Switching to Lightroom - Need Some Quick Tips

Hi, I have been using Aperture for years and it looks like I will be using ACR or Lightroom because I'm having some issues that cannot seem to be resolved by Apple.
I intend to get into in the manual and start the process asap, but I need two quick bits of information so I can keep my workflow going for now.
1) I need to be able to sample a color and make adjustments to that color alone. Similar to Hue/ Saturation in Photoshop where a narrow band can be isolated and saturation, luminance and hue can be adjusted etc. In Aperture it is the Color brick and I don't know where to find it in ACR or
2) After using the brush tool, is there a way to blend or diffuse it?
Thanks

#1: the HSL panel allows per color hue, saturation and lightness adjustments
#2: no, not directly, but after applying an adjustment brush, you can erase the mask by holding down the option key (Mac) to subtract from the mask. Done carefully, this allows you to fine tune the adjusted areas...

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Need some quick help - fairly urgent!

I've just taken over a new job and have been the task of finishing the new brochure for Christmas, there's not a lot to do but a lot of the measurements need changing
This is the layout I'm dealing with..
All the boxes have been made in Illustrator
The text has been done in In'Design and it seems every piece of text is it's own box if that makes sense
My question is, if I select the whole specification box - copy, paste it into Adobe Illustrator and change the text there, then paste the edited box back into In-Design, will I lose quality when it gets printed?
I'm worried if I do it this way it may come out blurred? Or am I just worrying about nothing?

I couldn't find an Illy file in the end and have ended up creating tables in ID to replicate what was already there!
Didn't take very long and I guess if I didn't do it now, I'd come across the same situation next time!
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E1200 new user- need some expert tips

Hi guys, I just bought a new e1200 model a few hours ago to replace my old WRT54G version 3.0 , My house is not that big less than 400 sq meters and one floor only. In my old router, when I go to my garden, the internet speed is very slow and thats when I thought that I needed a new upgrade , so I got the e1200, would have wanted a more expensive version like the e2000 + models and higher but this is the only one available here in our city.
The current location of my router is thesame as before , its near my monitor here in the table , are there any tips to like increase it's signal ?
This is from support:
Yes, and for you to optimize its N-functionality, you need to set your Network Mode to N-only, Channel Width to 40MHz and the Security Mode to WPA2 Personal. But you need to be sure that all of your devices' cards are using N.
I have tried changing the channel to 6 , changing the network mode to n, or security mode to wpa2 personal caused some problems with my brothers laptop, so i had ot switch back to wpa personal only. What else do I need to tweak here ?
(Mod Note: Edited for guideline compliance.)

Well you can try the following combination of steps:
A] With the help of Cisco Connect Software (if at all you have installed the router with the help of this software)
1] Open the software and go to the option which says "Router Settings"
2] Then click on the option which says "Advanced Settings" which will take you to the router's configuration page.
3] Then go to the Wireless tab, keep network mode as mixed,
For Channel Settings of 2.4 GHz you can make Channel Width to 20 MHz only and Channel to 1, 6, 9, 11..
B] If you haven't installed Cisco Connect then you can log on to the router's user interface using it's default IP address in the browser which is 192.168.1.1 and type in 'admin' as the password leaving the username field blank. This will take you to the router's web interface and then follow steps as mentioned above to make the changes.
Secondly avoid using any other wireless devices like cordless phones, microwave oven etc nearer to the router. Update the drivers for the wireless card of the wireless computer. Then check the wireless connection status.

Need Some Quick Assistance with Project Settings

Hi,
I'm doing a project that needs to be played back on and HD television set and am creating all the graphics and text myself. I have set the project settings to HD 720p, but am wondering if I should do an output to HD Broadcast 1080i60 (1920x1080).
Also, since I started the project in HD 720p (1280x720) is there a way to switch the project settings to HD Broadcast 1080i60 while in the middle of the project.
Any quick assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,

hi,
don't know what project settings you should use, other than to do the biggest baddest quality your machine can handle. You can always down rez later, you cant up rez ( well you dont gain the extra quality)
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hth
adam

