Focal Color.

Does anyone know if there is a possible way to: Change the picture to black and white and keep one item in the picture its original color?

There are several ways to do this. In PEv.8, an easy method is:
Open picture
Duplicate background layer. The background copy layer will be the active layer
Go to Enhance>convert to black and white. The dialog that comes up allows you to select preset options, but the sliders can be used to fine-tune
Still working on the background copy layer, access the eraser tool and erase the area where you wish to retain color

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External Editor makes ENORMOUS files.

I'm using Photoshop CS2 as my External Editor and have tried selecting both PSD and TIFF (the only 2 options) as the file format, but the resulting files are HUGE.
Here's what I have been doing:
I ShiftCmdO to open the image External Editor.
(by the way my files are all ~5MB JPEGs)
Apply a filter > Save > the new obese PSD or TIFF files appear in Aperture.
I tried switching from 16 bit to 8 bit and doing a JPEG "Save as.." to the original location, but the resulting image doesn't show up in Aperture.
Is there any way to bring the files back into Aperture at a size comparable to what they were when they left without loads of hoop-jumping (i.e. save to Temporary Location and reimport to Aperture)?
Between this and the lack of RAW support for my Nikon D40x, I'm starting to lose faith in my choice of Aperture over Lightroom.

RAW files are only the data recorded by the camera's image sensor while Tiff and PSD files are pixel based files that have been created by the image editing software (eg. Photoshop) taking the RAW data and building the pixel based file from that data. The resulting image is considerably larger than the raw data as all the pixels are then "fleshed out." My camera (Canon 1D Mk II) creates 8MB RAW files that become 46.8MB TIFF files when opened in Photoshop before any processing is done to the image. Applying a Photofilter shouldn't add much to the size of the file, even if you add an Adjustment Layer for Photofilter. However when you start doing much else in the way of adding layers expect the file size to grow quickly. I often work with files in excess of 1GB. Whatever your final file size is that is what you will pull back into Aperture as a Version. The only way around this is to flatten the image (DON'T!) or some other method discussed here (DON'T). The goal of a multilayer image is that it allows you to go back and adjust your image later without starting from scratch and essentially losing all the work you did on the image previously. That's the benefit. The only downside of that is the file size created. I only create layered PSD's of the images I am selling, printing (for my purposes), etc. The rest stay as RAW files.
Two other thoughts:
1. You should be able to do most of your image adjustments within Aperture - including making color tone adjustments using either the white balance or the color adjustments for more specific and focal color range adjustments. The beauty of this is that the only thing that Aperture records as additional data in your Version is the adjustment data (literally a few k, vs many MB).
2. When you take an image out to PS or some other image editing program you really need to go to Layer, Make New Adjustment Layer and select the adjustment you want to make. This does two things: 1. it allows you to make corrections/adjustments without altering the actual pixels of the images (non-destructive), and 2. it allows you to make an adjustment, view it, then go back and tweak it and/or turn it on/off to see the changes it makes and even go back later to tweak that layer after other adjustments have been made to fine tune your image.
Hope you find something in here helpful.

Color distortion

does elements9 have focal black and white or color? where I can just focus on the color of one item(s) or change color of certain items(s). if so how do I use this?

To add to what Hatstead said, you might want to roughly select the area you want to change color so thatonly that area is changed.
In this example we want to change the color of just the 2 orange balloons in the center.
Select them.
Run Replace Color:
Use the left eyedropper to click on the orange in either balloon. The goal is to make the balloons in the mask as white as possible but leaving no white outside the ballons. If necessary use the middle eyedropper to click another orange point to add to the mask.
Further fine-tune the mask with the Fuzziness slider, but againleaving no white outside the ballons.
Adjust the 3 Transform sliders to get your new color.

How do I change the stroke color while retaining the fill color using eye dropper in Illustrator?

I have a question regarding illustrator.
Let's say I have a circle with blue fill and red stroke. And I place an image in the illustrator file. Now I want to change the red stroke of my circle to let's say a purple color by sampling the color from the image.
How can I achieve that with a eye dropper tool? Every time when I try to sample a color from the image, the whole circle will change to purple instead of just the stroke?
I have tried multiple key combination, shift, alt, ctrl but they all don't work.
Cheers, Venn.

