January 10, 2006

Change is Bad

by psu

Earlier this week, I tried the Beta of the new tool from Adobe called Lightroom. The lesson I learned was: never try new tools.

On the surface, the beta appeared to work pretty well. Import was reasonably fast, and the application seemed to support my workflow well. It takes a bit more time to bring your photos in, but it keeps a preview image around in its library so that the library will stay usable as a meta-database even if the pictures themselves go offline. This allows you to keep the library on your laptop (say) and archive the pictures to other larger external drives or DVD. Perfect.

Then I tried to run Photoshop. Crash.

I quit Lightroom. Tried to run Photoshop again. Crash. Reboot. Crash.

I decided that I really should have tried Photoshop CS2 all those months ago for the new and shinier ACR 3. Install CS2. Crash.

I finally ended up rolling my disk completely back to an image of it that I made a couple of weeks ago. Then Photoshop CS2 launched fine. Then I hit round two of my torture.

I had hacked up a cool piece of Javascript in Photoshop CS to do my manual thumbnail generation. CS2 completely destroyed the operation of this script by making the file browser into a separate application called Bridge. This is painful because Camera Raw actually works much more nicely in Bridge than it did in the old file browser. It even lets me batch convert NEF files. But, now I have to go back to my old batch actions for JPEG files, which is clunky.

I almost got my old script working. But something about the interface between Bridge and Photoshop is not right on my machine. Whenever I run the script Photoshop crashes on quit. In fact, when I run the script that I based my work on (Image Processor), the same thing happens.

I wonder if rolling my disk back again would fix that.

Lesson learned: never change tools. Life is pain.

Posted by psu at January 10, 2006 11:16 PM | Bookmark This
Comments

Uhm.. depending on what you are doing, I don't do anything fancy, nettpbm might get the thumbnail view stuff done for you, sample method (you are a big boy and I'm sure can figure out netpbm)

http://tinyurl.com/dc6os

-Chris

Posted by Chris Morrow at January 11, 2006 12:40 AM

This is what I do...

http://www.tgr.com/weblog/archives/000304.html

The "thumbnails" are smaller JPEGs generated from my Nikon RAW files or big JPEGs from my point and shoot.

Posted by psu at January 11, 2006 06:36 AM

I have ADobe Photoshop CS2 on three computors. My computors are networked. I am constantly having crashes, at very critical points of retouching images. I sometimes have been working on a print for over an hour and the error message comes up that Photoshop will be shuting down and I will "probably" loose the work that I was working on. I always do. This is very aggrevating. Can someone out there help me? Has sent me a new disc and it still happens.

Posted by Priscilla Good at August 17, 2006 06:58 PM

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