5/02/2013

[macsupport] Digest Number 9522

7 New Messages

Digest #9522

Messages

Wed May 1, 2013 7:54 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Tanya Metaksa" tanya.metaksa@att.net

I too have been experiencing this annoying situation. Thanks, David Brostof for the Cancel tip; it seems to work.
Tanya
On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Richard Huggins <huggins88@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I access my Yahoo mail through my MacBook's Mail app. Lately it has been losing its way 3-5 times per HOUR, asking me for the password info. Can anyone suggest what might be causing this?
>
> Richad
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Wed May 1, 2013 9:42 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"David Brostoff" dcbrostoff

On May 1, 2013, at 07:54 , Tanya Metaksa <tanya.metaksa@att.net> wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Richard Huggins <huggins88@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I access my Yahoo mail through my MacBook's Mail app. Lately it has been losing its way 3-5 times per HOUR, asking me for the password info. Can anyone suggest what might be causing this?
>>
>
> I too have been experiencing this annoying situation. Thanks, David Brostof for the Cancel tip; it seems to work.

I'm glad it has helped you. It's not a perfect fix--the error message will eventually come back again--but it's quick and easy to do. (I use the Escape key to activate Cancel, which I do so automatically that I am hardly aware of it.)

David

Wed May 1, 2013 2:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Dave C" davec2468

On behalf of a member of another list...

Dave

- - -

I know there are several graphic-arts professionals on this list - and I suspect the REAL professional-graphic-arts solution to my problem is out-of-sight expensive, so I'm really asking for recommendations for reasonably priced solutions, if they exist.

I just spent a frustrating afternoon trying to get a good print of a scanned photo. The subject is difficult (a back-lit scene with a wide contrast range). But, the original photo I'm scanning captures everything I am interested in. The image on my (Apple) LCD monitor looks great, but when I print directly to an HP ink jet printer, the results are awful. There is a horrible color shift (back-lit pale yellow grass comes out dark brownish orange), the contrast blows up, and the face of the little red-head who is the center of interest comes out dark brown.

I spent enough time (and trial prints) fiddling with the settings in Adobe Photo-Shop Elements to see that I clearly COULD probably reconstruct the overall color balance, contrast, and brightness of the original scanned photo, but getting there might take two forevers.

What I need is a semi-automatic way to "look" at a direct print (color balance, contrast range, brightness) and feed that back into the Photo-shop color profile so that the next photo comes out right. Does anyone know of a solution?

The ideal solution would (I think) be software based, and would compare the first scanned image with the scan of an un-modified direct print of the same image. It (the software) would automatically generate a set of profiles that I could feed into PhotoShop Elements.

Thanks,
Bill

Wed May 1, 2013 3:20 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"HAL9000" jrswebhome

In Photoshop CS5, one can assign color profiles. I don't know about Elements. I have a color profile list. There are three or four Canon Profiles for my Canon Printer that I installed from the manufacturer. If I open my image, then assign the profile, Edit/Assign Profile, I start w what the printer prints, THEN I adjust my colors in Photoshop enhancing reds, cleaning up shadows & highlights, etc. I print closer to what is on screen from my printer. But I start by Assigning Profile.

I do not specifically assign a profile if the image is for screen use only. For the web, I assign, if needed, sRGB. It isn't a great profile, but the world sees through sRGB.

Depending upon the expense of the printer, and realizing that an RGB screen is not a color print, where pastels will not ever print well, and blue becomes various shades of purple, I can get close to what I see on screen.

There is an incredible trick to improve digital images. Experiment with assigning different profiles. A dark image can be miraculously lighted by simply assigning a profile from the list of profiles. Fall leaves and blue skies become shockingly gorgeous with certain profiles assigned. Then simply Sharpen and Save.

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Dave C <davec2468@...> wrote:
>
> On behalf of a member of another list...
>
> Dave
>
> - - -
>
> I know there are several graphic-arts professionals on this list - and I suspect the REAL professional-graphic-arts solution to my problem is out-of-sight expensive, so I'm really asking for recommendations for reasonably priced solutions, if they exist.
>
> I just spent a frustrating afternoon trying to get a good print of a scanned photo. The subject is difficult (a back-lit scene with a wide contrast range). But, the original photo I'm scanning captures everything I am interested in. The image on my (Apple) LCD monitor looks great, but when I print directly to an HP ink jet printer, the results are awful. There is a horrible color shift (back-lit pale yellow grass comes out dark brownish orange), the contrast blows up, and the face of the little red-head who is the center of interest comes out dark brown.
>
> I spent enough time (and trial prints) fiddling with the settings in Adobe Photo-Shop Elements to see that I clearly COULD probably reconstruct the overall color balance, contrast, and brightness of the original scanned photo, but getting there might take two forevers.
>
> What I need is a semi-automatic way to "look" at a direct print (color balance, contrast range, brightness) and feed that back into the Photo-shop color profile so that the next photo comes out right. Does anyone know of a solution?
>
> The ideal solution would (I think) be software based, and would compare the first scanned image with the scan of an un-modified direct print of the same image. It (the software) would automatically generate a set of profiles that I could feed into PhotoShop Elements.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>

