Labeling images over a network in Bridge

I was thinking of using Adobe Brige CS5 over a network. Mainly it would be just to see images all stored in one location on a server. Most people only have reading rights to this server. So when they open Bridge on their computer they can only view the images which is perfect. Is it possible to just have them be able to labe images on their computer fro there own use? Cant give them the writing rights. Is this possible to do.?

Bridge is not particularily well suited for use over a network. What you are asking would be difficult to do as it would need some kind of an interface one would have to write to act as a go between.

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System Image over a network

OS X Leopard Server 10.5.6
has anyone been able to create an image of a mac over a network. My process is this:
netboot the source mac
share the hard drive of the source mac with the xserver. (not the netboot drive)
open the system image utility, it recognizes the mounted source drive.
kick it off system image, everything works fine. However, very slow
i kicked it off yesterday, and noticed it failed sometime lastnight.
if it fails again, i'll post up the log.
eventually our xserver will be in a network rack away from our office and i won't have the benefit of firewire to make an image. Is this the correct way of creating an image remotely?
thanks,
patrick

You can download and install the 'System Admin Tools' to any compatible Mac client (not server). Therefore you can use another Mac to create the image on and not the server. Especially if you have a production server that provides services other than NetBoot, this will reduce it's available resources. Create the image from another Mac (with Firewire or other) using System Image Utility.

Sending a image over a network

Hi all,
Here is the problem. I want to send an Image from 1 computer to another computer over the internet using java... 1 computer is a server... that loads a image from harddisk or other resource (internet) and sends this to the other pc (client applet)
How do I send and read it to create an image... ObjectStream is not an options because that does not support Image objects (or am I wrong here?)
Please help
Greetingz
David

Here is one way to to do it. Read the image file as a stream of bytes, send it to the client. On the client-side, create the image from the bytes received.
Here is an example using RMI:
Loading images ad bytes on the server side:
public synchronized byte[] loadImageAsBytes(String filename)throws java.rmi.RemoteException {
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        FileInputStream bis = new FileInputStream(filename);
        byte[] imageBuf = new byte[1024];
        ByteArrayOutputStream boutstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        for(;;){
          int bytesread = bis.read(imageBuf);
          if (bytesread <0) {break;}
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        byte[] pixmap =boutstream.toByteArray();
        return pixmap;
      } catch (Exception e) {return null;}
   }In this example, loadImageAsBytes() is a remote method.
Here is how you can the image on the client side:
byte[] buffer = loader.loadImageAsBytes(filename);
Image img = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(buffer);The loader object was created using this statement:
loader = (ImageLoader)Naming.lookup("SimpleImageServer");Note that ImageLoader is the interface that specifies the loadImageAsBytes() method.

How can i taransfer an image over network through Sockets

If any one have the exsperience for tranfering the image over the network by using socket plz help me immediatly

You have to write a Server application and a Client application.
And connect the Client to the Server.
Then you can send whatever you want in either direction.

How do I send an Image over a socket ?

I'm trying to get the output from my webcam and send that data out to a socket. Now the output from the webcam is running I'm just not sure how to send it out over the socket.
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import java.net.*;
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}When a connection is made it will start the webcam and send the image.
ServerThread.java
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.format.*;
import javax.media.util.*;
import javax.media.control.*;
import javax.media.protocol.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.*;
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}The output I get from running the server is this:
BufferedImage@c9131c: type = 1 DirectColorModel: rmask=ff0000 gmask=ff00 bmask=ff amask=0 IntegerInterleavedRaster: width = 320 height = 240 #Bands = 3 xOff = 0 yOff = 0 dataOffset[0] 0
Now how can I turn this into an image If this output is correct?

HUH?
I got the one to send the images over the network. I'm now trying to get the exact feed of the webcam and sending that over the network. This is alot more difficult to accomplish but I did see where I messed up my process of sending the images was just having to save the file then open it up put it in a byte array then send that over the network to the client. Once it was at the client i was able to re-construct it and throw it up in the frame. The only problem was lag. So this tells me it would be much more faster if instead of saving the file to send the client and having to reconstruct the image I should just send the webcam feed i used to make the image.
eh, I guess I didn't need any help.
Hey no offense or anything but you really have to learn how to spell better.