Switching from Comcast - Need some Assistance

I have been a Comcast subscriber for many years now, but have heard that FiOS is supposed to be better. However, there are a few things that make me somewhat ambivalent about switching. First off, I've had Comcast for years, and have had a few issues with them, but not THAT many. So I don't know if it'd be worth it to change, since a new provider might not be as good. But also, I noticed that carriage of local channels is different on FiOS than it would be on cable, since I would assume it would be the same throughout the entire market. For instance, in the Boston area, some communities near the Rhode Island border receive Providence channels as well as Boston on cable, but not on FiOS. I've also heard that FiOS' On Demand selections are rather different. I know there's tons of movies on demand, but what about TV shows, and local events? I also saw a post here from someone who doesn't get local weather on their system. So I've heard that in a way, FiOS is more like satellite than it is like cable.
Anyway, I'm sure that many of you here who now have FiOS TV have switched from cable, and let me ask you this: Have any of you ever considered switching back? Why, or why not?

fair question.
I switched from comcast to verizon at the end of last year.
my sole reason for switching was due to savings of $40/month. To me, the quality, speed, and service appears to be the same (or hardly noticeable to make a significant difference).
the main advantage for switching to FIOS is money. Some small advantages FIOS has over Comcast is some of their local networks on-demand content. I believe that Comcast only provides CBS while Verizon offers ABC, NBC, and CBS (neither carry Fox on-demand).
the main disadvantage to me is that you do NOT need a set-top box to get all of the channels with comcast. a simple splitter will suffice. for FIOS, you need to rent the box for each tv or else you will not get a picture. another disadvantage is that the free movies on Comcast are far more vast and far better than Verizon. However, Verizon is aware of this and are slowly adding more content throughout this year.
As for customer serivce, it's hit or miss with both. You'll read many horror stories and happy stories from both sides, so to me, that's almost a risk or expectation with any paid service.
that being said, FIOS has made considerable advancements in technology in their internet and cable service over the past few years while keeping the costs to the consumers down. comcast, on the other hand, has not made any significant technological advances (at least none that I know of, although they do claim to double your internet speed every year, but so does everyone else).
thus, even though I must rent a box for each of my 6 tvs, I'm still saving $40/month, but we'll see what happens when the 1-year promotion ends this december.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. --Yogi Berra

Switching to Mac need some advice

This year my college is requiring laptops with certain specs and my hp doesn't meet them. Thisgives me an excellent excuse to get a mac. I am in advertising for my major and will need the machine to run cs4 and maybe some light gaming (think the sims that sort) anyway I don't really want to spend more than $2k and have been leaning toward the lowend mbp. Will this suffice or do I need the discrete graphics? I know these questions get asked a lot and I have been reading through some of the others but would appreciate an answer directly if I am about to spend that much cash. Thanks for the advice in advance.

Do you qualify for a scholarship? Usually if the course/program requires a portable computer their usually is some financial aid available? But in some cases, you have to purchase directly from the "campus store" in order to qualify for the scholarship or discount?
I recently had the MBP 15 early 2008 model and was pleased. But I just recently bought the MBP 17 09 model and it is sweet. The other concern is screen size. If you will be doing a lot of multi-media, I would not suggest the 13" because you will be cramped for space when you have large 2 page layouts in certain CS4 programs. The base model Graphics will run CS4 just fine on the MBP 15.
If you have the cash why not just purchase something that you know will last for your entire program length.
Make sure and check if there is any financial aid available that will offset your costs. Sometimes if they say there isn't that just means you will have to dig a little harder to find some type of scholarship in your area of study. If you find some free $, maybe you can get the pimped out MBP 15 2.66? It is worth a try?

Need some quick help with jbutton

Hi,
My first post so please be gentle!
I currently have two buttons in my container. The first one when pressed calls another function that generates a set of coordinates (button = generate). I now have another button that wants to take those coordinates and draw them on-screen, but I'm having trouble doing this since I can't get the "generate" button function to pass the xycoords over to the "draw" button function. I'm more of a Fortran/Perl programmer and I'm a bit confused how to go about this. I tried making the variable (xycoords) a gloabl variable, but id rather not do this.
Any tips?
Cheers,
Adriano

Sure, show us the code. Otherwise we have to try to read you mind.
Here is the scenario you are in:
Event Driven Method (ActionPerformed/ButtonClicked/etc): you do not have arguments that you can control, so if you want to use something from within that method you have to have visibility to it (global definition with respect to the routine) and in the Java world that usually boils down to class variables or some type of public data class.
Now, it you want the coordinates of the click event, that is contained in the MouseEvent... getX and getY, so you can use these as arguments to other methods from within your MouseListener.

