This program is buggy! I am trying to edit a big batch of 300 RAW files from my sister’s wedding two weeks ago. The program behaves very differently, depending on how you enter the RAW processing dialog. My old, no-longer-functional habit: select a file, press enter, make corrections, alt-OK, and back to File browser. Now, if I select a file that way, two things happen. You make your corrections, and when you close the dialog you get dumped into Photoshop and have to switch to Bridge. AND, the thumbnail shows no update of the adjustments you’ve just made. You have no idea if the corrections took.
There are two other ways to enter the RAW processing: double-click on the image, or right-click and scroll to "Open in Camera Raw." Then everything works. But they’re slower. They follow the rule of Upgrades—two steps where there used to be one.
Here’s one more truly obnoxious omission. In the previous version, you could correct one file, go back to the browser and select it AND a bunch of subsequent files. The default RAW dialog was "Convert to first selected image." It was a huge timesaver, which has now vanished.
I am recommending that this upgrade be avoided until Adobe releases a real version, not a beta.
Maybe the functionality has just changed - and you need to learn a different way of working with the software. I'm still figuring it out as well - but I've been using it for a while and it's working great.
I know it's frustrating to have to learn new things while you are in production mode - but in my use CS2 is no more buggy than CS1.
Posted by: Christian Kline | May 11, 2005 at 04:06 PM
Indeed! This has to be the buggiest commercial product I've ever purchased! I'm very very disappointed. I'm very close to uninstalling this entire bloated pile of crap and going back to versions that actually work.
I can't get through a single day without at least one "Microsoft C++ Runtime Error" or "Operation could not be completed because of a program error"!
How dare they charge $1,200 for this collection of broken tools? Adobe needs to address some serious holes in their testing process. This product is far from ready for release.
I have to reboot after using Acrobat otherwise Photoshop will not even load. Now that's some pretty nice integration there.
There damned well better be a patch for this thing. And soon! This sucks!
Posted by: Eric Hendrickson | May 26, 2005 at 02:19 PM