What you were saying is essentially what Mike's screenshot is all about?
Deselect Focal Fill on Picks Up and Applies.
I don't see how disabling them will help?
If you have an image, Illustrator reads it as a transparent shape without any appearance attributes.
Now I have a shape with a stroke, I want to change the stroke color by sampling the colors on the image.
You can't do that with the eyedropper because the image doesn't have a stroke.
Eyedropper only picks and applies appearances.
So I guess you can't do this in Illustrator from the beginning.
The eyedropper isn't built for that.

No Color Values in Histogram

Color Values (RGB%) are not shown anymore in the histogram of the adjustments tab. (These always used to appear when the mouse moves over the image.) In the Adjustments popup menu (the gear icon) 'RGB (%)' is checked. Color Values have always shown, but since shortly they disappeared; only ISO, f-number, shutterspeed and focal length are shown.
How can I get back the color values?
Koen

It is still there:
In the adjustments tab, click the drop-down gear, go to color value, and "show color values."
Hope this helps!
CD

Cs6 for color blind people

Hi,
I'm color blind. Which means I can't see color. Dogs are like that too I think... they see in black and white. Something about rods and cones in the eyeball.
anyway, I wonder... since I'm about to get into editing etc... if there is a plug in or something I can use with cs5.5 ( or upcoming releases) to do automatic color correction on things I edit ????
So that I get the right color.
Not for " me " , you understand, cause I can't see color anyway... but for " you " and others that can actually see colors.
I'm not thinking of myself here... like a selfish user of program.
I'm thinking of your own happiness.
Any suggestions ???

Rod,
Just so that you know, I was not poking fun at the color blindness "thing." I take eyesight very seriously, especially as mine is going.
I can no longer get to 20/20 with glasses, and only with contacts. However, as I suffer from astigmatism, and to a degree, where contacts cannot correct it, I am caught in a gray area. My near vision is also declining rapidly too. I now need to wear the contacts for sports, long daylight driving, etc., but then need at least two pair of different readers for almost anything within about 20', with one featuring anastigmatic correction. Get me into a dim restaurant, and I need readers to even see my food, but different readers for the menu. With night driving, I need readers way out on the tip of my nose, to see the dashboard clearly, but not to interfere with my distant vision. With my glasses, I use one set for distance, one set with anastigmatic corrections and graduated focal lengths (works well on the computer, but makes walking down stairs tricky), and then a pair with lineless bifocals, for general near-to-far. It's tough getting old, and having to carry around a box of various glasses, and contact lenses, switching out, depending on what I am doing - oh, I also need sunglasses of a couple of types, as well, since AZ has very bright skies with lots and lots of sun.
For me, I am fortunate, as the color recognition is still quite good. It's just the eyesight that is going, but at least those poor weak eyes ARE healthy. Being the visual person that I am, I would hate to imagine life without my sight.
No, no joking on my part.
Not sure what's up with your cross-word puzzles. Maybe the authors are all Craig's neighbors?
Hunt

Can I show a color bar instead of a color bullet in iCal Monthly view for all my events in all calendars?

In the Monthly view of iCal the only events that show a color bar in the event is the Birthday Calendar. All other events in all my other calendars only show a color bullet next to the event (unless I click on that event which then shows as a color bar). I would like to know if it is possible for all the calendar events to have a color bar in the monthly view instead of just that tiny color bullet.

Greetings Judith,
Before making any attempts at deleting calendar data, backup what you have just in case:
Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal one at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
iCal has an automated function located in iCal > Preferences > Advanced > Delete events "X" days after they have passed. By typing in a value for days you can tell iCal to delete all events before that time frame.
Example:
Today is 4-16-2012.
If I wanted to delete all events prior to 1 year ago (4-16-2011) I would type in "365" for the number of days.
Once you type in the number of days you want kept in iCal, close the preferences and then quit iCal.
Re-open iCal and check to see if the events are gone. If not you may want to leave it open for several minutes and then quit again.
Once the events are removed go back to iCal > Preferences > Advanced > Delete events "X" days after they have passed and make sure the check mark is removed to prevent future deletion.
Hope that helps.