Need some quick help with redoing a website

Hi, I did my website done in iWeb in 2008, published it, and have it hosted by GoDaddy. I want to take it offline for now and design a new 'under construction' site, but there is a chance that I might want to still go back to the original version.
I see the current 'Domain' in Home Folder>Library>Application Support>iWeb.
Can I just redo my site (still working in pre-2008 iWeb), publish it, and if I need to, use the old 'Domain' to revert to my current website?
If yes, how do I do that....and, if 'no', what should I do?
Thanks!

Hi and thanks. To reply....
I published the website in iWeb and it is on my MobleMe. It was done in iWeb v 1.1.2, and I have not upgraded iLife on the computer that I designed the website on, as I feared losing some/all of it in an upgrade.
I do, however, pay GoDaddy for my corporate URL AND hosting....which I suspect is the forwarding and not 'hosting' per se....but on my Hosting account on GoDaddy it does say 'Shared Hosting'.
I do not want to 'overwrite' my current site just yet, as I am uncertain about the next one's content or the time to do it the way I envision it. What I want to do is SAVE my current site in case I want it back and, in the meantime, put up a page that says Under Construction. Can you help with that?
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New to GB guitar recording - Need some noise tips

Hello everyone,
I've finally got my 20" iMac, and now of course, I wanna record some guitar. I have a Traynor YCV80 tube amp, and i've come out of its line out into the imac's line in. I've done all the preference settings in GB and in system prefs itself. I'm leaving the amp in standby in the clean channel, just using the preamp tubes to amplify the signal, keeping most nobs at 12 o'clock, trying to stay as dry as possible. The problem i'm having is the clean sound straight from the amp into GB w/o any amp sims or such sounds horrible. The clean channel distorts and when I try to use an amp sim, they either crap out or get really noisy and muddy. I've tried adjusting the volumes, so the lower I take some of them, the more the signal cleans up but then its too weak to hear or work with. Could someone help me find a balance for the 40 million sound level slider in GB and what I should do with the actual amp's EQ itself so I can get a nice clean, crisp sound so I can then work with the amp sims and start to lay down some tracks.

I don't need amps anymore - just like
to crank 'em up to bother the wife.
The opposite being exactly why I've warmed up a lot to GBs software amp sims. I've no doubt that, for tone, nothing beats a mic'd up tube-driven stack moving plenty of air, but that's not really practical for me. Besides being able to tweak the amp settings in GB after the fact, I can record a roaring wall of guitar without more audible sound than a bit of plink and thwam from the strings. This means that my wife doesn't crucify me for cranking up amps at odd hours of the day or night
I've got a Gibson LP Std loaded with Bare Knuckle pickups <http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/> which I run into my iBook via a Tascam US-122. That works very well; not too noisy as long as I stand back from the computer a bit (though if I engage the coil tapping, things get significantly noisier!). I have used a Sansamp GT-2 pedal for distortion with GB (still using GB's noise gate and reverb, but none of the amp sims), but I find get very plausible tones with the GB amp sims (especially if I tweak up my own settings). I wish Apple provided an easy way for users to export their presets so that they could be shared. I've got a few amp presets using the stock GB amp sims that I quite like, but I'm sure other users have ones at least as good and likely better! It'd be nice to swap these things around and try out different tones. I guess I can zip up .cst or .pst files and put them on my web site, but then the downloader has to be savvy about where to put them, etc., etc.
I've looked at things like the PodXT and Vox Tonelab, but I like the "re-amping" capabilities of GB's amp sims. On the other hand, I've looked at things like the Nomad Rock Legends AU, but I worry about that overstressing my puir wee iBook's CPU (already quite stressed by GB on its own!).
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Need som quick help

I'm looking to subscribe to Verizon Fiber Optics but their specs for internet service is as follows:
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With very few exceptions, ISPs don't need* to install any software at all on your computer; the necessary interface they supply is the cable/FiOS modem, which must communicate with their equipment on the WAN side, using whatever protocol they want, and with your computer on the LAN side, using standard industry protocols that are supported by every modern operating system. The only specification in this list that is really important is "Wired Ethernet I/F: 10/100 NIC", which is the physical LAN-side connection from their modem to your network (computer or router, whatever you have); and that's very common -- it should plug right into your G3.
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New to the game and need some quick help

I have been thrown our exisiting phone infrastructure and what do you know we are having some issues.
We have a new series of DID's and when they are dialed from our directory they go anywhere? Not routing to the proper extension. Translation pattern looks good in comparison to the extensions that are working.
Cisco Unified CM Administration System version: 6.1.3.3000-1
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First thing to know is that everything that has a DN can be used for routing, so it's a good idea to look at the route plan report to find matches.
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager Dialed Number Analyzer Guide, Release 6.1(1)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/dna/6_1_1/bw-dna.html
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I'm new to java and I need some quick help with NetBeans.

