Before release of new version . Please

[Amateur John]

Please check that all the examples in the Workbook work as described. This is possibly a very basic check that nothing fundamental has been upset.

Perhaps you could even recruit a team of keen users to do this check. Instead of releasing on a Friday, and expecting a member of staff to respond to queries over the weekend. Hold off until Monday while volunteers do that simple but time consuming check. Shared between around half a dozen people it would not be too onerous.

 For example 'Creating a flood selection' does not do so in the new release 1.7.2.  It does work properly in 1.7.2.464 (beta).

A more positive issue. Congratulations of doing rather well in both Amateur Photographer's affordable alternatives to A***e and Practical Photography's Powerful editing suites for under £100. Knocking the opposition for four in both cases is very good. With an optional DAM or Library module I reckon that you would have hit them for six.

[Amateur John]

OOPS Creating the flood selection does work. It was the next part of the exercise that failed to work as expected. When creating the new adjustment layer this is created as a child layer of the background layer rather than a layer above. In this case the adjustment of course works because the background layer has no layers below it. So no real problem except to someone learning from the book who sees something not working as described.

Sorry for confusion.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Amateur John said:

OOPS Creating the flood selection does work. It was the next part of the exercise that failed to work as expected. When creating the new adjustment layer this is created as a child layer of the background layer rather than a layer above. In this case the adjustment of course works because the background layer has no layers below it. So no real problem except to someone learning from the book who sees something not working as described.

Sorry for confusion.

It's possible that you've changed some setting that the Workbook exercise assumes was set to the factory default value. For example, in the Assistant Manager you can choose whether adjustments are added as child layers or new layers. I don't know what the default is.

As there are a number of aspects of Photo (and Designer) that depend on settings that you may have changed from the default factory settings, I think the safest (least confusing) way of working on the Workbooks is to start by either:

• Doing a full Reset of the application, to make sure the defaults are set to the factory settings; or
• Creating a new user on your Windows or Mac computer, and switching to that new user whenever you work on the Workbook. The new user's settings will be the default ones, and any changes you make while doing the Workbook exercises won't affect your normal settings.

 

[Amateur John]

Thanks Walt. That was the problem but I have no recollection of changing that default deliberately.