RM: What app to do the image inner shadows
I know this can not be Thumbscrew, how are you doing these, don't tell me you spend more than a drag and a drop? :-)
This is another of those "If I had a nickel" questions I get via email. I'm sure a few of you are laughing at it, because it seems kinda obvious, but please keep the ham story in mind (especially because Honey Crisp apple's are starting to come into season again).
Yep, it's more than a drag and drop, but not much. I use Photoshop (CS, as CS2 is so incredibly buggy with 10.4. Even though I love the new Illustrator, even Photoshop is buggier than I would have guessed, and InDesign was so completely broken getting it to launch was a crapshoot -- checking in with a few plugin authors for Indesign and designers showed it wasn't just me) with a few blank templates and layers, and a drop shadow layer style. Drop the image in, copy and paste the layer style, save to a folder and trigger a script to upload it to where it's supposed to go, and then drop the filename into the post.
It works well if there are just a few, but doesn't scale when I'm dealing with 10 Cow pictures or something, so then I use Thumbscrew. I really dig Thumbscrew, and have pinged it a few times, but you kinda have to know what you're getting into with it and be aware -- it's pretty buggy. As in -- if I recall -- it started as a way for the author to get a handle on hooking up his Python knowledge towards Cocoa and figuring out where it'd work and where things would get goofy and he'd have to take a different route.
Do keep your eye on it (I am), but don't be surprised if say, things are a pixel off here and there or you're having to quit and relaunch it and such.
Posted by drunkenbatmanSeptember 30, 2005, at 02:14 PM
Comments (7)
Posted by: at September 30, 2005 02:44 PM
"What's the must have feature in Tiger, that overrides it's bugginess, and the problems it causes?"
I will not apologize for 10.4 but this is unfair. Adobe may have problems with CS 2 on the platform, but those are not Apple's fault. Adobe caused the problems for shipping early. You are placing the blame in the wrong place. I don't know, I still use version 7.
Posted by: Twist at September 30, 2005 03:07 PM
CS2 didn't work much better in 10.3 than it does in 10.4 for me. Slow and buggy is how I would rate the entire CS2 suite. There are some nice new features but most of the time they are not worth it.
Posted by: Zachery Bir at September 30, 2005 03:33 PM
Bugs? Why I never! :^)
Yes, more fixes in the works, and I hope to even be able to get DB to understand the method to the pixel-size madness.
Posted by: Nicholas Pacheco at September 30, 2005 08:13 PM
One of those evil people with no problems. Running 10.4.2 and the CS2 Suite with no issues except for GoLive which likes to crash.. randomly.
Posted by: Pablo Rodrigo at September 30, 2005 10:27 PM
CS2 its sloooooooooooooow. Every single app of the suite needs a huge amount of RAM (> 2GB) to do its work at an acceptable speed. And don't get me started on Version Cue...
Posted by: Egypt Urnash at October 12, 2005 09:38 AM
You could automate it in Photoshop by making an action. Photoshop has some pretty decent batch processing; you could even make a 'droplet' to keep somewhere and throw the files on in the Finder to make it happen.
window > actions (if you don't already have the actions palette visible), record doing it once, stop recording. then play about in file > batch and see what works for you.
> CS, as CS2 is so incredibly buggy with 10.4.
I don't understand what the big motivator is to use Tiger at all. Panther seems to work so well for me, and very stable. Is it Automator, Dashboard, Spotlight? What's the must have feature in Tiger, that overrides it's bugginess, and the problems it causes?