What would you like Deke to do?

Create more irreverent podcasts.
38% (701 votes)
Write more educational books.
17% (310 votes)
Film more comprehensive videos.
45% (840 votes)
Total votes: 1851
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Hi, Mike - this is a common issue in Vista

Submitted by Petra on 13 March 2009 - 5:56pm.
It's all those silly security levels an' stuff. What you need to do is right click on the file and choose "Run as Administrator". From there you should be good to go. :-)

Thank You Petra

Submitted by mikeducey on 13 March 2009 - 6:38pm.
I will try that when I get home from work. I appreciate your getting back to me on that. Mike Ducey

Photoshop Elements 5.0

Submitted by JCBatty on 6 March 2009 - 1:47pm.
Hello Deke I'm not sure if this even pretense to photoshop elements 5.0. I need your help with the problem I purchased Photoshop Elements 3 Unleashed and it was a great help to me I really want to thank you for the wonderful way he presented the course. I have upgraded two Photoshop Elements 5 and am going through training CD again but there are add on with the course, it seems I am unable to load these add ons with PE 5. Is there a way that I can use these programs that you created or do I have to downgrade to PE 3, or does elements have a new program with these in it. Joseph C. Batty josephcbatty@gmail.com

There is a way

Submitted by deke on 11 March 2009 - 8:16pm.
But Adobe switched things around in Photoshop Elements 5. I explain how in my series "Photoshop Elements 5 Essential Training," which is part of the lynda.com Online Training Library. But it's one of those things I've forgotten. If you can't find it -- should be up front of in the layer styles discussion -- let men know and I'll fish around.

Mac question from someone who know this question is hated

Submitted by janelle on 9 January 2009 - 4:24pm.
What would be the big deal if you used a high end graphics PC over a Mac when working in Photoshop only? I realize this question drives people nuts, but I would really like to know. It doesn't seem like such an issue, as I own a Mac, but am thinking of an new PC with the brand new Core 17 high end graphics card and processor for the work I am doing. My files are huge. Is this so crazy?? I was hoping to get Deke's opinion, since I highly regard him, and see his podcasts on PCs also. Thanks.

Highend PC verses Mac

Submitted by alixk on 19 January 2009 - 12:45am.
I've worked with professional graphics on a PC and a Mac and the programs don't act any different and you can't tell the difference in the end product. It's like the Nikon verses Canon in camera equipment. Each has it's loyal fans but when you see the image you can't tell which kind of camera created it. Personally I love my Mac and wouldn't part with it. To me the Mac is elegant and clean, while the PC is clunky and dies much sooner. It's your money and I think the Mac is a better value and will serve you better and longer over time. alixk

PC & Mac

Submitted by crisderaud on 19 January 2009 - 10:17am.
Mac for work and PC for play. PC's are cheap enough you can have both.

Mac all the way

Submitted by flyboy on 12 March 2009 - 12:46am.
And this is coming from a PC guy (!). The only reason I'm still sticking with a PC is the fact Photoshop can't run in 64-bit on a Mac. Which means you can't get more than 4GB of RAM (around 3 that you can use in 'shop). But that's a temporary insanity, give it a while. -flyboy __________________________________________________ Windows: Turning regular users into computer mechanics since 1985. Happy, happy, joy, joy!

What?

Submitted by aztech on 12 March 2009 - 1:21am.
Are you saying Apple (iApple) is now following the IBM clones? I'd start chanting in Celtic tounge about now... if I knew how. (And I come from a Welsh history) It's all a personal choice! Do you like Command, or Control? LMAO... flyboy... God bless ya; always there for all of us! And just when did a Mac stop being a Personal Computer, hence PC????

Short answer:

Submitted by deke on 10 January 2009 - 4:26am.
Nothing. Long answer: No big deal. Mac vs. PC is a personal preference. Where Photoshop is concerned, the difference is negligible.

Deke what about you personally

Submitted by marioja on 10 April 2009 - 10:01pm.
Do you use a Mac or Windoze computer? I have used a Windoze computer and have hated it always because I was a techie and not an artsy. Now that I am getting older I find there is more merit to art than to technology and I just purchased (well a year ago) a Macbook Air and I am loving it. I even have it integrated into my windoze environment and I logon to my Mac (I know, what a sin) using my windoze Active Directory account!

