I'm wondering if some of the abr. brushes were from versions too old to be compatible with the new because they didn't show up after I moved them back in from my old archives.
On my latest issues ...I appreciate the advice but have to report nothing is working. I'm beginning to wonder if it is going online and picking up files program files and preferences from there when I start??
Each and every time I start Photoshop CC 2014 I get an entirely different workspace. It is as though there is some automatic process going on in the background and if it senses I've used the bathroom recently it presents me with the bathroom design workspace. It's nuts. Last nite I shut down with the 'photography' workspace visible. This morning it opened with a set of options I'd never seen before and displayed no name for it ...like the program concocted it while opening.
I'm trying to design a tri-fold brochure to print 20 copies to place with business cards in an office I made a successful presentation in on Friday. And I'm getting nowhere. For the past two hours I have struggled just to set the guides.
The sheet will be 11x8.5 inches so I start with that then enlarge the canvas 1/8" all around then try to drop guides at 11.125 for the outside right edge, 0.125 for the left edge, 7.458 for the right fold and 3.79 for the left fold then work in the safety margins for printing and folding.
So far there is absolutely no way. The distances show up as the guides are being placed but there is no way, even when I enlarge to 800 or 1000 percent ...that I can get the guides to drop precisely, and when they drop where they should line up with a tick mark on the ruler ...they do not.
I'm exhausted trying to push this rattlesnake up a hill and will have to go to one of the online services like Vistaprint, use one of their templates and drop in the content I want and have them print it. So much for delivering tomorrow as promised.
As I mentioned earlier I have been using PS since CS1 and even earlier. I've made many of these things and never experienced the difficulty and total lack of interface consistency that is plaguing my current workflow. I certainly don't profess to be good at Photoshop but I usually managed to produce what I needed (sometimes with advice from the forum and with lots of viewing of YouTube tutorials). This latest release has a mind of its own and refuses to let me be me.
I guess I'll have to take time off work to call Adobe ...hopefully their North American office because their overseas help desk has not been able to resolve a single issue I've had with Photoshop or Lightroom. They always say they aren't technicians and the experts only work M-F so I have to get back to them during their working hours. The problem is of course ...that it's always weekends and very late evenings when I work in the program because I have a full time day job and do any weekday shoots in the early evening.
I'm closing lid on the laptop now because after struggling with this for the past 5 hours ...not to mentions a totally wasted half day yesterday on an album I'm having similar problems with. Now my mind isn't even clear enough to work through what I want at Vistaprint. I really don't think any program should be this challenging and it is tenfold as frustrating when tutorials make it look so easy.