Photoshop CS4 3D render quality
Is it possibe to increase the number of polygons of the basic 3D models in Photoshop CS4? I would like to use them in 2D, but the low number of polygons makes them look too bad for my purposes. I looked everywhere on the net for the last hour but couldn't find an answer. I know it's not a 3D modeling application (that's what I use a different application for), but it would be useful if I can use those models without having to open a different program.
MDenver wrote:
...Place yourself in my position... And I didn't insult her, I just pointed out my personal observations.
Perhaps you forgot that you said that I acted like a smartass and offered a childish comment.
It is true that I missed that you were referring to the default objects within Photoshop. I should read more carefully. But knowing how you insult people that attempt to offer help, I won't bother reading your further posts so we won't run into this problem again.
As Mylenium noted, if you are to replace the default templates with your own models, you'll need to use your modeller found in another true 3D program.
Place yourself in the position of the few here that desire to help. You'll win more assistance with honey. Dump the vinegar.
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Some good reads are :
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/300660
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=198512
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/391738?start=150&tstart=0
http://serverfault.com/questions/37805/adobe-reader-wont-launch-when-logged-into-network-u ser-accounts-open-directory -
Bridge CS4 is slow, slow, slow (so is Photoshop CS4)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ CPU, 4 GB RAM, Windows XP SP2 32-bit, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics card, two 1-TB hard disks with hundreds of GB free
With Bridge CS3 it took less than ten seconds to build the thumbnails of a folder with 85 image files. With Bridge CS4, it takes almost two minutes. Anybody having the same problem?
And where have the preference options for the thumbnail quality gone? I wanted to set the thumbnail quality to 'low' for a speed-up but I cannot. The options just aren't there in the Bridge CS4 preferences dialog ... and it takes forever building those thumbnails one after one, about one per second. And as if that wasn't bad enough already, Bridge CS4 extracts more than hundred thumbnails from only 85 raw image files, according to the text appearing in the status bar next to the spinning radar icon. There is something seriously screwed up.
And Photoshop CS4 is sluggish, too (no matter if Enable OpenGL is on or off).
So by and large, CS4 is a major disappointment. I hope for some updates REAL soon. For now, I am back to CS3. :(
-- OlafMichelle Qi wrote:
> There is a UI in Bridge CS4 to switch between
> "Quick Thumbnail" and "High Quality"
There is!? :o
Michelle Qi wrote:
> On the top right of the Bridge Window, below
> workspaces, left side of a "star icon" - there
> is a square with popup down arrow.
Nope. There is no star icon, no square, and below the workspace options there's the Content pane. Why don't you simply put the thumbnail quality options where they belong and where they always have been?
EDIT: Now I found out what Michelle was talking about: the so-called path bar. Of course I disabled that silly path bar first thing after installing Bridge CS4 so I didn't notice that the UI of one of the most essential settings is located there---and
i only
there ... even though it has nothing to do with paths. (Suggestion what to do to this UI's designer removed.)
-- Olaf -
Set default printer in Photoshop CS4
I'm a long-time Photoshop user (since Photoshop 3), upgraded to CS4 many months ago, and just updated my printer. It is one of these all-in-one jobs that prints, copies, and faxes. It has two printer device drivers: one for normal printing and one for the fax function. The problem is (I think) that it seems to default in Photoshop to the fax function. Therefore, when I try to print out a 4x6 photo @ 200ppi, it still defaults to 8 1/2 x 11 format (that you would get with a fax machine).
In CS4, from the main menu, File > Print. In the pop-up it says 8.5 ins x 11in. I checked [X] Scale to fit Media, and now it says print resolution 109ppi (yikes ... I wanted 200ppi). "Bounding Box" was checked as a default, so I left it checked (what is that, anyway)? The 8.5 x 11 does not go away. Clicked [Print].