New Laptop

Submitted by msteede on 8 January 2009 - 10:39am.
I'm looking to buy a new laptop but I can't afford a Macbook pro. What other options should I be looking for in a pc? Is there a recommended machine to buy that will allow me to run at a decent rate? My old laptop is just way to slow. I have the Adobe premium suite and Lightroom. Any help would be great.

Your Computer Needs

Submitted by Jackknife on 9 January 2009 - 1:39pm.
I understand your position. I too want a new model that will handle accept more ram, has a faster processor, etc... and I know macbook pro's are expensive. I have an older 17" model still running as well as when it was new. It only has 2 gigs ram, and I have a few smudges on the monitor, but It works like a champ. How about this. You can probably get a Used Macbook much like I have (and no, I'm not offering mine for sale) that will run the adobe suite, FCP, among others great, for a much more affordable price. Many people like me like to upgrade to the newest apple has to offer. These people are probably looking to offset the cost of the new purchace with the sale of their present computer and Apple stores don't usually give much for a trade-in so eBay and craigslist usually have many for sale at 50% the cost of new. OR... If you don't need a laptop, Apple has the Mac Mini that is very robust and very very affordable. The Mac Mini will run just about anything you need it to. I have an older PPC model that runs my FCP 5, Adobe Suite cs2, and Director, even protools without problems and mine is a PPC chip not the awesome Intel chips. Sure it doesn't have a monitor but Everyone has a spare monitor hanging round anyway, right? Hope this helps a bit, if not I'm sorry to have taken up space for my first post. Good Luck, Jackknife ------------- EGOBK - Everything's Gonna Be OK Photoshop, Adobe, Internet, Books, and Food; They are all great, but don't forget to give hugs to your kids and tell them you love them. Take photos of your life.

laptop posibilties

Submitted by fPratt08 on 8 January 2009 - 12:26pm.
To give you an idea of where I'm coming from...I first passed on Apple back in the late 80's and went with the TRS80 by Radio Shack...didn't convert to Mac until 3 yrs ago when I kept running into very slow going to complete crashes of CS2 on Windows XP and looking to zoom up things a bit began running over options that would make my live with Adobe much smoother with a beefed up machine. I had a friend, who is also a digital artist, and started with Apple and stayed with them, who finally convinced me to look at them. The past 3 years have been a grand improvement. I run on my 2nd iMac 24" desktop at 3.06 Ghz Intel Core Duo with maxed out video card and 4 GB RAM. And, I traded my first iMac in to get $600+ deducted from my new Mac. Don't know of any pc maker going after this, but they eventually will with the erosion in customers to Mac from there ranks. Summary: If you still want to think of a pc laptop, Lenovo and some "off-label" (meaning small independent builders) can put together something very robust but also expensive due to your need to use it with graphic software. I've only seen a few pc's running multiple programs that can split the space time continuum...and they are gamer-like equipped. My main caveat with the pc scheme is all the need for security software. Not that a Mac doesn't, mind you, but you can not only survive but prosper by just using the Mac included firewalls and super-tight encryption (available, I depend upon my Mac firewall) and be judicious in your internet work. That saves a bit of money, but a ton of time in my experience with my pcs. You may be a master geek and can work safely in pc, but the hackers really want to bring them down (Microsoft). Lastly, look at refurbished machines/used machines from Apple, MacMall, and others that do the Mac. A refurbed/used MacBook Pro, with plenty of RAM and video card power will be closer to a new pc price. Of course, a used Power Mac with two Xeon processors and 8 GB's RAM etc, etc, will run circles around most anything that we humans can afford. But...when I win the lottery... Make your search fun. You'll find what you want and need if you don't buy the first thing that comes to mind. Hence, you question clearly demonstrates just that. Good luck and fortune in your endeavors. Franklin Pratt

Think That's Bad?

