The obvious way to solve this problem is by disabling UAC. To do so

1. Run msconfig
2. Switch to the “Tools” tab
3. Scroll down and select “Disable UAC”
4. Click Launch and restart your computer

However yesterday I was faced with a client that needed to have UAC enabled, to comply with his company policies, and was suffering from the same problem. So I found out that the “real” problem was not UAC but the fact that the screen was turning off and back on. This can easily be solved by modifying the computer’s local policy ! Here is how to do it

1. Run gpedit.msc (doesn’t work on vista home edition)
2. Browse to Computer configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options
3. Find the policy called “User Account Control:Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation”
4. Double click on it and set it to “Disabled”

Changing this policy will disable the blank out that happens before the regular UAC prompt and Windows Vista will not reset to the default profile losing the custom ICC profile you configured.

What I wasn’t able to fix yet is how to fix that problem after restoring from hibernate or sleep so if you know how to do it drop me a line.

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This post is a guest post by Rami Fayoumi from ZeroHourSleep

Like everyone who reads ADIDAP I am into photography and I use Adobe Lightroom to edit my pictures. I was so excited when I first started working with Adobe Lightoom until I started experiencing regular crashes while using it. And when it crashes, it crashes really hard ! My CPU usage goes up to 50% even after I kill Lightroom’s process, so I end up forced to either logoff or restart my computer.
BUT, I have discovered lately what has been causing these crashes.

nView Desktop Manager! YES, that was it!

Apparently, Adobe Lightroom has compatibility issues with nVidia, causing it to crash on launch or while switching between modules whenever nView Desktop Manager is installed.

Solution to the problem is to simply disable your nView Desktop Manager by going through the following steps:

1. Right-click on your desktop and click “Properties”.
2. Go to the “Settings” tab and click “Advanced” at the bottom.
3. Go to your nVidia’s tab.
4. A menu will be displayed on the left, click on “Desktop Management” then click on “Disable” as shown below.

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via Jhon Chow

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Portable applications are programs that can run directly from your USB thumb drive or any other drive without any need for installation making them easy to carry around and use them on any computer.

GIMP portable version is available for direct download in 2 versions

GIMP English version 8.6 MB and GIMP multilingual version 10.9 MB.

Via | portableapps.com

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Fortunately the solution is rather easy to make it work in the meantime just change the picture style file extension from .pse to .pf2 and it will work just fine.

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Every time I click on the Adobe Photoshop CS3 icon, the splash scree doesn’t even appear. I just get a gray screen for 2 seconds, and then nothing. I’ve been struggling with this for a couple of days but I have just found the solutions.

So in case you run into the same problem all you have to do is browse to %programfiles%\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache ” ((” That is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache if you are using default installation”))” and delete the file cache.db

Yep now that you know it it looks pretty easy, but took me some time to find it out.

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Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create your own legitimate portable version of Adobe Photoshop and/or ImageReady CS2 of just 26 MB.

1. Install Adobe Photoshop CS2, enter your serial registration, and activate the product.

2. Locate the directory in which Adobe Photoshop CS2 was installed.

3.Create a new directory called PCS2, on your computer and copy the following necessary files for Adobe Photoshop CS2 & Adobe ImageReady CS2 to operate:

\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\ ->
ACE.dll
AdobeLM.dll
Adobelmsvc Installer.dll
AdobeUpdater.dll (generates error, program runs)
AdobeXMP.dll
agldt28l.dll
AGM.dll
asneu.dll
AXE8SharedExpat.dll
Bib.dll
BIBUtils.dll
CoolType.dll
epic_regs.dll (generates error, program runs, goodbye shortcuts)
FileInfo.dll (program runs, error on File>File Info)
libagluc28.dll
pdfsettings.dll
persresen_US.dll
Photoshop.dll
Plugin.dll
PSArt.dll
PSViews.dll
Tw10122.dat
VersionCue.dll
VersionCueUI.dll
\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\\Activation\(your language/country)\tw12216.dat
\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\\Required\*.*
\Documents & Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe Systems\Product licenses\B2B86000.dat


4. Go to the command prompt (Start -> Run -> Cmd) and copy paste the following command

5. Copy the file just created from c:\CS2.reg to the PCS2 folder created above.

6. Create a batch file called RunCs2.bat containing the following and save it is the PCS2 folder created above.

7. Create a file called UnCs2.reg and paste in it the following and save it is the PCS2 folder created above.

8. Finally create another batch file CleanCs2.bat containing the following and save it is the PCS2 folder created above.

Now when you want to run Adobe Photoshop CS2, just plug your thumb drive and run the batch file you have created RunCs2.bat

Also make sure to run CleanCs2.bat to clear all personal info from the computer after you finish using Adope Photoshop CS2.

N.B.: To gain even more place an application like UPX can be used to compress all dlls and exes files without loosing any functionality.

Based on aniperleo‘s post

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Original colored picture

Simple desaturation in the Hue/Sat tool

New B&W conversion tool

Of course the same effect could be achieved using Channel mixer in Photoshop CS2 but this new Black and White conversion tool surely a good add on.

All pictures in this post are copyrighted to Billy Gilbert

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This lack of availability has pushed many linux defenders to work and develop very ambitious photo processing applications.

Some of those application are so rich that their users and fans are beginning to aspire to dethrone Adobe Photoshop from its leading position.
Recently, a blogger reached the top of digg for his article “GIMP v/s Photoshop“, and today we are about to witness the birth of another photoshop killer application Pixel.

If GIMP and GIMPShop are very popular and free open source softwares. Pixel seems to have bigger dreams, it is targeting a more professional audience by supporting CMYK colors and is expected to be sold for $79 once released.

source | tectonic

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You simply can’t print images of currency bills in Adobe Photoshop . After doing the test myself, I tried a little google search and it seems that the info isn’t new at all, I found posts about it dating back to early 2004 but for me it was a revelation…

If you know it, then you are probably thinking that I should be more updated, and if you don’t you are probably thinking that I am crazy… Well do the test yourself.

Get a currency bill (I tried it with a $50 USD with Adobe Photoshop CS2) and place it on the side that has those little yellow zeros, take a shot (take it RAW).

Open the raw file in photoshop and adjust the exposure so that those zeros are not blown out and try to click on open…

You should get now a message saying “This application does not support the printing of banknote images” etc…

Pretty amazing hein!

Found the info here

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Although originaly built for Linux, GIMP can also run on both Windows and MAC…

Today I came across a quite interesting article by “The Linux Advocate” stating what is still missing for GIMP to be able to “dethrone” Adobe Photoshop

Read full article here

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