A Print menu pops up. It says, for some strange reason, HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909g Series fax ... yikes ... in last screen it didn't say fax, so I selected the 8500 option without fax (presume that is the printer). Clecked Preferences, and got "Printing Preferences" popup. My default printing shortcut was selected (which is for mornal B&W draft-quality text) -- so I checked Photo Printing-Borderles. Paper size defaluted to Borderless 4x6in, HP Advanced Photo Papers, Best Quality, grayscale off, and changed orientation from landscape to Portrait. Under "Features" Basic Options were HP Advanced Photo Papers, Best Quality, Portrait (instead of Landscape) ... paper size was set to Borderless 4x6in. Print in Color. Clicked OK. That closed the Popup and returned me to the Print panel. Clicked "Print"
Got a 1.25" wide by 2" high print ... NOT a 4x6.
As I dig down into the menus, it appears to be initially defaulting to the "FAX" drivers for CS4, not the printer drivers. That's probably why it keeps coming up 8 1/2 x 11 at 109ppi.
What did I do wrong?
Thanks !!Photoshop CS4 uses an old (introduced in Win16?) printing API that limits the printer name length to 30 or 31 characters. With your printer name, that gets you halfway into "Series" and anything past that will be ignored.
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Unable to open or create files in photoshop CS4
Suddenly my Photoshop CS4 has stopped working. I can open the program, but are not able to either open files (jpg, psd, tif ++) or create new files. No error message, it just doesn't happen anything. The program doesn't stop working either, I can still browse all menues or try to open the file again, but nothing happens, it's just like the functions doesn't work. Sometimes I''m able to open a file, by browsing my computer and choose "open in photoshop cs4". Then the file opens in Photoshop, but I'm not able to do anything. No menues or actions are working. I'm running 64bit Windows 7 on a Lenovo T420s laptop.
I'm running photoshop version 11.0.2
I have tried to reset the preferences, tried to reinstall Photoshop, tried other versions (CS5) and even tried to reinstall my computer. Doesn't help, the program is still not working.
What can cause this?
System info:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 11.0.2 (11.0.2x20100514 [20100514.r.591 2010/05/14:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) X64
Operating System: Windows NT
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
Physical processor count: 1
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2691 MHz
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: NVS 4200M/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL Drawing: Disabled.
Video Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
Video Mode: igdumd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igdumd32,igd10umd32,igd10umd32
Video Card Driver: igdumd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igd10umd64.dll,igdumd32,igd10umd32,igd10umd32
Driver Version: 8.15.10.2696
Built-in memory: 8074 MB
Free memory: 5657 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 7111 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image cache levels: 4
Serial number: 91198886449861002069
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\FREDRI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 149,0G, 46,8G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
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AdobeLinguistic.dll Adobe Linguisitc Library 4.0.0
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AdobeOwl.dll Adobe Owl 2008/08/14-18:38:42 2.0.70 53.354161
AdobeOwlCanvas.dll Adobe Owl Canvas 2.0.70 53.354161
AdobePDFL.dll PDFL 2008/08/20-20:15:08 53.204060 53.204060
AdobeUpdater.dll Adobe Updater Library 6.0.0.1452 (BuildVersion: 52.338651; BuildDate: Wed Apr 16 2008 19:28:20) 52.338651
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AdobeXMPScript.dll Adobe XMP Script 4.2.2 53.352624
adobe_caps.dll Adobe CAPS 2,0,99,0 2.135373
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adobe_eula.dll Adobe EPIC EULA (64 Bit) 3.0.1.10077 (BuildVersion: 53.352460; BuildDate: Tue Jul 29 2008 16:32:22) 53.352460
AFlamingo.dll AFlamingo 2008/07/09-11:28:44 53.350580 53.350580
AGM.dll AGM 2008/08/27-18:10:41 53.355610 53.355610
ahclient.dll AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library 1, 3, 12, 0
aif_core.dll AIF 1.0 53.352475
aif_ogl.dll AIF 1.0 53.352475
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authplay.dll
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Bib.dll BIB 2008/08/27-18:10:41 53.355610 53.355610
BIBUtils.dll BIBUtils 2008/08/27-18:10:41 53.355610 53.355610
cg.dll NVIDIA Cg Runtime 2.0.0015
cgGL.dll NVIDIA Cg Runtime 2.0.0015
CoolType.dll CoolType 2009/01/16-10:41:46 53.372607 53.372607
data_flow.dll AIF 1.0 53.352475
ExtendScript.dll ExtendScript 2008/07/17-13:28:24 53.351316 53.351316
FileInfo.dll Adobe XMP FileInfo 4.2.2 53.352624
FNP_Act_Installer.dll FLEXnet Publisher (64 bit) 11.6.0.1 build 60959
icucnv36.dll International Components for Unicode 2008/03/20-16:33:10 Build gtlib_1.1 CL#7223
icudt36.dll International Components for Unicode 2008/03/20-16:33:10 Build gtlib_1.1 CL#7223
image_flow.dll AIF 1.0 53.352475
image_runtime.dll AIF 1.0 53.352475