Fax function of HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color MFP M575

Hi,
I am one of users of HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color MFP M575.
I would like to know can I set the printer do not print my fax number and fax header on paper when I fax my document to others.
I had login as admin but I did not see where I can config it.
Thank you.
Regards,
Jimmy Pun

There is no change to this problem after 6 months since the last post. Put simply, and as stated in the previous posts, there is no way to scan a document and receive the image on your PC. If you are working with graphics for any length of time or want to create an image for inclusion as an image in a document or web page using this piece of equipment will not allow you to do so.
Great shame as every other function works well - it cannot be beyond the wit of HP to include a Windows application that enables you to scan an image, receive it in the software you are using at the time (e.g. Outlook, Word, Photoshop...) and use it in your work.
HP Printers several years older than this £1000+ Enterprise printer were able to do this simple job and have done so for a great many years. Just being able to use Microsoft's Fax and Scan would be start.

HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color MFP M575 - Can't scan from Windows

We recently purchased and installed an HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color MFP M575 to be used as a networked all-in-one solution for a number of offices. I have been able to get it set up on our network and have installed the appropriate drivers on the requested Windows 7 x64 machines, and network printing works perfectly. However, it seems that despite the fancy scanning features available from the all-in-one itself (scan to email, scan to a network folder, etc.), I can't find any way to do an old-fashioned scan from Windows.
I have installed the full software solution available on the driver download page for the device, and while Windows lists the device as a "Multi Function Printer; Scanner" it does not recognize it as an actual scanner. The built-in Windows Fax and Scan simply reports that no scanners are installed. The software installation did not include the HP Solution Center (which I am used to seeing from my experience with various other HP all-in-one devices) or any equivalent for direct scanning. The driver download page for the device does not include any separate scanning drivers, so I can't be certain if they were included with the full installation or exist at all.Some of our staff also use Adobe Acrobat to scan, and even that fails to recognize the MFP as a scanner.
We'll eventually be setting up the device to scan directly to a network folder, but we need a fallback while IT takes their time getting it set up; I can't imagine that the simplest option is not available at all. I must be missing something here, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: To add, I also ran the HP Print and Scan Doctor. Interestingly, it reports the device as a printer and only offers to "Fix Printing" without any sort of resolution for my scanning problem.

There is no change to this problem after 6 months since the last post. Put simply, and as stated in the previous posts, there is no way to scan a document and receive the image on your PC. If you are working with graphics for any length of time or want to create an image for inclusion as an image in a document or web page using this piece of equipment will not allow you to do so.
Great shame as every other function works well - it cannot be beyond the wit of HP to include a Windows application that enables you to scan an image, receive it in the software you are using at the time (e.g. Outlook, Word, Photoshop...) and use it in your work.
HP Printers several years older than this £1000+ Enterprise printer were able to do this simple job and have done so for a great many years. Just being able to use Microsoft's Fax and Scan would be start.

How do I only allow certain users to print in color?

Product Name: HP Color LaserJet Professional CP5225dn Printer (CE712A)
Operating System Installed: Windows 7 Enterprise (64bit)
I work at a K-12 school and purchased the HP Color LaserJet Professional CP5225dn Printer (CE712A) for use in our computer lab. I would like to know if it is possible to have it so that only certain users can print in color (possibly put a password on it). I know the cost for color is higher, and therefore, would like it so that students have to approve through teacher if they want to print in color.
We are running it on our Print Server (networked) not through USB.
Thank you for the help.

Hi,
That's a very good question actually. In my corporate networks, we are talking about hundreds of laser printers and the ONLY thing we can do: only allow people access to a set of mono laser printers, not all printers. For example, the following printer is using B&W as default but can't stop users to print in colors if they could access to the resourse:
Regards.
BH
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My Excel with PowerPivots acts weird, it hangs when i try to change font color

Hi
I am facing a weird issue using PowerPivot in my workbook, there is a worksheet named Charts in my workbook and all the charts i am using resides in that worksheet. Whenever i try to change the font color in that sheet, my excel's color palette goes blur
and then everything just freezes and turns black. This problem is happening only with Charts worksheet, when i try to change the color in other sheets, it works just, the problem is only with Charts sheet. File
size is 16 MB, there are just 10 pivot tables with some calculations and some calculated fields. There are no add-ins other than PowerPivot.
Thanks,
Shanker

