On the Airplane
November 23, 2008 Daily life 1 Comment
flight was great, food wasn’t bad, and we got to see Alaska! I’ll post those photos later.
Post script: isn’t this ironic? we had no idea what we were in for...
Pleeease throw the ball!
November 11, 2008 Daily life 2 Comments
Behold the single minded focus of Frito Puppy.
A romantic evening
November 9, 2008 Daily life 1 Comment
One of my favorite ways of spending time with Paul is side by side on our laptops. Here we are sitting at the kitchen counter and I am playing with my camera.
He’s working on a webjob that hopefully will cover a big chunk of his costs to go to India in Jan 2009. I’m learing about camera RAW files.
Billy’s swamp Safari
November 8, 2008 Daily life No Comments
Originally uploaded by Brandy Dopkins
I’m learning about Flickr’s “blog this” feature- lets me post a picture from my flickr page directly to my blog. I really like it.
This is a super fun time- in 2000 we went to the Florida everglades and spent the day at Billy’s Swamp Safari. That was our tour guide and he took out a baby alligator so I could touch it. That little fingertip was enough for me- those things are nasty! Paul took the photo and laughed at me the whole time. I love his laugh.
Upgrading onOne Phototools Plug-in Suite 4 with Photoshop CS3
November 2, 2008 Random Helpful tips No CommentsI really like Phototools. It has helped me make any image better as I edit things for the media screens at Faith Community, and it’s made my personal photography more fun knowing I can make a decent photo great with a little tweaking later.
So I was excited to hear about the upgrade released in October that would include a whole new series of photoframes and layering options and installed it as soon as I could. BIG mistake- which I confirmed when I went to the Phototools support forum after wondering why in the world my photoshop would simply shut down every time I tried to use Phototools.
Feel free, if you are interested in this issue, to browse the forum yourself for other examples and suggested fixes, but here is what I did after much trial & error.
- Use the Add/Remove Programs control panel to uninstall Plug-In Suite 4 if you have already upgraded. (if not, skip ahead to where onOne and I diverge instructions)
- For XP go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
- If onOne Software is present you will want to delete it.
- Go to C:\Documents and Settings\Your User\Application Data*
- If onOne Software is present you will want to delete it
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS 3 (or CS 4)\Plug-Ins
- Delete onOne Library.acel.8bx and onOne Library.dll if present.
- Go to where Photoshop is located at, commonly C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS 3 (or CS 4)
- Delete the following dll files
-CoreFoundation.dll
-glut32.dll
-onOneSuiteCheck.dll
-onOneToolbox2.dll
-onOneWelcomeDialog.dll
-onOneWidgets.dll
Up until this point phototools support and I are on the same page, you can find all the above steps on this page
Here is where we diverge:
The update is a complete installer, (which takes FOREVER to download, by the way) and the updated versions of phototools and focal point shut down the program. Well, I don’t need new versions of those programs, I just want the new photoframe layers.
- Reinstall Phototools suite 4 from original disc (or stay where you are if you haven’t upgraded yet)
- Run the upgrade file, but select “custom install”
- Uncheck all boxes except photoframe 4.0.
- Complete the upgrade
You will find that while you only installed photoframe 4.0 that the upgrade installer still removed some files it thinks you don’t need, messing up some of your programs, like focalpoint. So here’s what I did next:
- Re-install the original suite from the disc over the top of everything. Do a complete install as if it was the first time. It will put the missing files back and not harm your upgrade to photoframe 4.0.
Crazy huh? Worked though. I’ll update this post if I find any problems in the near future as I play with the software.
