Quick Organization?
Good evening first of all...
I want to organize my iTunes library. I have 2700+ songs. I'm wondering if there is a software that will do any of the following...
•Make all words start with a capital
•Add the album name to the song (by searching somehow)
•Add the album art to the song (by searching again)
•Changing song artist to true artist (IE Pussycat Dolls/*** Cat Dolls)
•Change song name to real song name (IE Aint Nuttin But A G Thang/Nuttin But A G Thang.)
•Add Genre
I know this is a long shot, but I might as well see if there is software that will do any of this. As for how it would achieve these tasks, I don't know.
Any help would be great.
(I know I'm asking for something thats probebly impossible, but I might aswell ask and find out... then to just wounder.)
Thanks
-Wes
•Make all words start with a capital - There is script - http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=titlecaps
•Add the album name to the song (by searching somehow) - You need to know the album title
•Changing song artist to true artist (IE Pussycat Dolls/*** Cat Dolls) - You will need to edit this.
•Change song name to real song name (IE Aint Nuttin But A G Thang/Nuttin But A G Thang.) - You will need to edit this
•Add Genre - You will need to edit this
I know of no scripts that will "guess" for you. I am sorry if I mislead you - after a closer look at what you are trying to accomplish it appears that you will need to edit much of the info yourself. Learning how to use iTunes ability to edit id3 tags will save you a lot of effort but in the end you will still need to put in some time.
To use the scripts you must put them in a specific place. This is usually outlined in the script instructions.
MJ
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Overview
There’s good and bad news. Adobe has fixed a number of serious bugs in the Organizer, but it has left most unfixed, even though they’ve been present since at least version 6. Even worse, the two major features introduced in the PSE 8 Organizer, face tagging and the keyword-tags text box, have show-stopper problems. And even worse yet, Full Screen view is now painfully slow with large catalogs.
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Major
Minor
Fixed
Unfixed
Fixed
Unfixed
File Management and Tagging
4
6
2
Integration with Photoshop.com
2
5
Map View
6
Color Management
1
Metadata
10
2
3
Searching
8
5
User Interface
1
1
5
9
Slide Shows
1
1
Editor
1
1
Total
8
38
8
20
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New Problems in PSE 8
[U] PSE 8 crashes or gets intolerably slow after using the new Keyword Tags text box a small number of times.
On my 4 GB Vista 32 system, PSE crashes after tagging 41 photos.
[U] If you use the new Keyword Tags text box to apply an existing tag name with a comma in it, PSE will silently create two new tags instead.
Apply the existing tag “San Francisco, CA” will create two new tags, “San Francisco” and “CA”.
[U] After applying a tag, the Keyword Tags text box loses keyboard focus and you need to mouse-click in the box again to enter another tag.
Forcing the use of the mouse defeats the purpose of the Keyword Tags text box, which is to make tagging much faster.
[U] The Find > Find People For Tagging command locks up the Organizer for about 30 seconds after you click Done (even if you haven’t made any changes), when using larger catalogs.
On a catalog with 10,000 thumbnails showing, the cursor spins for 30 seconds after clicking done. But you can work around this by doing a tag search or setting a date range to have only a small number of thumbnails showing before you invoke the command.
[U] In the Find > Find People For Tagging command, when you select Add Missing Person, you usually can’t resize the selection box by grabbing the lower-right or lower-center handles, which are the handles that most right-handed people are likely to use.
If you move the mouse very quickly so that it is over the photo before the selection box appears, you can usually resize the box with those handles. But you have to be very quick.
[U] The Find > Find People For Tagging command doesn’t do auto-complete on pre-existing People tags, making it very hard to use with existing catalogs.
I have over two hundred People tags in my catalog. Because the command doesn’t auto-complete on pre-exisiting People tags and will silently create new tags, and because I don’t remember exact spellings (that’s the point of auto-complete!), I found myself creating duplicate tags (e.g. “John Ellis” instead of “John R. Ellis”, “Bob Smith” instead of “Robert Smith”). It’s painful to clean up such a mess.
[U] Full Screen view (F11) is much slower than in PSE 7 on larger catalogs.
With a 14,000-file catalog and all thumbnails visible, PSE 7 takes 6 seconds to invoke F11, while PSE 8 takes 13 seconds. With just 20 thumbnails visible (e.g. when working on the most recent import batch), PSE 7 takes 1 second, while PSE 8 takes 7 seconds. This makes selecting the good and weeding out the bad significantly slower.
[U] PSE doesn’t remember the settings if you toggle the Full-Screen Quick Edit Panel and Quick Organize Panel to disappear completely.
On 4:3 displays, it’s desirable to hide the panels completely in full-screen view, so you see the entire image without the panels overlapping them (that’s the point of full-screen view, no?). But PSE forgets the toggle settings, even in the same session.
[U] The keyword tagging in the Quick Organize Panel doesn’t auto-complete tags you type, making it useless with more than a dozen or so tags.
It’s worse than useless, since it will silently create a new tag if you mistype the name of an existing one. And the “tag cloud” is a silly toy that doesn’t help with hundreds of tags.
File Management and Tagging
Major Problems
[F] After reconnecting a file on a network drive, PSE will let you import the file a second time, failing to recognize it as a duplicate. The catalog is left in an inconsistent state, with two entries in the volume table for the network drive, one upper case and one lower case.
[F] The Reconnect command fails to reconnect when: you move your photos to a new drive, assign the drive the letter of the old drive to the new one, and leave both drives connected to your computer.
[F] If a hard drive containing photos in the catalog gets its drive letter reassigned by Windows, then the left-hand folder pane of Display > Folder Location view shows the old drive letter, not the new one, as containing the photos.
This sounds innocuous, but it led a user on the forums to select the wrong drive when dragging and dropping a folder, permanently deleting some files. This bug and the previous one with Reconnect had the same underlying cause – the Organizer didn’t update drive letters in its catalog. Fixed in PSE 8.