IChatAV and file transfer over wireless network

Hi there...
I'd like to let you in on my predicament. Firstly, a bit of background.
I decided to buy my folks an old iMac from eBay in Australia - and pay for their broadband connection - so that I could video chat to them from the UK, and they could see my 5 year old son for the first time in 4 years. Cute, eh?
Well, everything was working fine until I decided to go wireless in my home about 3 months ago. I have a static IP address, and purchased a nice new Airport Express to integrate into the system. I allocated my G5 iMac it's own network address (10.0.1.2), and the base station the master address (10.0.1.1). From there, the base station communicates to the router via the static IP... Sound ok?
Anyway - NOW (or, for as long as I can recall), I CANNOT for the life of me send files over the connection. Video chat and audio chat are fine (although OCCASIONALLY it takes a few goes to be able to see THEM on my computer - I think their bandwidth isn't THAT stable at 512Kbps down and 128Kbps up) - however, the correct ports have been unblocked on the OSX firewall AND the Airport Express base station.
And just so that you know it's not the folks' fault - I can't send documents/images over the network to friends I KNOW are competent (or, at least more competent than my parents!). There's always an error message at the receiver's end, and the file I'm attempting to send just times out.
Has anyone any suggestions as to how I might be able to resolve this problem before I expire from old age?!?
Your thoughts are REALLY appreciated!

Hi Ralph
I can see where that might be the case, but file transfer worked flawlessly BEFORE I went wireless using the same modem. The only way to unblock ports on my router is to turn NAT off - it creates a DMZ, so it permits unhindered 2-way traffic...
It's a pretty confusing piece of kit. Maybe I should just get a Netgear anyway!
I have a laptop on the wireless network as well, and file transfer works a treat between it and the iMac. All I can think of is that because I'm now working on a LAN, there's a blockage to get out to the "Real World" - even though it's easy for video to pass through.
I'll check my unblocked ports again, just to be sure. I'm unfamilar with the term "Jabber" - is that what Apple decided to call one of the elements of iChat? Excuse my ignorance...!

Using Bridge over a network with others

Would Bridge be a good solution to set up photo library over a network that can be updated and modified with everyone on the network?

I believe that using Bridge to share image files on a network is possible. In fact, we're just about ready to golive with our image library on a network -- using Bridge as the browser.
Here's what I've discovered over the past sevral weeks of testing:
As Ramon correctly points out on this forum trying to share a centralized cache is indeed insane. But, as it turns out, it appears that one share cache files across multiple computers; providing these are Macs using CS4 of course. This is not the bext alternative but short of going with a cataloging system -- not always an choice for some organzations -- this is perhaps the only option available.
2. I indexed our image library on my laptop, which took the better part of a day. Organizationally it consists of 56 folders, containing some 104,000 images for more than 434 gigabytes of space.
3. I then copied the cache (and all files) to an external hard drive.
What I copied was on the following path: user>library>caches>Adobe?Bridge CS4>Cache
4. I then went to a second computer -- networked to connect to the central image library drive -- and before launching Bridge I deleted the old cache file, and then copied the new cache file to the second computer. I then launched Bridge, navigated to the image library in the folders panel, clicked on several folders. One-by-one all the thumbs and previews loaded quickly and the metadata was right there as well, allowing for fairly quick and easy searching. And for us "searchability" is the KEY to having a central image library
5. To add mages -- and here's where ity gets a bit klunky -- I intend to add subsequent folders as new images come in to be catalogued. I will then inform the designers that a new folder has been uloaded to the library -- they already have the path -- and that they will need to index that folder to make the images "searchable.
Hopefully this will work on all our designers' machines as well. I'll know more by the end of next week.
BUT, there are a couple of things to consider:
1. Once a folder is indexed it cannot be moved nor can any of the files inside that folder be moved or manipulated in any way. For example, if you returned to a file to add additional metadata, then each user would have to reindex that particular folder on their local copy of Bridge. Having said that, it's not terribly difficult or challenging. In our case, since the image library is permanent once these folders are indexed and "accessed" on each machine that's it. It's the initial indexing that can take so much time.
2. Make sure that permissions are in place before you golive. In our situation just me and my director have read/write permissions. All others have read only. This allows anyone to pull an image out of the library and use it as they see fit once the copy is on their desktop of course. They simply cannot make any changes, additions or alternations in the existing folders and files ON THE LIBRARY DRIVE.
That's it for the moment.
Stay tuned.

Can you share an external hard drive over a network when your Apple Airport Extreme is in bridge mode?

Hello, is it possible to share an external hard drive over a network when I have my Airport Extreme in bridge mode? I can't use my AE as my main router at the moment but still want to be able to use the hard drive on the network, and the router I am using isn't capable of adding an external hard drive. I use Windows 7 and the other router is a Netgear. I have searched the communities and have not come across an answer to this question. I have tried several configurations within windows to try and see the hard drive but none have worked. I can see the hard drive when I run Airport utlities, but it cannot be seen on the network. Thanks to anyone who can help!

