MOST OF MY FILTER SELECTIONS HAVE DISAPEARED FROM MY FILTERS POPDOWN AND I REALLY MISS MANY OF THEM. HOW TO RETRIEVE? I REALLY DON’T WANT TO HAVE TO PAY $160 TO UPDATE MY 7.0. AND LEARN A NEW SYSTEM. SUGGESTIONS?
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The icon in your dock is just a link, not the actual application. Check, like Ramón said, to see that the Adobe Photoshop app is residing your Applications folder.
Once you have determined that (a) the Photoshop application icon (not any alias) is inside its original folder, (b) that you have not created any subfolders to hide the Photoshop folder, (c) that you have not moved your root Applications folder from its root location, (d) and that you are in fact working with an 8-bit RGB image (as opposed to 16 bit or CMYK, the next step is to trash your Photoshop preferences as per this tech doc:
Because I didn’t want to learn a new system. Look folks, I don’t know a lot of the stuff about using my computer. That’s why I’m talking to you who do know how. I’m also having to learn your dialect which I obviously "don’t" know. Hang in there with me, ok?
I’m pretty sure I’m using 16 because I’ve seen that posted somewhere as I use the program. However, I don’t know of any means to actually check on that. I am ignorant of many, many aspects of Photoshop.
Photoshop is a deep and broad application, and is not really meant for dabblers. Sure, dabblers can have a go at it, but without some diligent self-directed research, reading and experimentation, they will always be frustrated with it.
So, you make up you mind and decide:
"I am going to be beholden to others for every question I have."
or…
"I’m going to dig and and get a handle on most of the basic functions, and make a good try at reading enough to know the lingo."
Raymon: I’m actually using RGB 8 bit. The icon is in Applications. I don’t know how to check if there any "subfolders"–how to do? In your item "C" I don’t understand the term "Root". What is a "root folder"? And thanks again!
I have been using the program for at least 5 years. I don’t pretend to use all of it nor do I want to use all of it. I have found only a few major problems in all of these years, and yes, I have been able to find a lot of the needed solutions. I do not consider myself a "dabbler" but do admit to not being able to spend masses of hours on the program as I know a lot of you do. I did hit the wall with this one tho. I’m dead in the water here. If you don’t want to pitch in, then please let those who want to contribute go ahead and do so. Please!
Do a search for a "Plug-Ins" Folder on your computer. Look for the Photoshop 7.0 one. Make sure it is in the Photoshop App folder which is within the main Application folder.
(and by "disappeared" you do mean the filters are not there, not just grayed-out?)
" I have been using the program for at least 5 years….If you don’t want to pitch in, then please let those who want to contribute go ahead and do so."
HAROLD…
First off…there’s no way anyone here could know that you are not a new user, not by the info you had given prior to your most recent post.
And posting in "ALL CAPITALS" is the hallmark of someone who is just getting a clue about navigating the web and asking questions on a help forum. If you’ve never heard before that typing that way online is the equivalent of shouting in the real world, just keep doing it. You’ll soon hear it again. Not to mention that reading all caps is just not nearly as comfortable on the eyes and the brain.
Now, please excuse my making the assumption that you were a "dabbler" from those things, based on many years of offering assistance.
Oh, and do yourself a world of good and study the advice in the following link. Many of us here have found it very helpful and enlightening:
LenHewitt, "How To Get Help Quickly" #, 4 Mar 2004 8:27 am </cgi-bin/webx?50>
LenHewitt: Ok, went to that site. Had been through it before but had not picked up on the "all capts" item. Sorry bout that folks! But I found nothing useful in my searches there. Am I dealng with a totally unique problem? I also hoped I would find similiar cases. thanks
I have some of them in the popdown but many are missing. I can use the ones that are there but the ones I really need have disapeared. Thus my quest. thanks
OK: I go to Applications and doubleclick on the icon. Photoshop opens up in the manner of me trying to use it to edit an image. I can do nothing else with the icon.
I go up to the "Photoshop" name on the top right next to the Apple name and open every possibility there and come up with nothing useful.
Thus, how do I get to what I want to trash? thanks
Buko: This may be part of the problem but could you tell me exactly what "3rd party plugins" means. I’m pretty sure I know but I want to do a check on the term. thanks again
OK: I go to Applications and doubleclick on the icon.
Is the icon outside the photoshop folder? if so this is a problem put it back.
I’m guessing that is it. Do what Buko says: make sure your PS7 app is in the PS7 app folder. And be sure that your Plug-In folder is contained within the PS App folder as well.
Buko: I go to the Applications folder and open it up and among all the other icons there, I find the photoshop icon. I then doubleclick on it and it opens the functioning program of Photoshop. I don’t get your "icon outside the photoshop folder" because I’m only working with the Photoshop icon which is in the Applications. I don’t know what "put it back" refers to in this situation.