[F] The Restore Catalog command puts the wrong path into the restored catalog for folders whose name starts with the catalog name, and it will mark files in those folders as missing. For example if the catalog is named “houses”, and a folder containing photos in the catalog is named “houses photos”, files in the restored catalog will have the path “houses\ photos\” instead of “houses photos\”.
[U] Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents when more than one keyword tag is selected in the Keyword Tags pane.
Based on reports on the forums, there appear to be other situations where Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents, but they haven’t been easy to reproduce.
[U] The Organizer fails very ungracefully when two drives have the same volume serial number, e.g. because of the use of a disk-cloning utility.
I remain mystified that Adobe didn’t add the three lines of code that would have issued a warning when it discovered two drives with the same number. While most people will never encounter this, when it strikes someone, its symptoms are very mysterious (and a lot of people using cloning utilities).
[U] The conversion of a catalog from PSE 6 to PSE 8 doesn’t properly handle photos that are stored within the PSE 6 catalog folder (as occurs when PSE 6 was used to restore a catalog from a backup). As a result, it isn’t possible to save photos in version sets, and PSE 8 will create duplicate thumbnails in the Organizer for an edited file.
[U] File > Backup/Restore Catalog doesn’t backup and restore audio in slide shows.
[U] Using Folder Location view to move a folder containing hidden files imported in the catalog will silently fail to move the hidden files and will leave the unhidden files disconnected in the catalog.
[U] When converting a previous-version catalog whose photos are stored inside the catalog folder, as occurs when you’ve previously used File > Restore Catalog with New Location, PSE 8 needlessly copies all those photos. If you have a very large catalog, this will waste huge amounts of disk space; and if there isn’t enough disk space to do the copy, the conversion will fail instantly with a generic non-explanatory error message.
Minor Problems
[U] In File > Export, the Common Basename can no longer be empty, and a hyphen is added automatically, so you can no longer get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc.
You can get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. but you can’t get files named p1.jpg, p2.jpg, etc. – a hyphen is still added in that case.
[U] Setting the Apply Metadata > Author or Copyright fields or the option Preserve Current Filename In XMP of the advanced options of the Photo Downloader causes duplicate files to be downloaded and imported.
Integration with Photoshop.com
Major problems
[F] Adding a photo to a second synced album will cause Photoshop.com to lose any changes you’ve made with PSE’s Edit > Adjust Date And Time.
[F] If you you rename a file that’s synced with Photoshop.com, Photoshop.com doesn’t pick up the new name (important if you’re using Photoshop.com as a backup service).
[U] Photoshop.com shows an incorrect date/time taken for photos with unknown month, day, or time.
The date/time shows as the the first month/day/minute/second in that time period in UTC that then gets converted to local time; e.g. “7/2/2005” gets shown as “7/1/2005 5:00 PM” for a user in PDT.
[U] Photoshop.com doesn’t obey the EXIF Orientation metadata field and can show photos rotated incorrectly, e.g. if they were rotated with the PSE option Edit > Preferences > Files > Rotate JPEGs/TIFFs Using Orientation Metadata.
[U] Changes to the order of photos in a PSE album aren’t synced to Photoshop.com, and vice versa.
[U] Only the top photo in a version set is synced with Photoshop.com (so you can’t rely on Photoshop.com to backup version sets).
[U] When a stack is synced with Photoshop.com, all the photos in the stack are synced, but the fact that they were in a stack is lost (so you can’t rely on Photoshop.com to backup stacks).
Map View
Major Problems
[U] It takes 4 seconds to assign a keyword tag to a photo if there are 2,000 or more photos with map locations.
It takes 2 seconds with 1,000 photos, 6 seconds with 4000 photos, and 11 seconds with 8,000 photos, and 21 seconds with 12,000 photos.
[U] Map view is unusably slow with more than 8 - 10,000 mapped photos.
When I imported 12,000 photos (the size of my catalog) that had GPS locations, the Organizer crashed a number of times when I tried to zoom and pan the Map view. When I selected Limit Search to Map Area, PSE took over a minute to respond.
[U] Giving a map location to a tag assigned to hundreds of photos makes both the Keywords pane and the Map view unusably slow.
Giving a map location to a tag assigned to 1700 photos makes assigning any keyword tag to a photo very slow, 12 seconds. Searching on keyword tags and Show All each take 13 seconds.
[U] Removing the map push-pin of a tag assigned to hundreds of photos mistakenly tries to update the metadata of each photo, which can take tens of minutes and fill up your recycle bin.
The weird thing is that assigning a map location to the tag doesn’t try to write the metadata of files with that tag.
[U] Moving map locations always fails, silently (too bad if you want to record backcountry locations not namable via a place name).
[U] If a photo with GPS coordinates is imported, it doesn’t show as a red push-pin on the map.
Scrolling the map or restarting the Organizer causes the pin to appear.
Color Management
Major Problems
[U] The Organizer considers photos produced by cameras set to the color space Adobe RGB as untagged with a color profile, showing their colors incorrectly.
Metadata
Major Problems
[U] The File > Write Keyword Tag command doesn’t create or update .XMP sidecars for Nikon D300 or D80 .NEF raw files (but it does for Canon CR2 raw files).
The PSE 8 Write Keyword Tag command now gives a warning when you try to invoke it on a D300 .NEF raw file. Why PSE can write sidecars for Canon but not Nikon raw files is a mystery – it’s no harder to handle one than the other.
[U] File > Write Keyword Tags and Properties fails to write the map location (GPS coordinates) of TIFFs (tested with TIFFs produced by the PSE Editor and the Nikon Coolscan V, Nikon Coolscan 5000, and Epson 4490 scanners).
[U] File > Write Keyword Tags doesn’t write the map location (GPS coordinates) into the .xmp sidecar files of Nikon D80 or Canon G9 raw photos.
[U] The Organizer ignores correctly formatted EXIF GPS locations in some files that many other programs can read without trouble; this may be because the EXIF is encoded in little-endian byte order.
[U] New dates set by Edit > Adjust Date and Time sometimes get silently lost.
See http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Date/times_of_files for details and workarounds.