Hi. To whomever can help here's the problem. I've been trying to install netbeans ide 5.0 on my computer for a while now and i can't seem to find out what is wrong. I'm in a java programming course and i need the J2SE Developement Kit 5.0 Update 7 and NetBeans IDE 5.0 Installer on my comp. Whenever i go to install it, it can't automatically create a directory and has erroe null in place of it. Whenever i made a new directory for it a page would come up telling me all of the errors during the installation which are null. Since i have administrator privelages and plenty of free space on my hardrive.

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I want to suggest you that
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2.if you already having JDK on your machine check for the compatibility of that jdk version with the required NetBeans IDE version.
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http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/install.html
hope you will get rid of the problem .....
---Vidya

Need some quick help with server proxy on PI 7.1 system

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I am implementing a server proxy on the PI 7.1 system to do some logging to a table. So, when I go the the proxy in sproxy and generate it, in the interface section on the properties tabs I only see a drop down that says point to point enabled. There is no implementing class to click into and thus not method to populate with the custom code. Some direction would be appreciated, I have been working 7.0 for a while, so the missing implementing class is new to me! I know the method name has changed from the execute_asycronous etc... Am I going to the wrong place now to find the implementing method?
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Whoops! Brain cramp. accidentally set the interface to outbound and not inbound in the ESR lol. Sorry.

Need some quick help

I have not used my Final Cut Pro 5 for about a year and have forgotten how to use it. I have two clips in the timeline and I want them to display side by side in the two windows above the timeline so they show the same frame location in the timeline. Synchronized so when I play through the timeline they both progress along with the play simultaneously. I know I did it before but am now getting frustrated trying to remember how to do it and the books are just confusing me. Thanks.
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Need Some Quick Help w/Digital Frame for Xmas Gift Please...

Have a Kodak digital picture frame. I don't understand the architecture of using the SD or USB cards w/the frame. I bought a 1 and 2-gb SD card. When copying my photos to the cards (112 of them), I get about 92 on the 1-gb card and it says full, but still shows most of the disk available, but also says is full so only about 92 photos goes on there. So I try the 2-gb SD card, and exactly the same amount of photos fit??? Why - it is twice as big??? I tried reformatting it to Macintosh but that only made the frame not recognize it, and when I formatted it back to MS-DOS, the frame still does not recognize it...Question one...Why the 1 and 2 gb SD cards hold only the same amount of pictures and how can I get it formatted back to be read by the camera...and can I fill 112 pictures on??? So then I thought maybe a USB stick would work. Bought a 2-gb Lenar Firefly stick and whoa and behold the exact same thing happens...I get about 92 pictures. So I figured which 92 pictures I wanted and selected all the card contents, moved to trash and deleted the pictures, then went back and picked only the 92 pictures I wanted and copied to stick and all show that they are there, but when I go to play them on the frame the old pictures I had on there before are there and not just the 92 new ones. How do I get rid of everything on the disk and get the pictures onto it that I want...I am afraid to erase or format it in any way because the frame probably won't recognize it again. Also, there is one picture that says "Bad file" and I have no idea which picture this is...and can't get rid of it because when I move them all to trash and put the new pictures on the stick that one is still there????? On the stick, I have like 130 MB (112 Pictures). When copied it says 92 pictures with 1.76 GB available...why is this and why can't I copy pictures to that space??? Can someone explain this to me and advise me what I can do, how do I reformat it so recognized also??? Also, I have songs copied to the frame's internal memory, but can't figure out how to play the pictures and also music at the same time????? Thanks so much for any quick help and thorough explanation so I can get this wrapped and sent. Merry Christmas! Gary

I also have a Kodak picture frame and had the same problem with my SD card. Two things I learned.
1-Even though you can't see them on the card - there are hidden files. You can see them - use this procedure.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/3104/os-x-show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-mac-os -x-finder/
2-The other item I learned is that you must drag and drop the files and then empty your trash. While the reader is connected to the machine.
Doing these two items will clear your card to full capacity.
As far as the "bad file" I am still working on that one. I have little movie clips on my card and believe that may be causing this view..so your music may be causing this message. Start with just the pictures only and see if you can load them onto the frame.

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