Leopard Photoshop CS3 Photomerge won't

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Leopard Photoshop CS3 Photomerge won't

Photoshop CS3's Photomerge is the best I've seen, but since installing 10.5.1 on G5 PPC iMac, it won't work. Tried Adobe's tips (smaller file sizes on pix to merge, resetting RAM lower, etc.) but no luck. Still have a G4 15" PPC PowerBook with 10.4.11 and CS3 - everything worked perfectly. Old message from Adobe says that they and Apple are working up a fix for most known issues (photomerge not mentioned).
Best to keep the the PowerBook Leopard-free for now? Any ideas?
Thanks,
George Widman
Philly

2006 iMac G5 PPC, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 11, 2007 12:58 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 11, 2007 1:13 PM in response to George Widman

Are you talking about merging from layers? If so it works fine for me running PS CS3 Extended on 10.5.1

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Answer 2

Dec 11, 2007 1:17 PM in response to Bear Hunter

No, just the Photomerge: FILE>AUTOMATE>PHOTOMERGE in PS CS3. Pre-Leopard, I easily merged a panoramic of 16 large JPEGs. Now, even with downsized files, it runs through the whole process, including aligning the images, then the process just quits. PS3 itself does not crash, but the photomerge just quits.
Thanks!

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Answer 3

Dec 11, 2007 1:45 PM in response to George Widman

I haven't used this feature yet...but when I select 2 or more photo's it runs through the process and I just get one picture (no panoramic). It doesn't crash, but I'm not sure I am doing it right.

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Answer 4

Dec 17, 2007 9:14 AM in response to George Widman

Me too likewise ......
I think that, almost without exception EVERY application I use has been 'unfavourably impacted' since installing Leopard and in some cases worse since the 10.5.1 update. Whether it be Apple's own applications (Mail, Safari and such) or third party applications like Photoshop there are crashes, mysterious 'hangs' or even downright failures (such as Photomerge in CS3 - and in Photoshop Elements) .
It really is like being back with Windows again ....

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Answer 5

Dec 17, 2007 12:38 PM in response to George Widman

Don't know about CS3 or a really large number of items, but Photomerge is working in CS1, using three jpegs from my Canon camera (1200x1600). You might try asking in the Adobe forums and see if anyone there has any ideas:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b362

Did a quick search and saw one poster was having a problem with Photomerge in Tiger, so the problem might not be Leopard, but something else.
Francine

Francine
Schwieder

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Answer 6

Dec 17, 2007 3:53 PM in response to George Widman

I was able to run the Photomerge with three pictures on an Intel-based Mac with Mac OS X 10.5.1 and Adobe Photoshop CS3. I have version 10.0, not the current 10.0.1 version, which version do you have? I've never used that feature before, but the automatic detection option worked really well. I've been doing it manually for years!

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Very cool! I don't know if I have 16 pictures I could link together, but I probably have at least six I can try later. (I suppose I could try the manual feature with 16 pictures that don't actually go together.)

-Doug

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Answer 7

Dec 18, 2007 12:46 AM in response to Douglas McLaughlin

Thanks folks for your experiences and sympathy. I use Photomerge principally to copy LP record covers - 3 scans with an A4 scanner. I have been using CS3 with Tiger about once a week for a year or so - with great success.
Yesterday I even tried to reinstall CS3 but got in trouble with the installation - the Adobe Installer was asking for an "Extendscript Toolkit 2' disc - which presumably is part of the install set- in my case the upgrade is one disc only and it wasn't happy with that. An Adobe problem perhaps rather than Leopard - although CS3 had a Leopard-related upgrade a few days ago as I recall.
I'll see what the Adobe forum says.....
I have work waiting - maybe I'll try reinstalling Tiger to get the job done.

