Re: CS3

[Richard Corbett <richard@rwc.my-bulldog.com>]

Oh yeeeee of little faith.

Anyway CS3 is worth the money for it's ability to stitch, match and fit 
panoramas together.

It's advanced magic wand is yet another asset.

Richard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liam Lawless" <lawless@bulldoghome.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: RE: CS3


> Iain,
>
> Thanks for your kind offer which I might want to talk to you about again 
> one
> day, but I have now found the transfer function dialogue.  (Though I had
> read somewhere on the web that it has been dropped from CS3.)  For the
> benefit of anyone as dim as myself, I'll describe how I got to it.
>
> It used to be under File>Print With Preview in PS7, but now it appears not
> in Photoshop, but buried in my printer dialogue box.  Mine's an Epson 1290
> (same as 1280 in US), and on the right-hand side of the box it's possible 
> to
> select "Colour Management" or "Output".  Colour Management is the default
> setting, but change it to Output and all the old stuff that I used to see 
> in
> Print With Preview appears: Calibration Bars, Registration Marks, Corner
> Crop Marks, etc.  And Transfer Function appears under the heading
> 'Functions'.
>
>
> Liam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain [mailto:iain.coghill@eiflex.com]
> Sent: 26 March 2007 17:43
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: CS3
>
> Liam Lawless wrote:
> > So far I'm not overly impressed with the beta version of CS3 that I'm
> trying
> > on the laptop.  Trying to paint with the healing brush, I get a line of
> > spots instead of a line.  The familiar printer dialogue has been replaced
> > with a simplified interface that appears not to offer the same level of
> > control.  Help is not available in CS3, but the worst thing is that the
> > transfer function has been dropped, or maybe hidden somewhere else.
> >
> > They're my main complaints at the moment, and I wonder if some of them 
> > are
> > due to compatibility issues with Windows Vista.  Anyone know a way to 
> > make
> > curves without using transfer functions, or where to find decent
> information
> > on CS3?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Liam
> The .atf file format for transforms is quite straightforward. If you do
> not discover the feature in CS3 and when I am less busy I can write a
> small program to generate them. I haven't explored the .acv format for
> curves yet but it is possibly equally simple so it would be just as easy
> to produce .acv files directly.
>
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