As some of you know, I haven’t stopped traveling since my accidental vacation. My brother and I are spending a couple of weeks celebrating his 60th birthday by going back to our birth state of Indiana. We traveled by train across the country from Portland, OR to Chicago, spent a couple of days and ended up in South Bend, IN. I’ll try not to be so long-winded about this trip, but now I have a serious problem, and I need your help, if you can.
I downloaded my pictures from my EOS Rebel to my computer with a new card reader, 467 of them, then I formatted my disk. You know what that means!!! When I first looked at the pictures they were all fine. Then, all of a sudden weird, things started appearing to the pictures.
See the weirdness in the bottom right corner? What is that???
Some are much worse than others. Some are just fine. like my first picture. Here’s the other weird thing. On my finder, I see the pictures just perfectly. It’s only when I click on them to open them, they go to Bridge first then to Photoshop, and they get weird in Bridge.
Does anyone know what happened? HELP! 🙂
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Well thank goodness for Russel. I haven’t a clue what either of you are talking about. 🙂
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Unfortunately, it didn’t work. He hates Apple computers, and I think I may have to take it in. ;(
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Can’t help you with the photos — but how wonderful you and your brother traveled together!
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We have never done anything this extensive, and may never have the chance to do it again. It’s been wonderful. 🙂
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Spooky happenings. Maybe the spirit of Harry Caray?
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hehehehe
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Wow! What an awesome train trip! Where do you cross the Mississippi?
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Let me think, by that I mean look it up, Minnesota.
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Was it a regular trestle bridge? Was the river very wide at that point?
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I’m not sure what I meant by regular trestle, but they are bridges built in sections with a rigid frame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trestle. The river was surprisingly wide at this point.
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Very cool. The only real train trips I’ve ever taken have been in Australia and New Zealand. It was cheaper to travel around the country via train than plane. And I got to see so much more. I’ll never forget watching kangaroos flattening a sugar cane field with their hijinx as we went by. Makes you understand why they’re considered pests in Australia.
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I never knew they were considered pests! It must be quite a long trip to go across country in Australia. Do the trains go all the way across or just along the coasts?
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I went up the East Coast as far as Cairns to see the Great Barrier Reed and down as far as Melbourne. I also went from Sydney west into the Blue Mountains and back. I took the train from Melbourne to Adelaide, then up from Adelaide to Alice Springs and back. Then from Adelaide to Perth across the Nullabor Plain, the longest stretch of straight track in the world, from what they say. It’s a 3-day trip from Adelaide to Perth. It was a fantastic trip. I spent a couple of months in Australia and a month in New Zealand. Great countries with beautiful scenery. In New Zealand, though, I usually took busses. Between the sounds, glaciers, mountains, Bay of Islands and rolling green landscape, New Zealand can’t be beat. And lots of sheep.
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Wow! What a trip! That must have taken quite a while.
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Russle Ray to the rescue. How cool! I hope you get to retrieve back the pictures. My external hard drive with all my photos from different parts of the globe were lost when that darn thing broke. I hope to fix it when I get back to US and have it take it to Fry’s . Grrr, I have to wait til then.
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Yikes! That is awful, Rommel. You have some real treasures! 🙂
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Thank goodness for RR, because I had no idea what you were even talking about. What is Bridge? I hope all the photos can be saved.
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Bridge is an Adobe program that goes along with Photoshop. I’m not an expert user, but it allows me to make changes to the photos much easier than in Photoshop. I learned a lot about it from a private session with Leanne Cole.
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Leanne’s knowledge is amazing. Did you solve your lost photo problem?
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NO, no yet! 🙂
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Yay for RR, he saved the day!
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😃😁yes!!!! Thanks to RR!
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P.S. If you click on the right checker board, it has options, and the option that is probably checked for you is “Always High Quality.” If you don’t have the memory to use always high quality, you’ll get mess-ups like you have.
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Ok thanks RR 😊
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Hi again Russel Ray, I tried that AND I copied all my photos on a hard drive, and deleted most of them off my computer. And I emptied my trash can. I still have the same problem! Any other ideas?
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I 99.9% sure it’s a memory problem. Are you PC or Apple?
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Your favorite – Apple.
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Drat. If you’re still having problems, reset Bridge. PC is holding the Control key down and then opening Bridge. I think Control is Option on the Apple.
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I’ve been in and out of it – closed down the computer totally. Does that count? If so, it didn’t help. The only thing I found I could do was to open the raw photo preview, bypassing Bridge altogether, then I think I put the preview in Photoshop. The pictures are ok in my finder.
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Shutting down the computer doesn’t necessarily affect Bridge. Try resetting Bridge. Close it completely and then hold the Option key down while restarting Bridge. That basically flushes everything out of Bridge’s memory.
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Still a mess! 😦
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Apple…………lol
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ok, RR, that’s the comment I would expect from you, considering…but it’s not helpful!!!! 🙂
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It’s my last solution to your problem…………….lol
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Wait! Wait! Don’t go! I put the CR photos on my external hard drive, erased my files, and moved them back. For the most part they appeared ok in Bridge. HOWEVER, when I tried to save them as jpegs using PS or Editor, they showed the same problems. So I tried saving them in Bridge, and I was able to do that except with one photo. It had an ! mark and turned black when I opened it in either Camera Raw or Photoshop. However in Bridge on the dashboard, it looked fine. It’s the only one of 5 that I could not fix.
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It’s a memory problem but I have no idea how to fix it on an Apple computer.
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Well, thanks for trying, Russel Ray!!
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Lack of memory to handle the complete picture. Tell Bridge to “Browse quickly by preferring embedded images.” That solved the same problem for me. Regardless of which view you’re in, in Bridge, look directly under the word “METADATA” in the upper center right. You’ll see two little checker boards underneath, and the left checkerboard is the embedded images preference.
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Thanks RR, I’ll try that when I get back from roller skating.
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How long after you copied them did you format the card?
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