Photoshop Activation Question

Hi,
Sorry in advance if this has been asked before...
I think the EULA for CS3 allows for installing CS3 on 2 machines as long as the 2 installations of CS3 aren't being used at the same time. When I go to install it on my 2nd PC, when it comes to Activation, it says I've maxed out my Activations. Am I supposed to keep Deactivating from one PC and Re-Activate on the 2nd PC each time I want to use it?
I really don't think I ever installed CS3 on any other of my machines, or if I ever did I know I uninstalled it, because I don't have CS3 anywhere, except for one PC.
Any help appreciated!

New information posted today by Adobe.
Quote:
To make it easier to get help with activation questions, we’ve recently added a new service where customers can choose to chat live with an Adobe customer service agent to activate their product. This is available from Monday to Friday between 6am – 2pm Pacific time.
To chat with an agent, visit our online Support Portal at http://www.adobe.com/go/supportportal
Once you have signed in with your Adobe ID, go to the “Serial Number” tab and select “Activation”. Click on “Proceed to online form”, and then the chat invite will show up on the next page if an agent is available.
Alternatively, you can go to the Activation Phone number page at http://www.adobe.com/activation/phonenumbers.html
If an agent is available for live chat, you’ll see a pop-up invitation for chat appear shortly after you land on that page.

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Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:11 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3
Physical processor count: 4
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Built-in memory: 8191 MB
Free memory: 5028 MB
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Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image tile size: 128K
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OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
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Video Card Renderer: GeForce 9500 GT/PCI/SSE2
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Video Card Number: 1
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To: Adobe.com
From: Paul Sacca
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I don't think you'll have much luck. PS Touch for tablets was designed for just tablets; PS Touch for phones was designed for just phones. Touch for phones came out a little later than Touch for tablets. (By several months, if I recall.) On the brighter side, if you ended up buying Touch for phones, you'd be covered no matter which device you had.
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-------Prior to Office 2013, IT had to rely on Multiple Activation Key (MAK) or Key Management Service (KMS) activation. These processes were generally more complex than ADBA. Little has changed with either MAK or KMS in Office 2013. With ADBA, however,
IT can easily
activate Office 2013 clients through their connections to the domain.
To implement ADBA, administrators must use the Volume Activation Tools utility, which walks them through the setup process. After admins supply the KMS host key, the setup process adds an activation object to the
Active Directory Domain Services. The activation object uses the same Generic Volume Licenses Key (GVLK) and KMS host pair as that for regular KMS activation. When the client joins the domain, the activation object automatically activates the Office installation,
granting a license to the client for 180 days. --------------
--- When you hit a wrong note its the next note that makes it good or bad. --- Miles Davis
Q1) there is a KMShost product key, and there is a KMSclient product key.
The KMShost product key, you install this in your KMShost machine, and the client machines which have the KMSclient product key will contact your KMShost machine for activation.
Volume Licensed products are provided by MSFT with the KMSclient product key already installed. The KMSclient product keys are also publically available in the TechNet library documentation.
VAMT can be used, with or without KMS installed. VAMT is not part of KMS, and, KMS is not part of VAMT.
ADBA is not part of VAMT and VAMT is not part of ADBA.
ADBA can only be used if your AD is at the later version, and, ADBA only works for the latest products like Windows8 and Office2013.
If you have older AD or older products you will still need to have KMS or MAK.
Q2) after 180days, it's the same as KMS - the KMSclient (or ADBA client) will enter "non-genuine" mode if the client has not contacted ADBA object (or KMShost) to renew the activation status.
This wiki article I put together, includes a few helpful links about ADBA and KMS:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22510.volume-activation-kms-mak-adba-avma.aspx
Don
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Lightroom Activation Question

I am new to Lightroom and haven't used an Adobe product since Photoshop 7 where activation wasn't required.
How many times can I install Lightroom? I understand that with CS2 I can only install it for ether Mac or Windows platform but not both. Is is true for Lightroom as well? How many/what changes will trigger the need for reactivation of Lightroom?
Regards

Checkout this FAQ to see if the advice helps:
Lightroom prompts you to enter your serial number each time you launch.
It is not exactly as you claim, but maybe it will help.
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.10 & Win XP, Pentax *ist D
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What are the forensic limitations of Metadata & Exif Data+ Adobe Photoshop 3 question; e.g. Metadata

I have some questions regarding metadata, and exif data on digital cameras and its forensic limitations in Adobe photoshop 3;
For instance; After a picture is taken and has a metadata/exif digital stamp of the "picture being taken day" under what circumstances can that "picture being taken day" be changed?
Does the picture being taken day change when you import it into adobe photoshop 3 and add a caption?
Does it change only when the picture is edited, to perhaps add a white sidebar that says "family photo" or whatever?
Under what circumstances does the exif/metadata digital time stamp of the "picture being taken day" change?
Also, is it possible to change the picture being taken day on a photograph in adobe photoshop 3 manually?
Thanks-
Phil

I guess it would be easier to give you an example. The above picture shows the exif data as 9.11.2001. How is this possible if this is a 911 victim? In the top metadata, it says Adobe photoshop 3. I assume this is the program it was last edited in? Or was adobe software used exclusively in cameras back then perhaps? I am not sure, I just know I have many questions I really want answers to. Was the exif data changed perhaps in the above photo on 9.11.2001 to add that white sidebar, which says (Family photo) ?? Click the image below to see the screenshot of what I am looking at, this way we are on the same page or picture so to speak.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciatted...
Thanks,
Phil

Photoshop activation on a new computer.

