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Post by callsign on Jan 24, 2017 16:44:55 GMT
Thank you for your response it helped me to solve the problem - I think.
After I had searched and found the post I wanted I found it didn't have an Actions icon and I couldn't see how to get one for some time. In the end clicking on the date and time of the 'found' post took me to it and I was able to relax again.
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Post by callsign on Jan 23, 2017 11:38:28 GMT
By searching for 'skies/over exposed' I have come across a thread that interests me and may lead me to what I want; I shall certainly be returning to it time and again until I have studied all links and tutorials mentioned there. Finding this little treasure has been the the easy bit.
For the life of me I cannot work out the permanent home of the thread so it follows I am unable to go there and bookmark it in situ. Am I missing something? Would someone please help me?
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Post by callsign on Nov 26, 2016 15:25:26 GMT
First of all an apology to those who have attempted to help me recently and other viewers I will have misled by my lack of care, clarity and precision when starting this thread; I am sorry to have wasted your time and will try and do better in future.
It is obvious now that, at the start, I should have made it clear that the only reason I used the Photo Package facility in the past was because it was the only way I had found where I could place selected image files, of various dimensions and sizes but the same resolution, on A4 templates, created specially and provided with guides to assist photo placement, and then saved until I was ready to print the results on to A4 photo paper.
These prints were then cut to size and placed into old fashioned photo albums, which I, for one, would rather browse through and think about later. Viewing the images on a screen of any sort has little appeal, it has its uses but never the same intimacy. Fully edited TIFF and JPEG files, and unedited TIFFs of all (or nearly) all scanned images are also available.
It is also my view that what I am creating stands a better chance of a longer life than images stored on discs, of whatever kind, or in clouds etc. If in my old age I was surrounded by family members gifted in the arts and mysteries of computers to whom I could hand on the baton then I would be seeking to delegate much of the work; but I am not, so I do what I can and enjoy the challenge.
To bring things up to date, I have reached the tentative conclusion that what I am looking for in PSE 14 (I don't know about PSE 15) so that I can replicate what I was doing prior to 2016 does not exist and I shall just have to put up with it and find an alternative way of creating prints.
Something else I cannot find is a set of specimen page layouts additional to the pretty useless specimens presented by the Print Window. I believe they used to exist. Is anyone able to help me here, please?
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Post by callsign on Nov 21, 2016 16:43:33 GMT
Thank you Lucian, Sepiana for trying to help me. I'm afraid I'm still thrashing around trying to sort myself out, with little success, though.
I want to try something else now but it will be new territory again and I would welcome some reassurances before I start.
Yesterday I stumbled across the fact that on a little used (by me) PC computer I have working copies of PSE 9 and PSE 11; it was on this computer that I did all of my printing up to the end of 2015. Unfortunately the computer cannot speak so I shall have to spend some time trying to find out whether it is a clean, machine, empty of elements gold nuggets, I suspect it is. However, I am hoping that PSE 11 might be a big help, my initial findings are promising.
What I want to know now is whether I could load up PSE 11 on my laptop behind PSE 14 or is it something that must be avoided at all costs. My intentions are to prepare the files in PSE 14, move finished copies for printing in PSE 11 to the PC and ensure they would not come back to the laptop that created them before deletion.
I remain convinced that in 2015 I was using PSE 11 to create A4 packages of images of all shapes and sizes, which were freely moveable around the page, and it seems worthwhile spending a day or two trying to avoid the straight-jacket Adobe would now have me use and slow me down.
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Post by callsign on Nov 16, 2016 14:44:30 GMT
Can someone please tell me whether the creation of Picture Packages has changed materially since, say, PSE 11? And if there have been, when did they take place?
At the end of 2015 I was busy putting PSE 11 and Window 8.1 to good use digitising and generally tidying up my catalogue of family images etc, by leaning heavily on the Pictures Package (PP) facility. I first made use of PP with PSE 9 creating my own templates with guides to assist placement, saving the finished template and putting the Package away in a separate folder until I was ready to print them.
This work had to cease in early 2016 when I ran into technical problems which meant reconstructing the catalogue. That labour is now completed (I hope) and normal operations have been resumed.
However, the big sticking point I have encountered centres around my inability to recall how to get the Package operation to work as I think it used to do and my stubborn reluctance to accept that what I was so familiar with may not now be available.
My specific problems appear to focus on the Prints window where I find it impossible to get my own template to fill the page; nor can I find a way to drag and drop images, which would move to the centre spot around which I could play musical chairs by dragging and dropping until the template was populated in the way I wanted it.
I cannot be precise about when I first used a Package but my notes show that PSE 9 was involved at an early stage, followed by PSE 11 & 13. Windows was used throughout; Windows 10 and PSE 14 were introduced during the reconstruction work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Post by callsign on Nov 15, 2016 12:42:35 GMT
Thank you, sargenta 1, for your response.
