Hey, if the camera has a popup flash, that's probably all I need. Good enough for family photos and the like. At some point I'd probably get a better one.

I do need a tripod. I have a cheap one that I've had as long as today's college graduates have been ALIVE, and the legs no longer stay extended, the little locking clips are shot. Is it worth spending any money on a good tripod? What do you use for this camera?

That SUCKS about ACR 4. Holy crap do I hate when shit like that happens. Let's hope there's not nightmares with my scanner and Alien Skin plugins (like Eye Candy).

Somebody just gave me an old Minolta SR 202 SLR camera. It's in good shape and I'm pretty sure it works. Does anyone here need it for any reason? Anyone want to trade for a relatively cheapo digital camera?

Nelson that would be a good camera to use for a photography course.

As for tripods Bogen / Manfrotto 3001BN Tripod Legs are basic and will get the job done. They run about $95. The head is another story you could go basic like this Bogen/Manfrotto. B&H sells these as a kit for $125.

Bogen/Manfrotto might be in the process of changing the names/updating their product lines as one reason they are out of stock. The Bogen/Manfrotto website no longer lists these items by these names.

Bogen/Manfrotto is a quality product. Made in Italy. For photographing your artwork a tripod will be a must. You may want to spend a little extra on the head one that has leveling bubbles to make it easier to square up the camera to the artwork. But these basic heads will get the job done.

I have the 3025 head plus a 3028 that looks like this model. They are calling the one pictured the 115 model. Mine says 3028 on it.

Adobe really holds everybody over the barrel. I had to purchase CS3 to keep my work flow going. ACR 4 is just that much better than what is offered for CS2. Bridge has a better layout in CS3 but still has some terrible bugs like not refreshing the filters. I have not tried doing an F5 yet as this was the refresh button in CS2. But as of now the Bridge CS3 does not refresh on its own.

Alien Skin has released Universal Binary code for their plug ins. So they will run native on Intel machines. You shouldn't have a problem with the Radiator. Scanners that is another ball of wax. We have a Umax flatbed in the office with the 8.5x14 inch scan bed. It has been a piece of junk since the day we got it. It is the Powerlook 1000 model. The software out of the box would not work in Panther. Vuescan sucked. Finally I got it working using Silverfast SE. In the end we routinely get a line down the middle of our scans which is not always easy to photoshop out. We have no budget to get a new one.

I just had a GoLive meltdown that was unlike anything I've ever seen. I believe it had something to do with the CS3 demo expiring (Bridge, PS, etc.) it screwed with VersionCue or something, but suddenly all kinds of crap got corrupt... no actions would work, the Java Libraries kept getting toasted whenever they'd try to update. It was like an all-out attack on me.

I could barely hold the app together. Ended up having to reinstall from Disk, then go through all the updates again. Took the better part of a day. I know what Adobe was TRYING to get me to do was spring for CS3 NOW, but I can't wait for it to come. I needed to get this working right away.

Adobe has this page up with a script that will remove all the beta components. I had to run it to get PS CS2 running again. You might want to run it too.

Adobe released Lightroom with a discount for beta testers. No such luck for Photoshop Beta testers. I have no interest to use Lightroom. Adobe got me with the beta of PSCS3 to upgrade.

By the way in the Bridge if you press F5 it will refresh the folder you are in. This at least saves me from having to click out of a folder then back again just to get the filter to work.

You should try running without VersionCue on. It just may be part of your overall problems with Adobe apps. VersionCue is good idea I just can't see Adobe pulling it off in the real world. It must constantly be using system resources. Add that across a network is just asking for trouble.

This is how all my dialog windows for PSCS3 look in Leopard:



Okay is it my eyes or my monitor or does Adobe need to fix this debacle.

Here's another dandy.

Printing in PSCS3 crashes PSCS3. At least with my Epson 2200. Epson has an udated driver but it didn't help. I have not looked for a fix yet.

