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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 02:18am PT
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Jerry is my hero. I see the light(room).
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Patrick,
Rosetta (needed to run PowerPC apps in Leopard) is an optional install. You should be able to install it through the Leopard install DVD. That should let you run CS2.
I don't really know what you needs are, but you might want to check out Acorn. It's one of the new-ish lighter weight apps and is only $50 and people seem to really like it.
Honestly, I'd dump Photoshop if I could (and I've been using it since version 2) but I have to deal with so many PSDs from designers that I have to keep it reasonably current.
Feel free to ping me if you have any issues with the Rosetta install.
Cheers,
-Steve
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 12:29pm PT
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thanks stzzo... I was going to try the sym link but decided against it. The file structure isn't the way i wanted to import into Lightroom.
Google has a little app called Photoshare the did the trick. It looks like not much more than a shell script with a crappy UI. Looks like it just takes the XML file and parses it and builds the images file structure based on . I wanted things dumped as "photos". so I'm all set now with that.
Where Jerry really helped was pointing me towards Chris Orwig's tutorials on LR4 at Lynda.com. I'll probably pay for the month after the week trial. Trying to figure out the work flow on my own was not going to happen.
In the end I still (apparently) need iPhoto for photostream and for sharing on my other devices. Otherwise I'm totally committed and hooked in LR4.
Now I'm just waiting for my new dSLR to arrive.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 09:58pm PT
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So I got serious about this and bought an iMac - 27" i7, 3.4GHz, 1T Fusion drive.
the lineup: iMac, MacBook Pro, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad3. and an old nano is hiding in my truck feeding the tunes there and there's an extra 27" attached to the iMac.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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CS2 is more than "just a couple of years old".
SRBphoto, okay, four years old, I bought my Adobe Suite in 2008.
I'll find a way to run my CS2, or look for alternatives, like some that have been posted on this thread.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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If you're not into doing graphics or manips a la Cosmic then CS2 is still
perfectly serviceable for adjusting saturation, adding a curve/contrast,
sharpening, cloning out dust bunnies, etc. I wouldn't upgrade if I didn't
have a pressing need to.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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SRBphoto, okay, four years old, I bought my Adobe Suite in 2008.
CS2 was already 3 years old in '08 (CS4 was released in Oct '08). Hope you got a discount.
If you're not into doing graphics or manips a la Cosmic then CS2 is still
perfectly serviceable for adjusting saturation, adding a curve/contrast,
sharpening, cloning out dust bunnies, etc. I wouldn't upgrade if I didn't
have a pressing need to.
Functionality isn't really the issue here, Apple was in the middle of switching CPU architectures from PowerPC to Intel during that period. CS2 is a PowerPC Application. Rosetta was a component that allowed Intel based Macs to run PowerPC applications. Apple discontinued support for Rosetta in 10.7.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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CS2 was already 3 years old in '08 (CS4 was released in Oct '08). Hope you got a discount.
Froodish, no, I paid top dollar (euro) for it. I trusted the salesman at TypeTec here in Dublin. Guess I was a fool. Actually, I bought the Suite in February 2009, heck, I was a sucker it appears.
I should have done my homework better. And now that I look back about a couple of other issues when I bought it, my iMac and my MacBook... ah, heck, no sense looking back. A lesson learned. I was the stupid one. He apparently off-loaded some old stuff on me, and I was too much an idiot to realize it.
C'est la vie.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2013 - 06:38pm PT
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Patrick.... PM sent.
$1899 for CS6. um... wow.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Kunlun-shan and Nature. Thanks for your emails and advice.
This is one of the things that makes the Taco Stand a great forum.
Cheers
Patrick
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Apr 11, 2013 - 01:37am PT
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Does anyone know if there is a way to weed out or find duplicate photos in Lightroom? My catalog is at about 9000 photos and I want to get it clean. I'm certain there are plenty of duplicates.
Also, how do you display or determine a photo's file size? It tells me the resolution, like 1200 X 800 but I can't find a way to view each image's file size in megabytes.
Thanks for any help.
Arne
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 11, 2013 - 01:55am PT
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I've found that if you shoot raw+jpeg, then it's easy to find dupes
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sheepdog
Trad climber
just over the hill
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Apr 11, 2013 - 05:14am PT
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I like open source photo processing software.
For working on jpegs or other 8 bit images use gimp. For raw format I'm working with Darktable and liking it.
For the OP the Darktable 1.2 release has a Macintosh disk image download available. http://www.darktable.org/2013/04/released-1-2/
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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Apr 11, 2013 - 09:46am PT
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Yeah, but you guys are talking over my head. I already made the choice to get away from iPhoto, which pissed me off by creating new images for me with their FACES feature and go with Lightroom, so unless you tell me that's a big mistake, that's where I'll stay now.
Anybody else? Large library or catalog I guess they call it and I want to purge any duplicates. The exact file size used to be one way I could tell which photos were my originals but either Lightroom doesn't give me that info or I'm too ignorant. I'm on a Mac.
Thanks again,
Arne
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 11, 2013 - 10:04am PT
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imo, Lightroom is a better product than iphoto
However, I also know former Lightroom users who are now using Capture 1 software.
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DonC
climber
CA
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Apr 11, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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there is a plugin called Duplicate Finder for Lightroom. This also checks the meta data, not just file names, so it will also find dups even if they have different file names
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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And it's the end of the line for Adobe's boxed products:
http://www.adobe.com/cc/letter.html
Your only choice now is to rent the CC (does that stand for creative cloud, or credit card?) versions. My purchase of CS6 will be the last money Adobe gets from me.
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