[U] Edit > Adjust Date and Time > Shift To New Starting Date And Time and > Shift By Set Number Of Hours writes the time in UTC rather than local time, as required by the standard, causing other tools to show the wrong date/time.
[U] In Thumbnail View, the Organizer incorrectly orders files that have unknown time. For example, it will show a file dated 12/25/1976 8:00 PM PST after a file dated 12/26/1976 (unknown time) on a computer in time zone PST.
[U] If you set a file's date/time fields to all unknown with Edit > Adjust Date And Time, the value of EXIF:DateTimeOriginal isn't cleared by File > Write Keyword Tag.
[U] Edit > Adjust Date and Time doesn’t properly handle US Daylight Savings Time when setting date/times many decades ago, e.g. October 5, 1961 12:00 PM.
[U] When setting the Organizer’s date/time for imported photos containing EXIF:DateTimeOriginal but not XMP:DateTimeOriginal, PSE 7 doesn’t properly handle US Daylight Savings Time in years prior to 2007, e.g. October 31, 2006 12:00 PM.
Minor Problems
[F] The Properties – Metadata window shows the wrong value for Date Time Original when the month, day, or time is unknown.
[F] When you save an edited photo as a new file but not in a version set, the edited version picks up the date/time and caption of the original but not the keyword tags, star rating, or notes.
Now, the edited version picks up date/time, caption, notes, and keyword tags, but not the star rating, which could be charitably interpreted as a plausible design decision.
[U] Deselecting the option Use “Last Modified” Date If EXIF Date Is Not Found does not work – the last-modified date is always used for an imported file that doesn’t contain an EXIF date.
[U] Edit > Adjust Date and Time applied to a file with time “unknown” decrements the date by one day.
[U] With the Import EXIF Caption option turned off, captions pre-existing in a file’s EXIF:ImageDescription metadata field reappear in the Organizer after invoking the Full Editor.
Searching
Major Problems
[U] The timeline doesn’t correctly display date ranges spanning many years.
[U] Using the Keyword Tags pane, you can no longer exclude a parent category from a search, e.g. exclude all photos tagged with any tag in the People category.
The User Guide gives two examples of how to use category exclusion that just don’t work in PSE 6, 7, or 8. Interestingly, you can almost work around this by doing a text search of “not <category tag>”, e.g. “not People”. But this will also exclude photos that happen to have the word “people” in their filenames, captions, or notes, probably not what you want. You can also use the text query “not tag:<category tag>”, .e.g. “not tag:places”, but this will exclude all tags containing “places” as part of their name – there is no way to get an exact match of a tag name.
[U] Find > By History > Imported On sorts the photo dates alphabetically, rather than by date/time.
When the results first display, they are now sorted by Imported From then (correctly) by Date/Time. However, if you click on the Date/Time column header to sort by that column, the dates are sorted alphabetically (incorrectly).
[U] Find > By History > Imported On takes a couple of minutes on a large catalog, making the command almost useless.
[U] Find > By History > Imported On shows a scary message “Deleting Keyword Tags” that is apparently harmless.
[U] Searching with the Find Bar for “1 star and lower” doesn’t show photos with 0 stars.
Find > By Details > Rating Is Lower Than 1 Star does work.
[U] Searching for “0 stars only” doesn’t work for photos in a catalog converted from PSE 5.
[U] Searching with date ranges doesn’t properly handle time “unknown”.
Minor Problems
[U] The Show All button sometimes doesn’t appear if you quickly type a query into the Search text box and hit Enter.
[U] Setting a date range and then excluding two tags from the search clears the date range.
[U] Show All doesn’t clear a date range set by Find > Set Date Range (can be very confusing).
[U] Save Search Criteria As Smart Album isn’t available if a date range has been set but no other search criteria have been.
[U] When searching, you can exclude a keyword tag and then include an album, but you can’t do it in the other order.
User Interface
Major Problems
[?] On 1024x768 displays, and sometimes at higher resolutions, the Editor Print window is positioned to perfectly obscure the scroll bar of the drop-down list of printer profiles, leading people to think their printer’s profiles aren’t available.
I can’t reproduce this in PSE 8. The Editor’s Print dialog is all rearranged. But this bug struck some people and not others, so it may be still lurking.
[U] The menu bars don’t display if you have changed the screen DPI to be larger than 96 (as many people do on today’s ubiquitous high-res displays).
Adobe should be embarrassed about this, given that more and more computers are shipping preconfigured with higher DPIs. See http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#The_Organizers_Menu_Bar_ doesnt_show for a workaround.
Minor Problems
[F] Copying a paragraph from Microsoft Word and pasting it into the Notes field of a keyword tag causes some of the spaces between words to be deleted.
[F] In the full Editor, if at least one open photo is minimized to the Project Bin, Ctrl-Tab no longer cycles through the open windows.
[F] The Editor window can’t be resized the standard Windows way by grabbing any edge, just the lower-right corner.
Well, almost – you can grab the left, right, and bottom edges but not the top.
[F] Alt doesn’t underline the shortcut letters of top-level menu items in the Full Editor (but it does in the Organizer).
Both the Editor and Organizer don’t show the underline until you let up on the Alt key, whereas other Windows program show the underline when you first press the Alt key.
[F] The width of the Editor's Palette Bin can't be adjusted by dragging the left edge, as you can with all the other similar panes (Project Bin, Organizer Bin, Map View).
[U] In the Properties window of Full Screen mode, if you click in the Notes field and do Ctrl-A to select all the text, then click in the Caption field and do Ctrl-A to select its text, the notes remain highlighted.
[U] In the Organizer, Help > System Info reports the wrong amount for “Built-in Memory” on computers with more than 2GB of installed memory. (The command reports the correct amount in the Editor.)
[U] The setting of View > Show Borders Around Thumbnails isn’t remembered after you restart PSE.
[U] Ctrl-A to select all text doesn’t work in the text fields of the Properties window.
Interestingly, you can use ctrl-A in the text fields of the full-screen mode Properties window.
[U] Dialogs in the Editor sometimes bounce back when you try to move them.
