Photoshop CS3, Problems and solutions |
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Photoshop CS3, Problems and solutions |
 May 25 2007, 03:52 PM
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I know there are a lot of Photoshop users on this forum and I thought I'd open a discussion on Photoshop CS3. I bought it in order to be able to open and work with and export various movie formats, but have run in to a couple of unexpected issues. The biggest one I've found so far -- after I got over the hurdle of installing it -- is the fact that Photoshop CS3 cannot open animated GIF files into layers for animation! In CS2 you could do this through the Imageready software that was bundled with Photoshop, but apparently they are no longer developing Imageready. Adobe's helpful suggestion for opening animated GIFs into layers? Buy Fireworks. Argh!
So -- if you upgrade -- don't uninstall CS2 and Imageready if you want to import animated GIFs! --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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May 25 2007, 03:55 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Got a demo GIF for me to try - because I know CS3's doing things quite differently on the animation front compared to CS2 and I THINK....(and think...not know) CS3 can still do this. I think you have to load it up - set the anim window to frames instead of timeline - and then convert frames to layers.
(Just had a go - you're right - you can't do it...what the hell Adobe!!!) I think. Doug |
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May 25 2007, 04:06 PM
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Have you tried the Adobe Photoshop User-to-User Forum? I've participated there in the past and found some very helpful tips, and I believe CS3 is a hot topic at the moment. In fact, some of the participants are Adobe software engineers who wrote the code for the program.
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May 25 2007, 05:00 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Thanks for the link; people in there don't seem to have any suggestions beyond keeping the old version of Imageready, and trying out GIMP.
 --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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May 25 2007, 07:47 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ May 25 2007, 07:52 AM)  So -- if you upgrade -- don't uninstall CS2 and Imageready if you want to import animated GIFs! Egad! I wonder who came up with that dumb marketing decision. I don't know what I'd do without Imageready. You did save your original PS installation disks, didn't you? Let us know how you like CS3, otherwise. I'm using PS7 and happy as a lark with it, but always ready to be coaxed into a new tech-toy. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 12 2007, 06:21 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I was searching again today for a way to recover my ability to open animated gifs in Photoshop CS3 and stumbled across a quite easy solution. It turns out that Photoshop CS3 CAN open animated gifs to layers! You do it the same way you import AVIs, MPEGs, etc, through File > Import > Video frames to layers. In the dialog that pops up, the programmers apparently forgot to include *.GIF in their file type filter (all that are listed are *.MOV, *.AVI, *.MPG, and *.MPEG). But if you just begin typing the file name of your animated gif in the File Name text box, you can find the GIF file, and it opens just fine.
Stupid &(&^$((*& programmers. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Dec 12 2007, 06:59 PM
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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 12 2007, 07:21 PM) Stupid &(&^$((*& programmers. Hey! I resent that! 
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Dec 12 2007, 07:06 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
 Didn't mean you. Or Mike either. Or anyone else here.--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Dec 12 2007, 07:54 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
You want ULTIMATE stupidity.
Premiere 6.5 - just over 5 years old...great product. No version since has been able to do batch rendering ( which is a SERIOUS problem ) nor has any version since allowed you to change the settings of a project once started. It's gone BACKWARDS. Sometimes I use Adobe as a swear word at work. Don't be such an Adobe. That's a load of Adobe. What the Adobe is that. Or just, 'Oh ADOBE!' I mean - that's worse than 3ds Max - which during my time using it has gone from 2.5, to 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 2008...and to be honest - I've not noticed any significant change from edition to edition. But at least it's not gone BACKWARDS!!!! Doug |
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Aug 27 2011, 03:35 PM
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Anybody's using CS5 version out there? Any opinion?
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Sep 1 2011, 01:56 AM
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Sep 1 2011, 04:04 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3232 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
I use CS5 on my laptop. It works well enough, though it is a bit annoying that they changed what happens when you drag images from Windows Explorer compared to CS4. Otherwise, I love the 64-but version.
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Sep 1 2011, 04:49 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (JohnVV @ Aug 31 2011, 06:56 PM) no, i have been using Gimp since 2001. So sorry no help on PS . Then why say anything. Seriously. FWIW - I'm on CS5 and there's very little difference to previous versions. I can't think of anything since CS3 that I would miss were I to go back. |
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