Leopard Photoshop CS3 Photomerge won't

Great! I'm glad you should soon be back to burning your Toast. 😉

I did boot my G5 (PPC) Mac at work into Leopard and I was able to use Photoshop CS3 (both 10.0 and the updated 10.0.1) to Photomerge up to six pictures (three once, four once and then six a couple of times to investigate the different merge options). They're all 5MP JPEGs from my digital camera (Canon S3 IS). It didn't crash and I was able to save the pictures in several different ways. So, it would seem that PowerPC Macs with Mac OS X 10.5.1 and Photoshop 10.0 (10.0.1) are capable of running the Photomerge automation. How many pictures you choose to merge, their size and format may be what's causing the trouble.

Six pictures, stitched together, with an almost 180° view of Seattle from my friend's apartment:



-Doug

Douglas McLaughlin wrote:
How many pictures you choose to merge, their size and format may be what's causing the trouble.

That should not be the problem. Photomerge normally can handle whatever is thrown at it unless the machine itself does not have a lot of RAM.

Photoshop master Ben Willmore routinely Photomerges high numbers of high-megapixel images that are not even aligned in a linear way. I saw him do one at a seminar, on a MacBook Pro (Intel of course), involving probably 30 images. But that was in Tiger. The one linked to above uses 50 images. Don't know if the linked one was in Leopard, but it's recent.

That should not be the problem. Photomerge normally can handle whatever is thrown at it unless the machine itself does not have a lot of RAM.

Well, we've eliminated Mac OS X 10.5.1 as the culprit. I suppose, we might still think the G4 processor with Mac OS X 10.5.1 is the problem, but I find that difficult to swallow. We don't know how much RAM George has, but I have 2GB in both my MacBook (Intel) and my G5 tower at work (PPC). If we eliminate RAM as the culprit, then a user-specific preference or the pictures themselves are about the only things left.

-Doug

Like I said, more Redmond than Cuppertino. Sheeesh!

Don't forget, iPhoto 1 and 2 are not compatible with Leopard!

-Doug

But, with PS CS3 on my G5 iMac (250G H.D.), running 10.5.1, and with 2G of RAM, Photomerge will not run at all.

Than it's not PS CS3, the processor, the RAM nor Mac OS X 10.5.1 that's causing the trouble. Since similar hardware configuration and software configurations are okay. I might suggest you use the Accounts System Preferences to create a new user. Log out and log in as the new user. Don't configure any preferences in PS CS3 (yet) as I have not touched the preferences on my G5 (it's a brand new install from a week ago). I do have the entire Adobe CS3 Standard suite, not just PhotoShop, I suppose that might make a difference. But with your whole new user, try the Photomerge again. This will help to eliminate some kind of preference or setting in Photoshop that's causing the trouble. If we can't resolve this here, the Adobe forums would really be the best place to continue the discussion. At least you'll have some good troubleshooting under your belt already.

-Doug

I've been trying to do a photomerge this afternoon with no luck (macbook pro, 2Gb ram, 10.5.1) and I've found that photoshop gives up when there is not enough space on the scratch disk. I've got very limited space on my HD (around 1.5Gb), but I tried when I had even less (around 900Mb) and photoshop gave up almost immediately after I okay'd the automated merge, but when I freed up some more space the process seemed to get a bit further on with photoshop performing some actions before it gave up. So to do a large automated photomerge you need A LOT of ram and HD space. All the more reason to slot a new HD in.

SOLVED! (for me anyway). Following the experience described by Charles Fulton, I deactivated and uninstalled Adobe Photoshop CS3, then shut down and reinstalled it. Trying then to use Photomerge it said that the Photomerge plug in had failed to install ( there was a list of failures under the help menu).
I then loaded the Adobe Photoshop update ('HUGE - effectively a total reinstall') and all is well currently - Photomerge working normally - my regular workflow merges three 5M pictures- to recreate a 12 inch record sleeve.
(NOTE: This whole bad experience followed the installation of Leopard - Photoshop seemed OK but the Photomerge capability somehow got lost in the Tiger-Leopard upgrade. Photomerge was there and working prior to Leopard and I had not altered Photoshop at all.)
Messages from Adobe seemed to indicate that the Tiger-Leopard transition upset Java- scripted plug-ins.
I am continuing to experience hangups and hickups in other applications, especially Mail and Safari on an almost daily basis

Hey Gordon!

Glad I could help! I have found that a complete reinstall of everything is necessary after migrating from Tiger to Leopard . . .

. . . how about some "answer" points? If you felt like it, Gordon, you could navigate up to my post that was helpful and select "answered" or "helpful" . . .

At some point, I hope to get some of those blue bars under my name!

Thanks!

CMF

I'd be happy to get 'credit' to you but don't see how the system works .....
I have navigated back to your post but can't see anything to click or open

(Gordon)

It's against the terms of use to ask for points...

-Doug

I just tried again using Doug's pictures and it worked? Maybe because they are so small? I'm using CS3 Extended 10.0 on Leopard 10.5.1 (which was just an upgrade install).

Did you ever have a problem with it? It was never broken for me. Re-installing Photoshop seems to have fixed the trouble for some people, so it's not an inherent conflict with Mac OS X 10.5.x.

-Doug

My bad!

What ARE points? and how do people get them?
Is it something like Peerages in the U.K. - (which are awarded to people who give political parties large sums of money)........