[U] Dates are shown by Display > Import Batch as 2\20\2008 rather than 2/20/2008.
[U] In Create > Slide Show > Slide Show Preferences dialog, you can't use backspace or delete to clear the text in the Static and Transition Duration fields -- you need to select the text and then type over the selection (non-standard Windows behavior).
[U] Escape doesn’t close the full-screen-mode Properties dialog.
[U] You can’t use the Windows Explorer Tile command to tile the PSE Organizer and Editor windows.
The Editor can now be tiled by Windows Explorer and other window managers, but the Organizer still can’t.
Slide Shows
Major Problems
[F] The duration of a video clip included in a Slide Show is set to the default duration, not the length of the video clip, and right-click Edit Duration doesn’t change the clip’s duration.
PSE now sets the duration to the length of the clip. You can’t edit the duration, though – you can invoke Edit Duration, but PSE ignores the new value.
[U] An audio caption attached to a photo isn’t imported into a slide show even though the option Include Audio Captions as Narration is selected.
For an individual slide, you can give the Use Existing Audio Caption command to import that photo’s existing audio caption.
Editor
Minor Problems
[F] The Editor crashes if you invoke Quick Fix and use just one Touch Up tool (e.g. Whiten Teeth) and then save the file (but your changes are correctly saved).
[U] The File > Save For Web command doesn’t remember the last settings (e.g. file format and quality) after your restart the Editor.
For a workaround, see http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Allow_Save_For.John,
Firstly, my apologies for the length of this post – it has been fermenting a while. For those in a hurry I have split it into two sections – the first contains some general comments on the situation with PSE (v 7 in my case) and Adobe (as I see it) and the second contains a list of issues that I have encountered and some suggestions for improvement. As with you, my comments are largely directed at the Organiser module within PSE.
Part 1:
Before going any further I’d like to say what an excellent job you’ve done in cataloguing, understanding and in many cases providing solutions to a number of bugs. Adobe should be paying you a hefty sum for doing this work. It’s a welcome change from a large percentage of what you read in blogs and forums to see things dealt with systematically, objectively and in an informed way.
I’m less impressed with Adobe’s approach. In my opinion, if you choose not to provide program updates to your customers (i.e. you get what you bought in the box and that’s it) then you have a moral obligation to make sure that what you sell is as robust and free of bugs as possible.
I would be very surprised if they were not well aware of the comments you have made (if they aren’t then that would indicate an appalling failure of their ability to process feedback). The fact that they have not, in subsequent releases, dealt with all of the issues that have been highlighted is not good. I would go further and suggest that it is actually a breach of fair trading practice and disingenuous to sell the product as “fit for purpose” knowing these bugs are still in place.
It’s unreasonable to expect software to be absolutely faultless, and this is why the issuing of updates is a much “fairer” system. The problem, I think, with Adobe’s approach is that to entice new customers to each release they need to provide new features. A natural consequence of this is that there is a temptation to prioritise development of new features rather than providing solutions to existing issues. There is no incentive for Adobe to change this state of affairs for as long as customers are purchasing their products. In this respect one of the problems is that many of the reviewers to whom prospective customers go will rely on first impressions and will not uncover many of the issues. Adobe may be comfortable with this situation (and on relying on the reflected aura of Photoshop) but their product is not cheap and there is plenty of scope for competitors to provide a more robust, dependable product at cheaper price. With free applications like Picasa they will need to be very careful they don’t drop the ball.
Don’t get me wrong I think the concept of PSE organiser is excellent (I actually prefer it to my experience of Lightroom), it is the quality of execution that I have issues with.
My first experience of PSE was version 3 and this was positive enough for me to purchase PSE 7. However, my biggest disappointment with PSE 7, because to me it is fundamental, has been the quality of rendering images in full screen mode. Yours is the first comment I have seen that comments on the appearance of “jaggies” when displaying images in PSE. My understanding is that this relates to the anti-aliasing which is carried out when converting from image to display resolution and the level to which this smoothes out gradients in hue, saturation and luminance. I never observed this problem is PSE 3. Although the degree of anti-aliasing is a subjective preference, I was deeply disappointed and still find it hard to believe that free or bundled software (picture manager, windows picture viewer, etc) can manage this when PSE 7 can’t.
Anyway, I’m not sure how to illicit a change from Adobe. One way is to write the sort of rant I have above although I doubt this will make much difference. In any case keep up the good work and hopefully something will come of it.
Part 2:
Some issues I’ve encountered:
Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 – change in directory structure means that the “documents and settings” part of the user directory path in XP (i.e. c:\documents and settings\<<username>>\etc.) is now a shortcut which redirects you to the new location for user files which is c:\users\<<username>> \etc. If you are migrating from an old XP machine to a new Windows 7 one, you’ve kept your username the same and you have tried to retain the same directory structure then PSE 7 will still find files in your catalogue with the old style path. However, it will not recognise duplicates if you accidentally re-import the same files now they are on your Windows 7 machine. My workaround for this is to use an external file manager (e.g. windows explorer) to change the name of the directory that contains all of your photos. This causes PSE 7 to fail to resolve the path locations. You can then can select the relevant files and reconnect using the reconnect facility (File-Reconnect-Missing Files);
Watched folders are lost for any drive other than C when PSE 7 is closed and then reopened;
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Searches bring back the entire version set or stack even if only one of the files within meets the search criteria;
The instant search facility will sometimes decide that a number typed in is a date and will not find some files you would expect it to e.g. those where the number typed in is part of the filename rather than a date;
Anti-aliasing is insufficient – jaggies appear on jpegs displayed at certain zoom level. Interestingly this does not seem to occur if a jpeg has been created from a raw file through PSE 7 rather than an external application (at least for the camera I have).
Some suggestions:
Find duplicates facility;
Sort by filename and other file data;
Hide directories in the folder directory pane of the folder view if they contain no imported files – in PSE3 this was the only option and was actually quite useful to confirm that there were no imported files in a certain location (e.g. if e:\...etc was not in the list then you knew that you had no imported files located on the e:\ drive). It would be good to have this a display option.
