CS2 and Album Photoshop 2.01

The chances are you can’t. Since Photoshop CS 2 comes with Bridge and Adobe has ended support for Album I doubt you will get the two to work well together. I would suggest moving to Bridge, at least until Adobe once again comes up with something else and then doesn’t bother to make it easy to move from the old program to the new one.

"Gillies" wrote in message

Greetings,

I’m using Album Photoshop 2.01 to manage my pics database. I’m also using Photoshop CS to edit my pics directly in Photoshop CS using the shortcut Ctrl-H to launch Photoshop CS directly from Album and its works just fine.

Recently I have installed CS2 (and uninstalled CS). The Ctrl-H does not work anymore within Album 2.01. The option "Edit with…" does not even show Photoshop CS2 anymore! How one can reactivate this function please ?
I’m using a P4 3.0 XP SP2 with 1024 meg RAM.

Thanks in advance

On Tue, 03 May 2005 20:03:16 GMT, "Got Whiz? Cheese that is…" wrote:

The chances are you can’t. Since Photoshop CS 2 comes with Bridge and Adobe has ended support for Album I doubt you will get the two to work well together. I would suggest moving to Bridge, at least until Adobe once again comes up with something else and then doesn’t bother to make it easy to move from the old program to the new one.

Which is why you’ll find a lot of people use a proper image database – ThumbsPlus.

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You say anything. Adobe did NOT ended support for Album Photoshop. They are now developping beta release 3.0.

Here is an email from adobe.com from the adobe forum:

"My name is Rahul Chaudhary and I work with Adobe Pre-release team, I’m the one who is responsible for sending the invitation mails for Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 program. We are running this program using a 3rd party system from CenterCode, via the URL adobe.centercode.com. You received this mail, because you have shown interest in the product, either on our site or previous pre-release programs. It is NOT a spam and the URL is valid."

Now you have a clue!

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Doesn’t change the fact that it is a dog of a program that makes it very hard to move from one upgrade to another without loosing a lot of hard work. So far Adobe has released more image management programs than one can shake a stick at and none of them work with each other and none of them are all that swift. As Hecate pointed out, use a real program and not Adobe Jokes if you want to manage you files. Even Bridge is a joke.

"Gillies" wrote in message

You say anything. Adobe did NOT ended support for Album Photoshop. They are now developping beta release 3.0.

Here is an email from adobe.com from the adobe forum:

"My name is Rahul Chaudhary and I work with Adobe Pre-release team, I’m the one who is responsible for sending the invitation mails for Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 program. We are running this program using a 3rd party system from CenterCode, via the URL adobe.centercode.com. You received this mail, because you have shown interest in the product, either on our site or previous pre-release programs. It is NOT a spam and the URL is valid."

Now you have a clue!

"Got Whiz? Cheese that is…"
a

On Tue, 3 May 2005 19:16:13 -0400, "Gillies"
wrote:

You say anything. Adobe did NOT ended support for Album Photoshop. They are now developping beta release 3.0.

Here is an email from adobe.com from the adobe forum:

"My name is Rahul Chaudhary and I work with Adobe Pre-release team, I’m the one who is responsible for sending the invitation mails for Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 program. We are running this program using a 3rd party system from CenterCode, via the URL adobe.centercode.com. You received this mail, because you have shown interest in the product, either on our site or previous pre-release programs. It is NOT a spam and the URL is valid."

Now you have a clue!

Hrmmm, first you ask for help. Someone gives you what they believe to be a correct answer, then you give a snide response. I suppose you think that will encourage others to help you with your original questions?

welcome to the killfile.

Drifter
"I’ve been here, I’ve been there…"

Asking for help doesn’t give people the right to say anything!

Welcome to reality.

"Drifter" a

The point is that Adobe WILL continue to support Album 2.0 and the beta release for version 3.0 is coming up, no matter if you like adobe products or not.

This being said, Album is not a perfect pics manager I agree but so far, IMHO this is the most powerful and easiest to use. Bridge is a neat tool but is not as powerful as adobe pretend. I still don’t understand why people go nuts about it. The interface is not obvious, clumsy, and Bridge doesn’t bring much breakthrough imho.

My 2 p.

"Got Whiz? Cheese that is…"
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I agree with Bridge it isn’t very well done and lacks some basic niceties. Album on the other hand has a interface designed for a three year old. My main complaint about Adobe’s image management products is that they change them left and right and for those that have already used one this is no easy upgrade path to the new ones. For example try to get Album 2.0 catalogs and everything in to Bridge or Bridge in to Album 3. It is a nightmare of mess all because one tried to use an Adobe product. Hell you can’t even get stuff from CS 1’s Broswer to the Bridge in CS 2. You have to recatalog everything.

These problems here along with the crappy interface is real enough not to even bother. No to mention the lack of any thought over features. I mean who in the hell wants to rotate thumbnails of your images, but not the images themselves. You have to jump through hoops to get this done with Adobe’s products otherwise the changes you make are just cosmetic. Its a mess.

"Gillies" wrote in message

The point is that Adobe WILL continue to support Album 2.0 and the beta release for version 3.0 is coming up, no matter if you like adobe products or not.

This being said, Album is not a perfect pics manager I agree but so far, IMHO this is the most powerful and easiest to use. Bridge is a neat tool but is not as powerful as adobe pretend. I still don’t understand why people go nuts about it. The interface is not obvious, clumsy, and Bridge doesn’t bring much breakthrough imho.

My 2 p.

"Got Whiz? Cheese that is…"
a

In line. Its a mess. Adobe gurus should make Album 3.0 *the* pictures manager and make it compatible to CS, CS2, Illustrator CS and Bridge and Album prior versions to finally eliminate everything else and live with ONE powerful and easy interface that says it all! Hope the Adobe’s guys are watching!

Btw what pics manager are u finally using ?

"Got Whiz? Cheese that is…"
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I agree they should have done Album so that it works standalone as well as a plug-in for Photoshop and Elements. They should have also made it easy to upgrade from one version/program to another.

As what I use I use Picasa. It isn’t perfect, but it works well and it is free. http://www.picasa.com

"Gillies" wrote in message

In line. Its a mess. Adobe gurus should make Album 3.0 *the* pictures manager and make it compatible to CS, CS2, Illustrator CS and Bridge and Album prior versions to finally eliminate everything else and live with ONE powerful and easy interface that says it all! Hope the Adobe’s guys are watching!

Btw what pics manager are u finally using ?

"Got Whiz? Cheese that is…"
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