Using Photoshop over RDP

Hi,
I'm asked to install Photoshop to a number of people.
I'm looking for advices/opinion/experiences about using Photoshop over RDP served by a W2008R2 (virtual) and accessed by Wyse ThinOS box, over a 100Mb/full, wired network.
Is it total nonsense, due to lossy RDP compression ?
Thanks

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Sorry for late response. You can use Photoshop though RDP serer 2008 R2 but as you know that there is specific consideration which need to take place for RDP to any system and working with such kind of software. We need to have good network bandwidth, screen
solution and many different aspects need to consider. For more details you can go through below article for performance tuning.
Performance Tuning Guidelines for previous versions of Windows Server
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn529134
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
TechNet Community Support
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After searching in vain for a solution to this problem in a multitude of different places and coming-up empty, I thought it worthwhile to try asking everyone here to see if you can please help me. Here's my dilemma:
My company purchased Adobe eLearning Suite 2 which comes with Adobe Soundbooth. We installed it on a high-powered PC that I share with other eLearning developers. I am using Microsoft RDP to remote-into the PC with eLearning Suite and am attempting to perform some simple edits on an existing WAV file using Soundbooth. I am not interested in recording via RDP as I understand it is not possible to do this via Windows XP. Playback of audio files works perfectly fine from other applications on the remote PC with eLearning Suite. I can even play-back and make very simple edits of audio directly via Captivate 5. Just not from Soundbooth.
When attempting to play an audio file over RDP, the playhead refuses to move. If I go to Edit / Preferences / Audio Hardware, I see that the Default Device shown is Soundbooth 3.0 WDM Sound, with Output Mapping of Microsoft RDP Audio Driver (emulated) - 1 and Microsoft RDP Audio Driver (emulated) - 2 for left and right channel, respectively.
I have tried the following:
1. Changed default device to Soundbooth 3.0 DirectSound. This changed the Left and Right output mappings to "no audio device - 1 and -2" respectively. In this configuration, the playhead moves and the audio level meter shows activity, but again, there is (of course) no audible sound.
2. Under the original Soundbooth 3.0 DirectSound device, turned-off Device 32-bit Playback. No change in the problem. The playhead refuses to move when play is clicked.
If someone can provide some suggestions on how to resolve this issue, I would really appreciate it! For now, whenever I need to edit a file, I have to hoof-it to the Adobe PC and perform my edits "in-person".
Thanks!
Chris

The sound does playback locally. I decided to use YouTube to reproduce the issue (with success). I then decided to hit other sites using other similar plugins to see if audio playback would work and they did (for Shockwave and QuickTime). As far as if this worked before?... I can't say that for sure. Where I work, we use a lot of VM technologies to perform testing and I usually use Fabulatech's USB over Network client/server solution to have access to audio devices from a VM, but that's when I'm not using a Remote Desktop Client (using RDP) and use a different remote interface (like a browser plugin: e.g., VMware's Lab Manager) for viewing the operating system screen. Lately I have been using the Remote Desktop Client more and more because it's just a better tool for getting to VMs remotely than the other less primitive options (which require extra utilities tp support such things like audio). I will post a new bug report, thanks!
Bug: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3214521

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Hi - I would be very grateful if anyone has solved this problem before and can help me.
I am trying to send a smallish (5 Mb) layered CMYK Photoshop file from my version (CS4) to someone who is still using Photoshop 7 but they are completely unable to open it. I have saved it using 'Maximize Compatibility' and there are just 3 layers, no fancy layer effects, no layer sets, and each layer has a transparent background. Every time the other person tries to open it (via File -> Open), their Photoshop hangs and they have to force quit. It will open in Graphic Converter but it is then saved as a flattened image which is no good. I'm at my wits' end what to do to get this to open in PS7 - does anyone have any ideas?
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Deb.

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I've spent most of the day recalibrating my monitor.
I now use a gamma setting of 2.2, and target white point of D65.
My color workspace is sRGB IE661966-2.1.
I'm using Photoshop CS3.
So I've tried converting an image (even though I am already working in the same color workspace) to sRGB IE661966-2.1 and when I do a Save-for-web, Adobe gives me an over-saturated image.
Now, while in Photoshop I move the save-for-web window lower so I can visually compare the image in photoshop to the one presented in the save-for-web dialog, and they are still different.
I am at loss.
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That's a fair opinion...[I] would want an option to set an RGB Default profile in ColorSync, though, because the 'high-gamut' monitor I had here whacked out Finder, Preview, iPhoto color, and that setting would 'fix' the problem across the Mac OS.
The last time I saw this ColorSync RGB Default option was in 10.3x
http://www.gballard.net/psd/cswfi/panthercs.jpg
But according to Apple's John Gnaegy, when I asked him WHY that setting wasn't working here:
He said, "The ColorSync panel> Default Profiles tab headline is wrong.
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It appears some people at Apple understand the issues -- default 1.8 gamma, default monitor RGB, trying to set up ColorSync option to set a Default RGB -- but it also seems like Apple is very slow and stubborn to change...

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