Allow filters to be applied only to selected files;
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How can I get my Albums back at the top of the Library Panel?
I recently upgraded to 3.3.2 and among the many new and sublty annoying features, all the smart albums which I created and which used to be at the top of the Library panel now appear at the bottom below the Projects.
Why someone thought this should be moved is beyond me... and I am hoping there is a way for me to bring it back to the top.
In some of my Aperture libraries I have literally hundreds of projects and rely on smart albums to quickly organize photos across them. Having to scroll to the bottom of the pane is a pain!
Does anyone know how I can bring the ALBUMS back to the top of the Library pane?Create a folder (new Folder), call it "My albums" or similar, and drag it to the top of your projects section in the Library Inspector panel.
Then drag all your albums there.
You will have to set the projects to be arranged manually, or let the name of this folder start with a character that bring it to the top, if you want to sort by name.
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Is it possible in settings... or somewhere, to set it so that when you open (PrE9's) organizer instead of starting with keyword hierarchy list - it could open on keyword cloud view? I am not so keen on the hierrarchy method...
Thanks.
brushI did some experimenting in the Elements 9 Organizer.
1-- yes, when you close the Organizer then it does always seem to come up next time with the Thumbnail grid AND the Tags panel on the right is set to Hierarchy view. Then you must click on the icon for Cloud view.
2-- my conclusion is that if I click on the Cloud icon after starting the Organizer, then it was staying as Cloud in the Keyword Tags panel to the right of the Thumbnails for the duration that the Organizer is open.
3-- Note that if you use Full Screen for viewing your photos, then for the "Quick Organize" panel that drags out from the left side of the screen near the bottom, the default for Keyword Tags is Cloud. This is a different method of working which you may or may not like: however since it does set Cloud I decided to mention it.
FYI - to get to Full Screen you can use the pull down menu for the Display icon (that is next to the House icon on the top bar of the main Organizer screen). Choose the option "View, Edit, Organize in Full Screen". FYI - I usually select the thumbnails of the photos which I want to Organize before I go in to Full Screen. -
Hello everybody...
check out the copy below...
this is how ADOBE describe FREEHAND on THIS website...pretty amazing eh!
This poses the question to me, why not practice what you preach adobe! why don't you take a leaf out of your own (or macromedia's) book?... unbelievable!
I just find it hilarious how adobe can describe freehand on this website so perfectly and so true to life, i.e brilliant!, but then try to kill it a slow painful death at the same time...
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE USE FREEHAND ADOBE!...AND NEED IT TO HAVE A FUTURE!
http://www.adobe.com/products/freehand/productinfo/overview/
FreeHand MX at a glance
The creative design solution for print, Internet, and Adobe Flash
Realize your creative vision with an unparalleled set of creative design tools. ONLY FreeHand® MX has everything you need to move seamlessly from concept through design, production, and publishing in a streamlined graphics environment — all while working with a single document. Use FreeHand MX for storyboarding, creative design, multipage document production, and editing. Whether you're designing for print, the Internet, or Adobe® Flash®, you can repurpose your FreeHand MX projects across multiple mediums quickly and efficiently.
EASY
Quickly go from concept to design and publishing in print, Internet, and Flash projects. FreeHand MX provides a streamlined, easy-to-learn graphics environment for designing illustrations, organizing information, laying out storyboards, and developing click-through presentations.
Enhance productivity with a highly customizable workspace. The Object panel eliminates the need to move between multiple panels to inspect and change object, text, and style properties. Tools panel organization and a streamlined workflow make FreeHand MX easy to learn and use.
Quickly organize and map navigation, content, components, and data flows. Drag and drop to build persistent relationships between objects — while providing complete editability of stroke styles — with the Connector Lines tool. Achieve maximum editability and reduce production and revision times using master pages and backgrounds, Symbol libraries of data types and navigation components, and the graphics-based Find & Replace panel.
Produce immersive presentations and click-throughs for proof-of-concept proposals and client approvals. Drag and drop interactivity between objects and pages with the Action tool. Assign ActionScript™ commands in the easy-to-use Navigation panel. Quickly publish to SWF format for easy distribution.
POWERFUL
Rapidly create and edit visually rich designs and illustrations that provide maximum impact. FreeHand MX includes a powerful and flexible set of vector-based tools for designing print layouts, animations in Flash, or application interfaces.
Layer complex visual appearances on individual vector objects. With multiple attributes you can apply and organize an unlimited number of strokes, fills, and effects on a single object, from a single panel — eliminating the need to keep up with and edit multiple copies of an object for the same visual appearance.
Easily build rich graphical components for ads, interface objects, and attention-grabbing headlines. Apply path manipulation effects such as bend and transform while maintaining editability of the original shape with live vector effects. Provide high-resolution, realistic appearances — such as drop shadow and bevel — with live raster effects. Create 3D appearances with the Extrude tool.
Quickly reshape graphic primitives while maintaining editability. Round rectangle corners, turn ovals into arcs, and change the number of points on stars — all within the workspace.
WHAT A READ EH! MAYBE ADOBE SHOULD READ THIS....
I wonder how long it is before adobe change the description of freehand on this website??
thanks,
mark fThis discussion is not appropriate for the Design forum.
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While you wait for iOS 7, download iTunes 11.1
For iOS 7 compatibility, you will want to download and instal iTunes 11.1. See this link.
Sync with iOS 7. You can now use iTunes to sync your favorite music, movies, and more to devices with iOS 7. In addition, iTunes now makes it even easier to quickly organize and sync apps to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
iOS 7 is expected to arrive for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch around 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern, based on Apple's previous release schedules. It will be available through iTunes 11.1, as well as the Software Update section of the iOS Settings application.12:55 eastern. Still no iTunes 11.1 or iOS 7. I'll keep checking.
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I want to get an Ipad for schoo/home. Cant decide which one
Features I want:
- Be able to type quickly
- Organize notes
- Access textbooks if needed
- STAY ORGANIZED
- 8 hour battery life (School day)
- Consistent internet access
- Be able to open assignments from teachers (Word, etc.)
