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I need to change my settings in photoshop elements 9, over to 'setting one'. But where is the file saved on snow leapard? If I upgraded to Lion will it sort this problem out and put them somewhere more accessable?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have PSE 8 but am not a heavy user. I don't know what you mean by 'setting one' but my understanding is that PSE settings are controlled within the app itself, like in Preferences or other menu items. Could be wrong but I don't think such things are OS X settings, unless you mean display resolution or color managment which can be set in OS X System Prefs. Are you talking about Color Profiles in PSE? This is from Adobe info on Photoshop (not Elements) but might be helpful http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WS2A5857E0-A6D1-4efc-85B1-FE1D4FC0246 E.html. Maybe other PSE users will chime in.
I also haven't got a clue as to what "setting one" is. Can you explain in more detail waht you want to do?
Yes. "setting one" is a set of settings, i saved as a custom setting, where i set my own prefered numerical values. For tools such as, photomerge stylematch, texturizers, blurs such as surface blurs, motion blurs. I changed the values in the tool's style intensity & clarity settings that they start up with, so that they do not damage or interfere with the image, by opening up with too higher intensity settings. This damage does not show on screen, but when printed it shows. I need these tools to open up on a very low setting. I Also had the eraser tool set to be able to use on any opacity setting, without causing smear marks where the rubbings overlap each other. This is also more apparent once the image is printed.
However, i did save this setting, i am currently using the default setting.which is the values photoshop was set as, when i first installed it. I need to change back to my custom setting, but i do not know how or where to find it on the MAC!! I do a lot of printing so this setting is vital to me.
There is no ability to save tool presets in PSE. That's only availalbe in PS, I'm afraid. I have no idea of how you "saved" these settings in PSE in either mac or windows. Are you sure you weren't using PS at the time?
What's PS? I'm not sure what I was doing at the time as I was on the phone to someone that was technically apt. Now i can't rember what i did. All i know it is possible, maybe they were downloaded. I did save them though. But I don't know how to access them? Or get PSE to run with them again.
Full Photoshop (PS) allows you to save and load tool preset files, but there is no way to make elements acknowledge them. There has never been a version of PSE with this ability. It's one of the things, like the ability to work in CMYK, that adobe is insistent on keeping as a division between the two programs.
Is there any possiblity of a download of plugins or presets to work with elements 9?
There are many plug-ins that work with PSE, but since the ability to use .tpl files is disabled in the underlying code, there's nothing that can add them, I'm afraid. So you can expand what PSE can do, but not to include the ability to work with tool presets. Elements+ from simplephotoshop.com (I have no connection with them in any way) probably adds the most new abilities to PSE, but it's done by actions and scripts that leverage the underlying code, so no tool presets.
I looked on simplephotoshop.com website. And it does look familiar. Is there any backup storage space available with apple? I wonder if i saved the settings online somewhere? Maybe thats why I can't find them on my computer?
The only thing like that would have been if you'd backed them to something like idisk. But as I've said, there's no way to load any preset settings into PSE. You can add plug-ins, actions, layer styles, brushes, swatches, and so on, but not presets.
How do i look on 'idisk'?
If you don't know how to do that, then almost certainly you didn't put them in the first place. If you don't normally copy things to idisk for backup then you can scratch that as an option.
No, I don't normally do that.I don't normally improve my settings on PSE. But it was done. At the time, I was on the phone to a technician, from apple care. He was very apt, the problem is, I can not repeat what I did, as i am not familiar with the procedures he used. As i am not as skilled as him. So anything is possible. I am now trying to find out what he did?
Well, I can't imagine what he did do, since what you've been describing in this thread really is not possible with PSE, but I can pretty much guarantee there's no way he would have used your idisk for anything. It's just not a sensible or logical thing to do.
How do I access my photoshop settings on snow leapard?