I own Photoshop CS. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's old. But I bought it. Actually paid for it. During a time when everyone seemed to have a copy of one version or another (in pirated form), I actually went out, and paid for it. My wife and I were at a convention in Las Vegas, and we purchased it directly from Adobe, at their display in a huge convention building with painted dancing girls, whole football fields set up for the purpose of showing how green Fuji photos could make grass look, and small airplanes were flying around... Really. Anyway, we bought it, from a gal in a giant rotating tower of people working with Photoshop, showing on a myriad of screens all the wonders they were creating with this revolutionary product...
We went home, loaded that bad boy on our computer, and entered the world of the digital darkroom. Yesterday, I bought a new computer, with the sole purpose being to provide the memory-hungry Photoshop program an amount of memory it might be satisfied with. Quad-core processor, 750 GB hard drive, and 8 gigs of RAM. To some, a pretty powerful computer. Today, anyway.
I loaded the software, and got the usual "Activation within a month or you can't use it" message. I tried, limbering up my fingers to enter the mile-long serial number on the back of my ancient jewel case. It said "Sorry, activation not available, call this number for activation". So, dutifully, I did as instructed. This time, I was required to enter said mile-long number on my phone, always fun, tiny touch screen button... gotta love 'em. Then, it gave me a number to enter back into the computer to complete the process. I did that, and then, it said "Sorry, we no longer do activation by phone. Go to this web site: www.Adobe.com.go.activate" Went there, and was told to chat with a live representative. I did that, and was told "your only option is the $19.99/mo subscription". Um, the what? I paid $550 bucks for this program, and now, years later, if i want to keep using it, you want me to pay you twenty bucks a month, forever? Not for tech support. Not for upgrades. Just because you want some more money. Is that right? Seriously??
Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? Is this even LEGAL???? Is there any way to make Photoshop just turn off the activation thing, and leave me alone? All I want to do is use what I bought and paid for. It's like buying a car, and ten years later, the car company says , "Hey if you want to keep driving this car, you'll have to send us monthly payments, or it won't run anymore".
Help...?

Charles stebbins I would recommend contacting our support team directly to verify the serial number was never registered. You can contact our support team at Contact Customer Care. An Adobe ID was required to activate the software so it is likely that the serial number was registered under a particular e-mail address. You can request that your account be searched for by e-mail address and/or phone number.

FamilyTalk and Activation Questions

I've got a question about the activation. It seems that Apple/AT&T made it very easy to activate an iPhone for a single user, but they haven't said much about the FamilyTalk plans. If I were to open up a new AT&T FamilyTalk plan with an iPhone and a plain old Nokia phone would I still be able to activate the iPhone in iTunes? I'm not sure how it would work because the other phone on the FamilyTalk plan would have been activated in the store when I opened the account; so I think that makes me an existing customer by the time I leave the store. The options under "I am an existing customer" in the iPhone activation pane in iTunes are as follows: "replace a phone on my account with this iPhone," and "add a new line to my existing account." Regarding the second option, could this existing account be the FamilyTalk account that I just opened at the store, and then would iTunes allow me to make the iPhone the second (and last) phone on this new FamilyTalk plan?
So in short, I want a FamilyTalk plan for two phones, one of them not being an iPhone. Will iTunes/AT&T allow me to activate the iPhone as the second phone in that plan?

There is absolutely no reason why you cannot do this. You just need to discuss it with customer service at ATT. No one here can do it for you. Itunes only activates the phone, ATT is the one who does the billing and the plans. It should be quite easy.

Activity Questions

Hi,
I have several questions in regards to activities and issues I am encountering as a young and learning Service Manager Back-Up Admin.
First off: I have service request templates set-up for Access Requests that encompass several applications/systems. It uses one Service request with anywhere from 4-20 Activities that are assigned to other teams that handle the specific application or system
access. The Service Request stays assigned to my Queue in the Help Desk. In these Requests, I have used Parallel Containers to have Activities go active at the same time, and then inside that container I have other Sequential Activies which contain Systems
that require more than one teams attention. My problem is, two fold.
1. My activities on the Service Request "grey out" and cannot be clicked to open the activity, once the Service Request goes to Completed Status. This is a pain, as we have to manually search the MA# when a user calls in to question an account
set-up or something. The funny thing is, on regular service requests that just have the single activity we use as default, the activity does not do this. Is there a way to set this where it will not grey out the activities and we can still double click them
to open them from the Service Request?
2. Is it in ANY WAY possible to either have activities run parallel without a parallel activity container holding them all? When I do it this way, the container becomes the parent and not the Service Request itself. My runbooks are three times as large trying
to get child activities of every Parallel and Sequential Activity on my Request to do automation on data. Also my teams are complaining because they have to click the parent link 3-5 times to get to the Service request, since I have the Activities embedded
in each other to control their flow. if I could run activities in parallel without adding a parallel container, or if I could find a setting that would ignore containers as parents, my work and my workflow would be MUCH better.
Thanks for any suggestions/help you can provide.
Just to clarify, we started this activity system for access requests because there is no easy Child-Parent relationship ability with Service Requests that could be set-up in templates. If there is a better way, I would love to hear it.

