Karin Wells

I have just switched from a PC to the Mac OS X and got a cross platform upgrade to Photoshop 7.

I installed and reinstalled my Photoshop 7 and cannot find more than 6 filters listed! Where are they hiding? How can I live without Liqueify?

Second big problem...I bought an Epson 925 photo printer. I must not be understanding the new printer settings, but the color on my monitor doesn't have much to do with what comes out of the printer. It is pretty awful. The color is in the general neighborhood with the cheap test paper, but gets really ugly when I use my expensive photo paper.

I am desperate to print a bunch of really good photos for my portfolio asap!

wbiss

A warm welcome to the forum Karin!

I'd like to be able to help you, but I'm a PC user and know nothing about Mac or 'switching over' from one platform to another. We do have a number of Mac user's here, though, so take heart that you'll get a response from one of them soon enough!

I suspect that your "printing" problem has to do with calibrating your monitor to your printer. I would, firstly, check your printer documentation for any reference to calibration.

p.s. Fabulous "galleries"... beautiful portraiture & landscape work, done in the 'old masters' style! I'm in awe of your talent! [righton]

Welcome to the board Karin

AppleCider

Welcome to PS Gurus, Karin, and to the Mac! And I love your work!

First, the PS filters problem: I assume you mean the filters that ship with Photoshop? Liquefy (among others) should show up under your Filters menu (where it belongs; in PS 6 it was under the Image menu). If you're talking about 3rd party filters, some of them aren't yet Carbonized for OS X, and won't show up when running PS in OS X. Run PS in Classic mode to check, then check with the filter's creator site.

As you've reinstalled PS, the problem isn't the preferences file which is a common fix. But, when you reinstalled, did you trash the original first? If you didn't, any installer problems you had before will simply be recreated.

First, trash the application itself. Depending on where you installed it, drag the folder to the Trash. It's probably in your Applications folder.

Second, trash the Preferences file. this lives in Users:[user profile]:Libraryreferences:Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings.

You're now ready to reinstall, and you'll have a fresh copy.

More troubleshooting:

Check Adobe's site for PS updates. The latest for Mac is 7.01 which you can get here.

Check what version of OS X you're running. (Apple Menu > About This Mac). Make sure you have the latest in Sofware Update. To run PS 7 properly in OS X, you need version 10.1.3 or later.

Log out. It's not often, but sometimes OS X needs a "kick start" and logging out and back in will do that. (Apple Menu > Log out). Then log in again.

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As for your printing problem, there are "known issues" (i.e. bugs) with certain Epson printers and OS X 10.2.1. The fix (this works for some Epson printers, but it's worth a try and won't hurt anything) :

- Remove your current Epson from the Print Center list (don't trash it!)

- Insert your Jaguar CD disk 2 and install the Epson driver package.

- Add your original Epson 925 from Print Center.


Good luck! If you have any other problems, or further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Karin Wells

When I reinstalled I did not trash the original first. I just did that and now my Photoshop filters have magically appeared! Thanks Julie.

As to the printer advice, I'll tackle it first thing tomorrow morning. Whew. I wish I'd found this place sooner. You guys are great!

Many thanks.

Alistair

WelcomE And congrats for getting a mac!!! I would definately have one if I found as good as a dea like my bro (21 in monitore with 1/2 a yr. old 100 gb mac G4 with osx, os9.1, tons of programs including two versions of ps, antivirus utilities, and tons of high quality games! An the proce, well I'll say it's between 1,400 and 1,600. Have any clue? hehe). [stuned] Well, what system do you have, A G4? O yea, I just got wo free macs, I updated one with Os9, and the other one, I kept that as is, and I sent both to my brother's freinds music lab [excited] Enough with my bragging not and blabbing, huh? Welcome to the board Karin Wells!!!

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Welcome aboard Karin [righton] loved looking at your work
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