I fixed the printing problem by installing the 1.5GB of Epson printer drivers from the Leopard install CD. I had left it off because I don't need 1.5GB of Epson drivers. Once installed I then updated the driver for the 2200 from Epson website that was posted Nov 8.

The new driver is way better. You can actually center images properly on the page without jumping through hoops. It is a miracle. What you had to do in the past was set up a custom page without any margins. There is a new limit margins option for each page size.

Adobe has released updates for CS3 suit today. I only have Photoshop to update which is a 235.5MB update. So it looks like Adobe is completely replacing the code for Photoshop. Adobe must be getting hammered because the download is running at a snails pace.

My dialogs don't have that draw problem mentioned on Nov.6...

As for the updates, the "updates" option on all my adobe products has been grayed out for a long time, no idea why. Apparently the updater is pooched, because it didn't recognize that I needed the Bridge update. The only one it saw was Acrobat and reader.

I forget to mention this that to run the new Adobe CS3 updater you have to go to the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. There is an Adobe Utilities folder that has the CS3 updater Adobe Updater5. You can run this manually by launching it to check for updates.

Right now this is the only way I can see to run the Adobe updater.

Okay this is about Adobe Creative Suit Premium.

We have this in the office. It loads in all the Print media Adobe apps plus Dreamweaver Flash etc. What a flying piece of fucking shit this suit is. Holy crap settling. If one app goes south the only way to fix it is to un install all the apps. Oh Adobe has some nifty feature on the install CD that "allows" for uninstalling specific apps problem is it does not work. Sorry there was an error. Do you want to re install Photoshop sure oops sorry fatal error installation failed that also just pooched the rest of Creative Suit. Just take a couple of hours to uninstall/reinstall every thing.

The best thing is updating. This is were the fun begins. You can get the apps to install but try up dating them. Joy Joy. The updater app responds sorry the over 520mb of updaters can not be used because a b c d f m n o p and z can not be confirmed. Unwittingly I let the ones that it said were good to update. Stupid. This corrupted those apps. The only way to fix those apps was to unistall the apps. But you can not successfully unistall one or two apps you are forced to uninstall all the apps. Oh the wonder of it start all over again installing the same shit 3 4 5 times again. For the love of God how can it take over an hour to run an install CD.

Since the updater app is not worth a hill of beans just down load the updaters for each app directly from Adobe you say. Sounds like a great idea. Not. Oops something went wrong with that patcher updater Illustrator has now been rendered useless. To get it working again you must uninstall then reinstall. While your at it you will have to uninstall the whole suit again because errors occurred trying to uninstall Illustrator.

It could be the machine. So you guessed it start all over again putting the HD into another machine.

It took nearly 3 hours to uninstall/reinstall then update CS3 Premium in another machine. Still the Flash update and Flash Device controls update would not even take which I had to skip. Flash is something that the user of the machine would never use any way let alone whatever flash Device controller even does.

Who knows what the mystery is how one machine will not allow updates and another does but Adobe wasted at least 12 hours of my life.

Thanks Team Adobe.

I would wait for the big updates in January, which Adobe is struggling to complete. The fact of the matter is, CS3 is not anywhere NEAR Leopard compatible, so it makes no sense to try and dick with it now.

Leopald surely you jest. The machine I am working with is running Tiger. Maybe CS3 runs better on Intel boxes. CS3 is Intel ready. Those machines have a ton more power than what I am working with. The one machine is only a single 1.6Ghz G5. It is a far cry better than the machine it is replacing which was a Quicksilver 800Mhz G4. Suitcase Fusion will not run on it. It does but fonts will not load general wackiness takes place.

I wish you could just install the first point release and leave it but these are 10.0.0 installs. They are way to buggy to just run with it. The Photoshop update is 170mb. That is a 10.0.1 release. 170mb. The Flash team has some serious issues. Flash would not update at all. At least I wasn't going to wait like another 30 minutes to find out if it was really updating or just stalled. Maybe if there was continuous drive activity happening but the progress bar was just spinning with no sound coming from the machine. Cancel. It would ask do you want to cancel this update and continue to the next hell yes.