You're not alone :) Pardon the following dissertation..
Regarding your first concern, are you sure the service requests aren't closed? I just tried in my test environment..when a service request is completed, the activities are still accessible. When the service request is closed the activities are not accessible.
I'd consider it undesirable behavior. Fortunately, most undesirable behavior can be fixed with custom controls. This is the second time this week I've seen someone complain about it. I can't make any promises, but let me look inside the activity control
and see if I can build a custom control that will leave the control turned on so you can continue to open activities. If you don't want to wait for me, submit it as a bug to the Service Manager team and see if they'll fix it in an update rollup (fair warning..it
might be by design based on ITIL standards)
Regarding your second concern, there are a couple approaches you can take.
You can't run activities in parallel at the parent work item level without modifying the parent form (by replacing the default activity control with a parallel activity control). And there's no guarantee it would work anyway. The activity workflows themselves
may be tightly coupled to sequential activity behavior at the parent work item level. It would require a good bit of testing and validation and probably isn't worth pursuing.
One possible alternative would be to create a "parent work item" relationship between all activities (regardless of depth) to their parent work item (be it a service request, incident, change request, whatever). Such a feature would require a custom
workflow to generate the relationships when a work item is created. As for the form links..again, you'd have to create custom controls to apply to all activity forms that utilize that new relationship. But your runbooks would only have to get one relationship
instead of sifting through 2, 3, or 4 levels worth of child activities.
As for building a child-parent relationship ability with service requests, you could do it in a template..but you'd have to do it in the management pack itself. Basically, you'd create a new service request in your template that contains an activity that's
related to a particular "dependent work item" activity in your main service request template. Ultimately, your template would be a web of activities and sub service requests with their own activities. The out of the box request offering engine isn't
really built for it..so it would be tricky (if at all possible) to make sure the main request offering input is copied to all the necessary service requests in the template. I've never tried it, but it might be possible..and again, you'd have to do it in the
MP..the console just isn't sophisticated enough to do half the stuff that management packs can do. Note that this approach would likely create "service request sprawl" whereas your activities are clearly organized and grouped right now.
The easiest alternative would be to copy all important data from the parent service request down to the individual activities. In this way, the users wouldn't have to find the parent service request..everything they need is right on their activity's description.
A custom workflow or runbook could accomplish that and would be a lot easier than the template fiasco I mentioned in the last paragraph. You would have to be careful about changes made at the parent service request..your workflow/runbook would have to update
the child activities anytime important information was changed at the parent level.
To close out this novel, I'll look into the activity thing and see if I can't tweak the form behavior. Again..no promises..theoretically, it'll work..but reality and theory don't always get along.

Home Activation Question

I just recently pre-ordered an iPhone 4 to be shipped to my house. I used another person's upgrade on my account and was wondering if the iPhone will come specifically for that number, or can I choose which number I want when I activate in iTunes? I am trying to avoid a trip to the AT&T Store and have never done home activation.
If anyone can let me know that would be great! Thanks.

I did this when I got the 3g iphone 2 years ago....I took my husbands upgrade since I wasn't due for one yet. It can be done but it's a huge pain....and yes, it will come specifically for the other persons number. You'll need to take it in to an AT&T store because, yes, you can swap the sim chips if you have a 3g sim chip....if there isn't a new sim for the new iphone. They have to internally switch this information in your at&t account. Only a person with an iphone can get an iphone data package....which would be the other person, so your sim would be charged per use for the internet. So they need to internally change this info that YOU have the iphone and not the other person so you can get the data package. Plus there was something about the IMEI number of the phone....sorry it's a very complicated process thats hard to explain but there is a lot more to it than just switching out the sim. AT&T even screwed my account up with this swap and I ended up with a $600 bill on my first bill (they later corrected the problem and waived all the fees that i wasn't supposed to be charged for). So, unfortunately you'll probably end up going in to have this done. You can try calling them and see if they can help you over the phone first.
And don't let them tell you that it can't be done! I did it, but I've had several AT&T employees tell me that it's impossible and can't be done and basically called me a liar to my face. If you have any questions, you can email me at [email protected] and I can try to answer based my on my experience.

Photoshop fills question

Getting this error when I try to use scripted pattern fills.
Error:PNG loader:Failed to load file:C:\program\adobe\adobephotoshop\ cc(64bit)/presets/deco/tree/pine-alpha-4.png
Error-29:uncaught exception:line 6171
-> image 2.load (file,file2);
//engine.get parameter(kScriptalBase + "/tree/oak-preview_10.png")
//change file based on leaf density

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