Submitted by androsine on 8 January 2009 - 3:06am.
As I type, they are rioting in the streets of Oakland over a police related killing at the BART Train station. Shouldn't spill over to SF but that ruined my chances of getting to SF by BART since Fruitvale (Station with the protests) is my station with parking. Going to miss Deke and Colleen at the Apple Store on Thursday. WAA! Deke is catching all the excitment this week.

Fire

Submitted by lynda719 on 8 January 2009 - 1:14am.
I just saw the news reports on the fires in Boulder County. Hope your family is safe. I love Colorado - Pikes Peak or Bust! - but wildfires are part of the package. Was on the website this morning watching podcasts and jumped over to the about page - found out D is a CO resident! Then I see news reports this evening! Yikes. I hope for the best for you and family!

That's really kind of you

Submitted by deke on 8 January 2009 - 11:00am.
But insofar as I can tell, we're not in any danger. The fires are northwest of Boulder proper in the foothills above a cozy tech hamlet called Niwot. We're the other direction, along the pastoral green belt. I wish those people that are affected the best.

Color Management inCS4

Submitted by Michael Brunsfeld on 5 January 2009 - 2:38pm.
I am running on an iMac with OS 10.5.6. I had purchased and have been using the ENTIRE CS3 extended, and recently bought CS4 Photoshop and Illustrator. Those are the programs that I require for my illustrations. I wanted to enable Color Management within the Bridge, to ensure my color consistency between Illustrator and Photoshop. With CS4, documents seem to be "untagged" and color is not consistent In CS3, the Bridge preferences presided over this management. In the CS4 Bridge >Edit Color Suite Settings, I get a dialogue that says: "Suite Color Management is not enabled. Suite Color Management requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature." Both of my new CS4 programs are in use. I looked on Adobe forums online, and someone running Win XP asked the same question, and this was the reply: "Sorry, "Suite Color Setting" is only available via Suite." I don't really understand this terse answer, but PLEASE don't tell me that as a designer and illustrator, the ONLY way to get consistency between Illustrator and Photoshop is to purchase the entire suite, featuring many programs I don't NEED or use. This is just WRONG to find out I CANNOT color manage anymore ! Please do not reply with a 9 word answer. There simply MUST be a way to coordinate color for someone who does not need ALL programs. *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* M i c h a e l B R U N S f e l d

Both Photoshop and Illustrator

Submitted by deke on 8 January 2009 - 10:45am.
...offer independent but coordinated color management functions. In Photoshop, choose Edit > Color Settings. Set things up the way you want (or load my Best Workflow settings, included with any of my training products). Then click Save to save out the settings and include some explanatory info. OK your way out. Go to Illustrator. Choose that same command. Choose the settings file you just saved from the Settings pop-up menu. Click OK. You may see little icons telling you the settings aren't synchronized, but don't worry, they are. Meanwhile, this particular Bridge issue irritates me more than I can say. The fact that Adobe prevents the Bridge from coordinating color settings unless you own the full suite is indefensible and causes me no end of difficulty from a training perspective. I believe that's more than nine words. ;-) Believe you me, I appreciate and share your frustration.

Chris77, " free advice"

Submitted by Billie Cosby on 3 January 2009 - 8:42pm.
Hi Chris, Here's my "two cents", for what it's worth. lynda.com, is, without doubt, the most comprehensible, lots of fun, and truly rewarding form of education, I have ever had the pleasure of coming in contact with. If you take the time to consider how much effort, (by each contributing individual), time and money has been spent on creating just one lesson, then you begin to envision the "spectacular creation" of the whole book. The greatest feature of all IS, you can study eight hours a day, or five minutes a day, or twenty-four hours a day,.....ANYTIME of the day or night you wish. There are no "slave drivers" here, you are free to choose for yourself, whether to "blossom", or "wither"....at no extra charge!!! If that is not Heaven, for goodness sake, what is? This is NOT an advertisement!! It is my way of trying to express my deepest respect and love for lynda.com and all the staff. "Viva lynda.com" billie

LOOKING FOR FREE ADVICE

Submitted by chris77 on 2 January 2009 - 8:51pm.
Help, anyone. I would like to develope a new career involving web and or graphic design. Currently I work as printer and would like to move into the computer end of printing. I would like to know what programs to learn first.Also, do I attend local colleges or are online courses just as effective(like Lynda) . Is it worth pursuing this type of career now that I am in my mid-forties. Is this a kids game? Anyone with a similiar situation please let me know what I;m in for. I'll be checking out the comment board for your help, Thanks everyone. Chris

I'm With Ya Chris!

