On 3/29/2011 5:00 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware of the options. But I did notice
> just today that CS5 was opening some JPEG images in PS as 8 bits. I
> don't know why nor what I did to change its behavior except perhaps that
> the source of those JPEGs was a CR2 file that had been processed in ACR.
CS5 itself will open ordinary JPEGs as 8 bit. It's only when they are opened
via Bridge-ACR, and with 16 bit output set,
that it will open them as 16 bit.
However, when they have been opened that way once, and ACR has altered the
EXIF, they will open as 16 bit any future
time in PS. So in the same directory, you could open one JPEG and have it open
as 8-bit, sRGB, directly in PS, then
click on an adjacent one, which would open in ACR, ready to pass to PS as
16-bit in aRGB. If working in Bridge, there is
a little icon upper right in the 'frame' around the thumbnail for those images
that already have ACR EXIF info. But when
working in FastStone, Explorer, BreezeBrowser, IrfanView, etc. there's no way
to know which is which as thumbnails.
> Another real oddity in behavior change happened today which I think is
> surely a simple bug. I was baffled for awhile when the text tool
> appeared to stop typing text. The cursor would move and leave a row of
> underscores behind (marking where the text was supposed to be). After
> being totally baffled for about 15 minutes I finally realized that the
> foreground color (which has always been black) had somehow been changed
> to white and was writing invisible text on the white background.
Interesting. I am often changing foreground/background colors when painting
masks, so I'm almost always aware of what
they are. Also, anytime you use the dropper to sample colors or set WB,
whatever you clicked on becomes the foreground
color. The little B/W squares by the colors set it back to pure B & W.
> Changing the color to black again resolved the mystery except the
> mystery about how it got changed in the first place.
I suspect that what happened is that you inadvertently pressed the 'x' key. PS
has lots of keyboard shortcuts, few of
which most of us learn, and it's easy to forget so many keys have a function
when not being used in text input mode. 'X'
switches foreground and background colors.
If you can't remember that Ctrl-I will reverse a mask without using the Fill
tool, you probably don't know many keyboard
shortcuts. ;-)
Moose
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