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In a past topic I wrote about problems with Photoshop 7 "randomly" changing the resolution (pixels/inch) on some of our images taken by a Powershot G2. We were pulling our hair out trying to figure out why only some images decided to drop in resolution out of large batches. I found at least one other post about the same subject but no real solutions.
As it turns out, we discovered through some sleuthing that it’s a rather nasty bug that was introduced in version 7; thankfully there is a fairly simple workaround.
How it happens. Lets say you have an image open that is 200 dpi and you have image data in the clipboard (that is not 200 dpi such as a screen shot – sure it could very well be 200 dpi but then you would never notice the bug). Now, if all you do is perform:
Image -> Adjust -> Variations
but hit "Cancel" versus another button, you will find that your original 200 dpi image is now the resolution of whatever image data was in the clipboard! This holds true for many of the other dialogs that contain a "Cancel" button E.G. filters and including the Extensis plug-in we use.
I have checked Photoshop 6 and cannot reproduce this behavior so it appears to have been introduced as of 7. Our workaround was to put a "Purge -> Clipboard" action at strategic locations in all our actions as well as setting up a hot-key to do the same in case we need it. Does anyone know if Adobe is aware of this bug and has plans to fix it for Photoshop 8?
-EM
As it turns out, we discovered through some sleuthing that it’s a rather nasty bug that was introduced in version 7; thankfully there is a fairly simple workaround.
How it happens. Lets say you have an image open that is 200 dpi and you have image data in the clipboard (that is not 200 dpi such as a screen shot – sure it could very well be 200 dpi but then you would never notice the bug). Now, if all you do is perform:
Image -> Adjust -> Variations
but hit "Cancel" versus another button, you will find that your original 200 dpi image is now the resolution of whatever image data was in the clipboard! This holds true for many of the other dialogs that contain a "Cancel" button E.G. filters and including the Extensis plug-in we use.
I have checked Photoshop 6 and cannot reproduce this behavior so it appears to have been introduced as of 7. Our workaround was to put a "Purge -> Clipboard" action at strategic locations in all our actions as well as setting up a hot-key to do the same in case we need it. Does anyone know if Adobe is aware of this bug and has plans to fix it for Photoshop 8?
-EM
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