{"id":614,"date":"2014-02-07T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:36:47","slug":"upgrading-to-photoshop-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Photoshop CC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Frank in a fellowship application:\u00a0 \u201cThe project I have in mind\u2026will shape itself as it proceeds and is essentially elastic.\u201d\u00a0— Geoff Dyer<\/em> \u201cThe Ongoing Moment\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since Photoshop is my primary tool for photography (after capture), I thought it would be worth the $120 per year to move to CC and wanted to lock in the $9.99 subscription price which expired on Dec. 31 for the basic photography package. I usually upgrade for each revision, although not immediately.\u00a0 Since the upgrades were typically $200, and I upgraded about every 3 years, I was spending about $65 a year cost averaged, so this doubled my costs, but $65 a year is not all that much for something I really enjoy.<\/p>\n

I am actually very satisfied with PS CS6, but was thinking long term.\u00a0 Some of the new features like improved sharpening and Upright were also attractive. So I signed up in December, but didn\u2019t do anything about it until January, when I tried to start downloading the new CC version.<\/p>\n

Surprise!\u00a0 Photoshop CC runs only on Windows 7 and 8, I would need to upgrade my Vista operating system. (I have no idea what the situation is with iOS.) Cost just more than doubled with $139 for Windows 7. However, since my laptop was Windows 7, I wasn\u2019t too upset, because, if there is a reason, having the same OS on both computers was probably a good idea.<\/p>\n

While waiting for the software to arrive I googled \u201cVista to Windows 7\u201d to see what I was facing.\u00a0 There is an \u201cadvisor,\u201d that reviews your entire system, and points out possible problems.\u00a0 Happily, nothing significant.\u00a0 Also did a complete back up of C:\/ and D:\/ drives to an external drive.\u00a0 Let each one run overnight.\u00a0 I even remembered to reset automatic sleep, so it wouldn\u2019t shut down midway.<\/p>\n

When I got the Windows package it said that this version of Windows should only be used on new computers.\u00a0 Well obviously I was upgrading and the computer wasn\u2019t new.\u00a0 I checked to see if there was a different version on Amazon.\u00a0 No, this was the only choice.\u00a0 If I opened it, I couldn\u2019t return it.\u00a0 I dithered for a week or two and then opened it.\u00a0 There were two choices, one to click on an automatic upgrade, so it wasn\u2019t going to be a problem, but the packaging was sure misleading.\u00a0 An entire afternoon was spent migrating to Windows 7, and then additional time updating various drivers.<\/p>\n

Next step:\u00a0 I definitely wanted to be able to go back to my Photoshop CS6 if they raised the CC price significantly, so I needed to deactivate Photoshop before uninstalling if I wanted to be able to re-install later without a problem.\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 But where do I deactivate Lightroom?\u00a0 Got on Adobe chat –\u00a0 Lightroom doesn\u2019t need deactivation, just uninstall and reinstall.<\/p>\n

Next, the Adobe download site, which was very clear and indicated which programs were available for install.\u00a0 I needed to download and install three programs:\u00a0 Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom.\u00a0 Bridge was a separate program and didn\u2019t download and install automatically with Photoshop.\u00a0 There were some other programs available as part of the subscription, but they were for things I didn\u2019t do like mobile programs.\u00a0 The info button describing their function was actually very helpful.<\/p>\n

Finally, opened Photoshop and made sure the preferences were set the way I like them.\u00a0 I did move to a darker background.\u00a0 I had stuck with the light gray when given an option in CS6.\u00a0 Photoshop and Bridge are working fine; I haven\u2019t opened Lightroom yet because I am running out of room on my desktop and purchased an NAS (Network Attached Storage) device which would work like a mini-server.\u00a0 It comes with RAID software so it would simultaneously create a copy on a second drive, in other words, I bought 8 TB of drive space to get an effective 4 TB of storage and an immediate backup.\u00a0 When everything is transferred, I will establish a new Lightroom catalog from scratch. That is why I am waiting on LR.\u00a0 The NAS is connected to my router, so I can access it from desktop or laptop from anywhere in the house \u2013 I have my own cloud.<\/p>\n

Next adventure, setting up, installing and migrating to the Synlogic DS214+.<\/p>\n

PS (that\u2019s postscript not photoshop): Adobe sends an email each month when they bill my credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Frank in a fellowship application:\u00a0 \u201cThe project I have in mind\u2026will shape itself as it proceeds and is essentially elastic.\u201d\u00a0— Geoff Dyer \u201cThe Ongoing Moment\u201d Since Photoshop is my primary tool for photography (after capture), I thought it would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-9U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}