- Send emails
- Send notes to home computer
- Type easily
- Open multiple sites at once
Any suggestions which model I should get?I suggest a refurbished ipad2 64gb, specifically if you'll be using it for college.
My sons got netbooks for school two years ago. They had gotten excellent ratings. But they were very, very slow and didn't have a great battery life.
The MB Air would also be a great choice.
An ipad definitely cannot replace a laptop/desktop for your student needs. You cannot have MS Office or Excel on your ipad, and you'll need those for school. You can take notes on an ipad and transfer Word, etc. documents with apps like Pages. I don't know anyone who writes papers on ipads. There are many books, articles, pdf's, etc. that you can put in there or buy/rent electronically that will save you a lot of schlepping heavy books around. Many are required to get subscriptions to newspapers (at least in the business schools) and you can have all sent directly to your ipad and most also let you get them on your desktop or laptop. These will take up a good deal of your space.
My son got an ipad2 64gb before he started school (junior in college) a few weeks ago. He's used up about 22gb on mostly his music from ipod( about 3,000 songs!),lots of videos, and some apps for classes. He hasn't even downloaded any books or many games at all yet and I'm sure he will. We're glad he got the 64gb.The refurbished ipad 2 comes with a new outer shell, brand new battery, and full one year warranty from the Apple online store. It was $499.00, so, given the price, it was a simple decision to opt for a 64gb over 32gb ($399.)
If you're getting the new ipad, the apps will take up more space than previous ipads, and will add up in terms of used space. You'll also probably want music, movies, tv shows, etc. - more space.
You cannot add memory to your ipad, so I recommend getting as much as you can afford.
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Windows 8 is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Building on the Windows 7 framework and expanding it, users will first notice how different programs and features have been placed into apps. These apps can be navigated to within the home screen, in the form of Live tiles, which Windows Phone 7 users will quickly recognize. Programs, documents, files, and folders, can all be found using these tiles.
It was developed with touchscreens in mind, but that does not mean that the traditional keyboard and mouse have been set aside. Your mouse will now have greater control over your home screen and apps. Scrolling over different corners of your screen will provide different options, including the start menu (given a whole new look), settings, or a list of recently used apps. See more for yourself at the Windows® 8 Consumer Preview.
Here are some of the cool new features you can expect on a Windows 8 PC or Tablet.
Calendar, Mail, & Internet Explorer 10
With Internet Explorer 10, enjoy faster browsing, an easier interface, and a safer online experience than ever before. Windows Mail joined popular email accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo!, and Outlook all into one area for quick organization.
People + Messaging
Connect with the world! In Windows 8, you can effortlessly upload and share photos, websites, and more instantly with the people that matter most; and "Like" your favorite electronics retailer while you're at it
SkyDrive
Access your data from almost anywhere! Using SkyDrive with your Microsoft Live Account allows you to store your documents, photos, and other important files and securely share them.
Windows 7 Application Compatibility
In addition to giving you access to the many great new apps available in the Windows Store, Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro still work with most of your favorite Windows 7 applications.
Windows Media Center
For a limited time with the purchase or upgrade o Windows 8 Pro, you can add on Windows Media Center at no additional cost. With Windows Media Center, you can play DVD's as well as watch and record live TV.
Have more questions? Stop by your local Best Buy store or join the discussion here on the forums.
Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Douglas|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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When something does not work 'out of the box' and a consumer needs help from someone else then it is no longer a consumer product. This is one giant lemon which will cause lost sales to people like BB. I for one will NOT buy a computer where I am paying for something that does not work AND for which I have to pay money. BB need to review their policy re buying and selling something when there are consumers who do not want something...
These forums are user to user forums primarily used to allow customers to help out fellow customers. Some people prefer these forums more because its a more quicker and efficient way to get answers.
In regards to the product you purchase. If you purchase a laptop or a desktop and it has Windows 8, you get Windows 8. You don't get anything else with the product unless Best Buy has bundled it as a special. In the event of Windows 7, this is not supplied by Best Buy just because you are unhappy with a product. You need to purchase Windows 7 if you want this option. So far Microsoft has not announced a downgrade program for Windows 8 yet, and any updates to this would be provided on the Microsoft Website.
When you purchase a brand new computer, you are usually entitled to 30 days of free tech support from the PC manufacturer for any kind of questions you have regarding the operatbility of the computer or upgrade questions. After this 30 days up to a year you get questions answered for free on any items that came with your computer that was put in at the factory for a year. And then you have to purchase technical support.
If you are unsatisfied with any purchase, be it a desktop or a laptop you have 30 days for a Desktop and 14 days for a laptop to return it, with no questions asked or a restocking fee.
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Like brushes and patterns. I have over 200 different patterns. I would like to be able to browse them (as a colleciton possibly) so that I could decide which ones to load with the presets manager.
At present, there's no way to view patterns without going through the tedious process of loading and unloading them from Photoshop's presets manager. Seems to me that Bridge would be the one application that
should do this.>"Bride should be useful to other people than photographers."
I should have put either an "s" or a "g".
X-Bytor, I've seen several requests for a Mac Brushes browser, like the one for Windows that one can find on http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/ Do you think that it would be an hard task.
Chris, if it is very problematic to bring Photoshop (and other apps) viewing code in Bridge, what about bringing some of Bridge's spirit in the Presets Manager?
Still, when I read: "Adobe® Bridge is the navigational control center"
or "Organized assets
Quickly organize, browse, locate, and view the assets you need every day with visual previews and scalable thumbnails" , I feel that Bridge might be the app that could handle them.
I do realize that given the number of assets (just the sheer number of apps) it would be a huge task, but it would really give unique abilities to Bridge.
