PS CS3 - doesn't see duotones - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

05/22/2007 02:21:57 PM · #1

When I try to do a duotone, it won't "see" the folders from within the program with the duo/tri/quadtones in them even though the folders are there and populated. Anyone else have this problem?

quiet_observation

Canon EOS-7D

05/22/2007 02:24:30 PM · #2

PS CS2 you have to convert from 16-bit mode to 8-bit mode to be able to use duotones - maybe it's the same in CS3?

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

05/22/2007 02:24:50 PM · #3

Are they part of PS when it's installed or are they new presets you've added?

If they're new, you have to load them.

hkvam

Canon EOS-5D

05/22/2007 02:24:52 PM · #4

yup, same here. No duo- tri- or quads visible in my CS3.
If anyone has the solution for this and would like to share, it would be great !

05/22/2007 02:28:18 PM · #5

They're included with the install, and they show up when you go to the directory and look; and I am in 8 bit mode (since I do remember that from CS2.) But when you try to "load" a duotone, it shows the folder as blank.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

05/22/2007 02:30:11 PM · #6

This might be an issue to post about in the Adobe forums.

kiwiness

Canon Canon 1d x Mark II

05/22/2007 02:30:26 PM · #7

I have a duotones directory but there is nothing in it! A tri and quad directory is nowhere to be found.... I am on Mac here. You got Mac or PC Deb?

aznym

Fujifilm X-T3

Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2 R WR

05/22/2007 02:31:44 PM · #8

Try loading them from a path like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Duotones
By default it would look inside Application Data.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

05/22/2007 02:35:42 PM · #9

I'm on a PC, Gary. Let me see what path it's looking at - I'll report back in a bit.

xion is right. The program default is looking in the wrong place - it's looking under the Documents/Application tree, when it needs to look down the Program files tree.

Message edited by author 2007-05-22 14:44:55.

BeeCee

Nikon D40

05/22/2007 02:51:34 PM · #10

Originally posted by xion:

Try loading them from a path like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Duotones
By default it would look inside Application Data.

I just tried that and it shows the folders as empty, when they're not.

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

05/22/2007 02:55:02 PM · #11

Go to where you'll load a duotone, then click up through the directory. As you keep going up, you'll see that it's looking in folders it (or a previous version) "created" under your username, application data, etc. Those are indeed empty. Keep going up until you get to where you have Program Files. Click on that and go back down to Adobe, Adobe CS3, Presets, Duotones. And voila. They'll be there!

citymars

Nikon D700

05/22/2007 02:55:25 PM · #12

I'd appreciate seeing the solution posted here, if possible. Wading through the Adobe forums can be a trial.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

05/22/2007 02:58:51 PM · #13

Originally posted by citymars:

I'd appreciate seeing the solution posted here, if possible. Wading through the Adobe forums can be a trial.

See my post just above yours. That should fix things if you can figure out what it is I'm not saying very well! :-)

kiwiness

Canon Canon 1d x Mark II

05/22/2007 03:04:47 PM · #14

When I click on load I am sent to Library/application_support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Presets/duotone but there is nothing there.

Strange! It must be some kind of bug, I'll try googling some forums.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

05/22/2007 03:13:23 PM · #15

Originally posted by kiwiness:

Gary, manually click up out of that, and go to Program Files and look for the same chain of stuff (or wherever it is on a Mac that the programs reside.) The program default is looking in the wrong place.

BeeCee

Nikon D40

05/22/2007 03:19:14 PM · #16

Bear with a total PS idiot, please :)
To load, it's thru edit> Adobe PDF presets?

cuz that's the only place I can even see that gives a load option.

05/22/2007 03:23:18 PM · #17

Hmm... well, I'd do a screen shot of what I mean, but I don't know how to do those. So, it shall be the blind leading the blind...

Open a picture. Convert to grayscale. Convert to duotone. At this point, a dialog box pops up, and there's a "load" button. Click it. Another window pops up, right? At the top of that window is a "Look in" line that gives a location, and on the right of that line is an arrow to expand that location listing. Click that arrow. It's probably looking down a chain that begins with My Documents. That chain needs to begin with Program Files instead. So click on My Computer from that window, and choose Program Files-Adobe-Photoshop CS3-Presets.

Does that make any sense?

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

05/22/2007 03:24:53 PM · #18

Originally posted by Melethia:

Hmm... well, I'd do a screen shot of what I mean, but I don't know how to do those.

Alt + Print Screen puts the active window onto the clipboard
Open a new document in PS
Ctl + V to paste the image from the clipboard

Mark up the image as you need to

Save for web

;o)

Message edited by author 2007-05-22 15:25:58.

BeeCee

Nikon D40

05/22/2007 03:34:35 PM · #19

Thanks :)

05/22/2007 03:43:13 PM · #20

Thanks, Colette! I'll have to give that a try. And by the way, this shot of yours rocks: