Display - Color Labels Messed Up

Display suddenly switched from normal to all colors being wrong. Color labels show up incorrectly, but I cannot figure out how to correct them.

Welcome to Discussions Vince.
Have you gone to System Prefs>Display and calibrated your display? Also, have you chosen iMac profile? In the display part, have you selected 1680x1050?
Calibrating your color should bring it back to normal, do let us know how it works out,
Miriam

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I started using a mac laptop in the field and always used windows pc at home. A portable hard drive holds the lightroom catalog. It's fat32 formatted so it can be used by both mac and windows.
A catalog made by the mac lightroom opens fine in windows. However, all the color labels are lost. The flags and stars are retained.
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The color labels are preserved between different programs (for instance between Bridge and Lightroom) and I imagine between different LRs on two different computers only when the texts entered as description for the color labels in >Metadata >Color Label Set >Edit is absolutely identical on both computers down to upper / lower case, spaces, numbers, hyphens, etc. If one dexcription for - lets say the red label - deviates from the other by only a semicolon the label will not display properly.
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Automator: Apply Color Label and Copy to Folder

I'm trying my hand at Automator, and I need help with one of my workflows (⇪). Basically, it's a service (accessible via right-click) that will apply a color label on an image file, and then copy that image file to a corresponding folder with the same color label. My current version works fine, except for the fact that I had to create seven versions to accommodate all seven colors.
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Also, the service currently assumes that it will run fast enough before I can deselect the target file. I'm sure it's possible that the folder search could lag out while I select another file, and the service will ultimately copy the newly selected item, rather than the initial target. Is there a way to ensure the service acts on whatever was selected when it was first triggered?
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #DAFFB6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into an Automator 'Run AppleScript' action">
on run {input, parameters} -- copy to a labelled folder
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first folder of the base folder that has the same label and copy the input items
to that folder.
input: a list of Finder items received from a "Label Finder Items" action
output: a list of Finder items to be passed on to a following action
set output to {}
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try
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returns nothing
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</pre>

Apparent bug in 3.1's handling of color labels

This ties is with [Applescipt manipulating color label|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2645193&tstart=15] posted earlier today.
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Attachments:
Double-click-click[2].vi ‏62 KB

Color Label Buttons - Unexpected Behavior

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Finder has colors all messed up.

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Open the Universal Access system preference and see if the Display on the Seeing pane is set to White on Black. If it is, select Black on White and that should get your display back in order. Also make sure that the Enhance Contrast slider is set to "normal".
Hope this helps.

Can Bridge not read / see the Finder's color labels...?

I have got a whole stack of images files, in a few nested folders on my Mac, and they have all been painstakingly individually color-labelled in the Finder with various colors.
I now want to manage these files and perform various actions on them, based on their colors, and so I have opened up the folders in Bridge, but Bridge is not showing the colors of the files.
I know Bridge has its own color-labels set-up, but this does not work in conjunction with the Finder, so even if I went through and re-labelled them all in Bridge, the changes would not be reflected in the Finder -- and I do still need to view the color-labels outside of Bridge / in the Finder, because I won't ONLY be using these files from within Bridge.
So, simply put, is there no way I can get Bridge to read and display the color-label information as shown in the Finder?

So, simply put, is there no way I can get Bridge to read and display the
color-label information as shown in the Finder?
No, you can't see those finder labels in Bridge.
There is however a reasonable simply workaround I would think.
In Finder create several new folders, for each label one folder.
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at top of this column and your labels are selected per color above each
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Drag and drop them manual to the new created folders. And you can easily
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You can also add the new color label folders temporally to the favorite
column left at the finder window so drag and drop is even more easier.
After this in Bridge point to each folder and assign a suitable bridge label
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I would not like having to reload the operating system to fix the problem.
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Trouble with color labels not synching between different machines sharing same data drive

Hi
I am having a problem that seems to have come up when I started using a mix of PS/Bridge CS4 and CS3, in which color labels I apply in Bridge--primarily to folders--do not retain the color label when I look at the same set of folders on the same external hard drive using multiple, different Macintosh machines, running a mix of CS3 and CS4. The color labels will appear on one machine and then not appear at all on another. Note: they don't appear as white labels without a color. It's as if they were never labeled at all!
I use multiple Macs to connect to one primary external data drive. I consistently configure Bridge to export caches to the external drive, and with CS3 any color labels I applied to folders were consistently displayed in the same way on multiple machines.
Every since I upgraded a couple of my Macs to CS4, I now notice that color labels applied on one machine aren't showing up when I attach my external drive to other machines. I've even noticed a problem connecting to the external drive from two different user profiles on the same Mac laptop (running CS4).
I have tried resetting the preferences and the cache on all of these machines. I also then re-toggled the export caches checkboxes on all these machines. Per some earlier troubleshooting, I have also made sure that the naming convention for the labels is the same on all the machines: "Approved" versus "Green," etc.
There just seems to be no rhyme or reason for why the color labels are not synching.
HELP!?
Thanks in advance.

I have no clue at all, labels should stay visible after having applied them
to a file and used purge cache. And they do so on my system.
Normally there will not be many reasons to use the purge cache option unless
you have trouble, every time you alter a file it should be auto update the
preview and thumb, is this not in your workflow?
Are you still working with same files that were also present on your other
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Have you considered to start from scratch?
Quit Bridge, from the user library preference folder delete the plist file
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Adobe/BridgeCS4 move the cache file outside the user library if you want to
backup this file (or to the trash if you don't want it anymore)
Both files will replace itself with fresh ones but the cache needs to start
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Again hold option when starting Bridge first time and again choose refresh
preferences.
Set the preferences for Bridge to your wishes and try again.
However, if I go to "Tools-Cache-Purge Cache For Folder" and purge the cache
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I tried this option under Universal Access but this did not work for me.
My situation is that it looks like colors are "blurred" for lack of a better word. I can see text as long it is not munged by colors.
I thought it might be a resolution issue but I tried setting under Display in System Preference with no result.
As some others have reported, the MacBook Pro can get very hot under the bottom so I am wondering if the heat messed up the display?
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Color Label

I'm wondering if any of you have used Color Label to, well, color any of your folders and/or files? In all the years it's been available I've never used it and often wondered why I would want to.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Maybe I'm missing something.
Chip

I use labels to tag things like potentially dangerous items, demo or older versions, third party installs, original installation files, and general highlighting. One of the handier uses I found is to tag all of the original support files of an application, then if anything new is added or updated, I can easily see which files are affected. Along the same lines is the highlight, which I use for things like archived downloads, so I can identify those that I haven't archived yet, or preference items that I mess with on occasion so that I can pick them out of the list quickly. Smart folders can do a lot of the same things, but I find labels in a column view stand out pretty well.

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Frank Caggiano wrote:
Thanks for the reply, great stuff as always. I wasn't aware of the label showing up in the Filter HUD on and Metadata pane on mouse over. That works for me.
My pleasure -- I'm always learning. Glad to help.
Not showing up in the Label field in the Metadata pane seems like a bad miss on the designers part, it would be a perfect place to display it right under the color dot itself.
Yes. I think Aperture really came of age w. 3.x -- but now there are ripples to smooth. Frictionless it's not.
No this time I'm not looking at this from a programming point-of-view. I'm actually looking at it for use in my workflow (starting to hate that phrase). I'm gradually shifting from Aperture as a great piece of software to poke around and see what it can do to actually trying to setup my digital darkroom.
I'm looking at labels to keep track of my prints as they go through the process. You know grey is test print, purple is first work print, blue is second, etc. Trying to see how much of what I remember from my darkroom days carries over. I'm trying to slow myself down. It's so easy , for me at least, to just go in and start whacking around sliders to see what happens, the thought process and stepwise refinement you need when dealing with the physical gets lost.
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. (blank) -- not yet ranked at all
. red -- marked for development
. orange -- development started, not finished (sometimes the phone rings, etc.)
. yellow -- part of bracketed set (for HDR or panorama -- note that the returned image will join the Stack as the pick and be developed and labeled)
. green -- developed, ready to be published
. blue -- a Version of a (green) developed shot, to be re- or differently developed for a specific need
. purple -- a developed blue Version, ready to be used
. gray -- abandon but keep (fatal flaw somewhere -- this is for those "I liked that ... O! Now I remember ... " shots)
Which brings me to another question, notes. Back in the day I'd always be making notes as I went through the printing process. Most times I would just use the back of the test print. I've been using the caption field but that seems like a less then optimal solution. So if you keep notes as you adjust and print where do you keep them? I've tried making a custom field which would be ideal but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it larger than a single line and reading it back then is a pain.
I use a custom metadata field I named "Comment" (very important, imho, to not use Caption, as that field is often published and shows up in many places). Here's a screen shot with some important additional information:
Let us know what you come up with.

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I also have heaps of rules dutifully sending incoming mail to their appropriate mailboxes.
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I just had a look and you need to create the mailbox PRIOR to asking the rules to move it into that.
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Never Mind... Thank you though..
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