Then, another idea: why not put small thumbnails inside the presets files? (at the expense of filesize)
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For a long time now I have been looking for a fast useful organizer that will allow me to organize my research PDFs, financial documents, etc. Basically trying to go towards a paperless home office if possible, and at the same time using it to keep up with my research reading. Digital editions meets some of the criteria. I can tag documents by placing them on multiple bookshelves and I can view the documents right there in the program(of course as an ebook reader I guess this is expected). The few things I really hope for is:
1. Easy renaming of titles. Right now I have to go back to acrobat to rename the title to something useful. This is fine for documents I am creating new, but I already have a collection of documents that I don't want to have to go back and change the name on each and every one of them.
2. Have a smart folder which lists all the untagged(non-bookshelf) documents. This way when I import 20 documents at a time I can easily see which ones are left to tag.
3. Allow us to create smart lists. This is why people are resorting to iTunes to organize their pdf documents.
4. Let me go to the file directly. I see the information dialog box about the file lists the location. Why can't I click it and the program opens the folder and highlights the file I am working on.
5. Rotation within editions. Sometimes when I scanned documents in I didn't get the orientation right. Why not let me rotate it and save it?
6. Link to acrobat reader or full version acrobat so that I can make some changes to the file.
7. Combine the organizer within acrobat with this. I would use that organizer, but it doesn't allow me to run it separately without opening the behemoth acrobat. I want a quick organizer where I can locate the document I want and then decide if I want to print/edit or just read the document.
8. If a file changed in the directory, why doesn't it change in Digital editions or at least ask me to locate the renamed file. I haven't even gone as far as checking what happens if I change some other aspect(ie text addition) within acrobat, save it and then go back to editions.
9. Allow me to fill in forms and save, so that I don't have to go to reader or acrobat for this.
10. Why isn't there a hand to allow me to move the page around while reading. This is standard on almost all other adobe product I know. Lets get a unified interface.
11. Make it easier to tag. Maybe even predictive tagging based on content.
The program looks really good. Runs phenomenally fast and could be very useful. If do a search of the web for pdf organizers (especially for windows) you'll see this is one area that there is a desperate need for. Macs have programs like Yep, Papers, Devonthink, etc.. I don't mind DE working as an ebook reader, but I think it could be so much more. Mac users may not be as desperate for some of these features because of Yep or Papers, but as a windows user and a researcher I am in desperate need of something that can do most of the above.
thanksThese are great suggestions. Many of them are on our own lists. However, we are a relatively small team, so it takes us time to get to all of them. With respect to #9, there is not present intent to support this. Part of the rationale for splitting DE off from Acrobat/Reader was to provide a lightweight client that could be used in a number of ways. If you need to support forms, one will need to stick with the more powerful (and larger) Reader.
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Hello,
I am a composer, producer and engineer working in the Los Angeles area. I've been using Pro Tools and Digital Performer for a long time now, and I'm growing increasingly frustrated with them for MIDI and virtual instruments. I have been testing the Logic Express free trial for the past month, and I am very impressed, especially how efficient the CPU usage is compared to PT and DP. I can really accomplish a lot more, without having to freeze or bounce tracks all the time. As a result, I am seriously considering switching to Logic Pro for my composing / sequencing work.
During this free trial period, I have been browsing this forum, as well as reading the PDF's for Logic Express and Logic Pro and I have had most of my questions answered that way. However, I have been keeping a list of questions that remain unanswered.
I will be attending the "Power of 7" demo at RSPE here in L.A. on May 4th. I plan on covering these questions with the rep's there. I would also like some feedback from the users "in the trenches". Should I post my list of questions here? Would anyone mind filling in some of the gaps in the owner's manuals for me?
Thanks for your time!
PM Quad G5; PB 17" G4; iMac 15" G4; PM 500MHz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) PTLE7; Digi002R; Mbox; DP4.61; MachFive; Komplete2; EWQLSO Gold; MemoryMoog+Michael,
I was in a rush when I responded last. I didn't answer the other questions because I don't know their answers. I was eager to see what the experts say. On this topic, luckily, there are a bunch of very helpful, experienced and intelligent people (as in unicornation) who are here to help- like the guys (not me) who have been answering. I would imagine you'd want to know this, since it's helpful when starting. (the unicornation forum, while stodgier, well... there're a couple of strange posts here once in a while.) (what i think would be great is a forum for multiplatform folk -- like a dp-logic-pt forum.) Or, a translation book. Like mac os for windows folks. (the move is kind of the same thing -- different language, basically you do the same thing-- different vibe)
So, now hearing what the experts have to say:
1. General routing: so, compared to DP, this seems to be a weakness. It seems that folks' complains about logic's mixer may be in part due to this. While a little annoying, if comparing to DP, for what's important to me, I don't find this to be a deal breaker. Also, I'd imagine there's a relatively simple work around to achieve what you need. And you mentioned, you'd do more audio in PT.
I'd like to know more about this. I'll ask when I figure out what I need to ask.
Here are other things I have found to be cool, when compared with DP:
1. mute of an individual midi note. It's like the same concept when muting audio, but for a midi note. Never figured why it wasn't available in DP.
2. multiple tempo tracks ( i haven't used it yet, but seems useful)
3. oh, here's something that's revolutionized my workflow -
bounce direct to an aac & add to audio window & itunes & make a full res (24 bit) pcm bounce all with one step. So, in about a minute, with 2 steps (bounce & email) I can send what I am listening to the director/collaborator/friend - bam. This is terrific. DP has an aac option, I just never incorporated it.
4. i haven't used it yet, but you can bounce music to quicktime video (as in DP, which was wonderful -- ) supposedly, you can also do just the selected by locator section. that's useful.
5. i really enjoyed & got very fast at using DP's consolidation window. this is very cool. i thought this would be a problem with Logic. However, you can make a window stay in the foreground by selecting option, before you select it. Also there's a stack windows horizontally/vertically -- which can quickly organize it -- but not as fast as consolidation. However, with screensets, which are easy to configure, I figure this is again, is not going to be a problem. I'm using 2 screens now which is helpful in this regard.
6. it's good to have a very capable, efficient sampler well integrated (with regards to resource management, etc....) I've been getting good results with the exs, using my .gigs + . Also, kontakt 2 runs. A crash with this once in a while.