Hi,
In regarding of the issue, please provide us more information to assist you better.
Do you receive any error message?
Which Excel version are you using? Excel 2013 or other?
Which workbook format are you using? XLS or XLSX?
Are you performing any specific task?
According to your description, this issue seems only occur with the special worksheet "Charts".
Firstly, I recommend we copy all of the content to a new/blank Excel file to test.
If it works fine, this issue might be caused by the "Charts" workbook itself. We'd better check the "Charts" workbook. Or re-build the file with a new workbook.
If it still makes Excel hang with a new file, this issue might due to the content. Please check the content first.
Secondly, we could follow below KB to troubleshoot this issue:
https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2758592/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0
Thirdly, if the issue still exists, we may try to collect the Event log and App crash dump file to do advanced troubleshooting.
Event log:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-Event-Viewer
App crash dump file:
First enable app crash dump collection by copying following words into notepad, saving it as dump.reg and importing
it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\localdumps\EXCEL.EXE]
"DumpFolder"=hex(2):63,00,3a,00,5c,00,63,00,72,00,61,00,73,00,68,00,64,00,75,\
00,6d,00,70,00,73,00,00,00
"DumpCount"=dword:00000010
"DumpType"=dword:00000001
"CustomDumpFlags"=dword:00000000
Then, open Excel
to repro the issue. If crash issue appeared, please find the crashdump file under c:\.
To further help you, please upload this file into Skydrive and shared the link here.
Also, you can try to analyze dump by yourself if you would like to：
How to analyze app crash dump file:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/05/29/basic-debugging-of-an-application-crash.aspx
Hope it's helpful.
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Messed up color display and resolution because of mini-DVI to video adapter

Once I connected the mini-DVI to video adapter to the tv and got weird colors on my screen for a while but then it worked out, then after a while I disconnected the cable and turned my computer off. After that, everytime I turned my macbook on, the color is fine for two seconds and then it turns into a weird offset color, really bright colors, kinda sketchy and just a few colors, and a weird resolution and display obviously, but then I just connect my Mini-DVI to video adapter and disconnect it again (quickly) and the color returns to normal. How can I make the normal colors stay and not have to connect the mini-DVI to video adapater everytime I want to see the normal color display and resolution??
please help!

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How to give Common Background color for all JPanels in My Swing application

Hi All,
I am developing a swing application using The Swing Application Framework(SAF)(JSR 296). I this application i have multiple JPanel's embedded in a JTabbedPane. In this way i have three JTabbedPane embedded in a JFrame.
Now is there any way to set a common background color for the all the JPanel's available in the application??
I have tried using UIManager.put("Panel.background",new Color.PINK);. But it did not work.
Also let me know if SAF has some inbuilt method or way to do this.
Your inputs are valuable.
Thanks in Advance,
Nishanth.C

It is not the fault of NetBeans' GUI builder, JPanels are opaque by default, I mean whether you use Netbeans or not.Thank you!
I stand corrected (which is short for +"I jumped red-eyed on my feet and rushed to create an SSCCE to demonstrate that JPanels are... mmm... oh well, they are opaque by default... ;-[]"+)
NetBeans's definitely innocent then, and indeed using it would be an advantage (ctrl-click all JPanels in a form and edit the common opaque property to false) over manually coding
To handle this it would be better idea to make a subclass of JPanel and override isOpaque() to return false. Then use this 'Trasparent Panel' for all the panels where ever transparency is required.I beg to differ. From a design standpoint, I'd find it terrible (in the pejorative sense of the word) to design a subclass to inconsistently override a getter whereas the standard API already exposes the property (both get and set) for what it's meant: specify whether the panel is opaque.
Leveraging this subclass would mean changing all lines where a would-be-transparent JPanel is currently instantiated, and instantiate the subclass instead.
If you're editing all such lines anyway, you might as well change the explicit new JPanel() for a call to a factory method createTransparentJPanel(); this latter could, at the programmer's discretion, implement transparency whichever way makes the programmer's life easier (subclass if he pleases, although that makes me shudder, or simply call thePanel.setOpaque(false) before returning the panel). That way the "transparency" code is centralized in a single easy to maintain location.
I had to read the code for that latter's UI classes to find out the keys to use (+Panel.background+, Label.foreground, etc.), as I happened to not find this info in an authoritative document - I see that you seem to know thoses keys, may I ask you where you got them from?
One of best utilities I got from this forum, written by camickr makes getting these keys and their values very easy. You can get it from his blog [(->link)|http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/uimanager-defaults/]
Definitely. I bit a pair of knucles off when discovered it monthes after cumbersomely traversing the BasicL&F code...
Still, it is a matter-of-fact approach (and this time I don't mean that to sound pejorative), that works if you can test the result for a given JDK version and L&F, but doesn't guarantee that these keys are there to stand - an observation, but not a specification.
Thanks TBM for highlighting this blog entry, that's the best keys list device I have found so far, but the questions still holds as to what specifies the keys.
Edited by: jduprez on Feb 15, 2010 10:07 AM