JP2KLib.dll JP2KLib 2008/06/11-20:19:53 53.100857 53.100857
libifcoremd.dll Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler 10.0 (Update A)
libmmd.dll Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler 10.0
MPS.dll MPS 2008/07/07-10:33:04 53.350311 53.350311
pdfsettings.dll Adobe PDFSettings 1.04
Photoshop.dll Adobe Photoshop CS4 CS4
Plugin.dll Adobe Photoshop CS4 CS4
PlugPlug.dll Adobe(R) CSXS PlugPlug Standard Dll (64 bit) 1.0.0.73
PSArt.dll Adobe Photoshop CS4 CS4
PSViews.dll Adobe Photoshop CS4 CS4
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SCCore.dll ScCore 2008/07/17-13:28:24 53.351316 53.351316
WRServices.dll WRServices Friday May 30 2008 7:18:42 Build 0.7713 0.7713
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Accented Edges 11.0
Angled Strokes 11.0
Average 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
BMP 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Bas Relief 11.0
Camera Raw 5.7
Chalk & Charcoal 11.0
Charcoal 11.0
Chrome 11.0
Cineon 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Clouds 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Color Halftone 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Colored Pencil 11.0
CompuServe GIF 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Conté Crayon 11.0
Craquelure 11.0
Crop and Straighten Photos 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Crosshatch 11.0
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Cutout 11.0
Dark Strokes 11.0
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Diffuse Glow 11.0
Displace 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Dry Brush 11.0
Extrude 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
FXG 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
FastCore Routines 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Fibers 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Film Grain 11.0
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Halftone Pattern 11.0
IFF Format 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Ink Outlines 11.0
Lens Blur 11.0
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Lens Flare 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Lighting Effects 11.0.2 (11.0.2x20100514 [20100514.r.591 2010/05/14:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Liquify 11.0
MMXCore Routines 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Matlab Operation 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Measurement Core 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Mezzotint 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Mosaic Tiles 11.0
Multiprocessor Support 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
NTSC Colors 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Neon Glow 11.0
Note Paper 11.0
Ocean Ripple 11.0
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PCX 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
PNG 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
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Palette Knife 11.0
Patchwork 11.0
Paths to Illustrator 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Photocopy 11.0
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Radial Blur 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
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Reticulation 11.0
Ripple 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Rough Pastels 11.0
Save for Web & Devices 11.0
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Smart Blur 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Smudge Stick 11.0
Solarize 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Spatter 11.0
Spherize 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Sponge 11.0
Sprayed Strokes 11.0
Stained Glass 11.0
Stamp 11.0
Sumi-e 11.0
Targa 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Texturizer 11.0
Tiles 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Torn Edges 11.0
Twirl 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Underpainting 11.0
Vanishing Point 11.0
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Watercolor 11.0
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Wind 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
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ZigZag 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
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Installed TWAIN devices: NONEI am not sure why some computer mfgrs. are going to the dual video chip setup, but it does seem popular.
As you found out, the use of the Intel chip can be problematic. We see this a lot in the Adobe Premiere (video editing program) Forums, and it has become a real sore spot.
One of the major weaknesses is that while Intel makes great chips, they have historically had abysmal driver support. Some computer mfgrs. to re-write the Intel drivers, and that can help - but it can also hurt, depending on the regularity, that they issue new drivers. Even a simple OS update/hot-fix can render a video driver obsolete. That is one reason that ATI/AMD and nVidia issue drivers with such regularity (usually about 1/mo.).
Good luck, and wish that I had some "fix" for you. With some computers, users HAVE been able to disable the Intel graphics chip, but it does not sound like that will be the case with your computer. Have you looked at setting the video chip in the BIOS w/ SETUP?