Wed May 1, 2013 3:29 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"HAL9000" jrswebhome

Don't ever trust a print shop to use your assigned profile. Many print shops, automatically wipe profile assignments and start with their own profile matched to their presses. So plan the image color for disaster before, and there will be no surprises. Maybe that is too much info, but something I learned the hard way.

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, "HAL9000" <jrswebhome@...> wrote:
>
> In Photoshop CS5, one can assign color profiles. I don't know about Elements. I have a color profile list. There are three or four Canon Profiles for my Canon Printer that I installed from the manufacturer. If I open my image, then assign the profile, Edit/Assign Profile, I start w what the printer prints, THEN I adjust my colors in Photoshop enhancing reds, cleaning up shadows & highlights, etc. I print closer to what is on screen from my printer. But I start by Assigning Profile.
>
> I do not specifically assign a profile if the image is for screen use only. For the web, I assign, if needed, sRGB. It isn't a great profile, but the world sees through sRGB.
>
> Depending upon the expense of the printer, and realizing that an RGB screen is not a color print, where pastels will not ever print well, and blue becomes various shades of purple, I can get close to what I see on screen.
>
> There is an incredible trick to improve digital images. Experiment with assigning different profiles. A dark image can be miraculously lighted by simply assigning a profile from the list of profiles. Fall leaves and blue skies become shockingly gorgeous with certain profiles assigned. Then simply Sharpen and Save.
>
>
> --- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Dave C <davec2468@> wrote:
> >
> > On behalf of a member of another list...
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > - - -
> >
> > I know there are several graphic-arts professionals on this list - and I suspect the REAL professional-graphic-arts solution to my problem is out-of-sight expensive, so I'm really asking for recommendations for reasonably priced solutions, if they exist.
> >
> > I just spent a frustrating afternoon trying to get a good print of a scanned photo. The subject is difficult (a back-lit scene with a wide contrast range). But, the original photo I'm scanning captures everything I am interested in. The image on my (Apple) LCD monitor looks great, but when I print directly to an HP ink jet printer, the results are awful. There is a horrible color shift (back-lit pale yellow grass comes out dark brownish orange), the contrast blows up, and the face of the little red-head who is the center of interest comes out dark brown.
> >
> > I spent enough time (and trial prints) fiddling with the settings in Adobe Photo-Shop Elements to see that I clearly COULD probably reconstruct the overall color balance, contrast, and brightness of the original scanned photo, but getting there might take two forevers.
> >
> > What I need is a semi-automatic way to "look" at a direct print (color balance, contrast range, brightness) and feed that back into the Photo-shop color profile so that the next photo comes out right. Does anyone know of a solution?
> >
> > The ideal solution would (I think) be software based, and would compare the first scanned image with the scan of an un-modified direct print of the same image. It (the software) would automatically generate a set of profiles that I could feed into PhotoShop Elements.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
> >
>

Wed May 1, 2013 9:58 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Jane Klorer" janelily11

Hi All,
Latest news is that I bought outright or unlocked a new iPhone to use any plan or company without a contract! Good idea and the phone works but I could not sync the iPhone to the iMac as my entire photo libraries , Aperture and iPhoto, are corrupt and now Apple expects me to reinstall all of my over 30 thousand photos in the combined libraries from SD cards ?? I was told not to sync the iPhone or even the iPad to the 27 inch iMac as it could corrupt the iPad and iPhone! Thus it took too many hours doing the setup manually ! Note the space! That is another issue with this the 3rd 27 inch iMac! Tried to send a photo to a friend that I took with the new iPhone! Only addresses in there are from Facebook ??

Am very angry about having an external 2TB HD and Applecare iPhoto senior advisors telling me it will only take a day to install all of those photos from SD Cards?? I know it is not true! So Why have an external HD?