Submitted by androsine on 5 January 2009 - 3:18pm.
I totally fell in love with the whole create and print careers and worry about the same thing. Although I'm in my early 30's, it's a shift for me. Most of the printing jobs around here and dying out for website based graphics. I wonder what Deke or Colleen would suggest.

Disk broken

Submitted by pbsmoker on 31 December 2008 - 1:44pm.
I just purchased the Photoshop CS4 one on one book with disk, and the disk is broken. How do I get a replacement disk?? Thanks

Replacement disks from O'Reilly Customer Servies

Submitted by colleen on 31 December 2008 - 4:03pm.
Hey pb, O'Reilly can replace the dvd for you:

You can follow the link on the image above or call toll free: (800) 998-9938.

Lynda Vids

Submitted by Silver Fox on 24 December 2008 - 9:28pm.
Ok, so my first experience with you was Lynda.coms PS CS3 one to one video. Ive just grabbed the CS4 Illustrator essential training vid and realised theres some other dude talking to me about CS4. "Ok", i thought, "lets see what this guy had to offer". Now im sure hes a lovely guy, he looked like he'd be fun around a bbq, poker night, whatever... but seriously, when it comes to tutorials... The ellipsis says it all. I dont want to appear rude, the tutorial was clear and concise but devoid of any personality. I mean, its almost like the guy had a stick somewhere uncomfortable (trust me, im British, i know about sticks and... ok, too much info). So Deke, please make more videos, infact make more photoshop videos, and when youre done, make CS4 Illustrator videos and then take over the entire Adobe range from Lynda.com. Failing that, please take the other tutors out for a drink once in a while. Kind Regards, Mark. PS: Especially hoping you'll be at the controls for the PS CS4 extended (3d tutorials etc). Dont make me send a bottle of scotch over.

PS

Submitted by Izzy1000 on 23 December 2008 - 11:19pm.
I would like to start learning PS from scratch. What is the best video for me to order. I own CS4.

podcast videos are not functioning properly

Submitted by sholderman on 22 December 2008 - 9:00am.
When I go to itunes and play new and older podcasts of your stuff, the screen is broken up or scrambled. This is true on PC at work or on my personal Mac at home. Is the new quicktime not able play old or current ones properly? Just a guess.

PS4 Won't Open .jpg from book?

Submitted by lenf on 17 December 2008 - 12:04am.
Odd bit, maybe someone has a clue what's up? I'm going through the CS4 One-on-One book, drag the work files over, etc. In Lesson 2, from PS CS4, I go File:Open and navigate to the Lesson Two folder with the five .jpg files. But only the Worldly Lucre file is available to select...the other four are grayed out. I can go directly to folder and double-click and I can open any files, and after saving they show up as normal in PS4 File:Open. Something odd about the files as dragged from the Lessons DVD?

Have you tried the Bridge?

Submitted by deke on 19 December 2008 - 2:50am.
lenf, I can't replicate this one. But I'd like to get to the bottom of it. Do me a favor: recopy the files from the DVD. And then use the Bridge to examine the contents of the newly copied Lesson 02 folder (and the others) and see if they show up there. Check for previews and then try opening them in Photoshop. Thx!

PS4 file oddities

Submitted by lenf on 4 January 2009 - 4:19pm.
Recopied the Lesson 02 folder. From Photoshop (Open) the files are dimmed, can't be selected. Launching Bridge and opening the same folder shows the previews and allows me to open the files. (This was, in fact, the way I brought up the files to complete the lesson bits...). Next odd bit. (Grin) The vivid 24.aco file (from Lesson 6) was also dimmed when I tried to load the swatch set. I did the lesson using standard swatches. The file, using Get Info, seems to be proper as per type and all, but PS4 refuses to let me load it as swatches. Regards, Len
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