7. space designer -- I bought altiverb when i was setting up my new dp system. Figured I wouldn't need space designer. However, altiverb does not run well when I'm running buffer under 256. So, space designer fits this composing-pre mixing stage bill wonderfully.
8. I like seeing the midi notes in the region view. It's a nice combo of easy region handling + seeing what's inside.
9. the quantization & region parameter thing -- this is nice as well. I laid down a 2 measure 8th note pulse. Then, painted it across the screen -- this is nice (actually this is the loop function). Then instead, I pressed R-16, and there were bunch of copies of it. Then, in the right places, I quantized the pulse to 1/4 notes, 1/2 notes, whole notes, even triplets -- in such a simple step --
so, overall -- what i've read seems to be true -- it's a great creation tool
dp is elegant, and mixer is (may be) more conventional (PT)
but the learning curve is not that bad -- at times, it's annoying -- but i imagine it's like learning a new language as an adult -- or a new instrument.
10. so, i like having the region/track parameters. reminds me of my old cubase days.
11. I have my right click hardwired to mute. Then use option for whatever task i'm currently doing. today, i was working extremely fast selecting, muting, fading/cross fading -- overall view, deeper view -- moving from section to section -- by either simply dragging the cycle bar (which is wonderful) or,
clicking in new cycle start-stop points (as i used to do in DP) --
as in DP, I use the period in the number pad to enter a transport location (so this feels just like DP (just quicker) -- then i use the + & - in the number pad to change start & stop times of cycle mode,
then the / in the number pad to toggle cycle on & off.
Then, ctrl = to set cycle length to length of region;
oh, and ctrl-click is hardwired to zoom,
and ctrl double click on empty arrange goes back a zoom level
so, with these things i was editing extremely fast.
My recommendation, which is what I did -- before purchasing, if you are not in a rush, spend the money on the macprovideo.com logic tutorials. these are incredible. martin sitter's explanation style is great. also, go through his & dvorin's text tutorials. do this before you purchase -- if you feel you need more hands on.
but let me be honest, i was incredibly excited to see things done in logic, and then to do them myself, and to be up to speed super fast
and, as i said earlier, my intent is to master one -- 'cause it's too complicated (for me) to master several --
anyway --
i still believe pro tools is elegant,
as is DP
and i miss working in both.
i would like to work in all --
but, fancy PT does not make sense for me, & i'm not pro enough to require it's compatibility requirement --
before logic, i was looking for something that was dp, pt, & live -- but, 1st, the easiest to create on -- it's possible logic may be it
but, if my biggest reason to move to logic was due to a feeling of sluggishness in DP, that can be addressed by either farming out VI chores to external computers -- which, in the end, (for me) has to be done in logic as well (i'll explain shortly) or getting a newer computer more often --
so, in the end, i guess, it depends which simply feels best for what's most important
so, my original reason to move to logic was 'cause it could handle more in one box -- which seems to approximate the fancy PT approach of one session file/folder for everything -- quick recall -- this is incredibly helpful when time is limited, or you have to put something on the backburner, etc.... And, this is most important to me.
However, loading the large sample libraries in a Logic file becomes a real chore -- 'cause load up times are so long. now, i am being incredibly spoiled - of course. But, there's something convenient about having another computer(s) deal with sampling (& loading) so, you can switch between songs, & not get bogged down as quickly. Also, I have not tried to optimize my workflow yet. And, I was using at one point almost all of my 4.5 G of RAM, using pretty high quality libraries.
Oh, i forgot to mention, when i 1st got logic express, i kept slamming in altiverbs- i had a little DP project where i was using 7 of them, inefficiently + some MW eq & comps.
Well, I got to 20 altiverbs in Logic, same system -- before it began coughing & still navigating & saving were incredibly responsive.
Also, i enjoy "file save as" while playing -- DP couldn't do this.
And, at 1st, i found logic channel eq to be annoying to deal with, compared with DP MW eq -- but, i got the hang of it & enjoy it.
Oh yes, automation -- it's fast & easy. I read about problems with this. I haven't experienced them yet. It's very fast. There's not a bunch of tools to do what you need to do -- you just kind of do it (it's more than that), but meaning, what you want to do can be accomplished with what seems to be fewer clicks.
I miss the following in DP: the ability to type in a value - for automation for example.
Oh, coming from DP, check out the Event Float (options window, or opt e). I liked how DP displayed and manipulated this info; it's mostly (if not all) available in logic -- i've got to figure this out.
So, I'm not as experienced and aware of what Logic can do as the experts here who have been very helpful to me, but I hope this is somewhat helpful.
I tried because I was in a similar situation as yours; except, I did not have as much time invested in DP as you have. This complicates your decision more, I believe.
Oh, and basically everything that's in the logic pro book tutorial (dvorin) is not in express -- so, it's ok to judge the basics of logic with express -- but, it's not enough to really judge it.
i guess, it is a $1000 question.
so, i know i'm wordy -- & not very informative, & i am unable to answer the 10 questions -- but, i was trying to address it from a recent dp -> logic perspective.
a yoga teacher asked me if i read thriller novels; my wife laughed & uncomfortably said, "uh, he doesn't read books. he reads manuals, textbooks, and gear mags." well, i'm currently happily not subscribed to any gear **** mags -- they're great -- just figured, now i got to get into what i have -- & not look around anymore. but of course, i've been seeing what the reaction to dp5 is. seems that's is possible that they've done something that's got the snappy thing done -- oy vey. (& the audio window enhancement, with live elastic audio - like functions, & folders, & a basic sampler, and possibly audio instrument like channels, and i wonder how they're freeze is doing.) Maybe I am insane. Not much more than others here. Which is why I stop by. Kind of 12-stepish.
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PSE 7 Won't open photo in Quick Editor from the Organizer using Vista
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I do not quite understand what you mean by "diffuculty" so suggest that you be more specific about what happens.
Then also tell us if you have the same results when you select just one jpeg and attempt to go from the Organizer to Full Edit.
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when I try to use quick fix in the organizer nothing appears in the panel. How do I activate it?
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