My new Photoshop CS4 doesn’t have ‘Picture Package’…?

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Steven_Hoffmann
Nov 20, 2008
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I go to File > automate and Picture Package is not in the pop up menu. I can’t access it from Bridge either Tools > Photoshop…Photoshop help says it is still a feature in CS4. What step am I missing? a bug?

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Laura_Imago
Nov 20, 2008
There is an option in Bridge under Window-Workspace-Output that brings up a window to enable you to create a PDF contact sheet/picture package.
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StreamBeaverton
Nov 20, 2008
Copy \\English\Goodies\Optional plug-ins\Plug-ins 32-bit\Automate\ContactSheetII.8LI from the disk to \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\Automate.

Then copy \\English\Goodies\Presets\Layouts to \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets.
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Steven_Hoffmann
Nov 20, 2008
Copy \\English\Goodies\Optional plug-ins\Plug-ins 32-bit\Automate\ContactSheetII.8LI from the disk to \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\Automate.

Then copy \\English\Goodies\Presets\Layouts to \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets.

YES, thank you! Is this an install bug or did I miss something along the way during my own install? I never had to manually install that plugin before?
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Robert_Barnett
Nov 21, 2008
Those features were moved to Bridge and the plug-ins (there are couple) were removed from Photoshop, but included as extras for those that want to manually install them. No this isn’t an installer bug it is Adobe deciding to kill the plug-ins.

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John Joslin
Nov 21, 2008
I think it is a good idea to retire features to the Goodies folder rather than to kill them outright like they did ImageReady for example.

Users have at least 18 months to kick up a stink if the replacement feature is inadequate for them.

The Output module in Bridge seems to cover most aspects of Picture Package and Web Album but people who tried them are already complaining.

I use other programs anyway.
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dave_milbut
Nov 21, 2008
Adobe is pushing PDF and so the offering in Bridge isn’t nearly as useful as the plug-ins that was supposed to replace.

but it fits strategy.

remove imageready and push fireworks = more $$$.

remove the pdf plugin and push full acrobat = more $$$.

Adobe is becoming more and more like Microsoft in trying to force you to use their formats.

<gasp!>
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J_Maloney
Nov 21, 2008

1) Cook the crack rock
2) Get people hooked on the crack rock
….
4) Profit!!
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John Joslin
Nov 21, 2008
And literally infinitely more expensive!
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J_Maloney
Nov 21, 2008
I think I was comparing Adobe to the CIA. 🙂 But don’t let me stop you.
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dave_milbut
Nov 22, 2008
What PDF plug-in are you talking about Dave?

sorry, i wasn’t clear. or i misunderstood. or all of the above. 🙂
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Robert_Barnett
Nov 22, 2008
Well, the didn’t kill ImageReady outright. CS2 had not updates to ImageReady which that alone indicates what Adobe is planning to do. The writing was on the wall for a long time for ImageReady, the fact that some didn’t bother to read the wall is not Adobe’s problem. As for the extract and other things removed in CS4, they are dead. When I say dead or killed I mean Adobe will not be updating it and they removed it from the default installation of Photoshop. Probably in CS5 these plug-ins won’t be included or they will be, but either way they are dead.

My only complaint is that Adobe is pushing PDF and so the offering in Bridge isn’t nearly as useful as the plug-ins that was supposed to replace. PDF is good for a lot of things, but not for the stuff Adobe is trying to use it for. Slideshows, videos, contact sheets, picture packages PDF is for this and totally not necesary. Having it is an output option is fine, but Adobe should have also fixed it so that the picture packages, contact sheets, etc. from the output module could be created and then loaded in to Photoshop as well as being saved as a layered TIFF and PSD file.

Adobe is becoming more and more like Microsoft in trying to force you to use their formats.

Robert
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Robert_Barnett
Nov 22, 2008
What PDF plug-in are you talking about Dave? The picture package plug-in that was in Photoshop wasn’t a PDF plug-in, it didn’t generate PDF files. It took your picture package back in to Photoshop as a regular Photoshop document, the same with the contact sheet plug-in. The complaint has nothing to do with a PDF plug-in, it has to do with Adobe fixing it so that the only output method (like the slideshow in Lightroom) is the very crAAppy PDF format. They took away functionality just to push their format, now if their format was appropriate and was what most people were using when the plug-in was in Photoshop then that is fine, but I can bet you that most people after using the plug-in in Photoshop didn’t save it as PDF all that often. More likely it was either printed and then trashed or printed and then saved as a TIF or PSD or JPG. That is my complaint.

As for the crack post, well I would suggest you pull you head out of yours and at least pretend that you have a clue about what is being said. Equating my complaint to crack is just stupid.

As for ImageReady we have known for several versions that ImageReady was at first a lame duck and then a dead one and that become very clear once Adobe bought Macromedia. Fireworks is a 1000 times the program ImageReady was.

Robert
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Larry_Hazlewood
Dec 9, 2008
The Picture package is no longer part of CS4. It can be installed by getting the files from the content CD and putting them in the plugins automate directory. You will then need to copy the layout files from the CS3 version … What a pain but it does work now.
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Bart_Cross
Dec 9, 2008
That ‘bad PDF’ excursion was funny. No sense of history.

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