THE STEPS: I need 300 .tiffs at 720x540 for a Final Cut pro project slide show DVD (or web portfolio)

I drag a folder of D200 D300 .nef files into the Dock and drop on Bridge

In Photoshop, i create an sRGB 8bit 720x540 template .psd I build 720x540 up into layers with a copyright text layer on top (drop shadow effect and 30% transparency)

From Bridge, I open a nef in 16-bit aRGB Adobe Camera Raw using Option+click on Exposure/Blacks, and Exposure sliders

I then open it in Photoshop and go to work on it using mostly Adjustment Layers, Selective Color, Levels, Curves (and save it as master.psd)

I have a couple methods for resizing the 16-bit file to 720x540

Sometimes I flatten the file, drag it over to the 720x540, Transform-Shift click it to scale it down

Sometimes I flatten the file, Option 2x-click on the Background layer, Command-T to scale and rotate the image then drag it over to 720x540 .psd

Sometime I Marquee a selection, Command+J my selection, and drag it over to 720x540 and use Transform to scale rotate and stretch-squeeze into box

I build the 720x540 layer .psd up into a hundred layers or so

I typically work on the 720x540 layers to finish them off using basic Photoshop tools, selective color, sharpening, sizing, clone stamp, a lot of Fade brush or color moves, history brush

the 'bug' seems associated with leaving the nef/psd files open as I work, if I close the files as I work, I generally don't have a problem and can build the 720x540 psd into over 100 layers with no problems

if I leave the files open as I work, I generally crash between 10-20 layers, usually while moving a slider in ACR

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if anyone is into this workflow, I would be interested in hearing if you are having any problems with it on Leopard, CS3, Intel 8-core

bw_stenman

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