manage or View mode, and are going to Tools > Modify > Batch Edit... Is that right? I think it must be. But when I open that dialog and click Resize in the Operations list on the left and "Resize by Pixel Dimensions" at the top, I am unable to specify both a height and a width. It's one or the other but not both. How are you able to specify both? Will </blockquote> Yes, I’m in Manage mode. But no I don’t batch edit I go directly to Tools > Batch > Resize (or use the shortcut Ctrl+R)…   [attachment=0] William Porter Photography on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions#post-48670 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:24:08 +0000 William Porter Photography 48670@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-48627">Dand said:</a></cite> Yep. Can’t agree more… I can do just that in the Batch Resize by setting size in pixels both height  and width to the same value and checking Preserve original aspect ratio and Fit within to Width and height. I usually do it this way in options I set either Remove/replace original files or send the resized images to a specified folder. </blockquote>   Dand, After trying to follow your suggestion here, I realized I don't understand exactly what you are referring to. I assume you are in Manage or View mode, and are going to Tools > Modify > Batch Edit... Is that right? I think it must be. But when I open that dialog and click Resize in the Operations list on the left and "Resize by Pixel Dimensions" at the top, I am unable to specify both a height and a width. It's one or the other but not both. How are you able to specify both? Will Dand on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions#post-48669 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:53:50 +0000 Dand 48669@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-48655">Marc Sabatella said:</a></cite> Regarding batch edit's resize option - it's simple pixel math, </blockquote> I guess that would work as long as the originals are equal in size. But if you have originals that differ in size using percent isn’t much help if you need a specific file size (same size in pixels for longest side). Marc Sabatella on "Actually size printing" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/actually-size-printing#post-48667 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:24:01 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48667@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Could you be more specific about what you want?  Are you saying you have an already-scanned image and you want it to print at the exact size of the original document?  Assuming you haven't resized the image since scanning it and the scanner set the dpi field in the exif correctly, does this not happen automatically if you use the "default image size" option when printing? Marc Sabatella on "RAW processing pane in Pro 2.5" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/raw-processing-pane-in-pro-25#post-48666 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:57:04 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48666@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Is your monitor resolution up to the published minimum system requirements for your version of ACDSee?  Could you post a screen shot? Marc Sabatella on "Process Mode Startup Edits (defaults)" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/process-mode-startup-edits-defaults#post-48665 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:55:05 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48665@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Looking at the sample images, I don't see a saturation or wb difference per se - I just see the normal sort of variation one always sees between two different raw processing programs when looking at the same raw file. Marc Sabatella on "ESC key while editing fields in property pane" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/esc-key-while-editing-fields-in-property-pane#post-48664 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:52:03 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48664@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I see Esc working this way in dialog boxes all the time - just not in data entry fields.  But I rarely use spreadsheet or db programs, and I have no trouble believing this might be more common in those worlds.  Anyhow, since I can't think of any good reason for it *not* to do this - nothing else I'd rather see Esc do - I'm all in favor of this a nice enhancement! Marc Sabatella on "save changes feature/new feature suggestion" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/save-changes-featurenew-feature-suggestion#post-48662 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:47:25 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48662@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ You can configure photoshop as an external editor form within acdsee, then access it from the Edit Image drop down menu (not the main Edit menu; the one on the toolbar).  Or you can right-click an image and access the standard Windows right click menu. Marc Sabatella on "Bug in slide show's random mode?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/bug-in-slide-shows-random-mode#post-48661 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:43:19 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48661@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I'm not sure I'd expect it to continue sequentially with the very next image if you asked for random at first, but if you wish to report this to ACD, you need to contact support directly via the link at top left of this page.  These forums are user forums, not support forums. Marc Sabatella on "Tested Acdsee Pro 3" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/tested-acdsee-pro-3#post-48660 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:39:58 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48660@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Again, I don't see what you are describing, so I can't help but wonder if something else is going on.  Even when visiting a large folder for the first time, I can enter process mode immediately (while it's still indexing the folder / generating thumbs). Of course, ACDSee does run faster once it has finished its indexing ' thumbnail generation.  But FWIW, you can abort the indexing process by clicking the status indicator at any time.  You can also set ACDsee not to generate high quality thumbs or to harvest EXIF and IPTC info from files in the first place, via tools-options.  In regular use, you'd have all your thumbs already built and wouldn't normally run into situations like this. Marc Sabatella on "Opening an image in photoshop" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-an-image-in-photoshop#post-48659 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:34:09 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48659@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ And in Pro 3, ctrl-alt-X is the shortcut to whichever external editor you've assigned to be your default.  Like most shortcuts in ACDSee Pro, you can customize that via view-toolbars-customize-keyboard. Marc Sabatella on "Nikon D90 RAW conversion" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/nikon-d90-raw-conversion/page/2#post-48658 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:30:29 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48658@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Right, these are user forums, not any form of official contact with ACD support. Marc Sabatella on "Problem with Pro3" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/problem-with-pro3#post-48656 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:23:54 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48656@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I wouldn't b concerned after 5 days  during high volumes periods, I understand that's not atypical.  But more than a week is.  Any response yet? Marc Sabatella on "export questions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/export-questions#post-48655 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:22:13 +0000 Marc Sabatella 48655@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Actually, it's worse than that. Sometimes the little icons don't show up even when there is db info. Not sure why. But I found I can get them back by hiding and then restoring the filmstrip via F7. BTW, another symptom of this bug seems to that the menu at the top of the control panel in develop mode also disappears at times. When the icons are there, its a very quick way to access properties, and you can also access ratings and the tag directly without opening the properties panel. Regarding batch edit's resize option - it's simple pixel math, no jpeg compression in the equation.  That is, you are resizing by MP, not MB.  Regarding rename - while it's not ideal, you should be able to do what you want in a *slightly* easier way.  First, while you can't run the search/replace during import (sure wish you could!), you can run a template, so you can have the date/time prepended automatically on import.   Then you just need to take care of the space and K20D in two batch rename operations.  You could *almost* do it all in one batch rename by using #### in your templat and the autodetect start number option, but that would end up reassigning numbers sequentially, which I think would be a drag.  And another bug (!) in ACDSee means the template you create doesn't always get remembered by default. If it weren't for needing that dash, it would be much easier.