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Virtually all of my PhotoShop work involves HDR and 32-bpc (32 bit color) images. CS3 was great at handling these files, and had no trouble running most effects and features in 32-bit.
Switching to CS4, I find that the program is unwilling to do most anything while in 32-bit color. I cannot convert layers to smart objects, cannot add adjustment layers, cannot place objects, cannot duplicate layers, cannot add layer masks. All those options are greyed out.
Just today I finally found a workaround for smart objects– if I save the HDR image as a 32-bit PSD file, I can "open as smart object" to get the 32-bit smart layer. In CS3, all I had to do was right-click on "convert to smart object".
I’ve tried this in both x86 and x64 versions of the program, and through the top menus, keyboard shortcuts, context menus, everything, and cannot get CS4 to let me do what CS3 was all to happy to do. I reset my preferences, but that didn’t help.
Has anybody else experienced this? Is there a fix? I’d rather not go back to CS3, but at this point, CS4 is useless to me.
The down and dirty: running Windows Vista x64 on a 2.66 Core 2 Duo, 6GB DDR2, 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS, 1.8TB combined disk capacity.
Switching to CS4, I find that the program is unwilling to do most anything while in 32-bit color. I cannot convert layers to smart objects, cannot add adjustment layers, cannot place objects, cannot duplicate layers, cannot add layer masks. All those options are greyed out.
Just today I finally found a workaround for smart objects– if I save the HDR image as a 32-bit PSD file, I can "open as smart object" to get the 32-bit smart layer. In CS3, all I had to do was right-click on "convert to smart object".
I’ve tried this in both x86 and x64 versions of the program, and through the top menus, keyboard shortcuts, context menus, everything, and cannot get CS4 to let me do what CS3 was all to happy to do. I reset my preferences, but that didn’t help.
Has anybody else experienced this? Is there a fix? I’d rather not go back to CS3, but at this point, CS4 is useless to me.
The down and dirty: running Windows Vista x64 on a 2.66 Core 2 Duo, 6GB DDR2, 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS, 1.8TB combined disk capacity.
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