Hunt -
Photoshop CS4 has many rough spots
I've been through the mill, trying to get CS4 Design Premium to install. I finally managed, with the considerable help of a tier three Support Engineer. Since then I've had about a week's exposure to Photoshop CS4. Here's a list of things I don't like and/or those that don't work:
1) Program always crashes when I try to save a GIF file or try to use any of the new 3D tools.
2) I like two-across tool palette. When I drag workspace to left, it covers up this palette.
3) I like to leave three palettes open on the right, History, Characters and Layers. For no earthly reason that I can fathom the Layers palette has gotten considerably wider, and it cannot be reduced horizontally. Oh yes, I could reduce these three to icons, but then I'd be constantly clicking to open them and clicking to close them.
4) Open palettes have foreground precedence. This means that when I try to enlarge my workspace to the right, the workspace scroll bar disappears underneath the palettes.
5) The essentials button is destructive. I found this out the hard way when I clicked it and it wiped out a newly customized workspace. Now I know to save my customized workspace immediately upon completion.
6) Why did Adobe add the Adjustments button. It just creates an extra step when making adjustments. CS3 was smart enough to pop up the correct controls when adjustments were being made. Example: create New Adjustment Layer > Threshold. On my copy of CS4, I have to click Adjustments before the control shows up.
7) The new toolbar (at top of screen) wastes considerable space and is not deselectable. Hint courtesy of Support: Save your custom workspace with a very short name 2-3 characters; then this toolbar will combine with the menu bar.
8) Scrolling through highly magnified images is abysmally slow - much slower than it was on CS3.
9) The clone brush is less accurate in CS4, and it doesn't always turn off when one is finished cloning.
10) None of my CS4 files installed with responsive, indexed Help files. Now, every Help request sends me to a sluggish web site where there are no indices, poorly organized information, and in some cases just a message that Help area is under development.
11) I haven't been able to get the Patch tool to work correctly.
12) When program crashes (not always while attempting to save GIFs or 3D), it does so with generic, uninformative error message. In one week, I have had more Photoshop CS4 crashes than I ever experienced during the lifetime of CS3.
13) Why did the installer leave 34 superfluous language items (ones in anything other than US English in my case) in both the Legal and Lmresources folders? The product is bloated enough without oversights like that.
How many more will I find during the next week? I don't know, but I'm sure there are more to be found. How many of those that I did notice are due to the dreadful suite installer? I don't know the answer to that one either, but I suspect the installer may well have played a role.
I'm sure many will disagree, but IMHO Photoshop CS4's user interface is godawful compared to its predecessors. I can't find a single thing that can be accomplished with less mouse activity or keystrokes than earlier versions, but I have found quite a few things that demand more.
I was fortunate enough to have my installation issues addressed by one of Adobe's top support engineers. Had it not been for that, I'm reasonably certain I'd still be trying to install CS4. I've been using Photoshop since version 3, and the Creative Suites going back to the first one. This is the first time I've ever felt that quality assurance was completely ignored for the sake of meeting a self-imposed release schedule.
As I remarked in one of my earlier email exchanges with Adobe support, "I wish that every software Product Manager would study the reasons why Vista and Office 2007 have gotten such lukewarm receptions." I'm afraid the CS4 team didn't learn from Microsoft's mistakes.To Chris Cox:
I have the very latest drivers for my nVidia card. If my problem with saving GIF files is unique, then I would suspect the installer might have done an incomplete job without reporting it as such. The considerable difficulties I had, over a week's time, trying to install CS4 Design Premium were by no means an isolated case. Adobe's own suggestions to address installer issues by creating Desktop installer version from distribution DVDs, installing to another drive or folder or running a cleanup tool are all acknowledgments that the installer had problems. By the way, none of these suggestions, individually or in combination worked for me. I had to dig around and locate a registry key which referred to AdobeCMapsAll. This was a CS3 key that neither the installer nor cleanup tool caught. Deleting this key allowed me to advance (but by no means finish) my installation. The story is a lot longer than this, but the bottom line is that I have good reason to doubt the installer ever did its job properly.
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