Thought that iCloud was the magic connection link to also help with this kind of issue?? Apple has great people working for them in Applecare! Could never find any fault with them! Bottom line is I have had nothing but serious migraine producing issues with the 27 inch iMacs! Years ago I even asked a senior advisor if syncing the iPad or iPod to the 27 inch could corrupt the iOS devises?? They all said no! Now they are thinking maybe best to not sync! ????
As I go off to sleep with a mega migraine thinking about my photo libraries that are so messed up that on iPhoto after editing the photo of some glorious spring flowers, attempted to email the photo to a friend only to have the photo mutate into a drab photo and not the edited photo, so did not mail it! Beyond angry!

BTW, talked to a person at Applecare while manually setting up the iPhone and he did say that Direct TV and dish TVs are known to have audio go onto cell phones!

If anyone has any ideas of how to avoid the destruction of the libraries and avoid this mess please help! I have some nice scanned photos of my borzoi from years ago that cannot be replaced! I think this is not the way to go! Another person at iOS said to use time machine! ???

Thanks and really would appreciate any thoughts? Does anyone think that this corruption of the photo libraries could be a Hardware issue? TY Jane Klorer

Thu May 2, 2013 12:42 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"N.A. Nada"

Well, so much for one issue at a time.

On Apr 27, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Jane Klorer wrote:

First of all I will make a sincere effort to stay focused and on one issue!

I don't use iPhoto or Aperture, so other than asking if you are using the current versions of both, you will have to wait for someone else to tackle that one.

I'll bet Apple did not say "don't sync, your iPhone or iPad to the iMac". I bet they said don't sync your photos, with your iDevices, until the problem is resolved.

How are you using the external HD? For your iPhoto/ Aperture libraries, as a TimeMachine, or as another form of backup? If it is your iPhoto/ Aperture libraries, he said not to use it, because it is corrupted.

I have to ask, do you really have all 30k photos on SD cards?

If a hardware issue is causing corruption with your photo libraries, then I would guess the HD is about to fail. If so, make a back up, now!
Remember, it is not if a HD will fail, only when. If it is hardware failure, then there is no repair. If it fails completely, then there is no recovery of the remaining photos without a very large cash outlay.

If your only copy of your photos is on the HD, with no other back up, then it is user error, and not a reason to be upset with Apple. If you still have AppleCare on a 2007 iMac, you should be happy since this is year 5 or 6.

As to the photo mutating, I would guess either you did not save it and/or you selected the unedited photo. Where did you edit the photo with iPhoto, iMac, iPhone or iPad, and which device did you try to email it from? iPhoto on a Mac is a different app than on an iDevice, and I have no clue if there are any issues between them. (I hate Apple's ambiguity in naming things. All it does is cause confusion.)

Brent

On May 1, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Jane Klorer wrote:

Hi All,
Latest news is that I bought outright or unlocked a new iPhone to use any plan or company without a contract! Good idea and the phone works but I could not sync the iPhone to the iMac as my entire photo libraries , Aperture and iPhoto, are corrupt and now Apple expects me to reinstall all of my over 30 thousand photos in the combined libraries from SD cards ?? I was told not to sync the iPhone or even the iPad to the 27 inch iMac as it could corrupt the iPad and iPhone! Thus it took too many hours doing the setup manually ! Note the space! That is another issue with this the 3rd 27 inch iMac! Tried to send a photo to a friend that I took with the new iPhone! Only addresses in there are from Facebook ??

Am very angry about having an external 2TB HD and Applecare iPhoto senior advisors telling me it will only take a day to install all of those photos from SD Cards?? I know it is not true! So Why have an external HD?

Thought that iCloud was the magic connection link to also help with this kind of issue?? Apple has great people working for them in Applecare! Could never find any fault with them! Bottom line is I have had nothing but serious migraine producing issues with the 27 inch iMacs! Years ago I even asked a senior advisor if syncing the iPad or iPod to the 27 inch could corrupt the iOS devises?? They all said no! Now they are thinking maybe best to not sync! ????
As I go off to sleep with a mega migraine thinking about my photo libraries that are so messed up that on iPhoto after editing the photo of some glorious spring flowers, attempted to email the photo to a friend only to have the photo mutate into a drab photo and not the edited photo, so did not mail it! Beyond angry!

BTW, talked to a person at Applecare while manually setting up the iPhone and he did say that Direct TV and dish TVs are known to have audio go onto cell phones!

If anyone has any ideas of how to avoid the destruction of the libraries and avoid this mess please help! I have some nice scanned photos of my borzoi from years ago that cannot be replaced! I think this is not the way to go! Another person at iOS said to use time machine! ???

Thanks and really would appreciate any thoughts? Does anyone think that this corruption of the photo libraries could be a Hardware issue? TY Jane Klorer

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

We are making changes based on your feedback, Thank you !
The Yahoo! Groups Product Blog
GROUP FOOTER MESSAGE