However, I would be less than candid if I did not say it left me bitterly disappointed! Is it remotely possible that the unexpected and puzzling move of the original post from the Organiser section, (where my underlying picture package printing problems occur) to the Forums, could have played some part in my sad loss?
I think that another attempt at using a third party programme and cut and paste for correspondence here is called for. It wasn't very successful in 2015/2016 but I will have another go. The trouble is the fingers and brain are not so nimble as once they were, and finding work-arounds becomes a necessary part of life.
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Post by callsign on Nov 14, 2016 15:24:03 GMT
Yesterday I started a post concerning problems encountered when attempting to create a picture package.
Unfortunately I had to stop in the middle of the post but I wasn't concerned because I had already checked that 'Enable Drafts' was enabled in my settings.
This morning when I went to complete the post it was nowhere to be found and the 'Load Draft' window also failed to appear. Can someone please tell me how to resolve this one because I really do not want to start from scratch again.
Callsign
PS There is a certain irony here because the FAQ item appeared in the early part of the year shortly after I raised a query about how to create draft posts!
PPS Sorry if I've sent this to the wrong place, I did try and find the correct place.
C.
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Post by callsign on Oct 27, 2016 11:47:23 GMT
In December last I started this thread which recited the problems I was having with corrupted drives and backups.
In February I retired from view to concentrate on restructuring my catalog of some 20,000 images, half of which, the TIFFs, were not where they should have been. It has been a long, mind bending job but I think it is now completed. I have been road testing the end result and it seems to be working and backing up without any problems.
Actually I do have a big real problem because for nearly a year I have done nothing else but tedious repair work and I now find that I have forgotten so much that I used to do almost semi-automatically that it is almost like starting again, worse, actually, so perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to get so out of touch. Anyway, I think I may be troubling you again for help if I draw blanks on the web and my books and files etc and I'm sure you will be as helpful the second time round as you were in the first.
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Post by callsign on Feb 2, 2016 17:34:41 GMT
There are times when I begin to wonder about my sanity!
Yesterday, when I had finished with the Recycle Bin, and the computer, there were some 800 items left in it, having been reduced from around 7,000 after a deleted backup got in by the back door.
Today I have been doing the usual pottering Moving files into M:, at no time that I can recall did I look into the Recycle Bin. Until this evening, when I was packing up, and to my astonishment the number of items has been reduced to 231 and there is not a single item there for yesterday and today!!
What goes on?
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Post by callsign on Feb 2, 2016 17:19:09 GMT
Thank you, Michel, but I have to say the last time I used 'visual similarity' the results were so appalling and time wasting that I vowed I'd never use it again. But any port in a storm - we shall see.
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Post by callsign on Feb 2, 2016 14:19:17 GMT
Thank you, Michel, very interesting. I shall not be clearing my Recycle Bin for some time then!!!
When I've finished the Moving side of this protracted business, I think the next step will be to marry up the TIFFs to the JPEGs, possibly searching through the metadata, which I haven't done before. Still as Sue enjoins me from time to time to 'Learn something new everyday' I must look upon it as yet another challenge.
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Post by callsign on Feb 1, 2016 20:11:26 GMT
I'm still busy Moving files from F: to M:, it's a long tedious job and I'm far from certain it will provide the answer I seek, but we live in hope.
As part of the exercise I had a look at the recyle bin to see if that might be slowing things down (I'm not sure I would know if it was, anyway) but noticed instead that what I'm doing appears to be generating loads of files for the bin.
To the best of my knowledge I did not delete one file today, I was just involved in simple/difficult/very difficult Moves, yet the bin is populated by some 28 files each one of which is duplicated: the deletion date is todays date; the date modified varies from today to several years ago.
Is this just the usual, routine way in which PSE 14 handles the Move command and I have nothing to worry about or ...........
The same thing appears to have been happening since the middle of December and I am aware now that there are many TIFF files missing from the catalogue that I shall have to set about finding once I have finished transferring the files to M:
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Post by callsign on Jan 26, 2016 16:41:58 GMT
Thank you for that, ChrisAnn, but sooner or later I've got to work out what useful function they are performing on my computer and if the answer is in the negative, then to the bin they go!!
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Post by callsign on Jan 26, 2016 14:28:01 GMT
Thank you all for your responses although I have to say all four seem to carry the message I feared might come back: that I shall just have to live with it!!
At least I am now doing something positive about sorting out my problems, moving TIFF files from F: to M:, but the right side of the screen looks very messy indeed with the old tags structure at the top, the Views tags below them, plus a pile of imported tags which is growing steadily.
We live in interesting times.
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Post by callsign on Jan 22, 2016 16:10:48 GMT
When I used PSE 11 all my files were displayed in Media and I wish to continue that practice now that I've adopted version 14.
How do to I stop files entering the People, Places and Events views? And finally for now, how do I move the files in those views to Media and prevent the same thing happening again?
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