I think there is some confusion in this thread..
If you are sharing on a local LAN port forwarding is not required.
is it possible to share an external hard drive over a network when I have my Airport Extreme in bridge mode?
Answer is yes.. no port forwarding, mapping whatever term is used.. is needed. Port mapping is required when you cross over a NAT router.. as long as all the devices are inside a single LAN.. then no port mapping.
I assign to my Airport Extreme, do I do so with the settings of:
Service: SMB
Type: TCP
Server IP: xx.x.x.x
Port Start: 445
Port End: 445
This would not work even from WAN.. SMB is blocked by all responsible ISP.. there is simply too many unprotected windows machines out there. If they allowed SMB .. the world would be flooded with hijacked bots. And stolen data like bank accounts. SMB is not a secure protocol.
But this is not necessary on a LAN.
The problem can be Mavericks which does a terrible job presenting network drives.. The usual recommendations are to use AFP or force the connection to CIFS (ie SMB1 not 2).
If you use airport,, then use AFP.
In finder.. Go, Connect to server.
AFP://AEname or AEIPaddress. (replace with the network name of the AE or its actual IP address).
When asked for password.. type public if you did not change it or use whatever password you put.
Store the password in the keychain.

Bridge CS2 - files over a network

I have been using Bridge CS2 for a while now. It is mainly used for the preview and management of RAW files. Until recently, the files have been located on the local drive (C:) and there has been no issue. However, I have recently, for security reasons, moved all of the files onto a Linux file server. Ever since then, it has been painfully slow using Bridge, infact it crashes infrequently.
I know that the solution may seem obvious - the file transmission is being slowed by the network/server. However the network runs a gigabit LAN with a gigabit switch between the two machines. The physical location of the server is less than two meters from the workstation, and I can confirm that the LAN is infact running at 1000 (monitoring via task manager of file transfer in Explorer between two machines). Regardless, even at 100bit LAN, Bridge should still be running smoothly.
I copy the RAW files (about 12meg each pic) onto the server, and then open Bridge and it takes about 10mins to load up about 100 files.
I have tried clearing the cache, and running the cache on both the local and network machine, and all of the this suggested by Adobe http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=317912.
As far as I can tell, Bridge is taking a long time to build the thumbnails. I have even tried turning off anti-virus and firewall, but there is no difference. Every other network activity takes little/no time and I need this to work smoothly. Surely I don't have to restrict to local files!
Please help me! Do I need to change any settings? Is it normal for Bridge to take so long over a network?

I realise that operating over a network is never faster than a local drive, however using a gigabit LAN and dedicated file server should be the closest thing to running a local drive, if not as fast as a USB2.0 drive (which runs at 480Mbps).
I have however been able to solve the problem. I am not sure if this is an actual "fix" but I did a few things:
1) I unmounted the network drive and remounted it using SUBST (ie "SUBST X: C:\directory\path")
2) I cleared the cache for both Bridge and the Camera Raw ("C:\Documents and Settings\ [user] \Application Data\Adobe\Bridge" & "C:\Documents and Settings\ [user] \Application Data\Adobe\Camera Raw"); then
3) I rebooted all machines (including the sever with "sudo shutdown -Fh now"); and finally
4) After reopening Bridge the first time I closed it down again and cleared the cache again.
Now it works perfectly - infact it is very close to the speed it was working with the local drive. The cache build very fast and there is no more hanging or crashes, and I am back to the old Bridge!!

Can Bridge label images in Finder?

I want the images I've selected in Bridge - sorted by Rating - to have a color label when I view them in a folder in Finder. Currently I just manually label each one in Finder with the Bridge window open. is there a better way?

Label colors are very seldom interacting with other applications, Finder is not compatible with Bridge and v.v.
If you do want to color label the files in Finder the quickest way in my opinion would be to create separate folders for this temporarily job. For instance create 5 folders, 1 folder per rating. Set those folders in the favorite panel and be sure to have them in sight.
Use the folder panel preferable under the favorite panel, you can move panels with drag and drop to create your own workspace in Bridge.
In the folder panel select the folder you have the rated files in. Then use the filter panel (again placed visible, move to desired place, you can have all three in one column e.g. at the left, next to content panel) and select 1 star to only view the 1 star rating in content panel.
Now select all in content panel and drag and drop the files to the 1 star rating folder in favorites.
Then switch to Finder and point to the 1 star rating folder. Again use select all and with right mouse click menu select the color label you want to apply, let go and all selected files are applied with the color label.
Go back to Bridge and select the 1 star folder in favorites, drag and drop the files back to their original folder and repeat this method for other ratings using filter panel and drag and drop.
It is a bit of a D-tour but much faster then using the one by one method…

Adobe Bridge over a network.

