TerryMcK Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 I came to my processing PC today to find that Photoshop 2020 had disappeared from my pinned start menu items. Hmm! A quick gander at the start menu to see that it had been replaced with Photoshop 2021. I’m not sure what has changed in the new version but all my plugins and filters were still in place.So it is now pinned to its rightful spot on the start menu again, along with PixInsight, Affinity Photo, Astro Pixel Processor et al. Some habits are difficult to kick and Photoshop is one of them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 I love photoshop, but have an old version which is on a disk. Does all I need.Carole 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Posted by: @TerryMcK I’m not sure what has changed in the new version but all my plugins and filters were still in place.The main changes in Photoshop 2021 are related to AI. One very cool feature is the use of AI to change the sky background on an existing image. Does a really good job too, even on images with trees. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPK_Astro Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Hmm the update to PS 2021 lost my plugins. I had to faff around and copy the plug-in files to the relevant folder, then re-do the security protocols (Mac). Annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmack1 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Updated to 2021 and it has been a nightmare - first off would not start up saying something about no IPPCV libraries installed. half an hour digging around on the internet tells my that for some reason Adobe have stopped shipping the libraries with the updates WHAT!!. So found alink downloaded copied to the appropriate files and away we go. BUT as per @RPK_Astro my plugins etc were missing. Another half hour faffing about to sort that out. Now it will not allow me to change the default app for .png files so they will only open in the previous 2020 version. All, it seems, so that I can paste a different sky into a picture.This is totally ridiculous and I am seriously unimpressed. ? ? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPK_Astro Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 @Dmack1 that's dire. The whole 'justification' for the subscription model is more resources for product development and improvement... Adobe's attitude is hacking a lot of people off and as they have a substantial market share, it will only be a while before consumer protection regulators get interested in abuse of market position. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incisive_Solutions Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 @Dmack1 going to check mine and see if same has happened. Been away from Astro for a while for personal reasons - niw catching back up. Hope it all rights itself. I’ll go and check it out later 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmack1 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Posted by: @Incisive_Solutions @Dmack1 going to check mine and see if same has happened. Been away from Astro for a while for personal reasons - niw catching back up. Hope it all rights itself. I’ll go and check it out later Good luck! If you get the message about IPPCV libraries not installed and you do some initial searching you may be told that its because 2021 does not work on older CPU and you need to roll back to 2020 - That seems to be erroneous and you can work around it by downloading and installing the libraries. If you are struggling let me know and I'll send you details of how I got round it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incisive_Solutions Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 @dmack1i forgot to say thanks for this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 So glad I have an old version of PS and don't rent it, never do updates, they nearly always take away something I love and put in stuff I don't need.Carole 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightspore Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) I uninstalled PS Essentials 2019 late last year (macOS) and paid 100 quid (Apple Store) for 2020. Then when I uninstalled it momentarily discovered 2020 had been replaced by 2021 in the Apple Store, at least I got it at the introductory 50 quid! At least Glimpse is freeware. I don't think it runs on macOS though. I run it on Ubuntu. Edited February 7, 2021 by Nightspore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 58 minutes ago, Nightspore said: I uninstalled PS Essentials 2019 late last year (macOS) and paid 100 quid (Apple Store) for 2020. Then when I uninstalled it momentarily discovered 2020 had been replaced by 2021 in the Apple Store, at least I got it at the introductory 50 quid! At least Glimpse is freeware. I don't think it runs on macOS though. I run it on Ubuntu. A good free cross platform Photoshop alternative is Gimp. It is widely used to process astro images, and there are many video tutorials on youtube. Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightspore Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) 58 minutes ago, AstronomyUkraine said: A good free cross platform Photoshop alternative is Gimp. It is widely used to process astro images, and there are many video tutorials on youtube. Brian I ran GIMP for years (it's still in the Ubuntu repo). Glimpse is a fork I believe. I'm running the snap package. I had difficulty running GIMP on macOS as Gatekeeper claims it isn't signed. Edited February 7, 2021 by Nightspore 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I tried Gimp once when I was on holiday in Spain with a mini laptop I hadn't installed Photoshop on, and wanted to try to process what I had capture. I could not fathom it out at all, even tried to find some on-line tutorials. Was so glad to get home to Photoshop. Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightspore Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Carastro said: I tried Gimp once when I was on holiday in Spain with a mini laptop I hadn't installed Photoshop on, and wanted to try to process what I had capture. I could not fathom it out at all, even tried to find some on-line tutorials. Was so glad to get home to Photoshop. Carole GIMP can take some getting used to, I had it on an old laptop for over three years before I figured out how to save a picture file as a jpeg lol. Glimpse is basically a GIMP fork. Pinta is an open source Paint.NET. I always liked Paint.NET but it only runs on Windows. Edited February 8, 2021 by Nightspore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 (edited) For anyone scratching their heads about the new Photoshop update which doesn't allow a tiff file to be saved as a jpeg, here is the workaround. Changing the tiff to an 8 bit image will allow you to save as a jpeg. The easiest way, which I've only just found out, is to use the save as a copy command. Here is the full article explaining why Photoshop have done this, and the fixes. Brian https://fstoppers.com/photoshop/photoshops-save-functionality-just-broke-heres-how-fix-it-563794 Edited June 1, 2021 by AstronomyUkraine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 I'm still using CS3 and have to do the same thing with that, but I very rarely have a need to save as a Jpeg. I post all images up as PNG. Carole 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 32 minutes ago, Carastro said: I'm still using CS3 and have to do the same thing with that, but I very rarely have a need to save as a Jpeg. I post all images up as PNG. Carole I always used the Save for Web command in Photoshop, I found it did a great job on PNG files. Now it's been replaced with an Export as command, but the Save for Web is still available as a legacy command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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