I have no plugins as per your list–or any other ones.
Charles: When I open Applications, I find the Photoshop icon, click on it and it opens Photoshop. However, I seem to be able to do nothing else other than open the program and use it (less those missing filters) and I have not been able to check on some of the other items inside it as has been suggested by some earlier on. It is like the "guts" of it are partially missing.
Do a search of your computer for: Name>contains> Adobe Photoshop 7 Kind> Folder. You just have things out of place (unless you trashed parts of the app folder).
Stranger still: in my Applications I have both a Photoshop full color icon and also what looks like a Photoshop "folder" which is tilted at an angle. The first "icon" looks like a head-on view of the Photoshop icon, the second one is an angle-view of a folder. When I click on the folder I get a selection among which is the same head-on-icon and it behaves just like the other one in Applications. They must be identical?
If I go to "plug-ins", in the angled folder of Photoshop, I get a list of item icons, then I open "filters" choice, it and these others won’t open because of "wrong kind of document" I’m told.
Charles: I am not sure what the difference is between being in/out of "its folder" and being "in" Applications. As far as I can tell, it’s always been "in" Applications.
What I am dealing with now is within Applicatios I have two different kinds of Photoshop icons (one a straight on view of Photoshop, one is a Photoshop folder tilted at an angle) I cannot place either of them within the other one.
I went into "file" down to "find" and typed in Photoshop 7 folder. Nothing was found.
Under Photoshop 7 I have gobs of stuff. At least 20 or so items of various types of which I’ve looked at earlier in the day. I found nothing useful there. There also was no item "Photoshop Folder".
Chris: I have looked at everything "photoshop" and have no idea where that item would be. Where is "Adobe Photoshop CS3 hiding"? I don’t recall ever seeing such an item. I’m also at a loss as to how I could have "moved it out" but don’t doubt I could have at some time done so.
Now, going back to my very first post in this thread. I wrote: " Did you do something foolish like taking the Photoshop icon out of its folder?".
From your most recent posts, it is clear that you have indeed done exactly that. When you double-click on your Applications folder, you are NOT supposed to see your Photoshop icon at all. Instead, you are supposed to see a folder named "Adobe Photoshop 7" inside which you should find the Photoshop icon, not in the Applications folder.
Please disregard Chris Cox’s remark about "CS3". That was a typo due to his working extremely long days on Photoshop CS3 which is not scheduled to be released before the 2nd quarter of 2007. His post should read:
The application was installed INSIDE a Photoshop named "Adobe Photoshop 7" with all your plugins, and presets, and sample files, and other content.
You moved the application out of that folder.
Now put it back where it belongs.
If you are not able to drag the Photoshop icon back into its original "Adobe Photoshop 7" folder, then your install is hopelessly messed up. (Obviously, you have to do all this while Photoshop is NOT running.)
Ramon: What you have said in the last post makes sense to me. So let me describe what I have on hand. In my Applications I have the icon which is identical to my Dock icon (this is the full front view), plus I have the angled folder icon (same colors) within which I do have one of the "front view" full icons like I have on my dock.
My (very bad) instinct is to leave the folder icon alone and trash the full front view icon (as is on the dock) and get rid of it. Should I do this?
First of all, trash the Photoshop icon that’s in your Dock. (You’ll add a new one later.) Just drag it off the Dock and it will literally go away in a puff of smoke.
Just to make sure, compare the Command+I ("Get Info") dialog boxes of both of the two icons you have remaining. Then, once sure that the one inside the Photoshop folder is the real application folder, trash the one that is outside the folder. EMPTY THE TRASH!
Now drag the one remaining Photoshop icon on top of your Dock to recreate the Photoshop alias there. Make sure that in doing so you DO NOT remove the Photoshop icon from inside its Adobe Photoshop 7 folder.
Out of an abundance of caution, restart your Mac. (You may omit this step if you’re in a hurry.
That should work.
(Incidentally, that’s what everyone here has been saying since post #4.)
BUKO: Again I think you for your help but I will state that what you consider "crystal clear explainations" simply do not appear that way to me. Keep in mind that people who work hours a week and for years on computers often no longer remember what it was like to struggle with them. This is easily seen by the written materials that are published to "help" purchasers of software and such. Written by computer engineers and such and proofread by same and with an outcome that is often quite unsuccessful to the public. It has created an alternative industry of items written to translate the first batch.
I have come to your chat room on the recommendation of Adobe itself. I have asked for help. I have received a lot of that from very good people. Again I am grateful for those who have stuck with me.
RAMON: I have my proper filters back!!!!! I have also learned a trememdous amount from you guys who have worked with me through this (even those of you who have been on my case!). I appreciate your efforts greatly. The best to all of you and may you never have to aid another of us confused as much as I have been. mark
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