Is it possible to set up Adobe Bridge cs5 or cs6 to operate over a network and be accessed by multiple users who share keyworks etc.?

Short answer: not by design, but you might get it to work partially. No one here is going to offer suggestions without making a lot of work for themselves.

Anyway to import just labeled images from Bridge to LR?

Is there a way to import into Lightroom, just your labeled images from Bridge?
I navigated to a folder and LR does not even seem to show the labels at all, nor less a way to import only labled images. thanks.

LR does not even seem to show the labels at all, nor less a way to import only labled images
Labeling is not universal as star rating seems to be. I have several apps that read each other star rating none of them reads label. Also when having change the default name for labels often the older files with color label have still the at time assigned name but loos the color and change to white.
Is there a way to import into Lightroom, just your labeled images from Bridge?
Create a folder that you can easy access when importing from LR. In Bridge select the label(s) you want in the filter panel and move or copy the labeled files to that folder. Now in LR you can import them.

Labels over the network

Issue: I'm color labeling files within a folder on our server yet noboby can see the colored labels over the network when I'm finished. Am I missing something here? Is it a setting on the Xserve?
Thanks,
Dave

done

How to transfer images over network?

Hello,
I've built a program in LV 7.1 which taking a snap shot from a USB webcam and save it as JPEG file.
As I already said I am using LV 7.1 with NI VISION 7.1.
My program has to take the picture from the webcam and send it via serial visa connection. (TCP \ IP is also an option)
Regards,
Rotem

There are lots of ways to transfer files over the network. The easiest, in my opinion, is to use TCP/IP and set up a network share or mapped drive between the two machines and then transfer the file by using copy. Of course, there are lots of situations where setting up a network share isn't apropriate.
If network share isn't an option, and you want to use serial, you should probably use a protocol such as Xmodem, Ymodem or Zmodem to transfer the file. LabVIEW doesn't have direct support for these protocols, although I know someone sells (or at least used to sell, I couldn't find it with a quick search) a modem toolkit for LabVIEW with these protocols implemented. There are also ActiveX servers that implement these protocols that you could download or purchase and then access from LabVIEW.
If you want to go the TCP/IP route, an FTP server would be an easy option. You'd need to run an FTP server on the target machine, but then you could just use the LabVIEW FTP VIs or call an FTP terminal through command line or ActiveX.
Of course, you could implement your own file transfer protocol using VISA, datasocket or the TCP/IP VIs, but this last option is quite a bit of work to solve a problem when there are plenty of programs out there to solve it for you. Re-inventing the wheel if you will. While it's not all that difficult to read in a file, transfer it using one of the communication APIs, and then write it back to a file on your client machine, you'll either have to implement, or go without, a lot of the features and safeguards, like error checking, which are built into other file transfer protocols. Also, remember that you'll have to have a LabVIEW application running on each end, so you'll have to implement both halves of the solution (as opposed to options like FTP or the network share, where you only have to run a VI on one computer).
Hope that helps,
Ryan K.

Sending images over network socket

I'm working on a java web server. So far i have managed to get it to send html documents sucessfully to the client web browser, using a BufferedReader, and a PrintWriter object.
But how should i send images over the socket? using this method doesn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
hornetau

I did it first. You may pay me $10 and get XM2 WebServer 1.2 from my company.
Ok, I'll help ya out here...
HTTP protocol in Internet Explorer is "juiced up" meaning that it does not require HTTP data to be correctly sent. To send an image to be deisplayed...
<html>
<img src="theImage.gif"></img>
</html>
Now, the server will see a GET request like this...
GET /theImage.gif HTTP/1.1
Accepts: Image/jpeg, Image/gif, ...
Your web server (in the IE case just needs to send)...
output.println(data);
The data object is a string, that represents the contents of the image.
To do that, just get the correct File object, connect reader to it, then loop it
until the reader is no longer ready (reader.ready() != true), as it loops, just append
the readLine() command to the end of the data string and it will be ok.
Now this works on IE just fine, using vary small file sizes due to it being loaded directly into
memory. Casing problem if your app has only 500K of memory and the file size is 700K, 500-700=-200K, so use only small file sizes with this method.
There is also the URLConnection and HttpURLConnection classes to use that will do this better, but
they dont have any real way of getting the file's data - that's still YOUR job.

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