Problem with clipping and concerned objects (or rather their color)

Greeting everyone,
I hope i don't bother you with things that are already known or, in the end, are a product of my own stupidity ;P
My problem is the following:
I was working on a neat design for a list. The first version (without clipping) looked like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-Gradient-Mobile-HowItShouldBe_2c5.jpg]
As you can see on the bottom, the list was on top of all graphical elements.
And because this looks stupid, i decide to simply clip the list via "clip: Rectangle{...}".
Well... turns out it's not as easy as i hoped it would be; all of a sudden the list looks like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Mobile-1_fb7.jpg]
From the left to the right you see the following: first picture is what you'd see initially, from the second to the last i scrolled down one entry each (respectively moved the list up 30 pixels).
Further scrolling down doesn't change the look, it stays like in the last picture.
Scrolling up again delivers the same image, but in reverse order.
The clipping seems to change something in the style of the list elements.
To be more specific, the gradient of a single element is now applied to the whole list.
here is a Listing
//the group which contains the list and the clipping
Group{
     clip: Rectangle {
          x: 0, y: 70
          width: PublicVars.screenWidth, height: 210
          fill: Color.BLACK        //which color i use doesn't change the look
     content:[
          createChoicesList()
//create a box for each entry and add text from a string sequence "results"
createChoicesList():Node[]{
      for(result in results){
                       singleField = Group{
               Rectangle {
                    fill: LinearGradient {
                         startX : 0.0
                         startY : 0.0
                         endX : 0.250
                         endY : 0.250
                         stops: [
                              Stop {
                                   color : Color.LIGHTBLUE
                                   offset: 0.0
                              Stop {
                                   color : PublicVars.coolGradientBlueTransparent
                                   offset: 0.5
}I have no clue why this happens. I tried to shift some things around, thinking it had to do something with the order of some elements but... it didn't change anything.
Another thing i noticed afterwards:
If i run the App as a desktop program, the gradient effect is all messed up. but this time it doesn't matter if I clip the list or not:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Desktop-1_d5e.jpg]
The gradients are totally misplaced and if I scroll down they move and appear/disappear randomly across the list entries. sometimes the highlighted elements even look like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Desktop-2_89f.jpg]
Any Ideas?
P.s.:
Could it be that retrieving the resolution of a mobile device via
"var screenWidth = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(FX.getProperty("javafx.screen.width"));"
isn't very accurate?
If i use the values i get from this method for the desktop application, the screen will be smaller than in the emulated mobile phone
Edited by: Mr._Moe on 04.09.2009 21:31

Not sure about your problem, but I can answer your last question: you can now use the [javafx.stage.Screen|http://java.sun.com/javafx/1.2/docs/api/javafx.stage/javafx.stage.Screen.html] class to get screen dimensions.

Mini-DVI to Video shows w/o color and atleast 2 of everything

I just bought a mini-DVI to Video converter for my Macbook. I tried to hook it up to my 42" Panasonic Viera and had white static lines going up my screen with no picture. I then tried to hook it up with the composite and lowered the resolution all the way down and had picture but only in black and white and it divided my TV almost in half and put the images on my monitor up twice. How do I get the whole picture to take up the whole screen in color so I can watch my iTunes movies and DVDs on my TV.

From your posting, I can't tell what Viera model you have. However, I was just over to the Panasonic website and one 42" Viera advertised 4 HDMI inputs with 2 of them with separate audio inputs. If you have a similar model, you should go with the HDMI option. As per the posting above, you should be using the Apple mini DVI-->DVI cable. Couple that up with a DVI-->HDMI cable and you should be in business with the best video on your big screen. Works great on my 40" Sony.
Re your problem with double images in black and white, I had a similar problem in a different vain. My problem was a DVD player that I had hooked up to my TV with a s-video cable and it did the exact same thing. It was driving me nuts until I had the bright idea of reading the DVD manual. Sure enough, there was a setting in the DVD setup that had to be checked in order to view through a s-video output. Once I changed the setting, I only had one picture and the color reappeared. You probably had a similar setting in your Viera manual that would correct that problem.
Go with the HDMI option. Note that it will be necessary to run a separate cord for the audio.

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