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Answer 8

Dec 18, 2007 7:46 AM in response to Gordon Sapsed

THANKS to all who responded!
From all my unscientific search for information and solutions, one thing seems to keep coming up: most, if not all, the issues I'm having are not being experienced by Intel users. So I'm reverting to 10.4.11 (pity - I bought the Leopard family package!) until Jobs gets this thing fixed. So far, 10.5.1 has been a disaster for me, and I've been advising my friends with PPCs to avoid it for now.
In a few months, I'll have a new Intel iMac, and all should be O.K. by then.
Adobe still has no solutions for the Photomerge failure in 10.5. They say Apple and Adobe are working on it. (Like, gee, are there still PPC users out there? Who knew!?)
Considering all the time that Apple and Adobe and Roxio and Epson have had to get Leopard right, this is a heckuva shameless mess Apple's put out. Extremely un-Apple of Apple to do a release like this.

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Answer 9

Dec 18, 2007 8:28 AM in response to George Widman

I'm sorry, but you can not blame Apple for problems with Adobe, Roxio or Epson products. Send those companies some feedback or call their support numbers. I can try the Photomerge with a G5 and Leopard later today at work to see if it really is a PowerPC problem.

-Doug

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Dec 18, 2007 8:40 AM in response to Gordon Sapsed

Hey Gordon,

I was having that same problem after an erase and install of Leopard ... I had migrated my old user account (mistake!) and I think some of the Adobe stuff came with it, like the updater. I do have a total Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Academic Edition package, so I should have had all the disks! But it kept asking for that "Extendscript Toolkit 2" disk . ..

Anyway, I ended up uninstalling the Creative Suite from the install disk, resetting, and then it allowed me to reinstall without any issues.

Hope this helps!

CMF

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Answer 11

Dec 18, 2007 9:30 AM in response to Douglas McLaughlin

"'Im sorry, but you can not blame Apple for problems with Adobe, Roxio or Epson products. Send those companies some feedback or call their support numbers."
Actually, I can blame them: Adobe admits there's a problem, and says that they're working with Apple on the fix. Apple does not admit there's a problem. Roxio's Toast 7 will not work under 10.5. Their solution? Only to spend money on Toast 8; they will not fix Toast 7 for 10.5. (With two external burners, one firewire and one USB, under 10.4 I used to burn two DVDs at the same time, one on Toast 7, one on Toast 6. That's dead now.) Epson has no support for 10.5 with their R800 printer. The workaround for using Discus RE (the best disc labeling program) is in "Setup," then choosing the A4 manual feed).
I've used both Apple and Windoze machines for over 20 years as a professional photographer. This release was more like a Redmond release than a Cuppertino release. These things should have been fixed before the release.

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Answer 12

Dec 18, 2007 10:01 AM in response to George Widman

Roxio's Toast 7 will not work under 10.5. Their solution? Only to spend money on Toast 8; they will not fix Toast 7 for 10.5.

Have you contacted Roxio for support with their product? In fact, they have released an update for Toast 7 to work in Leopard.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/toast/version_history7.html

If that update doesn't resolve your issue with their product, contact their support department. Again, it's not up to Apple to fix their software. Hopefully they're willing to help, but it's not their fault.

-Doug

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Answer 13

Dec 18, 2007 11:06 AM in response to Douglas McLaughlin

Douglas,
First, thanks very much for the Toast 7 update. I have "automatic update checking" on launch set on all the apps that I can; Toast 7 did not have that update last week, but just launched it and got the same update notification that you posted.
When I checked on updates on 7 last week, their only solution was Toast 8, which I bought. Hadn't checked again, just removed 7 from the dock.
Your post may get me back to burning two DVDs at the same time again!
But I still have to get back to 10.4.11 for PS CS3 work.

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Answer 14

Dec 18, 2007 11:10 AM in response to George Widman

And the list piles up:
Final Cut Pro 4.5: Not supported on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307092>
Like I said, more Redmond than Cuppertino. Sheeesh!

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Dec 18, 2007 11:30 AM in response to Douglas McLaughlin

Douglas McLaughlin wrote:
I'm sorry, but you can not blame Apple for problems with Adobe, Roxio or Epson products.

Um, sometimes you can blame Apple. A problem with numeric entry in Photoshop CS3 on Leopard is going to be fixed in a future 10.5 update, not in any Adobe updates, because, by mutual Apple/Adobe agreement, it is an Apple problem.

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